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by maxweylandt 21d ago
wonder if the article got updated? Currently it reads: >The companies have not yet reached a deal, and the talks could still fall apart, the person said. Business Insider on Sunday was the first to report that Hugging Face was fielding t
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by maxweylandt 21d ago
> Elasticsearch. Postgres full-text search. The stuff that existed before “embedding” became a verb. Noun, no?
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by maxweylandt 1mo ago
Obsidian has a pdf export, but it's overkill for just writing
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by maxweylandt 1mo ago
A friend of mine is getting quite serious about his ice-cream making, so I've sent him scooply. Looks neat :)
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by maxweylandt 2mo ago
I did, but I was probably not the modal student in the (required) intro to political philosophy course. Fair enough.
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by maxweylandt 2mo ago
related, now-classic SNL skit linked in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
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by maxweylandt 2mo ago
Seems to depend on the country, tv.garden has nothing in Namibia, for example
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by maxweylandt 2mo ago
Same. Firefox 152.0.5, Windows 11
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by maxweylandt 2mo ago
The bill of rights section of the Namibian constitution may not be amended
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by maxweylandt 2mo ago
Going two days back in the archive, "egret" not allowed
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by maxweylandt 2mo ago
Do blook banks have a way of filtering out PFAS? Or are we giving each other forever chemicals through blood donations?
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by maxweylandt 3mo ago
What was the other time?
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by maxweylandt 3mo ago
Related: institutional isomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphism_(sociology)
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by maxweylandt 5mo ago
> Verwaltigung is not a word -- I think you mean Vergangenheitsbewältigung? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergangenheitsbew%C3%A4ltigung
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by maxweylandt 6mo ago
https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/business/trevor-milto...
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by maxweylandt 7mo ago
Comedian Ronny Chieng has a bit about this: (sorry for short) https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1cmCueTZz1A
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by maxweylandt 8mo ago
I've seen in readings (and replicated myself on a set of embeddings derived from google books/news) the capital cities: Berlin - Germany + France = Paris , that sort of thing
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by maxweylandt 11mo ago
I also suspect using 2020 as a baseline will inflate how large the increases appear. Cursory google, but this dataset suggests pretty steady number apart from the covid downturn and now the recent crackdown: https://www.macrotren
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by maxweylandt 1y ago
another example: packing paracetamol in blister packs seems to have reduced suicides. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/ > Suicidal deaths from paracetamol and salicylates were reduced by 22% (95%
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by maxweylandt 1y ago
neat! Small typo in 'Paul's first Journey' : >This first trip laid the framework for hsi other trips further afield. should be 'his'
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Fidel Castro and Dairy (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by maxweylandt 1y ago|0 comments
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by maxweylandt 1y ago
> Counter to the authors claim my experience is that friction is an essential building block of literally any organization. I don't read the author as claiming that at all. In fact I came away thinking this was an argument for fri
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by maxweylandt 1y ago
Would that be stressed on the last syllable? (octopodés? Don't know how to formally mark stress, sorry)
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by maxweylandt 1y ago
How is public transport to nearby commuter towns? If it's affordable/convenient/reasonably quick that can help a lot, I suspect. (But am quite ignorant so appreciate correction!)
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Anne Wojcicki is taking back control of 23andMe(theverge.com)
3 points by maxweylandt 1y ago|0 comments
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by maxweylandt 1y ago
Hello, please specify Fully Remote (US) in the heading of your post
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by maxweylandt 1y ago
Thanks for teaching me about this! I listened to it and immediately thought I recognized it from Jamie XX's Oh my Gosh. In the event I was wrong, it samples Lyn Collins -- another classic sample I believe, certainly in hip hop. But I&#
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by maxweylandt 2y ago
Very well done, always nice to see non (not yet?) professional scientists contribute :) This reminds me I've been meaning to set up a moth trap.
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by maxweylandt 2y ago
It's a good poem. I learned the original off by heart two months ago to recite it to my sleep-averse child as part of their bedtime routine. It definitely benefits from recitation, which really unearths the lovely wavelike rythms. (edi
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by maxweylandt 2y ago
I just completed my PhD at an American university, and I had a great time. Granted, my institution's stipend was on the higher side for the social sciences and I lived in an affordable city, which helped a lot, as did the kind and supp

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