anaximander

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by anaximander 7y ago
This is a really fun use of GPT-2. Uncannily similar to DFW's own writing! And definitely got a hearty laugh out of long strings of "Jim. Jim, Jim. Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim.". Would love to see this extended further!
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by anaximander 9y ago
To expand on this: I use VimWiki daily and it's been a really great way to keep myself organized. Being able to easily hyperlink and jump between documents makes navigating the document hierarchy very straightforward. I have VimWiki
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by anaximander 9y ago
What is there to like about such an event?
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by anaximander 9y ago
Very cool idea, and impressively well-thought-out. I have long toyed with the idea of a universal 'concept language' wherein all concepts can expressed as one of a set of "root" concepts that has had a chain of generic
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by anaximander 9y ago
Is assembly language not useful for mere humans? Certainly, every human-friendly programming language abstraction that we use today is built off of something like assembly language.
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by anaximander 10y ago
I think they're pointing out that while the speed of the earth relative to the sun is 30 km/s, its speed relative to the center of the galaxy is quite a bit faster, which may be a fairer comparison to what's being discussed i
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by anaximander 11y ago
> ... if I ever felt that kind of epiphany personally I know I would head straight to the nearest mental hospital. I can't say that you're wrong, but I would also ask you to consider that your sane and reasonable state of min
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by anaximander 11y ago
Search for the div with id="cLxocL1WVq1Evp" and set its width to 100% in the CSS. Abracadabra.
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by anaximander 11y ago
Seconding "The Information". I had it on audiobook and listened to it during long car trips. It was very compelling and informative.
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by anaximander 11y ago
Yep, I just subscribed to her not too long ago. Mostly, it seems to focus on alternative and minimal housing solutions. It's wonderfully refreshing to see the unusual and simple ways in which people decide to live, in a world so ofte
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by anaximander 11y ago
Luxury condominiums, organic ice cream stores, cafes that serve soy lattes and chocolate shops that offer samples from Ecuador and Madagascar are rapidly replacing 99-cent stores, bodegas and rent-controlled apartments in the Mission Distr
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by anaximander 11y ago
He closed a bunch of issues as "dick" moves, which I can understand, but a lot of PRs were just ignored entirely, which is a little disappointing.
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by anaximander 11y ago
I think I get your point, but unfortunately we can't let the value of "public perception" influence how we handle individual cases with individual circumstances. To imagine that a judge/jury would make decisions on this
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by anaximander 11y ago
I think what they're trying to say is: Grievance - Racial minorities (specifically, black people) are unfairly discriminated against by law enforcement. Just because, in this case, this tragic situation was deemed a legally acceptable
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by anaximander 11y ago
It's possible that some men, especially the very successful/powerful, are afraid that a woman will file suit over something which, despite being said without malice, was offensive to the listener. Edit: I'm not necessarily de
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by anaximander 12y ago
I agree that the gift was inappropriate. I was responding to your comment: "Hitting on a woman" - Doing nice things and inviting her to be alone with you on a day dedicated to romance. The invitation to have dinner may have hap
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by anaximander 12y ago
I think the author of this article made it (perhaps deliberately) ambiguous as to when these events took place. he gave Pao a volume of Leonard Cohen’s poems and drawings (entitled Book of Longing) on Valentine’s Day and asked her out to d
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by anaximander 12y ago
I guess I didn't mean to imply that I live in a world where everyone can have these "pure-truth" arguments. In fact, it's a rare and often rewarding experience if it does happen. I also know that there's a time an
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by anaximander 12y ago
This is an excellent perspective. Those tradeoffs are often the root of these arguments anyway: Alice comes up with a solution that has some advantage x. Bob comes up with a solution that has some advantage y. They'll argue endlessl
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by anaximander 12y ago
I feel like this article starts off on the wrong foot: "An argument is the use of aggressive opposition to weed out weak logic, keeping the strongest ideas possible. The philosophy behind using arguments for problem-solving is that at
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by anaximander 12y ago
This is really cool. For anyone else who wants to run this on Mac OS X, try installing sox first (brew install sox). That's all I had to do and then I was up and running. A quick melody from a favorite song that I transcribed: "
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by anaximander 12y ago
I like everything about this article (especially the careful research and evidence-gathering), except for this bit at the end: The lack of girl characters implies that girls are not equal to boys and they don’t deserve characters that l
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by anaximander 12y ago
It seems to me that a lot of women are left with pretty much two options in a lot of these situations: the lethal option, and submission. Calling the police or going to HR is the "lethal" option, meaning that, in all likelihood,
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by anaximander 12y ago
What about that individual's opinion? Or do you mean to say that because of their gender and race, they already conform to your stereotype?
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by anaximander 12y ago
This is great, I've been toying with this idea myself for years! Makes me happy that somebody put the effort into doing it so well. The last update from the "news" section is from about a year ago: does anyone know if it&#x