paddleon

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by paddleon 8mo ago
no no no, you are misreading causality here. The error of 5 seconds a month is between the One True Clock (the one with the pendulum) and all those silly cessium and gps dohickies.
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by paddleon 8mo ago
I thought the drones had geofencing, so it should be possible to geofence the entire US and block them that way?
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by paddleon 8mo ago
you mean like the time they invaded and took Washington DC? Canada being the only country to successfully invade the US or did I mix up my pronoun references again?
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by paddleon 8mo ago
I'm curious what you consider "training", and how this would be different than a vocation-specific university degree? Which typically also includes supervised real-world teaching experience?
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by paddleon 9mo ago
Hey, I hear you. And I'm sad. Because I'd like to say that the right way is to: build infrastructure that promotes safe driving, and train drivers to show respect for other people on the road However, those are both non-starters i
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by paddleon 9mo ago
1) Tax dollars don't fund the government. The government funds the government. That's what "Fiat currency" means. 2) How do you feel about the money going to ICE?
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by paddleon 9mo ago
Odd that the debate here is all around what is in "the news", vs what is in the other tv shows people are watching. The amount of violence in the stories we watch is astounding; I wonder if that doesn't influence peoples perc
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by paddleon 9mo ago
> I don’t think it’s any more true or insightful in the modern era hmm, based on what evidence? Or, if you prefer, based on what appeal to authority? Did you actually quote that authority properly or did you just wing it? Can you properl
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by paddleon 9mo ago
maybe they are concerned by the widespread adoption of the attitude you are taking-- make a very strong accusation, then when it was pointed out that the accusation might be off base, continue to attack. This constant demonization of everyo
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by paddleon 9mo ago
> “We’ve created something so dangerous that we couldn’t possibly live with the moral burden of knowing that the wrong people (which are never us, of course) might get their hands on it, so with a heavy heart, we decided that we cannot j
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by paddleon 9mo ago
> What I also noticed it did better: it doesn't reduce me to data engineering anymore. It understands that I aspire to learn everything and anything I can get my hands on. It's my mode of living and Claude understands that. I&#
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by paddleon 9mo ago
the redcoats didn't wear colorful coats and form nice big lines because they were stupid. They beat Napolean using similar tactics. And they didn't lose to the US because of these tactics. Maybe you should reflect on why people wh
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by paddleon 9mo ago
um. My uncle died of polio, and I was a medical researcher (phd) for a while. Polio can cause paralysis just fine on its own, it doesn't need DDT or paraquat to help it. And you are also right that widespread spraying of DDT lead to a
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by paddleon 9mo ago
> comparing artificial to real neural networks I had a sad day in college when I thought I'd build my own ANN using C++. First thing I did was create a "Neuron" class, to mimic the idea of a human neuron. Second thing I di
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by paddleon 9mo ago
Congrats on your good fortune, and agree with your diagnosis. Does it work the other way? If the company isn't growing, do you close it? When/how do you decide this? What if the growth is just around the corner if you just solve t
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by paddleon 9mo ago
I'll accept your measurement as accurate. However, unless we have a measure on how helpful self-help books actually are, we still don't know if they help or not.
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by paddleon 9mo ago
yes, change the social structure in the country so that this glaring social need is provided for.
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by paddleon 9mo ago
We have fruit trees in our backyard. The year of the COVID lockdown they had so much fruit the branches broke from the weight. Most fruit I've seen in 20 years in the house, by a large margin.
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by paddleon 9mo ago
as a former virologist, I love the thought that LLMs are the virus of reasoning :)
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by paddleon 9mo ago
> Not really understanding the negativity here. In the last year or so HN seems to have attracted a lot of people (plus some bots) who seem to have been socialized on Reddit. I don't know if these people are ignorant of what a good
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by paddleon 9mo ago
check your numbers with a purchase date of 1971.
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by paddleon 9mo ago
> Buying a home is fairly straightforward and has almost no state verification of any piece of it, at least in the US. you mean the purchase deed isn't registered anyplace? or you mean that the mortgage company didn't do a cred
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by paddleon 9mo ago
also, this is what chat-style interfaces encourage. Anything where the "enter" key sends the message instead of creating a paragraph block is just hell. I'm prompting Gemini, and I write: I have the following code, can you he
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by paddleon 10mo ago
The funny thing is the CDC says the same thing as your parents did Whipworm, hookworm, and Ascaris are the three types of soil-transmitted helminths (parasitic worms)... Soil-transmitted helminths are among the most common human parasites g
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by paddleon 10mo ago
obviously not a native French speaker
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by paddleon 10mo ago
Could you please define "efficient"? and also "free market"? oh, and just for fun, also define "outcome"
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by paddleon 10mo ago
You know, we created the US government as an expression of the fundamental rights of man, with the idea that the government would provide for the common welfare and preserve these rights. In rebellion against a king who seemed to want to ex
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by paddleon 10mo ago
in scientific writing, you need to take 100 articles at 6 pages each and condense them to 1 article of 6 pages And add how your method/insight moves the conversation forward, along with describing your method/insight. The reason w
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by paddleon 10mo ago
You can tell the difference between 93 heads, 107 tails and 93 tails, 107 heads but not between 100 heads, 100 tails and 100 tails, 100 heads. So while those are two results (93/107 and 107/93), they really only count as two separ
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by paddleon 10mo ago
you mean by calling arrays "lists"?

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