manvillej

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by manvillej 7d ago
“ Photo: Star, the author's horse, scored very high in human sociability.” Very cute
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by manvillej 8d ago
I feel this every time the stock market hits a new “all time high”
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by manvillej 8d ago
“ US officials also made unacceptable "threats" to the French language and "Quebec culture", he added, referencing the French-speaking province in eastern Canada.” The hell.
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by manvillej 12d ago
Its not the code so much as the model. The model itself can be poison pilled and embedded with ideas that make it unfit for use and there isn't a person out there who can look at the weights and tell you what or where the problem is by
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by manvillej 14d ago
Eh, thats a bit of a False analogy. spinning off a division of a company is easier than fully integrating another.
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by manvillej 15d ago
And how will they pay for that debt? By taking on more national debt. You know, debt paid for by American citizens.
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by manvillej 16d ago
That’s fascinating. I know there are a few different kinds of “thinkers” out there. Conceptual, visual, language. I wonder if temporarily devolving language center capability would change someone’s thinking model
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by manvillej 16d ago
Grazing animal yields are directly related to the forage the animals can eat. Farmers are trying to optimize the number of bites and steps an animal takes to get full. Fewer bites and fewer steps means bigger animals. Which means farmers ar
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by manvillej 16d ago
This is the dumbest thing. And we’ve had a lot of dumb things.
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by manvillej 2mo ago
I just don't see how the fuel costs of getting things up to space winning out unless production is located up there. especially since rocket launches tend to be extremely static. More dangerously, I think that would inevitably lead to
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by manvillej 1y ago
I think this is a step forward, but I think it is better to think of access in terms of what responsibilities a person or group has. When new access is to be given, it should be framed in the context of what new responsibilities are require
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by manvillej 2y ago
I found this little pocket mathematics notation book when I first studying undergrad in this used book store in Boston. it literally carried me through Calc, Linalg, stats, dynamic programming, stochastic processes, game theory, economics,
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by manvillej 2y ago
RIP Academia as a whole
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by manvillej 2y ago
reddit had a nice list of the pros and cons: https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/17k0wcc/natri... I understand the risks around sodium, but the "passive natural circulation cooling"
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by manvillej 2y ago
probably anecdotal, but I live in a new apartment building <2 years old. near CONSTANT elevator issues. 1-2 of the 3 elevators are out at a time. its been this way for a year. can't wait for my lease to end.
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by manvillej 2y ago
this isn't even a software things. Its any production process. The greater amount of work in progress items, the longer the work in progress items, the greater risk, the greater amount of work. Shrink the batch, shorten the release win
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by manvillej 2y ago
This is a standard technology company strategy. Isolate your customers, remove their options, markup the price.
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by manvillej 2y ago
Governments pay to keep food at the cheapest point possible to ensure stability. a fed population doesn't kill their governments. Agriculture is not a regular industry; its a national security issue Farming is not a profitable endeavor
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by manvillej 2y ago
a combined tax and subsidy to try to drive farmers into more sustainable practices in a fiscally neutral way isn't a bad idea, but I think it is just a very risky and necessary roll of the dice. I think inevitably, there will be price
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by manvillej 2y ago
I am very conflicted on a carbon tax for the agriculture industry. It is going to sidle a cost to an industry of razor thin margins. The transition from regenerative agriculture is expensive & rising food costs has a destabilizing effec
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by manvillej 2y ago
package.json does not capture all the technologies in a repository. just the JS ones. This seems to capture full stack technologies. This would be very helpful when evaluating existing projects either as a consultant, new team member, open
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by manvillej 2y ago
I would perfect my video gaming art. Teenagers in their basement would fear me after school.
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by manvillej 2y ago
it seems to be Easy Task + increasing audience = doesn't really do much. and Difficult Task + increasing audience = improved performance which makes sense to me. 1 person is a distraction. a group of people is an audience.
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by manvillej 2y ago
per day though. I think others are right that it has applications in space. going with the butter example, 5 people on a year long mission is almost 11kg you don't have to bring up to space. on an environmental perspective, if applied
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by manvillej 2y ago
I have this little book that I cannot find right now that is pretty explicitly that. just a little math symbol dictionary. its small enough to fit in a pocket and was invaluable all through college.
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by manvillej 2y ago
hey this might be a stupid detail in implementation, but if the poisson simulation of arrival and completion are started cold, then random assignment of events could assign a completion before an arrival, or there could be more completions
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by manvillej 2y ago
you go to school for it. Stats, applied mathematics, operations research, industrial engineering. I went for industrial engineering. we learned the math as pure math, then the math as free language problems, then how to identify and collect
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by manvillej 2y ago
I feel like any solution that replaces excel must solve a larger problem outside the scope of the spreadsheet. Data intake, preprocessing, solving performance limitations, executing automated decisions. If it’s just a “better excel” it’s no
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by manvillej 2y ago
I have a colleague in tech over there on the product side. They do a ton of very interesting work: https://open.nytimes.com/ They have a much higher bar for quality and boutique solutions than almost any organizations.
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by manvillej 2y ago
Research.

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