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by itairall 3y ago
Great stuff. I had gone down this path last year with not using attr and it was so hard to find good examples like this. The thing I never figured out was how to use d3 axis as a svg generator. Starting from scratch on each project is quite
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by itairall 3y ago
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What is hard to measure is what could have been done with the money to make the US military stronger but was wasted instead. The worst part is all these inefficiencies are going to add up over t
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by itairall 3y ago
This is nonsense. People are more informed than ever before. The past looks better only because it is a distorted view from a lack of information at that time.
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by itairall 3y ago
I don't think you can separate out the higher order effects of financialization and the downgrading in social status this has had for anyone not involved in some kind of finance. In 1972 there was all kinds of social status that could
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by itairall 3y ago
I completely agree but it seems to me the Enlightenment was just a brief window in time, a temporary state and we are simply returning to the equilibrium of a top down, clergy like class that tells the masses what to believe. That is what t
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by itairall 3y ago
The problem is 50% of the people in the US are spendthrifts and absolutely terrible with saving money. It doesn't matter what their income is. A spendthrift can always find something to spend all their money on no matter how high thei
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by itairall 3y ago
No, I have generated a few thousand midjourney images and there is quite a difference in these images actually. It is hard to describe but there is a very unnatural "sheen" to the images on the left. The SDXL 0.9 images look more
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by itairall 3y ago
My short term memory sucks too. I need many exposures to retain the information for a standardized test. I wonder if intelligent people with poor short term memories are more impressed with LLMs than those with good short term memories beca
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by itairall 3y ago
I don't get it either. What is is even worse is that the algorithm has pulled a some incredible music recommendations for me but they are so few and far between. My fav is Countdown at Kusini by Manu Dibango. The soundtrack to a 1976 N
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by itairall 3y ago
I am not a big Marshall McLuhan fan but this is what is meant by the medium is the message. You are not going to have the same discussion in print that you have electronically and on social media. It doesn't matter what the subject is.
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by itairall 3y ago
It is absurd to believe there is no danger of over regulation from government that a company would need to push back on. I guess you just take news headlines at face value though.
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by itairall 3y ago
It will really come down to the cost. I would be dishonest if I said I would pay a premium for meat as to not harm animals. If you can kill two birds with one stone(ok maybe not the best saying in this context)and under cut the price of mea
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by itairall 3y ago
Andrew Ng doesn't agree but that is a boring story. It seems to me the big names in AI research our having a moment that appeals to their vanity. Easy to get your name in the headlines by out dooming the next guy. There is also no down
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by itairall 3y ago
For me, reading on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 inch screen with 2560x1600 is an upgrade to paper. I think the words are actually sharper but most of all the lighting is always absolutely perfect. The size is perfect. Even beyond that though,
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by itairall 3y ago
I have even lost the positive emotions I use to have seeing a bookcase. All I see now is "what a pain in the ass". The physical nature of books use to be a feature over ebooks and audio books for me but now they are a total bug.
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by itairall 3y ago
What is most interesting about LLMs to me is the vastly different experiences people are having with them. Personally, I can't understand how someone who has spent time with chatGPT4 can say that as a blanket statement. On the other ha
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by itairall 3y ago
Yes, most people are not skeptics at all. Most people believe what they are told at face value. I stop just short of Feynman questioning the dentist on the evidence for brushing one's teeth. That there is potentially this ritual that g
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by itairall 3y ago
It is a straw man to pretend that political discussion looks like an Intelligence Squared debate when almost all the time it looks like a food fight about nonsense. The idea the world will be worst off with less flame wars is simply wrong I
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by itairall 3y ago
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous reason to stop reading a biography of a historic military dictator and one of the all time cult of personalities. Did you think he was going to be gentle soul? HN never ceases to blow my mind. "I sta
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by itairall 3y ago
My grandfather joined the Navy at 17 in 1943 and never spoke about it. I assumed when he was alive he didn't do much in the war but in researching his ship it was the complete opposite. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the biggest naval ba
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by itairall 3y ago
Exactly. Download mp3s, chat with friends on ICQ/AOL IM, forums of various interests, online dating. There were even real audio podcasts basically at this time but they just weren't called podcasts. The only thing I can't rem
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by itairall 3y ago
It is an obvious propaganda piece but the average person believes whatever they read so why not? These people are the opposite of stupid when it comes to money. Cunning, ruthless, underhanded, obsessed, win at all cost, win even at the expe
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by itairall 3y ago
So much these discussions are pointless arguments over things we aren't even bothering to define in the discussion. One person says "write code" in the context of chatGPT and they mean Common Lisp and chatGPT3.5 Someone else
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by itairall 3y ago
It just seems like too many variables to make blanket statements. I am at the point in life I am not on anyone's schedule and it is still highly variable. I love naps but I slept great last night and pretty much woke up at the ideal ti
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by itairall 3y ago
Expectations go both ways too. Literally like an itch, the more you scratch the more it will itch after the most transient moment of relief. People tend to foolishly believe that their wants and desires are in some static container that onc
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by itairall 3y ago
I honestly don't think we would have the internet or electricity if it was a new thing today. It would be impossible to run power lines. We would make some argument that we need to slow down and stick with candles for now. We already h
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by itairall 3y ago
I always assume these articles are for out of shape people checking their phones while eating McDonalds french fries pretending to worry about their health or really in shape people that only eat organic quail eggs. I just really doubt that
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by itairall 3y ago
I would love to see something like track based MusicGen for single instruments/channels that can be mixed. Just seems like a fundamentally different problem than a photograph or painting.
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by itairall 3y ago
Plus people are basically spoiled brats when it comes to this question. As if the medieval peasant had it better. The average person lives the highest standard of living in the history of humanity with a life so easy that the biggest proble
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by itairall 3y ago
I just don't see what rational reason there is to say this when we have an epidemic of overweight people who don't exercise at all. This is only going to get worse too as people who grew up overweight and not exercising get older.

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