shanusmagnus

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by shanusmagnus 3mo ago
It seems like you'd get a lot deeper understanding by doing it that way, and be much more able to adapt the knowledge to the real world, vs only knowing how to solve problems in the exact form they were presented to you. I had so many
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by shanusmagnus 5mo ago
This is going to seem either beyond idiotic (which it may be) or a troll (which it is not) but: is this game actually fun? Like, if you have zero nostalgia or anything, and your evaluation of it is based solely on what it is, is it somethin
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by shanusmagnus 1y ago
A lot of life wisdom wedged into those two sentences, I think, that goes beyond journalism.
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by shanusmagnus 1y ago
Sounds a bit like Gingko, which I used to really love: https://gingkowriter.com/
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by shanusmagnus 1y ago
Are you saying the US is the only country that has an excess of applicants for entry-level positions? Or the only one for which credentialism is the solution to this problem? If the second, how does the place you're from solve it?
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
This looks like an absolute delight: "Cambridge University History of Mathematics Society presents an illegal, immoral, and fattening lecture series, without the endorsement, approval, or approbation of University authorities on: HISTO
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
What would you suggest?
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
But in a larger frame, of "things tightly associated with coffee", they mean something extremely close. Whether these things are opposite from each other, or virtually identical, is a function of your point of view; or, in this c
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
There are psychological hypotheses that can be stated and tested empirically. So yeah, you can find people who maintain that it's a science.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Is org-roam still alive? Last release almost 3 years ago. Could be because it's nearly perfect, which, if so, great.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
I didn't know this term before, thanks! Are there any examples (e.g., products you like) that demonstrate this One True Way in practice?
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Emacs org-mode -- it's less visually obvious that it's exactly equivalent from a structural / hierarchical point of view. But the editing experience is infinitely better, because Emacs.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Ironically, if it plays out this way, it will be the biggest boon to actual AGI development there could be -- the intelligence via text tokenization will be a limiting factor otherwise, imo.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
It's all a matter of point of view I guess. Given that I replaced it with something costing zero dollars may explain my attitude. Also, the fact that it started out as basically free, and is now a recurrent expense over a hundred buc
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
You're thinking of this [1]. Super duper cool idea, ahead of its time. Author seems to have transitioned to a ludicrous pricing model, but I suspect it's because the people who like it really _love_ it. I used to be among them,
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
That insight, or lack of it, is esp surprising giving the example of how sticky the Coke brand is.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
I love a good analogy. Can you expand on this one?
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
I'm very curious, from the perspective that you have based on your experience at the retreat, what it means to you when you talk about "processing" these traumas? Maybe a very concrete way to ask would be: what's the dif
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Makes me think of an interesting related question: how aware are we, normally, of our incoherence? What's the phenomenology of that? Hmm.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Brilliant analogy. And we can imagine that, in a sci-fi world where some super-being could act on a scale that would allow it to perturb the world in a fashion amenable to causing hurricanes, the hurricane model could be substantially augme
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Ah. I was thinking the critique was about combining different crypto methods in serial; I've heard people say this is a bad idea but have never understood why.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
> "Don't rely on a single cipher" is an anti-goal, and a reason your hobby project won't be taken seriously. Why?
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
It's interesting to imagine what a market solution would do to this. On the one hand, the vibe is very much "show up and let's talk like friendly socialized people" and I bet that's a huge amount of the joy in it. O
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Same. Somebody always posts a good discussion about why such things always devolve into hellscapes, and I always read them and say: oh yeah, I get it, that makes sense. And then as time passes I forget the logic and resume thinking that i
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
I wasn't trying to straw-man you and I agree with this more verbose phrasing. There's a vibe in some related comments that suggests that the proper way to manage your work affairs is to interact through some narrow "proper&q
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
> A nosy question is nosy because it demands an answer to which the querent is not entitled. Jesus, is this really what you meant? I can't imagine how barren my life would be if I restricted my interactions with others to only incl
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
Maybe not _equally_ but yeah, this is a key point. There's not a good way to place this bet, but I bet the day comes when the full-remote advocates will rue that advocacy, or at least, many of the Americans will.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
I think you're arguing with someone who isn't me.
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by shanusmagnus 2y ago
I agree the world isn't "fair" for most definitions of the word. Unlike many, I don't attribute zero weight to human pettiness that desires a sea of toiling workers as a prestige accent to an executive's self-image

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