importantbrian

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by importantbrian 1mo ago
I used to think I wasn’t very good at math, because I struggled to route memorize formulas and the like. Then I had a calculus professor in class that took a bunch of time explaining how to derive the formulas we were using and it unlocked
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by importantbrian 1mo ago
For the US? No. The mandatory retirement age is 64. The fall of Saigon was 1975. So the youngest you could be to have served in Vietnam is 69. The last general with Vietnam experience retired in 2010.
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by importantbrian 1mo ago
I think we shot ourselves in the foot by calling machine learning AI for so many years and now calling LLMs AI. We have a bunch of non-technical folks in our company who are convinced if we just give them access to claude with a connection
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by importantbrian 4mo ago
I recently had a similar discussion with my BIL who owns a construction business. He was saying he was glad he didn't have to worry about AI, because even if it automated everything about the business he'd still own it. I was like
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by importantbrian 1y ago
I'm not sure this is entirely fair. When I was in college I genuinely enjoyed learning and now that I'm out of school I still spend time learning about the subjects of my major and minor in my free time, but this would have descri
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by importantbrian 1y ago
For some reason I thought they had already dropped Star Trek when it all moved to Paramount+. That's how I watch Star Trek these days anyway. If all you watch is Star Trek it's probably worth switching, because Paramount+ is cheap
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by importantbrian 2y ago
I had a long winding road through academia. Went to a big selective R1 state school in a different state after high school. Had an existential crisis, moved back home with my parents and went to community college for a year, finished my und
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by importantbrian 2y ago
They increased their defense spending because of Russia invading Ukraine in 2014 and 2022. It didn't have anything to do with US bullying. The biden administration certainly wasn't going around bullying Europe between 2021 and 202
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by importantbrian 2y ago
Something similar to this actually happened to a friend of mine. His kid managed to buy a cheap burner phone with a prepaid data plan. You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good with these things though. Just because you can&#x
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by importantbrian 2y ago
This is not how it works. The weighting is based on the Consumer Expenditure Survey. BLS does not arbitrarily assign the weights. If they change the weighting between butter and bread it's because they found that people were buying mor
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by importantbrian 2y ago
Sure I’ll pass your email along to her and see if she wants to do that.
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by importantbrian 2y ago
Wife is a nurse. They eventually go 2 computers working for her unit. I don't think it impacted patients already being treated, but they couldn't get surgeries scheduled and no charting was being done. Some of the other floors wer
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by importantbrian 2y ago
I think almost exclusively through inner monologue, and I find I can't speed read at all. If I'm not vocalizing I'm not thinking, so when I try to not vocalize in order to speed read I don't retain anything. It's li
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by importantbrian 2y ago
I wonder if to get rid of the fans they could use a control moment gyroscope or reaction wheels.
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by importantbrian 2y ago
As someone who is not an academic myself, but likes to listen to podcasts where academics discuss issues with each other, I often find that the conversations feel contentious, and sometimes they are, but the vast majority of the time the ac
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by importantbrian 2y ago
Because the shareholders would most likely rather have X billion dollars from selling the company than 0 dollars from refusing to sell and getting banned.
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by importantbrian 2y ago
Yeah, that's been my experience. Everytime I see my primary my BP is elevated in the office and they send me home with a log and I have to take my BP multiple times a day for 2 weeks and at home it's fine, so I've never been
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by importantbrian 2y ago
I have really bad white-coat hypertension. Like 150-90 in the drs. office. So every time I go in they send me home with a chart and I have to dutifully record my blood pressure a couple of times a day for 2 weeks and send it back to them, a
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by importantbrian 2y ago
Not to mention not everyone can be devoted to doing cancer research. Some Drs. and Nurses are necessary to you know actually treat the people who have cancer.
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by importantbrian 2y ago
I think that probably depends on just how productive AGI is. AGI is fundamentally resource-constrained just like everything else. It can only do as much work as there is power and compute infrastructure to support that work, which means tha
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by importantbrian 2y ago
This game is doubly valuable when the surprising result confirms one of your existing beliefs. I'm pretty good about doing this for surprising results that contradict a belief I hold, but I have to be extra disciplined about doing it w
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Building and testing C extensions for SQLite with ChatGPT Code Interpreter(simonw.substack.com)
1 points by importantbrian 2y ago|0 comments
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by importantbrian 2y ago
The real problem with those lists is that they only include people whose wealth is known and can be reasonably valued based on public sources. It's often not easy to trace the net worth of old-money families. It also means you won&#x27
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10 Years of Wagtail – Wagtail CMS(wagtail.org)
1 points by importantbrian 3y ago|0 comments
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by importantbrian 3y ago
Living in Florida I've driven down the road and had it be raining on one side of the road and not raining on the other while the sun is shining.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
This probably depends on the person. I have the same experience as you. I exclusively use audiobooks for fiction. If I'm reading for information I have to read a physical book. My wife is the complete opposite though. She retains the i
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by importantbrian 3y ago
Land value tax can't be passed on to tenants. Whether or not a tax can be passed on depends on the elasticity of supply. The supply of land is fixed, so land value taxes reduce the price of land, and generally also reduce the price of
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by importantbrian 3y ago
Obligatory Georgism callout, but a high land value tax would solve this issue. Landlords would be forced to put the property to productive use, and it discourages the kind of speculative land holding that these companies are engaging in.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I actually really enjoyed season 1 of Invasion and then DNF'd season 2.
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by importantbrian 3y ago
I think I enjoyed season 2 in part because I didn't have any expectations that it would be a faithful adaptation. I just enjoyed it for what it was. I think if I rewatched season 1 with the same attitude I'd probably like it more.

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