boerseth

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by boerseth 3mo ago
There's a lot of art out there that is totally uninteresting, at least to me, because it feels like the artist put little effort or thought into it or or maybe even into honing their skills. But if the art instead beems with intention
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by boerseth 6mo ago
This reminds me of why I despise certain works/styles of art and artists. I feel cheated if I'm made to spend more time and effort interpreting a work of art than the creator put into it themselves.
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by boerseth 6mo ago
Start dancing Argentine tango. I am dead serious.
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by boerseth 7mo ago
Does each service really need to collect this data from the user directly? They could instead have the user authorise them by e.g. OAuth2 to access their age with one of the de-facto online-identity-providers. I would be surprised if they d
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by boerseth 7mo ago
> ... six of the fundamental concepts in mathematics ... and how they connect with our real-world intuition While the connections are interesting, I would be as interested in the disconnects, as there's a bunch of cases where our hu
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by boerseth 7mo ago
> Hyperbolic growth is what happens when the thing that's growing accelerates its own growth. No. That is quite literally exponential growth, basically by definition. If x(t) is a growing value, then x'(t) is it's grow
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by boerseth 8mo ago
It is understanably hard to stay vigilant with respect to individual everyday purchases, but services and subscriptions are an easy and continuous win.
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by boerseth 9mo ago
That's a long list of numbers that seem oddly specific. Apart from learning that f-strings are way faster than the alternatives, and certain other comparisons, I'm not sure what I would use this for day-to-day. After skimming over
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by boerseth 9mo ago
> Brainf*ck is the antithesis of modern software engineering. There are no comments, no meaningful variable names, and no structure That's not true. From the little time I've spent trying to read and write some simple programs
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by boerseth 9mo ago
Not sure which way the difference puts the pressure. Does the fuzziness require more prudent policies, or allow us to get away with less?
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by boerseth 9mo ago
Modularity and separation of concerns can extend into other domains than software. For me, it seems so much simpler to keep the two separate. You won't be forced to wash the heating element every time you wash the cup. Can't heat
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by boerseth 11mo ago
I don't think that intuition is entirely trustworthy here. The entire space is high-dimensional, true, but the structure of the subspace encompassing linguistically sensible sequences of tokens will necessarily be restricted and have s
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by boerseth 1y ago
I swear this is how I've gotten good at most of my hobbies. Playing guitar for 20 years has gotten me to a great level for a hobbyist, but not at all because of any virtues like discipline, self control, or routine. Rather, every day w
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by boerseth 1y ago
The bank will probably let you order a new card to their offices instead of your home address, so all you need to do is survive for a week or so. In my case, that was very easy thanks to the friends I was visiting. As for the meantime: I st
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by boerseth 1y ago
These past couple of years I've gotten into plenty of trouble on multiple occasions, as a result of what I would describe as a cascade of misfortune initiated by a single unfortunate event (for which I will take some responsibility, bu
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by boerseth 1y ago
I get it! Years ago my obsession was Classic Tetris, and it was common knowledge that watching skilled players at work would improve your own stacking and strategy. A lot of the pros openly admitted to watching their competition while start
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by boerseth 1y ago
I was gonna say. I did it with French some years ago and it worked like a charm. Later I became obsessed with Argentine tango. Unfortunately, I thought, "comprehensible input" won't work with dancing, especially not a couple&
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by boerseth 1y ago
The danger is when solutions that are convenient, but require giving up some sort of freedom, are made mandatory even for those who would like to stay free. I hope this is a lesson we avoid having to learn the hard way. I have done some bac
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by boerseth 1y ago
It used to be that every time I heard about some problem with training AI systems, I would be struck by how much the challenges line up and parallel the challenges involved in raising human children, and how humans learn more generally. How
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by boerseth 1y ago
It may get resolved on its own. These days people study to get good grades in order to prove to future gatekeepers (like employers, or higher rungs of academia) that they know the material well. Post AGI, however, the gatekeepers may not be
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by boerseth 1y ago
My own experiment involved writing my CV in YAML, and using a Pandoc template to generate .tex and .pdf. I think I may have overcooked the thing a little, but it was good fun. I never got into emacs. Is Org worth it? https://gith
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by boerseth 1y ago
I am wondering how universally useful these qualities are across disciplines. It might be interesting to consider each of the categories in a totally different field. Take dancing for example. I am very fond of Argentine tango, and will att
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by boerseth 2y ago
Dancing is a good example, though not perfect. It's hard to convince a club to have a salsa/bachata/tango/swing centered evening, because the interested crowd actually comes to dance and socialize. It is much more profit
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by boerseth 2y ago
I doubt it was the UBI-like aspect of the pandemic that caused the depressive states. Isolation, less active lifestyles, locked inside. Imagine UBI, but with the opposite of all of those!
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by boerseth 2y ago
>The negative comment tells me that I knew this was slow code, looked into the alternatives, and decided against optimizing. I admire the honesty, but will continue to phrase these "why not" comments as insincere TODOs.
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by boerseth 2y ago
Like you say, computers nowadays can do basically anything. It is then a funny feeling to take an old computer, one that was once abandoned over all the minor frustrations that surrounded it, and revisit it today, only to be filled with won
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by boerseth 2y ago
> The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. This phrase is repeated many, many times in the legendary fan-fiction Harry Potter and the Methods Of Rationality (HPMOR)[1], wh
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by boerseth 2y ago
The original looks great on mobile, but for desktops the above improvements are quite sensible as a minimum.
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by boerseth 2y ago
There are many that would strongly object to this conclusion. I have heard friends describe their inner life as almost entirely verbal, that they "think in words", and are totally unable to relate to anything else. When we say &qu
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by boerseth 2y ago
I was eager to see the data, but exporting from the first source only gives the same data shown in the article, although in a spreadsheet. The explanations in your second link are more like definitions than justifications for why this and t

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