throwmamatrain

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by throwmamatrain 3y ago
https://openai.com/research/gpts-are-gpts Another source of info.
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Bank of Japan announces emergency bond buying(twitter.com)
3 points by throwmamatrain 4y ago|1 comments
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
I noticed I saw way less information about shows in my area, the only thing I used facebook for. I missed nearly two months of shows at my local venues due to relying on facebook before I realized something had changed. Maybe they increased
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
American fixed rate mortgages are locked in for the life of the loan. If you get an ARM (adjustable rate mortgage) this is not the case. A fixed rate mortgage is a hedge against rising rents and rising interest rates. New landlords buy in a
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
NHK World livestream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0lYkdA-Gtw
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
In god we trust, all others pay cash. Take the money, leave the cannoli.
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
The original concept was that universities were places of basic research, and more translational (read: monetizable) research was thought to be done at corporations. That theme changed after 2008~ when NIH was flat funded and most universit
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
Totally! Most of our best equipment was stolen and modded from materials science imaging or manufacturing automation. There was a budding industry for automated fluorescence imaging, but they were still finding their legs. We had a couple e
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
I would say that is a very strong criticism and very warranted! For note, I witnessed the immolation of two careers over retractions of papers that could not be replicated. You could say that the system worked. That was a while ago, and I&#
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
"If it always worked, it would be business. Let's go to the pub." -- Me, consoling a grad student after experiment failure #24. More seriously, if you're in basic science, your skills are valuable in transforming the wor
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
Ah, the uManager guys! Great software, sits on top of ImageJ (open source image analysis). Our software was a custom C+Win32 app that was ported from CodeWarrior on MacOS 7/8. Windows timers were so crap that I ended up using Ryan Geis
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
This looks great, and I would have loved to see this when I was in the lab. When the software industry says to you: "We will nearly triple your salary, you don't have to work weekends, and you also don't have to feed the mice
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by throwmamatrain 4y ago
I think the idea is that the SNR of .edu TLD is likely higher than all other TLDs. Probably true for now.
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
There is theory, and there is practice. If you do this kind of work, sometimes you will meet people that are completely unreasonable and there is no satisfying them. Try working at a Toys R Us at Christmas and get shouted down by a parent b
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
I believe my point was that a modern torpedo hitting a ship is a very high kill probability (mobility or other), being it is guided and explosive. I would say a missile is more similar to a torpedo. We can look to the Falklands as to how da
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Torpedos are not bullets, I don't think this is a good analogy.
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Trading company is separate from the foundation, purpose is to split the edu org from the industrial org. For those that don't know, raspis are bulk ordered for industrial use and this part intends to escalate that part of the business
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
One interesting note about this, is that there are machines for automating manufacturing that are explicitly not allowed to be exported. source: friend who did factory liaison for USA companies in Shanghai
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Totally! To be fair, I would not trade it for anything. I saw things no person had ever seen in the world. It's tough when you're in there though, the feelings of no escape really get to you.
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
I paid a very high price in opportunity costs, and additional degrees. If you want to peek my cohort, I am behind by about 5-7y if you were to look at salary min/maxing. You are right in that the skills I have gave me some opportunity,
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
In general, sexy problems pay less. I spent a decade doing sexy problems in science, got paid squat. Now I'm in tech making 4-5x what I was doing, while using the skills I gained from there in a less sexy but much more lucrative pursui
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Ubiquiti uber alles. Their amplifi alien line really rips, but harder to mesh (more expensive) than the other ubiquiti gear. The alien increased my 3fl away signal dramatically, and along with fios gigabit it's great. My progression wa
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
I will probably regret this. There is no guarantee of any relationship. You are searching the internet junk pile for artifacts that help you accomplish some goal. Your expertise helps you make this decision. If you do not have the expertise
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Software is not lemonade. As for the bot, this is grown of "all tasks must be completed" "Inbox zero" type of thinking. Feels like we're holding issues wrong, but that is my view. There are tons of projects/scr
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
I have definitely experienced effective small org -> ineffective large org. Lots of make work, "lawyers don't get paid to simplify". Growing from small to large company you can end up with a lot of bureaucrats that tell yo
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Good landlord, you're fine. Bad landlord, they say you over inflated it, and are now behind on rent. This gives them the opening to evict, or you have to take to small claims, or your local tenant's rights group. Not fun.
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
On an excel spreadsheet level I would agree, but this ignores a couple parts of renting reality that are awful: - You can have the property sold out from under you, and you have to scramble to move. This one is the worst in my mind. - Rules
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Ex-deli/pizza shop worker here, you can leave it all at the store when you leave. Your slicer will not send you a message at 2am that everything is burning. For some people, server jobs are a between what they're doing. Especially
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
This is the sound you would hear when you press print: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5kG3E5Jolg
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by throwmamatrain 5y ago
Given how amazon has eroded trust with things like Sidewalk, why would I give them free time to improve CodeGuru and fix bugs? Amazon has been openly adversarial to businesses, including software companies, so what goodwill are they banking

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