xotesos

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by xotesos 2y ago
To me, the pitch is take whatever you wanted to do with traditional technology and run a distributed lottery game for cash and prizes on top of it. A database with a game show component for cash and prizes. People want exactly this coupled
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by xotesos 2y ago
I think it is even beyond this. Most of the time humans are talking about the wonders of polywater to each other. A giant game of telephone telling each other complete nonsense. "The soviets have found a new form of water that freezes
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by xotesos 2y ago
IMO the whole idea is basically bullshit when applied to everyone as a blanket statement. I know I would not be a good parent. I know I would resent the kid. It is bizarre to me too when someone who is married says this. Marriage isn't
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by xotesos 2y ago
To me it is an absurd comparison. Someone stealing a billion dollars is committing a far worse crime than someone that murders me. The problem I have with this is imagine what a statistical poll would be if you posed the question "woul
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by xotesos 2y ago
Maybe more useful if hierarchical relationships exist but I just love treemaps in general. I love the way they can make the most of that given screen space. A bar chart would not be able to fit in that screen area because there has to be em
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by xotesos 2y ago
There is so much wisdom in the old saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. Humans are just such stubborn creatures. chatGPT3.5 hallucinated packages. chatGPT4 has found me about 10 awesome python packages I
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by xotesos 2y ago
Totally agree. What is hard to see right now in business is talked about by Charlie Munger in Poor Charlie's Almanac. What you describe will save your company money because you are an early adopter but in the long run, everyone is goin
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by xotesos 2y ago
The most profound thing I have read is a short mention in I See Satan Fall Like Lighting. Something like the more we become the same , the more we become engulfed in mimetic rivalry. I suspect it sheds quite a bit of light on the modern div
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by xotesos 2y ago
If you are low balling yourself on salary in a cheaper cost of living area you can't compare yourself against someone in San Francisco who is good at negotiating and bragging about it online.
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by xotesos 2y ago
I don't have kids, I find children to be annoying at best but even I can not imagine not paying teachers so much as to make it a prestigious job that is tough to get. From just a purely economic perspective, it seems like a trivial inv
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by xotesos 2y ago
It certainly has interesting ideas in small doses but knowing about your heuristics and biases doesn't mean you still don't fall victim to them. The real issue I have with the book is the audio book is read in such boring way by P
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by xotesos 2y ago
Just an absurd statement. We have good statistics on this. 84% of people aged 18 to 29 use at least one social media site.
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by xotesos 2y ago
I would say that is because there is nothing to compare barber shop music too. I am a big fan of Terry Riley's - Harp of New Albion exactly because its five-limit just intonation piano sounds so incredibly weird to my ears.
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by xotesos 2y ago
I just got 5.27% annualized on a 4 week US tbill while the Japanese 2 year is all the way up to 0.18% today. Taking short term rates from negative to zero is just going to slow the bleeding a little. With these rate differentials this shoul
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by xotesos 2y ago
I hope this isn't a sign of what is to come in music. We can do anything imaginable with AI and instead we just make really shitty Dolly Parton music reboots. Maybe we can do AI Tom Jones too and form a whole genre of shitty AI 70s mus
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by xotesos 2y ago
I just tried Suno and the results to me are terrible. It seems designed for making pop music no one will listen to. I have spent many hours with MusicLM making wild experimental music no one will listen to. MusicLM has no problem making rea
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by xotesos 2y ago
Exactly. I have always wanted to play around with experimental film making but not enough to find a group of actors let alone pay them. The negative reaction to this reminds me of when rap was new. "It is not music, they aren't ev
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by xotesos 2y ago
The AI bubble aspect has really been overblown at this point. Is the Columbia ETF up 44% year over year because of AI? Ireland is up 33%. Must be all that Irish AI.
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by xotesos 2y ago
I couldn't really disagree more. It is a ridiculous comparison. Anyone into experimental film making can see this is basically the ultimate creative tool. If you can't see the creative possibilities here you just don't have m