michaelbarton

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by michaelbarton 12d ago
I think current livestock usage is driven by demand? I don’t think everyone needs to become strictly vegan. If every ate meat just two days a week that would have a big impact. Perfect being the enemy of the good and all that. For example
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by michaelbarton 1mo ago
This analysis might benefit from a multivariate regression. You mention a few different explanations for why performance differs and if you could get solid numbers for those you could try teasing that apart. Also a small note: the axis on o
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by michaelbarton 1mo ago
Agree. Same for better medicines. We could get pretty far just by getting existing medicines that work to people who need them.
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by michaelbarton 2mo ago
Only safe if we never stop doing it once we start I think? Otherwise it ends up being worse than if we had not done it in the first place
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You can't rely on LLMs to understand the grain of your data(bioinformaticszen.com)
1 points by michaelbarton 3mo ago|0 comments
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by michaelbarton 4mo ago
Very good point. There’s clearly two different boxes in the public discourse when it comes to AI versus how we discuss animals. Willing to bet that 90% of the people who loudly make the argument about we should start considering if AI is se
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by michaelbarton 4mo ago
There’s an alternative not mentioned: company scrips. Historically Such as in coal mines, workers were “paid” in tokens they could only use at the company store.
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by michaelbarton 5mo ago
I agree. I think it’s fair to say that while many people might agree Bush II is someone you could have a beer with compared to the current prest his foreign policy decisions lead to excess mortality in the range of half a million. https:&#
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by michaelbarton 5mo ago
This is great, and importantly actionable advice. Thank you for sharing specific ideas.
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by michaelbarton 5mo ago
I think there’s other HN threads reporting multiple issues with it. Can’t remember which thread I read it but someone said it’s very hard to uninstall because agents will keep reinstalling it once it’s part of a project. YMMV but this seem
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by michaelbarton 5mo ago
There’s also the recent release of Marathon where I think some ARC players might be attracted if they want more of the sweaty gameplay. Definitely a different vibe with appealing aspects to both
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by michaelbarton 5mo ago
This looks fun! You mention at the top analysis shouldn’t be linear - I assume this a comparison to Jupyter notebooks?
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by michaelbarton 5mo ago
Sounds like the most blatant case of false advertising since the movie The Neverending Story
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by michaelbarton 6mo ago
Exactly. It’s not that getting rid of duplicates is bad, is that they may be a symptom of something worse. E.g. incorrect aggregation logic
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by michaelbarton 6mo ago
Malware might be a bit of stretch but could refer to this issue? https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/issues/1857
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by michaelbarton 6mo ago
I’m worried we end up with an AIG moment, and we all end up on the hook.
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by michaelbarton 6mo ago
There used to be a saying along the lines of “while you’re designing your application to scale to 1m requests/min, someone out there is making $1m ARR with php and duct tape” It feels like this takes on a whole new meaning now we have
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by michaelbarton 6mo ago
Curious what you might consider “adequate shrinking”? Horshoe priors, partial pooling, something more? I realize that might be highly subject
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Day in the Life of Enshitificator [video](youtube.com)
3 points by michaelbarton 6mo ago|1 comments
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by michaelbarton 6mo ago
What’s interesting to me is that is funded by the Norwegian government
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by michaelbarton 6mo ago
I wonder if anyone can say if there’s much risk of sub prime private credit? Not sure if that’s the right term. My understanding is that synthetic CDOs are the rise again, this backed by private credit - which the article is discussing
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by michaelbarton 7mo ago
Ah good to know. It’s interesting (to me) how similar they look to each other but you and other commentators below mention how they’re more like distant cousins I suppose the proof is in the parsing
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by michaelbarton 7mo ago
I wonder if then Idris would be even better than that since it has even more typing
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by michaelbarton 7mo ago
Without being facetious, isn’t HTML a dialect of XML and very widely used?
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by michaelbarton 8mo ago
Sounds doubleplus good! Will try to find it streaming somewhere!
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by michaelbarton 8mo ago
Nice! Thats what I was thinking of. Thanks!
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by michaelbarton 8mo ago
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." I remember reading 1984 when I was a kid and enjoying it, at no point did I think it was more than sci-fi though. I sup
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by michaelbarton 8mo ago
Does anyone have a motion jump plugin they use with neovim they can recommend? I used to use a plugin where you could just to a given character in a given buffer, but I can’t remember the name or if it even works with neovim.
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by michaelbarton 9mo ago
I really enjoyed your article. In regard to the parent comment: it’s also enough to say “I enjoy this and this is how I want to spend my time”. So what if it’s reinventing the wheel - the act of learning and crafting itself can be immensely
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by michaelbarton 10mo ago
I think this article is correct in spirit but a little disingenuous in parts. Would it not be more fair to blame Russia as the primary cause for the deaths in Ukraine due to the collapsing health care system rather than USAID subsequently i

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