stevenAthompson

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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Here's a direct link to a PDF. http://math.uchicago.edu/~shmuel/Network-course-readings/Mar...
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I have 64Gb, a 9800x3d, and a 4070Ti super. It's still a little slow if I set it to the highest settings, but it's usable. Very cool either way!
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I was going to argue that you seem like a bit of a rare creature, but I suppose you would know better than I. I didn't bring it up because I didn't want it to sound like a personal attack or something. Do YOU feel that it's c
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I agree with most of what you said, and it was well said. However, I disagree in two ways. Firstly, while villainizing them is unhelpful convincing them is utterly impossible when religion is involved. It doesn't matter if we learn to
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> they are optimizing but under differing constraints Most often this doesn't happen because one side fails to understand the other, it happens because one side is dishonest about their motivations or goals. In this case, the censor
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
You have a solid point. I also ignore the fact that RTO actually does improve the bottom line in some narrow scenarios, such as when it's used as a backdoor layoff in companies that don't mind losing the best and brightest. Some c
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Has anyone backtested a stock bot that just shorts every company doing RTO? It's clearly a leading indicator for company collapse.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> If the overview becomes a trusted source of information It never will. By disincentivizing publishers they're stripping away most of the motivation for the legitimate source content to exist. AI search results are a sort of self-c
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I subscribe also, and prefer it for most things. However, it's pretty bad for local results and shopping. I find that anytime I need to know a local stores hours or find the cheapest place to purchase an item I need to pivot back to go
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I would argue that all models are inherently incomplete because they are models (IE - they are the map not the territory). Rather than worrying about completeness, it's better to ask if the model is useful, and if anything would change
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
What would be the purpose of launching a decaying lump of monkey meat into space when the AI can explore just as well with a tiny fraction of the mass requirements? I'd wager that it will be AI's using IRC from space, but IPv6 sti
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
To tell the truth, I don't remember. I've kept a "quotes.txt" file for the last two or three decades where I paste in anything I feel is worth remembering. It's been in there as long as I can remember, but I apparen
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
"We do our peers, countrymen, students, and children a grave disservice by admonishing them to think for themselves without also giving them the critical thinking tools to do so, for in so doing we foster a culture where "independ
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I suspect that you're right, but only because of the rise in AI. At a certain point we'll all have AI personal assistants that are easier to use, more convenient, and less harmful to us than smartphones have historically been. The
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Similarly, I've been watching the rise of the "minimal phone", and "analog tech" with interest lately. People have lost agency to the degree that they're looking to the very tech that stole their agency for ans
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Literacy rates have been declining in lock-step with the increase in social media usage. We are now at the point that 54% of Americans read below the sixth grade level. 1 in 5 are functionally illiterate. Those numbers will be worse next ye
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I would argue that TikTok is what terminally online means now.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
66% of autistic adults admit having suicidal thoughts. 35% have attempted suicide. If they're faking it for benefits they are REALLY committed to the bit.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
This is a really great question. I checked. Turns out that the poorer a nation is, the less reported autism they have. That could be because there is no benefit to the diagnosis or it could be because they have less healthcare in general an
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> fun and easy It's not fun or easy for anyone to find a new job. However, it's usually less painful than staying if you're poorly suited to your current role. We all have strengths and weaknesses. The secret to living a g
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
> better allow me being late sometimes That would depend on the jobs requirements, wouldn't it? In some roles that might be a complete deal breaker. For example, anything customer/client facing. If you can't perform the jo
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
What financial benefit would a diagnosis have?
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
The author's concerns would mostly all be ameliorated by logging out of TikTok and never logging back in. They seem to think that "TikTok" and "Society" are synonyms. They are not.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Those are valid points, and I appreciate you taking the time to make them. To clarify, when I misspelled "cannon" I just meant "big gun" rather than a literal piece of primitive weaponry. More importantly, I would like t
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
A Ronin is just a Samurai who has learned his lesson.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I'm not even certain it's fair to refer to these things (or modafinil) as nootropics, as nootropics (as defined by the person who coined the phrase) should lack stimulate/sedative properties.
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
>the engineering is rather a problem I suppose that's my point. It's really just a series of maybe-not-that-easily solvable engineering problems, and it would allow us to not only explore further but to do it at a relatively lo
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
I'm not talking about launching a cubesat, I'm talking about launching a mesh network of thousands or millions of mass produced devices half or a quarter the size of a cubesat. New Horizons, to use your example, weighed a thousand
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Why dont they just launch a string of hundreds or thousands of tiny mesh probes out of a canon over a longer period of months or years? They dont need to be powerful if you have a big mesh network and each probe would only need to cost abou
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by stevenAthompson 1y ago
Ignore me, I answered my own question. Encryption is still illegal on HAM bands, but legal for things like LoRa that are unlicensed (hence WiFi).

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