interludead

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by interludead 17d ago
There is something very internet-native about Franklin having a collection of handles for different kinds of posting
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by interludead 22d ago
Building businesses that supported entire local economies is a different kind of legacy
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by interludead 22d ago
She transcended the genre entirely
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by interludead 22d ago
What a life. Dolly somehow managed to be enormously famous without ever seeming consumed by fame. RIP.
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by interludead 26d ago
I would have loved that kind of biology game, particularly if failed designs were part of the lesson
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by interludead 26d ago
The unexpected conclusion here seems to be that biology taught you enough statistics to leave biology financially behind. That is interesting, although six profitable years of gambling may also encourage a rather romantic view of gambling
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by interludead 26d ago
How you prevent meaning from becoming another thing adults manufacture for students
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by interludead 26d ago
Avery's experiment is memorable not because "DNA carries heredity" is an important fact but because protein looked like the plausible answer and a relatively simple experiment overturned it...
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by interludead 1mo ago
Answer: differently and increasingly
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by interludead 1mo ago
I get the ad-like vibe, but I think that's slightly unfair to the paper. "General purpose technology" is being used as an economics term here, not as a claim that ChatGPT is universally useful
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by interludead 1mo ago
This feels like conflating "schools use technology" with "schools outsource thinking to technology"
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by interludead 1mo ago
Interesting data, but I think there's a pretty big trap in treating usage intensity as a proxy for economic impact. The finding that early-career workers send substantially more messages than senior people could mean they're getti
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by interludead 1mo ago
There are worse ways to spend a few hours a month than trying to talk rich people into funding an absurdly fast sailboat
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by interludead 1mo ago
That connection makes it even more interesting
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by interludead 1mo ago
There is something wonderfully old-internet about finding a complete 3,5year solo circumnavigation memoir sitting on a plain HTML site
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by interludead 1mo ago
The only difference is the hamster doesn’t pretend the morning run was enjoyable
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by interludead 1mo ago
That would be pretty funny if the hamster ended up with Premium purely because of an implementation detail
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by interludead 1mo ago
I knew mice were active at night, but I wouldn't have guessed 10k+ was routine
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by interludead 1mo ago
I love that two people independently arrived at "my pet uses a wheel, therefore I need telemetry"
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by interludead 1mo ago
> my hamster now has Strava Premium Somewhere there's a product manager looking at this and adding "multi-species household plan" to the roadmap
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by interludead 2mo ago
For a lot of parents, the phone may actually be what lets them be physically around their kids more
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by interludead 2mo ago
I can easily imagine the phone use and the kid's insecurity both coming from the same underlying family dynamic, rather than one neatly causing the other
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by interludead 2mo ago
Being ignored because someone is staring at a phone absolutely feels different from them just being busy. At the same time, asking teenagers how much their parent's phone use bothers them and then finding that the most bothered teenage
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by interludead 3mo ago
I agree with the general direction but I'm a little skeptical of the "just add a few more TB of RAM and the frontier moves local" version of it
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by interludead 3mo ago
I think this is right but it also depends on what "compete" means
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by interludead 3mo ago
Most people don't actually want to manage models, updates, context limits, quantization, etc. They just want the thing to work everywhere
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by interludead 3mo ago
I'm not sure it's a death knell for frontier labs so much as a narrowing of what people need them for
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by interludead 3mo ago
The worrying part is not just that banned substances show up at trace levels, but that a non-trivial number of products were apparently over the legal limit
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by interludead 3mo ago
It also shifts a lot of the real exposure onto farm workers and local environments outside the EU, while EU firms still capture the upside
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by interludead 3mo ago
The obvious question is: if these pesticides are considered too unsafe to use in the EU, why are EU companies still allowed to export them?

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