towledev

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by towledev 2mo ago
To my ear, that sounds very much like the GRE Verbal.
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by towledev 3mo ago
At Heritage, in the break room over the microwave, there's a sign: "science delende est."
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by towledev 3mo ago
> may pass the Turing Test Why do you say 'may'? Just curious. Surely you've got something
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by towledev 3mo ago
For me, Maps and pods. If it looked like a RAZR, I'd buy one today
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by towledev 3mo ago
if anyone's writing a script with a nerd in it, this line would kill
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by towledev 4mo ago
I wonder how the bears would write this headline
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by towledev 5mo ago
Maybe you can point me to the "equal predictive and explanatory power" bit in William's writings.
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by towledev 5mo ago
The razor is commonly misunderstood. William of Ockham objected to his fellow theologians inventing things out of whole cloth (like dark matter question mark). That’s the point, not that a simpler explanation is more likely to be true. The
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by towledev 5mo ago
I think ppl really do overrate the "mind shift" needed for zero. That's my honest opinion. I think ppl don't think about it hard enough. The fact is, zero's usefulness is a bookkeeping device. "There are zero a
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by towledev 5mo ago
XP was dope. Long-as-hell start menu with 80 folders.
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by towledev 5mo ago
In this case, the building. To give bricks the win over any building ever simply because bricks precede buildings is a little - what’s the word - dumb
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by towledev 5mo ago
And that is an all-time great innovation outpacing the Cartesian coordinate system, you say, being able to word a sentence differently
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by towledev 5mo ago
Do you build out your own information hierarchies and tell the model to use as-is, or do you let it organize everything itself?
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by towledev 5mo ago
Notably, zero persons have chosen to make the explicit case that zero is more ingenious than the Cartesian coordinate system. :)
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by towledev 5mo ago
ok, "no apples."
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by towledev 5mo ago
The circumstances are similar, but the people are different. Look outside: this is WALL-E.
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by towledev 5mo ago
Is it though? All languages have the word 'nothing'. Better candidates: a) place-value numbering aka the positional numeral system, b) the Cartesian coordinate system. Forced to choose, I would pick (b).
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by towledev 5mo ago
Re starting wars, you’re preaching to the choir. Re international agreements: yes, the idea is that _broad support_ is required for binding international agreements. Senate ratification represents broad support. The JCPOA was written in pen
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by towledev 5mo ago
I seek only to point out that we, the United States, have a constitutionally-outlined treaty-making process which involves Senate ratification, and that in the case of the JCPOA, the Senate did not ratify.
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by towledev 5mo ago
It would be truer to say the agreement was between several world powers and Obama, as the Senate didn't ratify.
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by towledev 5mo ago
Was the fruit tree important for its fruit? Surely there are other fruit sources, no?
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by towledev 5mo ago
As a kid, I dreamed of doing this. Some of my earliest googling was related to rocket fuel, probably right after October Sky came out. What differentiates High-Power from the other options?
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by towledev 6mo ago
The fact that unsympathetic targets are the first to be targeted need not be viewed as strategic. Other targets would be defended, which is a reason not to target them. Unsympathetic targets lack defenses and are therefore most likely to be
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by towledev 8mo ago
I ran into the same problem. Tried using ChatGPT as a scrum manager. It was really good at checking off todos through conversation, but as I fleshed out the details of the project it would forget critical information - not necessarily todos
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by towledev 9mo ago
We need a Caesar who will ban all advertising. Lacking a Caesar, we could start with publicly funded NFL stadiums e.g. MetLife to get a foot in the door and go from there. Something must be done.
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by towledev 1y ago
Very true, but the benefit to one-on-one instruction is so enormous that we should find ways to apply it fractionally if we can’t apply it fully. One thinks eg of the one-room schoolhouses of the 1800s, with younger students learning from o
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by towledev 1y ago
>Instruct them in how you want them to code They don't always listen. Writing SQL, I'll give ChatGPT the schema for 5 different tables. It habitually generates solutions with columns that don't exist. So, naturally, I appe
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by towledev 1y ago
It's funny, we've watched for two decades as the click-driven dynamics of the internet have degraded the meanings of words. At first, I was outraged on a daily basis. Then, as we all did, I learned, against my will, to forgive. &q
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by towledev 1y ago
Haven't listened to Librivox in years and years, but I still fork over the annual $2.99 because I feel I owe it. It's horizon-broadening. Lots and lots of interesting reads/listens I never would've picked up otherwise. 1
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by towledev 1y ago
You’re selling your point short. In my time in management, I found that the commonplace psychological descriptors we use failed to adequately describe what I was seeing. Two employees may both be “detail-oriented,” but there are subcategori

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