sseagull

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by sseagull 3d ago
It does say something about our culture, doesn't it? That something as mundane and non-violent as computer programming gets compared with violent combat. I suppose it comes down to how hyper-competitive some people are, particularly th
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One of east coast's largest datacenters accused of 'violating federal law'(theguardian.com)
3 points by sseagull 19d ago|0 comments
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by sseagull 1mo ago
Everyone quotes Goodhart's law, but I think the McNamara fallacy is even more important nowadays. It should be read aloud to every CEO every day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy TLDR: Making a decis
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by sseagull 2mo ago
There’s a reason services like GitHub Classroom Replit’s education offerings shut down. Serving educators can be very hands-on. Education can have lots of different requirements (every teacher needs this one little feature), often legal iss
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by sseagull 2mo ago
I’m a computational chemist who has been working on this kind of stuff for a while, and I will say it’s just a weird field. The overall issue is that it’s still very academic and very very fragmented. People have tried to make businesses ou
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by sseagull 2mo ago
My big question is where is that money going to go? On the surface, I don't mind the program. However, the implementation is likely to be terrible as we have seen so far. The various agencies tasked with implementing this have already
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Trump administration Announces $5B for the Genesis Mission (AI for Science)(whitehouse.gov)
1 points by sseagull 2mo ago|2 comments
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by sseagull 2mo ago
Congress does mandate things, but then never enforces it. See https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-slashe... (Long story short, the administration is slashing the budgets of various NSF divisions
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by sseagull 2mo ago
> but is anyone actually willing to do anything about it? They did. They elected Trump. > no major populist uprising against the dismantling of the institution of the presidency Some people view the president as the only directly-elec
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The biggest winners of the American economy fear they're sinking fast(washingtonpost.com)
12 points by sseagull 2mo ago|3 comments
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by sseagull 2mo ago
https://archive.is/Pk5EI
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by sseagull 2mo ago
I remember having a computer and reading about how the CPU (486) could address up to 4 GB of memory. I thought that was maybe a mistake, since even my hard drive was maybe 100 MB, and I had 16 MB of memory IIRC. I figured maybe they meant h
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by sseagull 2mo ago
I don’t know how much it has ever been true, but it feels like today’s wealthy, especially in tech, have completely abandoned “noblesse oblige” - fulfilling social responsibilities that their wealth should bring them. https://en.
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by sseagull 3mo ago
Archive Link: https://archive.is/mNP7v The tension of feeling the actual need to use AI, but internalizing blame and guilt, is something I've noticed in my students and colleagues as well.
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My Students Hate AI. But They Can't Stop Using It(chronicle.com)
6 points by sseagull 3mo ago|1 comments
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by sseagull 3mo ago
Obligatory XKCD https://xkcd.com/1494/
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US awards $500M to SandboxAQ, taking minority stake(reuters.com)
6 points by sseagull 3mo ago|1 comments
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by sseagull 3mo ago
“There is Mr. Geborand, buying a bit of paradise for one penny.” (from Les Misérables)
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by sseagull 3mo ago
I only use the Home Depot website, and it shows the location for me. Maybe it’s regional or something
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by sseagull 4mo ago
Oh I’m sure we could commiserate about that. I think we work in vaguely the same area. Unfortunately, getting money from industry isn’t much easier in my opinion. We have some software projects we want to spin out into a small business or n
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by sseagull 4mo ago
The chaos is affecting pretty much all areas of science, not just the controversial ones. I work in non-controversial, pretty run-of-the-mill chemistry research and the attacks on the NSF have certainly impacted our funding situation. Very
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by sseagull 4mo ago
The McNamara fallacy. One of my favorite fallacies vaguely related to Goodhart’s Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
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San Francisco Rents Spike 22% in a Year(bloomberg.com)
2 points by sseagull 4mo ago|0 comments
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by sseagull 5mo ago
> he said "you may have the right of way, but you'll still be dead if one hits you" Here lies the body Of William Jay, Who died maintaining His right of way. He was in the right As he sped along, But
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Sam Altman's Superintelligence New Deal(axios.com)
2 points by sseagull 5mo ago|0 comments
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by sseagull 6mo ago
I thought the same thing. Just a few years ago, everyone here was proclaiming Poetry was great, the python ecosystem was finally tamed, pip/conda/setuptools was dead, and every project and developer needs to adopt it. Now it’s jus
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by sseagull 7mo ago
Over the long term, yes. However, universities like Buffalo might have some peculiarities. They are overall run by the state government, and professors/students/staff are state employees. In addition, the money that pays their sal
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Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers(wpr.org)
336 points by sseagull 8mo ago|362 comments
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by sseagull 9mo ago
This is one of the Five Dysfunctions of a Team (fear of conflict, caused by absence of trust). Highly recommend the book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Dysfunctions_of_a_Tea...
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by sseagull 9mo ago
I’ve been working on splitting an idea out from government-funded academia into an industry-supported non-profit. Universities kind of like that, and industries (at least in my scientific domain) are fairly receptive to consortium-type arra

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