blake_himself

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by blake_himself 3y ago
Dude, we evolved on different continents for 50,000 years. We look different. Our bodies' biochemistry differs (different medications for whites + blacks for blood pressure). Why do you think brains came out the same? They didn't,
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by blake_himself 7y ago
> muh can't we all just get along Take the Hitler / Darwin pill: as long as there are separate entities and limited resources, they will be in conflict. Accept it, it's a part of nature. https://www.youtube.com
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by blake_himself 7y ago
This video puts a lot of it together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_Of0WGkEs He starts with science and reaches into speculation, but, there's real, interesting science in it.
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by blake_himself 8y ago
> baas Unironically, the origin of the word 'boss'.
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by blake_himself 8y ago
Right - it should be harder to get money for less-productive specialty degrees in the humanities. Creditors would have to decide whether to risk their money, and become gatekeepers.
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by blake_himself 8y ago
Can't read the specs, but loverpi.com has up-powered versions - notably, with up to 4GB memory.
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by blake_himself 8y ago
In English there's 'silence is golden', but, lacks the 'silver' part.
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by blake_himself 8y ago
Somewhere poor, where labor is cheap and people are still susceptible to bribes?
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by blake_himself 8y ago
clang modernize? It'll do the small-scale fixes for you. But, though this was a while ago, it messed up the text when I used it. You could tell what it was /supposed/ to be, though, and wouldn't compile. But it may be be
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by blake_himself 8y ago
So this is not the denouement, he's still on hiatus, the situation is not resolved. It's a real shame that Linus thinks that mouthing off at people is the same as being a Nazi. I feel sure his daughter had something to do with it.
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by blake_himself 8y ago
> An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula. It is more certain; and it's better style. To get the man's soul and give him nothing in return -that is what really gladdens our Father's(0)
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by blake_himself 8y ago
There's Framenet, a computational collection of frames. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrameNet https://framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu/fndrupal/
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by blake_himself 8y ago
x = stuff while x: x = stuff
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by blake_himself 8y ago
There was an article somewhere recently, of someone proposing changes to CPython for just that reason. Guido had already resisted several attempts at the kind of thing he was doing, from a desire to keep the CPython implementation simple.
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by blake_himself 11y ago
It's a competitive region.
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YouTube videos taken down for hate speech? Seems new.
8 points by blake_himself 11y ago|1 comments
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by blake_himself 11y ago
I voted for it before reading it - it sucks. The title makes it sound like Glenn Greenwald is saying sorry - I don't see anything like that in there. His name gets a couple of mentions, but it's about some no-name former marine ch
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by blake_himself 11y ago
I'll venture Radiohead's 'Reckoner': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCJPm19XYQ
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by blake_himself 11y ago
http://www.areweblazingfastyet.org is free - you'd better grab it before I do :). If you don't take it, I'll just make it return those pieces of the language shootout.
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by blake_himself 11y ago
I've heard that DeBeers kind of runs the place. I don't remember where I heard that though.
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by blake_himself 11y ago
> Will Rust always be faster than C? (By 'always' did you mean 'ever'?) That may be so, but their advertising gives the wrong impression. They should keep their claims muted until they can back them up.
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by blake_himself 11y ago
It's as 'blazingly fast' as Java: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... or go: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan... Here's
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How Human Culture Makes War Inevitable(unz.com)
6 points by blake_himself 11y ago|0 comments
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by blake_himself 11y ago
That point about employees not having friends at work being at risk is true in my case - if I don't have friends where I work I don't feel at home, and am indeed more likely to leave. Which is a force for anti-diversity, since I o
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Differences in Executive Functions Are Almost Entirely Genetic in Origin(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by blake_himself 11y ago|0 comments
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by blake_himself 11y ago
> When you are playing chess, at some point you make a mistake, you may go back several steps that were “correct” to find the one that was wrong. When you fall off a bicycle, you think of when you lost your balance. Deep learning does th
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by blake_himself 12y ago
For NLP. Presumably you could extract it from sentences with techniques like Socher's: http://www.socher.org/index.php/Main/ParsingNaturalScenesAnd... There was an example in Socher's paper of a tree of
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by blake_himself 12y ago
Losing, compared to what he could have been making.
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by blake_himself 12y ago
'CSAPP' = ?
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by blake_himself 12y ago
Its ideas have 'leaked out into the culture'. I doubt it was all so obvious when it first came out.

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