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by squarepizza 2y ago
If you disagree with the statement, "guns don't kill people, people do," then you agree with McLuhan's maxim of the medium being the message and that there is no such thing as an unbiased tool. You can use a hammer to sc
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by squarepizza 2y ago
'In accepting an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame a few years ago, General David Sarnoff made this statement: "We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them
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by squarepizza 2y ago
> is the grass greener on the other side of the fence? Was it?
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by squarepizza 2y ago
The insidiousness of notebooks is in their uncanny resemblance to proper code. To take writing for example, a handwritten draft scrawled on coffee-stained yellow paper is more obviously a work-in-progress than a typed manuscript. But the ma
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by squarepizza 2y ago
I agree. TFA calls out the “fundamental weakness” of the theory as a lack of specificity in definition and measurement, then goes on to make further opinionated statements as far as a proclaimed definition without referencing the much deepe
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by squarepizza 2y ago
"The tie between information and action has been severed. Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, d
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by squarepizza 2y ago
The uncanny valley of generated software: utility is inversely proportional to distance from the correct answer, with a huge drop into the dangerously believable.
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by squarepizza 2y ago
I find this comment a bit myopic. First is the belief that the essence of a person can be reduced to quantified metrics as inherited and objective as height or, in this case, the shape of one's vocal cords and the resultant pitch of th
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Thank you for caring about the craft.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
> I would also add that they often don't use version control. Working for corporate R&D, I once received a repo on a flash drive. The team would merge changes manually by copy-pasting. I should've just turned around and lef
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Same. I'm completely anhedonic by Friday when I box myself into a schedule like this, which makes enjoying the weekend feel like a chore.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
> But people don't get shamed for spending far more than that replacing/upgrading cars when they've got a perfectly decent one already. They should, considering the personal and external costs. Car lust keeps people on tre
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by squarepizza 3y ago
What a great watch, thanks for sharing. I liked his metaphor of music and transcription to programming. Writing of music is not the main function of a musician in the way that writing programs is not main function of a programmer.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Great video, thanks for sharing
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Startup(s) for company-mandated productivity-enhancing muzak incoming.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Sorry to hear about your hardships and thank you for sharing them.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Using fiction and media as metaphor is a sign of how mediated our existences are and, with the cooperative reality show that is social media, will only become moreso.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Going meta, here's Miyazaki cooking ramen in live action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BPTNdmdJSc
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by squarepizza 3y ago
At some point I just closed my eyes and pretended I was listening to a radio drama, which is what it could've / should've been.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
> heavy usage And, with the weight of EVs, even heavier.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Less than AVs "just" being a few years away.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
And instead of robotaxis, just invest in public transport. AVs exemplify technosolutionism: technology solving a problem caused by a prior technology.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
> it confuses the reader about who actually did things When scientific papers have a clear list of authors and delineated section headings, this point is moot. And in such papers, again, repetitive strings of sentences that begin with th
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by squarepizza 3y ago
I'm convinced that the value of active voice is not precision and clarity, but rather the subliminal egocentrism away from the object (the research) towards the subject (the research ers ) who need to receive credit for the work. The r
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by squarepizza 3y ago
> There was this sociologist Found the problem.
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Thanks for the reply — I guess my take on 'inane corner' is larger, volumetrically. I've been to conferences for fields that were well-attended but that I'd classify as corners because of the nicheness of the skillset an
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Until ~10 years ago, deep learning was that “inane corner of some pet project.”
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by squarepizza 3y ago
Personal and professional reputation
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by squarepizza 3y ago
> There's a lot of real crimes happening here, extortion, sexual abuse, you name it. Guess who's talking about it? Almost nobody. And institutions are very good and very fast at sweeping these under the rug, often if not always
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by squarepizza 3y ago
EVs, while undeniably more efficient, seem very good at abstracting the costs away from the end user. Pair this with autonomy that reduces friction but has its own associated costs and I'm afraid that the increase in use will eclipse t

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