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by tropdrop 18d ago
It's interesting to think about how the culture around AI can also loosely be considered as coalescing between these two camps. But the camp who are the descendants of Leavis, if we can call them that, includes many scientists who (bef
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by tropdrop 29d ago
I identified with this article despite being a new mom rather than dad. I was minted in the ambition track and have alighted on work I find meaningful. I still wake up with a burning fire in my stomach for my work. This was dulled somewhat
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by tropdrop 3mo ago
Ivy League classes usually aren't as large as their state school counterparts. At most you might get around a hundred students in a large lecture course; this is rare by design. You can crunch the numbers on this to verify for yourse
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by tropdrop 3mo ago
Check out the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of BK. P&L try to really bridge the contextual gap with a lot of footnotes/endnotes.
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by tropdrop 7mo ago
Ha! That's amazing! Well I take it back for shower curtains (congrats to your aunt!). I do think the point still stands for Amazon sellers and Zara, but maybe I'm not giving Walmart enough credit.
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by tropdrop 7mo ago
What's interesting is that you don't realize how much of that stuff from Walmart had artistic processes embedded into it along the production line. Did those shower curtains have a design? Did your sweater have a color and style?
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by tropdrop 1y ago
The same experience happened to me, but it was even better – I was told I had a "little paronychia" and lanced without anesthetic. Her scalpel rubbing against two nerves in the nailbed of my thumb, the ER doctor lanced and scrape
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by tropdrop 1y ago
>artist technically, it was the supervising technical director. The only reason this happened (I don't think "working from home" was very common in 1999) was because she just had a baby! I love this story because it feels
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by tropdrop 1y ago
Articles like this [1] (re: Rochdale gang) are contributing to the impression of a link in the UK. There's also the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal [2] which affected an estimated 1,400 girls specifically in Rotherham. Pop
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by tropdrop 1y ago
In my experience, ChatGPT, at least, seems to have had multiple languages used to train its corpus. I am guessing this based on its interaction with me in a different language, where it changed English idioms like "short and sweet&quot
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by tropdrop 1y ago
ChatGPT is worse in Russian. Example: after accurately noting that a name appeared in a particular Russian book, it asked if I wanted the direct quote in Russian. I said yes. At this point it switched to Russian output but could no longer f
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by tropdrop 1y ago
Seconding Meowwolf! The one I went to in Santa Fe was very hands on and physical, requiring lots of object manipulation as well as crawling through very tight spaces. Absolute delight. Less so for the one in Colorado, which had more of an i
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by tropdrop 1y ago
I know of one that "doesn't explain" the exhibits (except through an app/website where you match things hanging on walls with diagrams) – the Isabella Gardner museum in Boston; this is specifically due to the wishes of I
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by tropdrop 1y ago
But I'm pointing out that just because NYC fails the claim does not mean that the claim is wrong. I think there's a goldilocks zone of walkable, at least for the purposes of this "urbanist-I-know-everyone-utopia" feeling
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by tropdrop 1y ago
Backing up a sister comment on this thread: I've lived in SF and Chicago, both also as walkable as it gets for the US, and in both had relationships as a "regular," whether at a corner store, cafe, or the grocer. I remember o
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by tropdrop 1y ago
I am not an expert on children's stories, but I wondered about the vocabulary – "magnificent," or "newfound confidence." I'm imagining one might want to tailor the difficulty of the vocab based on the age of th
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by tropdrop 2y ago
Interestingly this changed somewhat with the clickbait-based model – now, I would disagree that advertisers "want, more generally, to avoid programs with serious complexities and disturbing controversies." I think this does descri
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by tropdrop 2y ago
FWIW Turnitin does treat things like quotes and footnotes a little differently on the academic side – on the instructor end, it simply gives you an estimation of the amount of text it found that has appeared somewhere else. Citations usuall
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by tropdrop 2y ago
In addition to the vibrissae explanation, I also wonder if their eyes (vertical pupils) just see better when it comes to height and not width, necessitating greater hesitation when it comes to judging things at their height and not high in
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by tropdrop 2y ago
There is such a cool puppet culture there. If you ever get the chance and are interested, you should check out a production by Obraztsov [1] – a lot of the concerts are on YouTube. When I was in Russia in 2018 I was shocked at how big puppe
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by tropdrop 2y ago
> '“It’s a shock when you see it,” said the woman from Almendralejo. “The image is completely realistic … If I didn’t know my daughter’s body, I would have thought that image was real.”' Several reasons: 1) time – a fraction of
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by tropdrop 2y ago
Came here to say something similar: I didn't realize how rare this was until this thread, but as I kid I knew not only four of my great-grandparents, but even a great-great-grandmother. She died at 96 years old, but I was old enough
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by tropdrop 2y ago
I am also a native speaker. The context I hear it is when, for example, someone wins a game or finds loot within one – "Эх, какой счастливый!...." or "Счастливый человек!" Another example: "у него счастливая рука&qu
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by tropdrop 2y ago
It will certainly eventually blow up in someone's face. The strategy is to not be the one holding the hot potato. So, pocket the bonuses and retire, boasting of you growing profits quarter-to-quarter by eliminating "redudancies&
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by tropdrop 2y ago
In support of this: in Russian, the adjective for "lucky" and "happy" is the same – schastlivyi . Though a more precise variant that specifically means "lucky" exists ( udachlivyi , meaning possessing greater
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by tropdrop 2y ago
The intro about imagining "half of the engineers boarding a plane telling you there is a 10% chance it will crash" is unintentionally prescient (the article was written in 2023), given the recent Boeing situation.
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by tropdrop 2y ago
Because he repeatedly ignored fellow researchers pointing out that the seismic activity he attributed to interstellar impact did not differ from seismic activity recorded at that location whenever a heavy truck drove on the main road near t
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by tropdrop 2y ago
This was addressed in the article: The relationship between the theoretical computer scientists in mathematics and the applied ones in engineers is a little like the relationship between biologists and doctors, or physicists and bridge bui
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by tropdrop 2y ago
It seems Mead and Freeman experienced a slice of life from different parts of Samoa, which was summed up for me in this part of the wikipedia article: "Samoan culture had been changed by the integration of Christianity in the decades b
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by tropdrop 3y ago
This depends on the region, I think. My own experience: most people I know on the East Coast have cats (including entrepreneurs), significantly higher preference for dogs on the West Coast. In Eastern Europe and Japan, I also noticed people

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