ludicrousdispla

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by ludicrousdispla 5d ago
Play a game long enough and the main challenge becomes inventory management. I look forward to the IVAR update.
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by ludicrousdispla 6d ago
The second and third attempts are much less difficult.
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by ludicrousdispla 6d ago
how do I submit a 'contribution'
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by ludicrousdispla 6d ago
Unfortunately, the current leadership in AI and tech more generally seems unconcerned with reputational risks.
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by ludicrousdispla 10d ago
But they wrote the article on principle, and that has a greater impact.
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by ludicrousdispla 10d ago
I took my first statistics class as an evening course, before going to graduate school, and 90% of the work involved doing hand calculations, avg., variance, std. dev., z-scores, t-tests, etc. And I think that gave me a strong grasp of thos
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by ludicrousdispla 16d ago
While reading your comment it occurred to me that virtually all reporting on (or talking about) science involves applying it to an unsuitable context. Schrödinger's cat is probably the most prolific example of this.
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by ludicrousdispla 17d ago
You should add some RGB backlighting to it.
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by ludicrousdispla 17d ago
The one criticism I can offer on IKEA furniture is that some of it doesn't move well, specifically the particle board stuff which will fall apart at the joints if it's not carefully handled. Having said that, I also tend to not bu
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by ludicrousdispla 18d ago
I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.
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by ludicrousdispla 18d ago
I think at least half of the software developers out there simply don't test their code in the final product (or at all). And why would they when their revision is being reviewed in a pull request?
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by ludicrousdispla 20d ago
As the model keeps improving, to the extent it has some utility, it will decrease in value.
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by ludicrousdispla 20d ago
No, it is nothing like retinal fatigue, which is what they are referencing in that sentence. The later section on "What Do Most Visualizers See?" is a better description, although the level of detail is highly dependent on effort,
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by ludicrousdispla 20d ago
A good analogy for the difference between seeing and visualizing... speaking a statement is to thinking a statement as seeing a thing is to visualizing the thing.
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by ludicrousdispla 22d ago
I find this scene from a popular TV show captures it well... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjfQ6soLSAU&t=12s
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by ludicrousdispla 26d ago
that sounds exactly like "a jury of peers is standing up for individuals against corporate/government overreach"
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by ludicrousdispla 27d ago
they were an early sponsor of the research that yielded relational databases, so I guess we can thank them for Oracle as well
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by ludicrousdispla 1mo ago
no, and in fact they should be extremely easy to detect if they are substituting a token that is a least-probable synonym
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by ludicrousdispla 1mo ago
Can you get water from your air conditioning unit, or is it just too dry there?
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by ludicrousdispla 1mo ago
>> it might not match your experience outdoors My wife and I had an interesting experience a while back where we walked outside our house mid-morning and everything was tinted an intense bizarro green. This was in New England just ove
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by ludicrousdispla 1mo ago
My experience tring to map game theory to people's choices in the workplace is that the action taken is typically opposite of the predicted, or optimal, 'game theoretic' action, and often with enormous benefit to that individ
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by ludicrousdispla 1mo ago
>> it sometimes took forever to get your gas if the attendant was busy Then the gas station owner could hire another attendant. Or your parent could pick a different gas station or a different time of day, free markets and all...
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by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago
I've only read it once, which was last year, and I thought Meursalt's indifference to his life and those around him was then directed back on to him through the trial (which I didn't consider absurd at all.) In that way he is
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The coming de-enshittification boom (2025)(blog.zgp.org)
2 points by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago|0 comments
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by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago
>> Zero enshitification. Lexus should put that on the cover of their product brochure.
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by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago
The 'named' reviewers typically pass on the review responsibilty to grad students or less-senior colleagues. This is currently a generally accepted and sanctioned/encouraged practice. A social scoring system would need to eli
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by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago
My uncle was on that voyage, serving as an enlisted mechanic. The Triton's sail is currently at the USS Triton Sail Park in Richland, WA which is just south of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. https://www.nps.gov/places
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by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago
"ah, we're encased in flames here, eh?"
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by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago
So, technically, the border agents wiped the phone. I wonder how specific their request was of Tunick when they asked for the password.
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by ludicrousdispla 2mo ago
Where is the rule that says a star can't also be a planet?

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