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by derbOac 6d ago
I've noticed my bank — a large well-known bank — has been closing a large number of physical locations and encouraging people to bank with their app. The app is convenient but this post points out the downside, that your money flow is
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by derbOac 7d ago
The articles I've read on this have said it's murky because of obfuscation of reported data by self-driving companies. The target article even notes that "while Waymo leads the industry in transparency, and robotaxi operators
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by derbOac 12d ago
More context and different site: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/09/03/new-rsa-number-fac...
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by derbOac 16d ago
That's sort of what bothered me the most at the time. It seemed like the argument was that it was "emotional" or something to keep Pluto a planet when there might be so many of them. But I never understood why it was less &qu
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by derbOac 16d ago
What's being referenced here is maybe the tip of the iceberg in terms of inadequacies of current recommendation systems. I suspect there's a range of indices related to content interaction that companies use poorly or even maybe n
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Any Recommended Alternatives to Google Maps and Apple Maps?
4 points by derbOac 17d ago|2 comments
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by derbOac 17d ago
I think that's part of what is frustrating to so many people? Google isn't a small business, and has the legal resources to at least fight back if they were challenged by the administration. Any such challenge would likely fall ap
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by derbOac 22d ago
It should be that way. My tolerance for people posting to X without also posting to an open platform is over. Public institutions especially. There's zero excuse, none.
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by derbOac 22d ago
They post it other places also in my experience. Twitter doesn't have the monopoly on that it used to.
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by derbOac 1mo ago
Then you have people dying because of problems following GPS: https://apnews.com/article/google-maps-lawsuit-north-carolin... https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/artic.
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by derbOac 1mo ago
Yes, the posted story has so many layers of wrongness in it — it's hard to pick just one. None of it would be a problem without the App store in its current form though.
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by derbOac 1mo ago
It means funneling public funds to AI and AI-adjacent companies that grease the wheels enough with the administration. It's like everything else: the administration decides it can control funds however it wants, regardless of what was
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by derbOac 1mo ago
Is Mojo being a superset of Python still part of its projected feature set? I tried Mojo a bit early on and decided to come back to it when it was more complete, and in the interim I read some comments somewhere that the superset-of-Python
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by derbOac 1mo ago
"This has surprised scientists, and it remains an open research question to fully understand how our models produce such accurate predictions at this resolution." Also crazy. Seems important to understand why something does what i
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New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth(smithsonianmag.com)
4 points by derbOac 1mo ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 1mo ago
I'm aware of the research on trauma and posttraumatic growth (and have worked with such patients). What I'm referring to are correlations between group-level variables at the level of nations or states. There's a kind of disc
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by derbOac 1mo ago
I agree with the need for an empirical reality check, but have grown really skeptical about these kinds of cohort-level well-being measures. I wouldn't say they're meaningless, but there's a lot of studies suggesting they don
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by derbOac 1mo ago
I'm not sure what to make of this? Is any healthy skepticism about AI now treated as motivated luddism? Academics has its many issues but universities are hardly the only sources of criticism about AI, and for all its benefits AI is po
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by derbOac 1mo ago
I like the Lean formalizations — I hadn't thought seriously of asking for that before but might try it with some stuff I've been working on.
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by derbOac 2mo ago
Not a complaint about your post but this stuff about film formats and aspect ratios has always had me scratching my head. For years I heard people arguing that wider aspect ratios were preferable because they afforded a wider view, and that
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by derbOac 2mo ago
I feel obligated to note the grilled-cheese-adjacent brie and butter sandwich of Twin Peaks notoriety.
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by derbOac 2mo ago
Another article with more detail but less context: https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/cyberattack-malware-b...
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by derbOac 2mo ago
So the argument is now that intelligence is dangerous.
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by derbOac 2mo ago
I wonder how much any of those associations are with income per se versus career satisfaction per se? I imagine people who are making more money are probably a better fit for their career, feel more needed, and so forth and so on. I do imag
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by derbOac 2mo ago
Inspiring? Because of the twin prime conjecture success following his time in the wilderness? I suppose so. I'm tired of tales like this in academics though. That's not a criticism of you for telling the tale, I'm just so tir
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by derbOac 2mo ago
So much of this dialogue misses the point. Tests can be validly used and also often be abused. And when tests are abused enough, it starts to beg the question of whether or not they're too attractive to invalid interpretation to be w
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by derbOac 2mo ago
I admit I didn't follow this as much as I'd like to, and I wish it had some discussion of how this maps onto traditional signal processing frameworks in statistics and information theory, if it does.
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It may be impossible to make data centers pay 'fair share' of electricity costs(theconversation.com)
5 points by derbOac 2mo ago|4 comments
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by derbOac 2mo ago
I think the message I've often heard is that looted objects are so obviously looted and subject to confiscation that there's now little demand for them. I took this article as a pushback against that idea. (Others are joking at th
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FCC to repeal 39% TV ownership cap in boost for Trump-friendly news orgs(arstechnica.com)
19 points by derbOac 2mo ago|1 comments

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