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Great stuff. I had gone down this path last year with not using attr and it was so hard to find good examples like this. The thing I never figured out was how to use d3 axis as a svg generator. Starting from scratch on…
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What is hard to measure is what could have been done with the money to make the US military stronger but was wasted instead. The worst part is all these inefficiencies are…
This is nonsense. People are more informed than ever before. The past looks better only because it is a distorted view from a lack of information at that time.
I don't think you can separate out the higher order effects of financialization and the downgrading in social status this has had for anyone not involved in some kind of finance. In 1972 there was all kinds of social…
I completely agree but it seems to me the Enlightenment was just a brief window in time, a temporary state and we are simply returning to the equilibrium of a top down, clergy like class that tells the masses what to…
The problem is 50% of the people in the US are spendthrifts and absolutely terrible with saving money. It doesn't matter what their income is. A spendthrift can always find something to spend all their money on no…
No, I have generated a few thousand midjourney images and there is quite a difference in these images actually. It is hard to describe but there is a very unnatural "sheen" to the images on the left. The SDXL 0.9 images…
My short term memory sucks too. I need many exposures to retain the information for a standardized test. I wonder if intelligent people with poor short term memories are more impressed with LLMs than those with good…
I don't get it either. What is is even worse is that the algorithm has pulled a some incredible music recommendations for me but they are so few and far between. My fav is Countdown at Kusini by Manu Dibango. The…
I am not a big Marshall McLuhan fan but this is what is meant by the medium is the message. You are not going to have the same discussion in print that you have electronically and on social media. It doesn't matter what…
It is absurd to believe there is no danger of over regulation from government that a company would need to push back on. I guess you just take news headlines at face value though.
It will really come down to the cost. I would be dishonest if I said I would pay a premium for meat as to not harm animals. If you can kill two birds with one stone(ok maybe not the best saying in this context)and under…
Andrew Ng doesn't agree but that is a boring story. It seems to me the big names in AI research our having a moment that appeals to their vanity. Easy to get your name in the headlines by out dooming the next guy. There…
For me, reading on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 inch screen with 2560x1600 is an upgrade to paper. I think the words are actually sharper but most of all the lighting is always absolutely perfect. The size is perfect.…
I have even lost the positive emotions I use to have seeing a bookcase. All I see now is "what a pain in the ass". The physical nature of books use to be a feature over ebooks and audio books for me but now they are a…
What is most interesting about LLMs to me is the vastly different experiences people are having with them. Personally, I can't understand how someone who has spent time with chatGPT4 can say that as a blanket statement.…
Yes, most people are not skeptics at all. Most people believe what they are told at face value. I stop just short of Feynman questioning the dentist on the evidence for brushing one's teeth. That there is potentially…
It is a straw man to pretend that political discussion looks like an Intelligence Squared debate when almost all the time it looks like a food fight about nonsense. The idea the world will be worst off with less flame…
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous reason to stop reading a biography of a historic military dictator and one of the all time cult of personalities. Did you think he was going to be gentle soul? HN never ceases to blow…
My grandfather joined the Navy at 17 in 1943 and never spoke about it. I assumed when he was alive he didn't do much in the war but in researching his ship it was the complete opposite. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the…
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Great stuff. I had gone down this path last year with not using attr and it was so hard to find good examples like this. The thing I never figured out was how to use d3 axis as a svg generator. Starting from scratch on…
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What is hard to measure is what could have been done with the money to make the US military stronger but was wasted instead. The worst part is all these inefficiencies are…
This is nonsense. People are more informed than ever before. The past looks better only because it is a distorted view from a lack of information at that time.
I don't think you can separate out the higher order effects of financialization and the downgrading in social status this has had for anyone not involved in some kind of finance. In 1972 there was all kinds of social…
I completely agree but it seems to me the Enlightenment was just a brief window in time, a temporary state and we are simply returning to the equilibrium of a top down, clergy like class that tells the masses what to…
The problem is 50% of the people in the US are spendthrifts and absolutely terrible with saving money. It doesn't matter what their income is. A spendthrift can always find something to spend all their money on no…
No, I have generated a few thousand midjourney images and there is quite a difference in these images actually. It is hard to describe but there is a very unnatural "sheen" to the images on the left. The SDXL 0.9 images…
My short term memory sucks too. I need many exposures to retain the information for a standardized test. I wonder if intelligent people with poor short term memories are more impressed with LLMs than those with good…
I don't get it either. What is is even worse is that the algorithm has pulled a some incredible music recommendations for me but they are so few and far between. My fav is Countdown at Kusini by Manu Dibango. The…
I am not a big Marshall McLuhan fan but this is what is meant by the medium is the message. You are not going to have the same discussion in print that you have electronically and on social media. It doesn't matter what…
It is absurd to believe there is no danger of over regulation from government that a company would need to push back on. I guess you just take news headlines at face value though.
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It will really come down to the cost. I would be dishonest if I said I would pay a premium for meat as to not harm animals. If you can kill two birds with one stone(ok maybe not the best saying in this context)and under…
Andrew Ng doesn't agree but that is a boring story. It seems to me the big names in AI research our having a moment that appeals to their vanity. Easy to get your name in the headlines by out dooming the next guy. There…
For me, reading on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 inch screen with 2560x1600 is an upgrade to paper. I think the words are actually sharper but most of all the lighting is always absolutely perfect. The size is perfect.…
I have even lost the positive emotions I use to have seeing a bookcase. All I see now is "what a pain in the ass". The physical nature of books use to be a feature over ebooks and audio books for me but now they are a…
What is most interesting about LLMs to me is the vastly different experiences people are having with them. Personally, I can't understand how someone who has spent time with chatGPT4 can say that as a blanket statement.…
Yes, most people are not skeptics at all. Most people believe what they are told at face value. I stop just short of Feynman questioning the dentist on the evidence for brushing one's teeth. That there is potentially…
It is a straw man to pretend that political discussion looks like an Intelligence Squared debate when almost all the time it looks like a food fight about nonsense. The idea the world will be worst off with less flame…
I am sorry but this is a ridiculous reason to stop reading a biography of a historic military dictator and one of the all time cult of personalities. Did you think he was going to be gentle soul? HN never ceases to blow…
My grandfather joined the Navy at 17 in 1943 and never spoke about it. I assumed when he was alive he didn't do much in the war but in researching his ship it was the complete opposite. The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the…