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by grantpitt 7d ago
Feels like we're going to read a blog soon enough that mirrors Wendell Berry's opening to The Unsettling of America: The commission said, according to an article in the Louisville Courier-Journal, that the country’s biggest farm p
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by grantpitt 13d ago
Christopher Alexander, as mention elsewhere on this page, is also a great reference here. I'm working through his Nature of Order books at the moment, and although he can be long-winded and vague at times, I'm absolutely loving th
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by grantpitt 14d ago
You might find Albert Borgmann a helpful voice here. He describes 'focal things and practices' which push back against the commodification of nearly everything. So, for example, making a meal and eating it with others at a table,
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by grantpitt 16d ago
I learned of Berry just this last year. His book 'The Unsettling of America' really had an impact on me. He was a leader who lived what he preached. RIP.
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by grantpitt 1mo ago
I had a similar thought in the shower today: will the last conversation I have be with a person or an AI?
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by grantpitt 3mo ago
You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both.
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Salmon Creek Farm(salmoncreekfarm-arts.org)
2 points by grantpitt 4mo ago|1 comments
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by grantpitt 6mo ago
Somewhat analogously the best predictor of if I read a book on a given day is if I read the day before, I'd guess.
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by grantpitt 7mo ago
Very cool project! Reminds me Chiang's great short story 'The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling': > “If you speak slowly, you pause very briefly after each word. Thatʼs why we leave a space in those places when we write.
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by grantpitt 7mo ago
Can you say more on this?
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Correctio(rhetoric.byu.edu)
2 points by grantpitt 7mo ago|0 comments
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by grantpitt 7mo ago
I quoted from the middle of the article what I found interesting. I don't submit on here much and I just put that in the title field without thinking. I'm glad that comment provides proper context on this.
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by grantpitt 7mo ago
Sorry, my mistake. Thanks for the reminder. I don't think I can change it after 2 hrs.
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by grantpitt 7mo ago
Yeah, the article links the source where every state can be viewed: https://edunomicslab.org/roi-over-time/
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Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped(educationnext.org)
75 points by grantpitt 7mo ago|117 comments
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger(ways-of-seeing.com)
30 points by grantpitt 10mo ago|2 comments
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by grantpitt 10mo ago
well, it's a big trick
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by grantpitt 10mo ago
do say more
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by grantpitt 10mo ago
Any application that can run in the browser, will eventually run in the browser.
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by grantpitt 10mo ago
Huh, can you share a link? I tried here: https://gemini.google.com/share/e753745dfc5d
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by grantpitt 10mo ago
Agreed, it also leads performance on arc-agi-1. Here's the leaderboard where you can toggle between arc-agi-1 and 2: https://arcprize.org/leaderboard
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Preparing for AI's economic impact: exploring policy responses(anthropic.com)
75 points by grantpitt 11mo ago|80 comments
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by grantpitt 11mo ago
Very interesting to hear two technologists at a tech business conference say things along the lines of: "our tools do not merely extend us, they transform us", followed up with "we've become numb to the devastating conse
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LoRA Without Regret(thinkingmachines.ai)
184 points by grantpitt 1y ago|58 comments
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by grantpitt 1y ago
Interesting because games are exactly the kinds of RL environments that models can effectively learn - but the catch is that they must do this learning on the fly in test-time. Very exciting to see this.
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by grantpitt 2y ago
Right, like in math, not all infinite sequences contain every finite subsequence. For example, a non-repeating sequence of 2's and 7's contains no sequence "4". The further condition is that the number be normal[1]. Also
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by grantpitt 2y ago
Nice post. With respect to maximizing future options, I find the ideas expressed in the following quotes are interesting counter-points. From '4,000 weeks': "Not only should you settle; ideally you should settle in a way that
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by grantpitt 2y ago
> "By the 1880s, their numbers had plummeted from around 30 million to a mere 325" I thought that must've been a typo upon first reading. Even 325,000 would be shocking. Amazing that the conservation efforts seem to have w
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by grantpitt 2y ago
That quote is him criticizing a certain shift in science and education he perceives, right? Not him advocating for that position.
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by grantpitt 3y ago
I had similar thoughts on this. It looks polynomial because he classified errors into certain groups and spread them across an axis which we implicitly think is a dimension. But it's not... as he says, "Along any one dimension we

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