dctoedt

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by dctoedt 4d ago
> Cleaning the bathroom, on the other hand, would leave my mind largely free to think whatever I feel like. I haven't calculated a cube root by hand since, what, sixth grade? (It's been so long I don't remember.) I'
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The Building Blocks Hidden in A.I.: How Tokens Work(nytimes.com)
3 points by dctoedt 7d ago|0 comments
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by dctoedt 24d ago
No, I didn't know that. Just did so — thanks for the tip.
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by dctoedt 24d ago
From what I know of the Khan approach, it's akin to "flipping the classroom" [0], which has gained pretty wide acceptance. It was pioneered by Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur. (I use the flipped classroom approach extens
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by dctoedt 24d ago
Comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49411243 by @dabedee is dead from downvoting but shouldn't be.
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by dctoedt 1mo ago
"Verbing": For some reason, to me the use of "impact" as a verb has always been fingernails on a chalkboard. But it's hard to see the distinction between that and using "access" as a verb (as in the linked
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by dctoedt 1mo ago
> "And if you really care about your health you should do them every 3 months to catch problems early!" When I moved to Houston just after law school, I found a doctor and made an appointment to get a routine physical exam; I
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by dctoedt 1mo ago
FTA: "By doing so, Trump is making good on a promise he made almost 10 years ago to go back to the steam system after hearing a sailor praise it while visiting a ship during his first term."
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by dctoedt 1mo ago
FTA: "By doing so, Trump is making good on a promise he made almost 10 years ago to go back to the steam system after hearing a sailor praise it while visiting a ship during his first term. "But since Trump said in an interview wi
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Trump Orders Navy to Restore [Steam Catapults] in Aircraft Carriers(wsj.com)
14 points by dctoedt 1mo ago|9 comments
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by dctoedt 1mo ago
> Having done both [software and law], lots of lawyers are also nerds who just like to tinker with the law and words Having also done both: In legal drafting work, there's less systematic pre-release testing before the equivalent of
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
> The complete transformation and legitimization of betting culture in the United States has been surreal to watch. Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress implicitly predicted this (albeit for Luna, which was obviously modeled on
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
FTA: "AI may be lowering the cost of operating outside a traditional firm by allowing one worker to perform tasks that once required a team, support staff, or firm-based infrastructure." And from a WaPo summary: "Contrary to
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Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of Independent Work(mercatus.org)
7 points by dctoedt 2mo ago|2 comments
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
> Al Gore is definitely one of them! Absolutely correct — and that's not sarcasm or irony. (Gore never claimed to have "invented the Internet"; that was a calumny spread by Republicans.)
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
Point taken about the French thirst for revanche ; I stand corrected. Again: Catastropic naïveté.
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
I have to differ. I don’t think anyone on either side even imagined, let alone intended, that the Western Front would get bogged down in four years of trench warfare or (on the Allied side) that Russia would fight so suboptimally. There was
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
> Countries and people WANTED the war, war was still thought about as a general benefit to the country That was true among some of the players in various governments — Kaiser Wilhelm being a prime example. Can you cite any (reputable
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
So you agree with me — stupid decisions, catastrophic fuckups.
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by dctoedt 2mo ago
> I think sooner or later, Iran will succeed in sinking a big US ship Sinking or even just seriously damaging a U.S. aircraft carrier — approx. 5K people in crew + airwing, billions of dollars in ship and aircraft — might trigger a Pea
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
If you were born in 1900 you probably are at the tail end of the Lost Generation — the Greatest Generation is considered to be those born between 1901 and 1927. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
Please reread my comment — yours has two possible meanings.
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
> I can be absolutely certain of my perception and recollection of what my consciousness is experiencing and has experienced. There's abundant evidence to the contrary — at least as far as your recollection of what your consciousn
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
> If there's anything worth defending, people will volunteer to defend it. That's a pretty binary view of the situation. It's not enough for something to be worth defending: People have to recognize that it's wo
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
Yes, that's an edge case — my comment to which you responded was not meant as a complete statement of Reality.
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
> It is called forced labour or slavery. In war, people who tolerate military conscription and discipline will conquer those who're slaves to pigheaded "you're not the boss of ME!" individualism. It'd be nice if
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
Neither of the jury verdicts altered the reality of whether Simpson did or didn’t kill the two victims. (In Simpson’s second trial, the jury found him liable , not “guilty.” Guilt is the term used in criminal prosecutions. Liability is th
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
> "Innocent until proven guilty" concerns whether someone did a crime See my upthread comment: "Innocent until proven guilty" is catchy but false.
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
> innocent until proven guilty Pithy but untrue. The verbose-but-correct statement is about procedural prerequisites: Government officials are forbidden to imprison or fine you until your guilt is proved, to an impartial and properly-ins
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by dctoedt 3mo ago
And Brian Reid's Scribe formatter [0] — so much nicer than roff, troff, etc. (descendants of Runoff). In 1981-82 I wrote a user manual and taught my fellow law-review editors — none of whom were computer people — how to use both Emacs

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