jaimie

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by jaimie 2mo ago
These resources are amazing, thanks for sharing. The short-term realization of data portability was done in Streets of SimCity, which allowed you to import a SimCity 2000 file and actually drive through the city: https://en.wikip
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by jaimie 3mo ago
Nothing, Forever was basically this idea applied to Seinfeld. The video quality was low, but some of the ways it captured the same absurdities as Seinfeld was remarkable at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothin
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by jaimie 4mo ago
It's already being done: https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
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by jaimie 4mo ago
I still use last.fm via Spotify. It is wild to see my entire listening history from 11th grade to present (20 years!). Always fun to poke through and see changes from one year or life phase to the next.
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by jaimie 5mo ago
"I've no idea why one would use gpt-oss-20b at Q8" - would you mind expanding on this comment? In that particular model family, the choices are 20B and 120B, so 20B higher quant fits in VRAM, while you'd be settling for
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by jaimie 8mo ago
Woke up to several notifications that should’ve gone to promotions/updates/social/etc. Frustrating.
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by jaimie 9mo ago
Does it though? I mean I'm still teaching thread-safety and recursion to my interns... a solid foundation is a solid foundation.
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by jaimie 9mo ago
This was a very well written retrospective on web development. Thank you for sharing!
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by jaimie 9mo ago
The world of the Digital Humanities is a lot of fun (and one I've been a part of, teaching programming to Historians and Philosophers of Science!) It uses computation to provide new types of evidence for historical or rhetorical argume
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by jaimie 2y ago
They all can be done through Meetup - I think the point here is that multiple channels avoids vendor lock-in and increases the likelihood that a user will overlap with one of the 4 communication strategies.
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by jaimie 2y ago
The domain of Artificial Life is highly related and has had an ongoing conference series and journal going, might be worth mining for more inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_life https://d
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by jaimie 2y ago
Signs that I've been reading too many retro-computing articles: I parsed the title as a browser for Windows 1.0!
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by jaimie 2y ago
DCA and IAD have their work-load shared due to regulatory action: > The Perimeter Rule is a federal regulation established in 1966 when jet aircraft began operating at Reagan National. The initial Perimeter Rule limited non-stop service
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by jaimie 2y ago
I updated my M2 MacBook Pro and the USB-C hub on my Dell U3219Q monitor no longer works... it's been a substantial disruption to my workflow with external peripherals and I don't have a USB-A to C converter to even partially get b
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by jaimie 3y ago
See my comment on the parent for a study I did on these questions regarding reading strategies. Of particular relevance, Darwin kept detailed records of the books he read and wished to read in two notebooks [CUL-DAR119, CUL-DAR118], which s
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by jaimie 3y ago
This idea is very, very closely related to what I did for my PhD dissertation, with our analysis of Darwin's Readings being published in Cognition and available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07175 . Summary: Darwin
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by jaimie 3y ago
Strange to say Apple doesn't have productivity tools when Pages, Sheets, and Keynote exist on every Mac. I get the scale arguments, but Handoff and iCloud integration are a sleeper IF you've bought into the ecosystem... Also hard
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by jaimie 3y ago
There is a massive amount of history between the two companies, with Jobs being the largest individual shareholder of Disney due to the Pixar acquisition and Iger sitting on the board of Apple until Disney+ was launched. There's a Wiki
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by jaimie 3y ago
Exactly. There is huge variability in how many cows can be supported by the land. For a deep dive, check out: https://www.farmbrite.com/post/how-many-cows-can-i-keep-per-...
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by jaimie 4y ago
This was the best feature of Indiana University’s Scheme-based curriculum - it leveled the playing field and caused us to start to think about programming not as engineering, but as a type of mathematics over data.
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by jaimie 4y ago
Ironically, Dybvig uses vim.
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by jaimie 5y ago
Interestingly, Alexa was founded by Brewster Kahle, who founded the Internet Archive contemporaneously (both in 1996). Interesting flow of ideas between the two projects - one to figure out what is getting traffic (commercial) and one to fi
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by jaimie 5y ago
Unplug. Exercise. My only good research was done during the time when I was physically and mentally fit. There is a tendency (especially in CS programs) to think that more hours will help you solve the problem. This is not always the case.
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by jaimie 5y ago
I really like your header. As someone that makes hiring decisions, starting by showing your curiosity and reasoning as clearly as the Linux example, then immediately casting your mentorship and current position as an opportunity shows that
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by jaimie 5y ago
I feel fortunate to have learned this lesson right before grad school… I used to run Gentoo with all kinds of optimization flags. The day of a conference deadline, I mucked up my /etc/ pretty bad. Switched to Debian and never look
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by jaimie 8y ago
This is a fun exercise. Back in 1963, Fred Mosteller and David L. Wallace wrote a piece in the Journal of the American Statistical Association titled "Inference in an Authorship Problem: A comparative study of discrimination methods ap