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by devaler 1y ago
> I'm still trying to square how 98% of American voters went for candidates promising to continue arming the world's most live-streamed genocide, even with all those protests; even with all the footage we've seen in case y
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by devaler 3y ago
I am going to adopt the phrase “toxic negativity”. I’m not yet familiar with “virtue spiraling”, however.
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by devaler 3y ago
I could not agree more. Finding succinct written information on the internet feels more difficult every day.
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by devaler 3y ago
Learn everything you can about cleaning/standardizing datasets and the boots-on-the-ground process of labeling data and training algorithms. These are fundamental, and are often overlooked and undervalued.
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by devaler 3y ago
Interesting and interested. I’ll be following, for the learning experience if nothing else.
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by devaler 3y ago
> Of course, in the developed world, bikes are more luxury things I’m not sure where this notion comes from? I wasn’t rich as a child, but I had a bicycle, and I grew up in rural Appalachia.
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by devaler 4y ago
That one jumped out at me, too, but I was thinking the Apple IIc.
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by devaler 4y ago
Now there’s a term I’ve never heard before. I’m somewhat afraid to look it up, but here I go…
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by devaler 4y ago
All the time.
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by devaler 4y ago
This a really strong, and very good breakdown of the problems with the prequels. They essentially take the complex, developed characters of Frank Herbert and turn them into into trite caricatures of themselves.
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by devaler 4y ago
This is one of the many reasons I do not miss working for a bookstore. A large percentage (but not the majority) of our customers were either grifters or thieves.
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by devaler 4y ago
Internet Explorer is the browser, Explorer is the file manager. Not that Microsoft has made it confusing </s>
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by devaler 4y ago
I enjoyed your take. I didn’t agree with every point you made, but I was sympathetic enough to appreciate them.
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by devaler 4y ago
I agree, and this plot point unsuspends my disbelief more than any others.
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by devaler 4y ago
- Apple will release a display-less fitness tracker based on the Apple Watch.
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by devaler 4y ago
Good luck with the mirtazapine taper, and I mean that with all sincerity. I recently finished mine, and it’s been fascinating to watch the weight drop along with it. I’m glad that mirtazapine helps some people, but for me it was a poison th
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by devaler 4y ago
As someone who despises internal combustion engines I would love to get a battery-electric vehicle, but the delta between what I owe on the car (zero, fortunately)--and what I'd need to spend--would pay for gasoline for decades. I imag
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by devaler 4y ago
I’ve used and liked Genius Scan for a long time. Roughly six or seven years.
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by devaler 5y ago
Perfect summarization, in my opinion.
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by devaler 5y ago
Indeed. I cringe each time I see the phrase.
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by devaler 5y ago
A: How long have you been doing this? B: How old are you? Not that you have to answer these questions in public, they’re just illustrative of at least two factors that may affect your experience.
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by devaler 5y ago
I’ve found that when it comes to their cars, people seem to get offended very easily (at least in my part of the U.S.). Case in point: I suggested physical traffic-calming solutions for my neighborhood in order to combat excessive speeding,
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by devaler 5y ago
It makes me think of “How Doctors Die”: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2013/03/how-doctors-die/
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by devaler 6y ago
I have to agree with the author’s experience with Metafilter.
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by devaler 6y ago
And, arguably, data cleaning is the most overlooked part.
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by devaler 6y ago
Please define “survival”.
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by devaler 6y ago
Couldn’t agree more, though I saw it 20 years too late.
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by devaler 6y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but would an ipad pro with lidar have sufficient technology to produce a readable facsimile?
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by devaler 6y ago
You’re confusing a library with a bookstore. Libraries are repositories of information that one can browse.
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by devaler 7y ago
I see The Room series of games multiple times.

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