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by vonnik 6d ago
Every category and noun is an analogy uniting things unlike in at least some details. We don’t even see most analogies, because they are more common than air and just as necessary.
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by vonnik 8d ago
To be clear this trend starts really early, at least in grade school. I have a second grader and most of his friends have had iPads for years, play video games for hours per day at home. Those kids don’t like to read, and/or are readin
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by vonnik 17d ago
“Three teams. Same underlying data. Three different stories.”
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by vonnik 3mo ago
fully support the idea of an emerging technobiont, but i keep asking myself what advantage humans will confer to petro-electric life forms? the only way forward is for us to genetically edit ourselves into beings that can understand more of
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by vonnik 4mo ago
One of these capsized off the beach at Capitola and now serves as a de facto bird sanctuary. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/29/ss-palo-alto-reaches-... Before it capsized and sank, it served as a dance h
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by vonnik 4mo ago
Most CEOs don't understand the actual things their front-line workers do. and many of them have allowed themselves to be surrounded by yes-men. the richer and more powerful they are, the more likely this is. "yes man" is a ro
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by vonnik 4mo ago
This strategy has worked well for both Shakespeare and Co. in Paris and Shakespeare and Sons in Berlin. Books + Bakery + Coffee. Both of course are set in living pedestrian cities. https://www.shakespeareandsons.com
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by vonnik 4mo ago
If the poster cannot do the work of writing, they should not expect others to do the work of reading. People read based on trust and respond to invest in relationships. LLM verbiage breaks both dynamics.
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by vonnik 4mo ago
I feel like the headline relies on a misnomer. Sivers is talking about culture. Most culture occupies a geography, even if it’s a changing one; the culture shrinks, expands or drifts over the land. The land itself shifts and changes under t
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by vonnik 5mo ago
The interesting thing about “Algvandringen” is that you can hear “Elk wandering” in it, showing the evolutionary similarities of two Germanic languages.
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by vonnik 5mo ago
As Alex's story illustrates, really caring about something and acting on that can be a great way to find community.
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by vonnik 5mo ago
“You can’t cheat an honest man.” While that isn’t always true, honesty is a great defense against being enlisted in scams that promise easy money.
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by vonnik 5mo ago
This smells like LLM.
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by vonnik 6mo ago
I worked for a while selling fractional nurses into for-profit nursing/retirement homes at the end of Covid, got to interview some industry experts, who told me that these for-profit homes are the 21st century equivalent of 19th centur
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by vonnik 7mo ago
This is so yawn. Do young professionals starting out have to impress their bosses? Yes. Do bosses have to impress them? Usually not. Who cares? Power dynamics exist, it’s easy to play the grammar game, so just do it and stop pretending it’s
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by vonnik 8mo ago
See Dr Wendy Suzuki’s work: https://www.wendysuzuki.com/exercise-research
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by vonnik 8mo ago
Becoming Led Zeppelin is a great documentary which chronicles the band’s rise. It has some great quotes from Plant about the milieu that fathers around a famous band, supplying drugs and sex. The substances lead to abuse, addiction and some
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by vonnik 9mo ago
The easiest way to do something is the first time.
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by vonnik 10mo ago
The author is right to critique Cerquiglini. The French legacy is largely lexical. The syntax and the old, short words of English are Germanic. Its several influences drove the relatively large lexicon we have, and probably adapted English
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by vonnik 11mo ago
This is true. But it’s also hard to hold against many of them. Because they are often isolated, slow or immobile, and in cognitive decline. I saw this happen to my grandmother in an assisted living home.
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by vonnik 11mo ago
i don't know why this was down-voted... i'm genuinely interested in the answers. feel free to dm me.
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by vonnik 11mo ago
What kind of math do you do, and what would “generating proofs” look like do you think?
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by vonnik 11mo ago
Yes, Alan Kay is very ill.
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by vonnik 11mo ago
Out of curiosity, does anyone know the mathematicians actively leaning into AI + Lean?
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New China Export Controls for Rare Earths in Chips(twitter.com)
3 points by vonnik 11mo ago|0 comments
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by vonnik 11mo ago
It sounds like we agree on the larger strategic point. The PRC seems to be doing a good job building out its energy infra, fwiw. And it shares a massive land border with an ally and energy producer.
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by vonnik 11mo ago
I found this to be a remarkably uninsightful work. He somehow negates the inherent drama of war with the milquetoast prose and myopia of an academic. Much of what he says is in fact false, presumably because he is far from the action and re
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by vonnik 11mo ago
I really like this, and I think one way to make it even more clear would be to use other variable letters to represent breads and milks, because their x’s and y’s somehow morph into the x’s and y’s that represent carbs and protein in the gr
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by vonnik 1y ago
more broadly, laptops and desktops have also degenerated as tools for thought, largely because they have been turned into vehicles of consumption. every screen has become the infinite push algorithm. https://vonnik.substack.com&#
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by vonnik 1y ago
To the people who claim that we’re running out of data, I would just say: the world is largely undigitized. The Internet digitized a bunch of words but not even a tiny fraction of all that humans express every day. Same goes for sound in ge

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