willturman

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by willturman 8d ago
A few as in tens of thousands. 23andMe used a custom Illumina Infinium microarray designed around segments of particular interest. https://www.illumina.com/products/by-brand/infinium.html
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by willturman 24d ago
The wars of the future will not be fought on a battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth to
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by willturman 1mo ago
This is awesome. Was there a particular application that inspired you to make this?
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by willturman 1mo ago
The GitHub and X logos are chefs kiss
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by willturman 1mo ago
Won’t someone please think of those poor helpless law enforcement agencies! AI code is flawless and impenetrable!
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by willturman 1mo ago
I can't believe people spend their lives finding lazier ways to classify a bunch of objects that will end up heaped in dormitory dumpsters across the US next spring.
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by willturman 1mo ago
Mark Twain himself wrote a story about a sure thing, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County : https://readmeastoryink.com/wp-content/uploads/stories/the_c...
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by willturman 2mo ago
Vision Pro: when you're done sitting in the dark on your couch looking at photos of the family who left you, you can use AR to remodel your apartment. It even has textures .
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by willturman 2mo ago
You seem to have independently discovered the market failure commonly know as the Free-rider problem, for which there are many solutions, and which is not a dispositive preemptive argument against the establishment or management of common g
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by willturman 2mo ago
It is interesting that the output of code is associated with sight and taste, while the quality of the code itself is associated with smell . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_smell *edit: that wikipedia page ^ itsel
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by willturman 2mo ago
Also, thank you for including the passage about Elinor Ostrom's work. The conditions outlined as necessary for an enduring public commons go a long way toward explaining why the existing decision governing Mono Lake's public inter
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by willturman 2mo ago
A similar appropriative-use vs. public-trust evaluation is playing out this year as the California State Water Resources Control Board reevaluates Los Angeles’ right to divert water from the Mono Basin in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. The foun
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by willturman 3mo ago
This post brought to mind a post by Bret Victor titled Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction [1] where he frames working on and understanding problems at different layers of focus as providing insight that isn’t otherwise so apparent. It’s
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by willturman 3mo ago
> Enterprise sales isn’t about ovens. The handshake comes first. The requirements come later.
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by willturman 3mo ago
A pretty incredible answer to your question comes from a perhaps wholly unexpected source: Hunter S. Thompson, in a letter responding to a friend's request for life advice: https://fs.blog/hunter-s-thompson-to-hume-loga
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by willturman 3mo ago
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation...
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by willturman 5mo ago
I read "widespread flourishing" as referring to a scope of influence and "at a level that is difficult to imagine" as referring to an amount of accumulated wealth. But surely the people who aren't committing to not
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by willturman 6mo ago
I recently discovered Practical Typography [1] and Typography for Lawyers [2] by Matthew Butterick which have changed the way I've approached presenting information. I would highly recommend each for anyone who uses text to communicate
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by willturman 6mo ago
It was exactly a game theory question, and a perfect exercise in real world betting markets. You’ll never have the most information and you’ll never be the biggest fish. I learned the lesson that day, and I’d argue that even Obama with 365
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by willturman 6mo ago
Because there are societal costs to poverty, regardless of how people arrive there. Gambling can be as addictive and personally and societally destructive as any drug.
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by willturman 6mo ago
Same. I consider myself extremely fortunate to have been able to take a course on the Economics of Gaming from William Eadington [1] , who was the founder of Gambling Studies. Our final in 2008 consisted of two parts: predicting the elector
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by willturman 6mo ago
Or another kind of take: Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91707.The_Land_of_Little...
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by willturman 6mo ago
> the desert shall rejoice / and blossom as the rose Or, rewritten for the Los Angeles Aqueduct: the desert shall wither / and blossom in a plume of dust [1] [1] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story&#x
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by willturman 6mo ago
Why would credit card companies release data showing that consumption indicates a recession? Surely they’re in the business of sustaining exuberance.
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by willturman 6mo ago
Yeah, and make sure you cut out letters from magazines and paste them onto the note so you can't be identified by your handwriting.
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by willturman 7mo ago
Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam is currently at 23.6% of capacity. Lake Mead behind Hoover Dam is currently at 29.7% of capacity. Given the current state of the Upper Colorado River basin snow pack, there is a not-insignificant chanc
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by willturman 7mo ago
How long until YCombinator stops listing Flock "Safety" on their website as one of their proud VC success stories? [1] https://www.ycombinator.com
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by willturman 7mo ago
I'll name a specific highly developed country in the western hemisphere: The United States. There's no need to bend over backward trying to blame some perceived degradation in quality of discussion on international adoption of the
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by willturman 7mo ago
You're right. I didn't think that through. The stack doesn't imply that a local network is somehow exposed to those concerns.
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by willturman 7mo ago
Perhaps, but it also, by default, excludes that entire class of authentication problems that are only manifested in a non-local network. I love the idea. It's also interesting in that a local mesh doesn't necessarily need to opera

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