timoth3y

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by timoth3y 7d ago
> they are just enjoying hitting something with a stick This is truly one of life's under-appreciated little pleasures!
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by timoth3y 7d ago
I know this takes the fun out of it, and it is a fun project, but FWIW the speed of light is not an independent variable. It's woven into the fine-structure constant, the relationship between mass and energy, and how any kind of infor
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by timoth3y 1mo ago
I love my analog watches too dearly to give them up for a smart watch. However, I just realized that analog watches also have "power users", and I am definitely not one of them. My favorite watch (excuse me, "chronograph&quot
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by timoth3y 1mo ago
This is a great move by France, but most of the rest of the world does not suffer from the telemarketing scam hell that Americans do. I am a US citizen living overseas. I have a US cell number that is only used for 2FA for US financial inst
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by timoth3y 1mo ago
It really seems like those meaningless, flashing YouTube kids videos, but for adults.
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Roku Fairgound, a new 24/7 AI slop channel(therokuchannel.roku.com)
3 points by timoth3y 1mo ago|1 comments
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by timoth3y 1mo ago
I've always found it somewhat ironic that the people who are least familiar with the actual research on the Dunning-Kruger effect tend to be the most confident in discussing it. It's a sort of recursive Dunning-Kruger effect.
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by timoth3y 2mo ago
This is actually an easily solvable problem. In fact, most of the world has already solved it by not allowing caller-ID spoofing and by blocking bad actors similar to the way that ISPs block email coming from known bad IPs. The US has the S
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by timoth3y 2mo ago
This is not specific to Silicon Valley. It's human nature. People take the "vibe" from a work and assume the vibe is the meaning. Look at how things like Fight Club, The Punisher, and Wall Street are viewed in the general cul
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by timoth3y 2mo ago
> frustratingly difficult to even get through the first lesson in which you are supposed to focus on your breath and minimize the wandering of your mind Everyone experiences this. Please don't be frustrated by it. The mind wandering
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by timoth3y 3mo ago
A good article about a genuinely great and important book. One quibble. > Lukashenka knew that arresting children for eating ice cream would make him a laughingstock abroad. Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynn-Williams for standing i
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by timoth3y 3mo ago
FWIW, I've just published this interview with David Ha an hour ago. We talk in detail about Fugu and why these kind of routing models are likely to win out over the big frontier models. He makes some very good arguments for them. http
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by timoth3y 3mo ago
Said experts do not seem to have included this core analysis in the report. Since housing starts are more likely in areas seeing rapid housing price appreciation, and construction employs many illegal workers, you could make just as strong
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by timoth3y 3mo ago
The research is impressive in its granularity. However, they seem to simply assert causality. It would seem far more likely that people (illegal or not) move to areas experiencing economic booms that, among other things, is push up home pri
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by timoth3y 3mo ago
Palantir is clearly a mind-boggling on-the-nose, but terrible name to those familiar with the book. The Palantiri consistently provided their users technically accurate intelligence that lead to disastrous strategic decisions. Denethor co
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by timoth3y 4mo ago
> "if the product is free, you are the product" This is not true. You are the product whether you are paying or not. If the company thinks they can make money by selling your data/attention/access, they will do so. Pa
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by timoth3y 4mo ago
> There’s a fallacy that gets used a whole lot to justify things like this ... FWIW, this is the Fallacy of Composition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition
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by timoth3y 4mo ago
The Luddites (or at least their successors) won, and we are lucky that they did. I recently published an article about the Luddites. If you look at their actual demands, they were not anti-tech. They were labor activists. Life got much, muc
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by timoth3y 4mo ago
If you look at what their actual demands, the pattern is clear. They lobbied for support for unemployed, the right to vote, improved safely and labor conditions across all industries, and enforcing the labor laws that were already on the bo
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by timoth3y 4mo ago
I think that is the core truth of the matter. Technology itself does not make life better. I recently published an article about the Luddites. If you look at their actual demands, they were not anti-tech. They were labor activists. Life got
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by timoth3y 5mo ago
This will be just another minor cost of doing business unless they are treated like human drivers in at least two other ways. 1) If theses companies get enough points on their license, their license is revoked. Not just for that vehicle, bu
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by timoth3y 5mo ago
I used to be a professional musician, and I can't work if there is any music playing the the background. It drove my ex-wife nuts because she could not stand the silence. We ended up playing background sounds from coffee shops, which w
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by timoth3y 5mo ago
talk is cheap, so what is he doing today to make that happen? Is he supporting NGOs or politicians focused on making this happen, or is he just musing that it would be nice? (I honestly don't know, but I've only seen the non-com
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by timoth3y 5mo ago
If you look at their actual demands its clear the the Luddites were not actually opposed to the new technology, but the new business practices. It's an interesting parallel to AI today, where criticism of the business practices of AI f
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The Luddites would have loved AI(disruptingjapan.com)
6 points by timoth3y 5mo ago|1 comments
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by timoth3y 5mo ago
> People are not willing to sacrifice their freedom to save 40,990 people from cars, why should our constant locations be monitored? It's not binary. People are absolutely willing to sacrifice some of their freedoms to save lives. T
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Charcuterie: A Visual Explorer for Unicode(charcuterie.elastiq.ch)
5 points by timoth3y 5mo ago|1 comments
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by timoth3y 5mo ago
A unicode explorer that shows you graphically similar characters.
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by timoth3y 6mo ago
> for work requiring Japanese This only applies to jobs that require Japanese proficiency. The vast majority of engineering and specialist visa will not be affected. It's not unreasonable that a person applying for a job that requir
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by timoth3y 6mo ago
I thought about that as well. It's certainly a concern. In the end I decided that the concrete benefits from giving Anthropic access to this kind of data outweigh the potential risks. Granted, they might be banking on me making this e

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