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by wsowens 17d ago
Agree the essay has a suspiciously Claude/ChatGPT-like organization. This comment perfectly articulates my distaste for AI-generated text with words I've been struggling to find.
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by wsowens 17d ago
This is a pretty essay, but it also reminds me of this meme[1]. To paraphrase: Wheel is invented... "bro, the whole world is a wheel!" Books are invented... "bro, the whole world is a book!" Gears a
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by wsowens 20d ago
I've always been intrigued by Warhammer 40k but never really knew how to get into it. What's the best way?
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by wsowens 1mo ago
Despite writing most of my procedural code in Python, I've always preferred doing my data analysis in R. For all of R's warts, the ergonomics of the dplyr + ggplot + the rest of the tidyverse are very tough to beat. My few attempt
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by wsowens 6mo ago
I looked briefly, but is anyone aware of the differences between Yew[1] and Sycamore[2]? Presumably they are both Elm-influenced(?) Rust web UI libraries named after trees, but it's unclear to me why I should use one versus the other.
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by wsowens 6mo ago
Rendezvous with Rama was one of my favorites as a teenager, hopefully the film adaptation does it justice.
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by wsowens 7mo ago
People are often boring in conversation. Therefore, an AI agent doesn't need to be interesting to seem human enough in a Turing test.
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by wsowens 7mo ago
It's disappointing to see the myth of the "Christian Dark Ages" still repeated so often. It's true that the collapse of the Western Roman Empire led to a regression in social order. To blame this complex collapse entirel
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by wsowens 1y ago
At the risk of sounding like a hater, I feel like the AI art doesn't add much to this listicle
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Nested: A procedural universe generator (2011)(orteil.dashnet.org)
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by wsowens 5y ago
There were many attention grabbing things (Cold War escalation, civil unrest, etc.) in the world when Feynman wrote those papers. I can't find the exact clip, but I remember seeing an interview where an older Feynman reflected on that
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by wsowens 6y ago
This is neat! I was wondering if someone would make something cool like this. As someone who knows nothing about sentiment analysis / NLP, what do the units on the x-axis mean? Number of positive mentions?
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by wsowens 6y ago
There could be epigenetic or environmental factors to blame for a disease. But even so, assuming this is a genetic issue, proposing gene therapy in this case is putting the cart before the horse. It's like if you had a memory leak or s
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by wsowens 6y ago
I feel like a lot of people in this thread are missing the point of the potatoes with no salt or oil. The entire idea is that this diet is incredibly boring and will make a well-balanced vegan diet seem for more appealing by comparison. Thi
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by wsowens 6y ago
Based on the article, we don't even fully understand the mechanism behind the disease. Hard to do gene therapy when you aren't sure what genes are to blame.
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by wsowens 6y ago
I guess I'm a member of this "No-Code" generation? My friends and I were playing Minecraft when we were 12 years old, and we're entering the workforce now. I share the skepticism from other commenters in this thread. May
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by wsowens 6y ago
> It would be really nice if these teams focused on creating an interoperable standard for chat instead of trying to lock in users. Basic protocols like chat should be decentralized, and will probably end up being so. Have you heard of M
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by wsowens 6y ago
This is really cool and will probably fill the void that Firefox Send left for me. Out of curiosity, how do you deal with all that bandwidth? Are you self-hosted?
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by wsowens 6y ago
For the example of H(X) where X ~ Geom(p), shouldn't the second term be multiplied by (k-1) after breaking up the logarithm? That is, shouldn't pq^(k-1)log(q) be (k-1)pq^(k-1)log(q) Apologies if I'm off base he