skyechurch

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by skyechurch 1y ago
>And employers cannot simply hire people right out of high school without providing specialized training programs to bring them up to speed. So, this is a self-inflicted problem, because American companies have been spoiled for decades
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by skyechurch 1y ago
As the article mentions, this is (or was, it's been a while) at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, along with other computing milestones and ambitious dead ends. They even have an apparently-functional Babbage Engine.
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by skyechurch 1y ago
The most straightforward way to measure the pace of AI progress is by attaching a speedometer to the goalposts.
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by skyechurch 2y ago
>A lot of white western adult men fantasize about being female Asian children. I have questions/concerns.
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by skyechurch 2y ago
I am not a traditional anything, but the usefulness of the concept of "demon" - as the personification of a vice, or misfortune, or cultural problem, or even mental illness - is shown I think by its durability across traditions as
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by skyechurch 2y ago
My experience is the opposite - kids have a natural sense of fairness, which is of course heavily bent by self interest. Assuming you yourself are not transparently full of sh_t, you can usually get them to appreciate your position if you
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by skyechurch 2y ago
This has been the winning strategy so far, as using the map (theoretical model) leads to excellent agreement with experiment, while the territory (ground level reality) steadfastly defies common sense interpretation.
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by skyechurch 2y ago
>Some legitimate references were also lost, meaning they were not present in the metadata. It's possible that some of the inconsistency between metadata and text could just be due to incompetence - it's harder to find a profit
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by skyechurch 2y ago
... not the ones involving the rent check.
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by skyechurch 2y ago
I was being glib, of course. Presumably there's some legitimate technical philosophical issue, and actual philosophers are capable of using answering machines and even landline telephones without having all their assumptions about rea
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by skyechurch 2y ago
Alternatively: placing finger on the peak of Olympus Mons on Martian map "I am not here now". I'm not seeing the problem. There are a lot of philosophy 'problems' like this, which leads me to think philosophers
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by skyechurch 2y ago
>But what this simple experiment demonstrates is that Llama 3 basically can't stop itself from spouting inane and abhorrent text if induced to do so. It lacks the ability to self-reflect, to analyze what it has said as it is saying
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by skyechurch 2y ago
The (public) debate is not about the science, and hasn't been for a while. It's maneuvering to avoid getting stuck with the check.
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by skyechurch 2y ago
"NPR goes woke, loses listeners" is a great viral narrative, but I think it's causally backwards. NPR, like every media entity, is now in constant completion with endless social media influencers pretending to be rich, vide
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Marius and Caesar were populists. Having leaders (who are frequently themselves of the elite class) is almost a prerequisite, or else you've drifted into anarchism.
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Since no one knows what dark matter is, there's no known connection between it and real matter, so 1:5 seems coincidental if it's free to be anything within the range 0 .. infinity. But there's no reason to think there is or
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Not exactly a great piece of cinema, but a veru enjoyable one. Not exactly a parody of an action movie, but one that took itself only as seriously as necessary. Carl Weathers was great in everything he did, and being a football star/a
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by skyechurch 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_t...
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Here's a good synopsis of the Smothers Brothers and their importance for that generation of comedians: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/smothers-brothe... Comedy, in general, ages very badly, but
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by skyechurch 3y ago
The opening chapter of Underworld is one of the greatest things I have read, I can't even explain it because there's almost nothing like it, it's the literary equivalent of a spectacular movie chase scene. Iirc it was excerp
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by skyechurch 3y ago
>Curious that Auschwitz was established fully 18 months prior to the Wannsee Conference No, it's not curious at all. It was established to exterminate Soviet and Polish POWs, only after Wannsee was it involved in mass extermination
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by skyechurch 3y ago
This is a really good question. Wittgenstein himself didn't think much of it, and it is generally believed he didn't really understand it: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein-mathematics/...
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The Hidden Harms of CPR(newyorker.com)
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by skyechurch 3y ago
Progphobia is the last acceptable prejudice and is tied up with people's fear of being silly, which is a silly thing to be afraid of, as being silly and being awesome are two sides of the same concept album LP. Led Zeppelin is deeply
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by skyechurch 3y ago
The outcome of the Wannsee Conference was Auschwitz, an intensification by a factor of 1000 of what had gone before. The point is not that this represents the absolute beginning of German attacks on Jews, just that it represents the beginn
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by skyechurch 3y ago
>The allies did not care about the Nazi genocide until after the war had begun in earnest. The Wannsee Conference was January 1942, all the allies were quite fully at war with the axis powers. I'm not aware of any further steps the
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by skyechurch 3y ago
The risks with pot and psychedelics are less easily quantifiable than with opiates, meth, etc. There are no bodies, which of course is good. But, leaving aside the acute or chronic psychosis cases, people who overuse these substances ofte
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by skyechurch 3y ago
I'd talk to neighbors with kids in school, or with people who work there, graduates, go to public forums, etc. You may be entirely correct about Berkeley public schools, it would fit all my stereotypes of the area. And I'm sure
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by skyechurch 3y ago
As a public school teacher in the US, I would strongly suggest you look into the real conditions at your public school and weight those observations much more strongly than viral takes in the outrage economy. (Not to suggest that there is o
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by skyechurch 3y ago
I didn't survive the first paragraph of the Da Vinci Code, so I can't vouch for accuracy of the satire, but it is awfully funny.

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