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by b450 16d ago
Lovely article. I sympathize with Leavis's anger. I recognize the image of the smug technocrat, someone whose confidence in his conceptual scheme is so great that its ontology, its quantifications and operationalizations, come to suppl
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by b450 19d ago
counterargument: 1) let x be a thing 2) I name x "Jeff" 3) all things are nameable (from 1 and 2) another way to put this is that it's natural to take the paradox as a reductio.
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by b450 2mo ago
Philosophy students tend to be understandably insecure about the value and prestige of their field, and study often ends up indirectly training students to defend philosophy. Impressive-sounding pontificating, problematizing, cranking out a
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by b450 4mo ago
Frasier, at a free sample station: I do thank you, but I'm afraid I'm rather particular about the provenance of my shellfish. To subject a scampi to the radiation of a microwave is not cooking, madam, it's an execution! My go
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by b450 4mo ago
It's probably very store specific. If you know the Market Basket in Somerville, MA, it's got a legendary produce section. I've been to locations in NH with crap. IMO H-Mart is the safest bet in the Boston area for high qualit
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by b450 4mo ago
I've become a Costco person in recent years. At least in my perception, inflation has affected grocery stores unevenly: Whole Foods: eye-bogglingly expensive (and no, I don't think it always was) Wegmans: substantially more expens
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by b450 5mo ago
We play with a base point being a dime or a quarter. Note also that the function from fan to points is subject to house rules, it's not always p(f) = 2^f (I've seen rules for example that start to "level off" the payout
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by b450 5mo ago
This is the rational response to this "financialization" of brands, and it leads to high-quality goods being chased out of the market entirely (see "The Market for Lemons"), except for ultra-expensive niche brands
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by b450 5mo ago
There is a section of the article covering precisely this, headed "The external actors: arms to both sides"
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by b450 6mo ago
Note that node-fetch will silently ignore any overrides to "forbidden" request headers like Host, since it's designed for parity with fetch behavior in the browser. This caused a minor debugging headache for me once.
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by b450 6mo ago
Stop grinding for a second. You don't need to be perfect to win. You don't need to spend 100 miles "hustling" in the desert to prove your worth. The real secret to sustainable growth? Authenticity. Let your natural stren
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by b450 6mo ago
This kind of view tends to logically conclude in the idea of a noumenal, unknowable reality. I think it's more reasonable to say that truth itself is gold star we award to descriptions that suit our purposes. After all, descriptions ar
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by b450 6mo ago
Reminds me of the blog post about Waymo's "World Model". Training on real-world data results in a sufficiently rich model to start simulating novel scenarios that aren't in the training data (like the elephant wandering
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by b450 7mo ago
Might sound like a rube here, but: is agentic development really this good at novel UIs? The video shows a sort of cassette tape music player, and a fancy looking audio visualizer/equalizer thing. I'm well aware agents are very go
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by b450 7mo ago
I really don't know anything about it, but I'd speculate that the fantasy is plain old 'misattribution of arousal'. The heart gets pounding at the idea of violating the taboo against incest, and that bodily state is inte
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by b450 8mo ago
I ran it on the "society if..." meme lol https://imgur.com/a/nFQN5tx
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by b450 8mo ago
It's funny reading this take, because I went through a fancy coffee de-conversion myself about a year ago. I have a burr grinder which can produce the appropriate grind for the brewing method. I have a dedicated coffee canister with a
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by b450 8mo ago
> White House Deputy Communications Director Kaelan Dorr defended the post after criticism of the image manipulation. > “Enforcement of the law will continue. The memes will continue. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” Dorr
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by b450 8mo ago
Oh! :) I saw "philosophy" and "rationalism" in the same paragraph and went into auto-pilot I suppose.
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by b450 8mo ago
Sure. The idea of raw, uninterpreted "sense data" that the empiricists worked with (well into the 20th century) is pretty clearly bunk. Much of philosophy took a turn towards anti-foundationalism, and rationalism and empiricism ar
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by b450 8mo ago
Rationalism in philosophy is generally contrasted with empiricism. I would say you're a little off in characterizing anti-rationalism as holding rationality per se in low regard. To put it very briefly: the Ancient Greeks set the agend
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by b450 8mo ago
This is the most egregious one in my eyes, too. I've run A/B tests on a few signup forms and without fail it validates the standard practice: the lowest drop-off rate comes from removing every possible obstacle and distraction. I&
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by b450 8mo ago
Web frontends have trended towards various forms of isolation (CSS scopes, shadow DOM), namespacing (CSS modules, BEM), or composition (tailwind etc.) because CSS cascading and inheritance cause more trouble than they're worth. So whil
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by b450 9mo ago
Neat, have you considered linking to exrx or anything for the exercises?
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by b450 9mo ago
ORMs come with a lot of baggage that I prefer to avoid, but it probably depends on the domain. Take an e-commerce store with faceted search. You're pretty much going to write your own query builder if you don't use one off the she
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by b450 1y ago
The method in the article is very close to the idea of a "branded type". Though maybe there's a distinction someone can point out to me.
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by b450 1y ago
It's amusing to consider how much of a Rorschach test this article must be. But it's a great point, even if it arms us to abusively write off unwelcome ideas as scams. As the author points out, Pascal's reasoning is easily ap
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by b450 1y ago
The authors here are claiming, as your quote states, that biological evolution is just one instance of a more general phenomenon. I'm not sure that's contrary to the views you're expressing. You wrote: > The expectation th
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by b450 1y ago
I clicked through to this article about the chairman of the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee: https://revealnews.org/article/trumps-air-pollution-adviser-... Making a career out of making the case for
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by b450 2y ago
Yep I think that is an interesting point! I definitely think there are important ways in which human intelligence is embodied, but yeah - if we are modeling intelligence as a function, there's no obvious reason to think that whatever i

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