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by ancillary 6mo ago
So much of HN is half-baked anecdotes about and by LLMs or philosophizing from VCs who talked to an LLM about Rene Girard for twenty minutes or pop sci articles that appear to be posted so that some bored developer can read the abstract and
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by ancillary 6mo ago
Another great book of his is House , which chronicles the building of a house for a young couple somewhere in New England, complete with character sketches of the architects, workers, and customers involved. His ability to portray people i
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by ancillary 6mo ago
I have re-read this comment several times and cannot tell who "most creative minds" means. Artists? AIs? People who AI will help become artists?
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by ancillary 6mo ago
Is "land value" the right term here? The NYC example uses assessed property value, which I think is a function of both the land under a property and the building itself. In that case, these "taller means more valuable" g
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by ancillary 6mo ago
I've been an AC (the person who manages the reviewing process and translates reviews into accept/reject decisions) at ICML and similar conferences a few times. In my experience, grad students tend to be pretty good reviewers. They
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by ancillary 6mo ago
> In fact if we're being honest, there is some weird unprompted bitterness in your response Politely, I suggest that prefacing a claim about a stranger's emotions by saying that the claim is "fact" and "honest&qu
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by ancillary 6mo ago
The "cannon" one is maybe the funniest thing I've seen on the internet in months. It almost makes me want to add autoplaying music to my own website, just to add that too.
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by ancillary 6mo ago
I found this bit interesting: > Basically, one reason I’ve lost a lot of will to do anything is because of AI’s existence, and I don’t want to use it. Because I have zero personal time, zero time whatsoever to do anything, so sometimes I
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by ancillary 6mo ago
There's at least one paper (though pretty recent) about it: https://arxiv.org/html/2603.00164v1
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by ancillary 7mo ago
This is an interesting profile of Terence Tao as an ~8 year old: https://gwern.net/doc/iq/high/smpy/1984-clements.pdf , written by somebody who seems to have been well-versed in working with mathematicall
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by ancillary 7mo ago
Somebody wrote a file encoder to take advantage of Flickr's free photo storage, too (though based on its Github repo I don't think a ton of people used it): https://alexcbecker.net/projects.html#storing-data-in-gif
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by ancillary 8mo ago
Google at least claims that noindex will keep your site from getting crawled [1]. Do people think this is false? [1] https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...
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by ancillary 8mo ago
The linked article says the US has threatened to reduce its support, not committed to leave. Things are bad enough without exaggerating like this.
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Names for stone skipping around the world(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ancillary 8mo ago
I did a theoretical computer science PhD a few years ago and write one or two papers a year in industry. I have not had much success getting models to come up with novel ideas or even prove theorems, but I have had some success asking them
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by ancillary 9mo ago
Hm, this doesn't seemed to be backed up by, say, PISA scores [1], by which the US looks very similar to its OECD peers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...
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by ancillary 9mo ago
Yeah, on the spectrum of ways to make money, running a sports betting site is pretty bad. It's zero-sum (unlike, say, founding a company and getting rich from shares that were initially worthless), doesn't really incentivize disco
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by ancillary 9mo ago
My understanding is that it's not subject to the same tax it would have been as income, since the federal estate tax only applies to value above ~14 million per individual. So, my understanding is that a married couple can pass 25 mill
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by ancillary 9mo ago
I'm not sure if "options" is the relevant word in your post, but it does seem like capital gains tax is significantly reduced in inheritances? Here's an example source that says the cost basis gets reset to its value at
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by ancillary 9mo ago
I think the claimed issue is that these people do receive income from those assets indirectly. My understanding is that if your assets are worth much more than the amount you're borrowing then a bank is happy to keep giving you loans,
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by ancillary 9mo ago
> And that's also pretty simply explained by this classic quote: it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. I've come to strongly dislike this quote, because it&#x
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by ancillary 1y ago
> The rest of the decline is (in my evaluation) best explained with the increase in average age of the 18-64 year old demographic. I wondered about this before reading the article, but there's a chart in the article comparing narrow
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by ancillary 1y ago
> Americans: why isn't anyone having sex anymore?? Also Americans: Abstinence only! You'll get pregnant! No abortions! STDs will kill you! Men deserve sex! We're not going to teach you how your body works! None of that is
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by ancillary 1y ago
This level of generalization and certainty shouted down from the moral high ground is the hallmark of a great comment!
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by ancillary 1y ago
> The difficult part of building a nuclear weapon is and has always been acquiring weapons grade fissile material. IIRC the argument in the McPhee book is that you'd steal fissile material rather than make it yourself. The book sket
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by ancillary 1y ago
I'm not OP or a doomer, but I do worry about AI making tasks too achievable. Right now if a very angry but not particularly diligent or smart person wants to construct a small nuclear bomb and detonate it in a city center, there are so
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by ancillary 1y ago
The anger : content ratio in this article is way too high to be worth reading. If you have read a few critical articles about AI, then you have read this guy's critiques, albeit with less aping of Maddox, and you can safely ignore this
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by ancillary 1y ago
As far as I can tell, some fraction of Quanta articles are as much a profile of the person as an account of the work, so they send out a photographer. The results are similar regardless of gender. Here are similar treatments given to dudes
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by ancillary 1y ago
Here's what looks like a reliable source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/style/2008/09/29/what...
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by ancillary 1y ago
I was curious about this number, so: 10 km^2 is 10mil square meters, Googling suggests that the theoretical maximum energy captured by a square meter of solar panel is well under 0.5 kW, so well under 12 kWh per day. Say 10 kWh for neatness

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