nameless_me

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by nameless_me 9d ago
"You and the AI agree on an outline or other high level representation, then the LLM expands it into a document." I am a subject matter expert in certain fields of real estate in Canada. This is how I draft my teaching materials,
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by nameless_me 9mo ago
I have been electrocuted twice once as a kid (which I don't remember but my parents reminded me) and once as a teenager which I definitely remember. My country's voltage was 240 volts at 50 Hz. I remember screaming uncontrollably
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by nameless_me 1y ago
I agree with you. When I was younger, I spent many many years in evangelical Christian work and went to seminary. It is not difficult to manipulate people especially if one orates well and echoes the audience's pre-existing beliefs. Th
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by nameless_me 1y ago
Accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid needs to flush waste from brain operation hence the need for rest/sleep.
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by nameless_me 2y ago
I have always felt this way too. Our personal choices do not move the needle on fossil fuel and plastics. One could embrace aversion to these out of a sense of sustainability to signal virtue, but lets not pretend it will save the planet. I
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by nameless_me 2y ago
Land acknowledgements are common in Canada especially in provinces that did not sign treaties with indigenous people prior to taking their land.
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by nameless_me 2y ago
The process you describe above is highly vulnerable as Ponzi scheme. The goal would be to raise total revenues, to paint a certain financial picture to meet targets for cashing out before the high debt load and interest payments sink the sh
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by nameless_me 2y ago
Oh boy, offering a draw so he could annihilate Caruana in the next phase is a totally gangsta move. <whew>
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by nameless_me 2y ago
Kinda where AI is today.
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by nameless_me 3y ago
Proving once again an ugly man can get the ladies if they have compensating traits.
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by nameless_me 3y ago
A prescient example from this thought exercise of The Ethics of Belief.
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by nameless_me 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this work. I look forward to reading it.
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by nameless_me 4y ago
How's your hand?
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by nameless_me 4y ago
I consider him the Graham Hancock (see Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse) of pop culture topics. Gladwell is trying to do for pop culture which Freakonomics did for economic topics which draw from seemingly disparate elements to provide a c
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by nameless_me 4y ago
This feature of a dark desktop wallpaper is underappreciated.
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by nameless_me 4y ago
OMG, I've lived this long and used the web without knowing about this. <bowing>
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by nameless_me 4y ago
I think in times past, the achievements of woman in STEM were downplayed and disproportionately overshadowed by men of their same era. You have to assume that most reporters and journalists covering tech would have been male as well.
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by nameless_me 4y ago
This. Coffee with a teaspoon of coconut oil or butter if preferred. The oil increases satiation (feeling full). Then get at it. Whatever you need to do or narrative to tell yourself why you don't need to eat, do it. Keep busy, work, c
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by nameless_me 4y ago
Some may think it primitive but your workflow is fast, efficient, backups up easily (I write a simple DOS batch file which copies all new or updated files to a USB stick) and backs up to the cloud easily as well. Grepping to find files by d
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by nameless_me 5y ago
Yes Xtree! Oh my major flashback...
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by nameless_me 6y ago
Aaron Schwartz, you did not die in vain. RIP.
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by nameless_me 6y ago
Agree. Emacs is so much more than a text editor, it is more accurately described as a lifestyle. Operating systems are merely bootloaders for Emacs. ;D
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by nameless_me 6y ago
The far right and far right behave similarly -- except the language used differs.