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by aptsurdist 2y ago
Photo or it didn’t happen. In serious, I was sad there wasn’t a photo or at least discussion of the scale and details of the project.
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by aptsurdist 2y ago
Just one idea for making a positive impact while meeting amazing communities of folks: Invest in early stage climate startups (and not just software ones). They’re struggling and they’re building stuff that we’ll desperately need to survive
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by aptsurdist 2y ago
To be fair, the Bible’s authors also seemed to have hallucinated the word of God. At least in cases of contradictions between authors.
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by aptsurdist 2y ago
This gets at the heart of the problem. It doesn’t produce the wrong tokens. The tokens are right. It’s the data that was “wrong”. Or at least it was weighted “incorrectly” (according to the judge living outside the data with their own conte
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by aptsurdist 2y ago
Human brains are also just picking tokens tho. A beautiful illusion of insight and thought in the chaos noise of information. But out of the chaos, the emergence of thought is real. It’s just not exclusive to humans. I mean… even magicians
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by aptsurdist 2y ago
But humans also hallucinate. And humans habitually stray from the “truth” too. It’s always seemed to me that getting AI to be more accurate isn’t a math problem, it’s getting AI to “care” about what is true - aka better defining what truth
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by aptsurdist 4y ago
I love the mention of gravity storage here. The potential of gravity storage is very real, but you need a lot of weight and a lot of height to achieve meaningful amounts of electricity. And at large scales of weight and height it becomes a
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An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets(scientificamerican.com)
5 points by aptsurdist 5y ago|0 comments
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by aptsurdist 5y ago
Thanks so much for this link, I started listening and I immediately love it.
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by aptsurdist 5y ago
I found this fascinating! I found some 3D models claiming to be exact replicas, and I found it VERY interesting to note that the largest hole appears to be an ELLIPSE and not a circle? Can any verify this and has anyone heard a theory about
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by aptsurdist 6y ago
I’m sure Trump is thrilled about this since Larry Ellison is a Trump supporter who fund raises for him.
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by aptsurdist 9y ago
I think what actually happened is that no candidate won enough votes, so a runoff is required. "The National Electoral Commission (NEC) declared a runoff after none of the 16 presidential hopefuls on the March 7 ballot paper secured th
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by aptsurdist 9y ago
There was another thread commenting on the usage of the term "chick" and how it can be interpreted as derogatory. I agree that this term can be derogatory because it can be condescending. The commenter who took offense was flagged
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by aptsurdist 9y ago
Class action lawsuit? How is it okay that this information is even available from Experian in the first place? I don't think anyone opted in to this. And I don't think there is any obvious way to opt out. And Experian is not just
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by aptsurdist 9y ago
One of the most fascinating aspects of the video is that the thing rotates. As others have noted, the camera is auto-centering the object. If you look at the object's movement relative to the clouds in the background, it seems that the
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by aptsurdist 9y ago
I was initially very excited to see this post. I have always believed that flattr's subscription/contribution model could be so important for supporting creatives and grassroots efforts. So I'm disappointed that it seems I ca
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Verizon sells your information to affiliate marketers. how to opt out
3 points by aptsurdist 9y ago|0 comments
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by aptsurdist 10y ago
Yup, totally is! My friend James who is a fantastic illustrator inked that one for us.
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by aptsurdist 10y ago
Thanks! The website itself is not really active, we put it up just for fun. But the community is active. We have a slack channel where we chat, share work, ideas, and support. And we plan happy hours and events. If anyone is interested in w
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by aptsurdist 10y ago
I would recommend finding a group of freelancer friends so you can build a community and share projects between each other. This is a fun group my friends and I started http://www.raptorsaur.com/ it's been fun. If you
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by aptsurdist 14y ago
Yeah do it! I say it's totally realistic. I followed a similar path as I didn't really learn software development until after college, and it has turned into a great career for me. I would recommend starting with javascript, mostly becau
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by aptsurdist 15y ago
I just want to say a sincere thank you for writing this. I hope the whole community will read this with an open mind and understand how important it is to be conscious of these subtleties.
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by aptsurdist 15y ago
If you really are afraid of peaceful civil protest in the USA, I'd say that's all the more reason why we have a responsibility to practice peaceful protest now before things get worse.
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by aptsurdist 15y ago
I know this post might feel like old news at this point. But over the past weeks I've felt compelled to try to put these ideas into words. I think the dynamics of the OWS movement are hard to understand, and though it took me weeks to fina
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The Occupiers are leaderless and disunified, and that’s their strength.(aptsurdist.wordpress.com)
1 points by aptsurdist 15y ago|1 comments
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by aptsurdist 15y ago
Wow, that's pretty brilliant. I wish it actually worked. At least it would make a great parody though - it would be cool to start a fake business front to go about suing patent trolls for infringing on your patent trolling patent just to
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American Strike on American Target Revives Contentious Constitutional Issue(nytimes.com)
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by aptsurdist 15y ago
I love this guy Steve Lambert. This is the 3rd time in my life I've coincidentally stumbled across something that he made and I'm delighted every time. I used to love his radio show. Witty dude - gotta remember to keep an eye out for tha
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Webkit (Chrome, Safari) console.log is broken.(techblog.appnexus.com)
13 points by aptsurdist 15y ago|0 comments
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by aptsurdist 15y ago
Thanks - I've been wanting something like this. One feedback idea would be to let me close the stay-on-top window with the keyboard instead of having to clicking the x or the eyedrop icon. It'd be great if hitting escape closed that windo

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