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by odomojuli 2mo ago
Emily Segal has excellent reporting on 'tasteslop' https://nemesisglobal.substack.com/p/tasteslop More practically, people who work at AI startups are starting to realize that money and power can't fix e
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Ask HN: How Do You Dress?
2 points by odomojuli 11mo ago|5 comments
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by odomojuli 2y ago
Absolutely not! I think if I focused on maybe, one language I could see adopting basic proficiency and fluency by the US State Dept's rubric in like... 44-ish weeks, some languages 66+. What is helping is that this is training my ear a
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by odomojuli 2y ago
alias: J. interests: mathematics, cooking/recipes, culture/arts languages: Please write to me in any language from anywhere!! And please send math papers!! I'm trying to learn as many languages as I can right now. My current
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by odomojuli 2y ago
If you are interested in dressing better, just email me. I won't charge you $500/hr. Take pride in your appearance. I would love for San Francisco to start dressing appropriately.
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by odomojuli 4y ago
This is common among musicians. To your point, to preserve stability for their plug-ins of choice. Especially if they're interested in a specific version of Pro Tools or Logic. Airgapping is simple if all you have is ethernet. Just rem
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by odomojuli 5y ago
"As I lay there musing in the brisk darkness, I suddenly sensed a tightening inside me. It was as if I was being ever so gently wound. Then quickly, the pressure intensified, and I breathed in rapid-fire staccato and violently shook. I
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by odomojuli 5y ago
I think Co-star is fascinating for this reason because it's not so much the science of belief but the charisma of truth. People like it mostly because it's kind of sassy. For the most part, sun-moon-rising offers a quick and dirty
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by odomojuli 5y ago
I read a paper once about an ancient tribe of hunters who had exhausted the local fauna and consulted the wisdom of the spirits through an oracle bone ceremony for the next bounty. In essence, the oracle bone would give them a random direct
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by odomojuli 5y ago
edit: I deleted most of my comment. I don't think it added anything substantial to the conversation. I will point out that this seems like plagiarism. "...the retina is actually an extension of the brain, formed embryonically from
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by odomojuli 5y ago
4-5 cups seems about right. I typically ingest about 8 cups of coffee throughout the day. That's a close-to-full pot of coffee for me. As some have mentioned, "cups" the measurement does not necessarily equate to "cup&qu
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by odomojuli 5y ago
Should this be posted automatically two weeks prior to the first? I am being entirely serious, I always find these threads helpful.
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Ask HN: What was that "same vibe” Image Comparison tool called?
4 points by odomojuli 5y ago|1 comments
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by odomojuli 5y ago
This may sound obvious and pedantic but by practicing it. Getting yourself in someone's head is something you should return to casually, formally in various contexts and subtexts. I like to use this one: "What part of their day is
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by odomojuli 6y ago
Von Neumann outlined two rules. 1) Self-reproduction 2) Simulation of a Turing machine I have seen other summaries of this description as replacing step 2 with "mutation" or using simulation of a Turing machine as being synonymous
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by odomojuli 6y ago
You may consider the Cold War a real world usage for ordinary people: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2016/09/09/mutually-assur...
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by odomojuli 6y ago
It took me a month to finish a full game for my AP European History class in High School. Easily the best board game I have ever played. It inspired me to actually pursue a path in diplomacy and international relations for some time. The ga
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by odomojuli 6y ago
Perhaps you've heard of the "Butterfly Effect" but not a formal definition of the term. For the issue of predicting weather, the model of weather is "sensitive". The observation metaphor of the "butterfly effec
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by odomojuli 6y ago
One of my early childhood memories was crayfishing. You can pretty much put anything on a string and these things will bite onto it. They are not picky. It's not even really fishing, it's almost as easy as just grabbing them from
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by odomojuli 6y ago
I tried looking up more information about this: https://psychology.wikia.org/wiki/Mommy_and_I_are_one "According to studies that determine the subconscious mind's ability to absorb subliminal messages, the su
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by odomojuli 6y ago
Few observations: Cicada groups split off while they occupied glaciated territory. The Appalachia mountain range is famously, formed by glaciers. The Valley and Ridge part of Appalachia, was a major highway of immigration and colonization.
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by odomojuli 6y ago
For those who don't get the reference: There's a scene in Silicon Valley based on a story about Peter Thiel. The scene involves the idea of 'prime collision' and cicada cycles. http://valleywag.gawker.com&#x2F
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by odomojuli 6y ago
Addendum: Don't just pick any prime numbers. The Babylonians devised our time system because it's highly composite or 'antiprime'. So obvious primes such as 2, 3 and 5 won't do.
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by odomojuli 6y ago
For the uninitiated, hella is flexible as a quantifier and intensifier. Hella has hella meanings for hella words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella Honestly, being from the Bay Area, I'm against pegging hella to
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by odomojuli 6y ago
If you want to record your Terminal output, here's a helpful answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/396123/how-to-recor... This will let you record from your built-in microphone. If you want to reco
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by odomojuli 6y ago
I submitted this thread as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19579216 I've been into program to music to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleatoric_music If you want indiscernible lyrics:
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by odomojuli 6y ago
I saw "Love is the Message, the Message is Death" at the SFMOMA. It was the first and only time I have ever been reduced to complete sobbing in public by a piece of art.
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This happened to me while I was scrolling through Twitter(twitter.com)
54 points by odomojuli 6y ago|12 comments
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by odomojuli 6y ago
Can't get the page to load despite disabling all of my trackers.
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by odomojuli 6y ago
I talked to an Uber employee once about a "Zoolander mode" project for drivers so that it only turns right and cannot turn left. The code was pretty simple if you've ever written a maze-solving algorithm. (Hint: What happens

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