Glad this is only happening in the UK. In the land of the free I'm sure Amazon would never do something like this /s
You forgot to mention the name of the book
Leaving aside "which book is better" (which is hard to answer), I'll say that The Freeze Frame Revolution is much more approachable for most folks. It's the one I'd recommend to my friends first, then I might recommend…
You know, there's probably fewer perverse incentives with a government run dating service. Obviously I can imagine ways it could suck, but when I compare them to how commercial dating services are run it's hard to see…
No, but now you can talk to a model that pretends to be Willie ;)
Anathem was my favorite book by him. It has a lotta re-read value, I appreciate the work he did to make it feel like a complete, fleshed out world. But different folks have different tastes, and that's ok. I also liked…
I think keeping the questions simple is for the best though. If they included more explanation or a definition for each term, it might inject bias.
There's some scenarios where it could. One plausible one off the top of my head is: climate change makes the flow of the Indus (which has its headwaters in the glaciers of the Himalayas) less reliable. Two nuclear…
For what it's worth, the picture at the top of the article is a textbook example of very high accuracy!
I feel like setting up cameras pointed at the houses of influential people with public web feeds might help push some privacy reform.
What are your thoughts on January 6th?
A lotta highly processed foods combined with most people seeming to be unaware of the impact my friend FIBER has on your poop! Seriously, adding a fiber supplement will give you back so much time!
I read that book when I was probably way too young for it, and that incident made me spend a lot of time staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night. I'll have to dig into it more!
A few months prior to the midterms is exactly the right time for this sort of action. If the voters keep seeing prices increase because of Trump's tariffs, it increases the odds that the republicans will lose the…
"Free" as in "free to play by our rules or suffer"
Sampling bias. Most of those millions of people are white, cis, straight folks who present as the gender they were assigned at birth. The odds of something horrible happening are much higher if you don't check all of…
An excellent illustration of Chesterton's Fence
For most of my life it's felt like we've been moving away from this scenario, but lately it's felt like we're sliding back towards it
TMDA (too many damn acronyms)?
For anyone interested in the history of water in the American West (what's different about the west, and how did we get here?), I recommend the extremely interesting and readable book Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner.
I was never rabid about it, but I thought prediction markets were a cool idea for a while. I didn't anticipate all of the crazy second order effects.
It would be great if it worked that way, with the people living nearby getting concrete benefits from the new data center. Instead, they typically just see an increase in their utility bills.
The only time the Sunshine Protection Act has passed the senate was when gosh danged Tom Cotton wasn't there[0]. I swear, he's in the pocket of Big Time[1].…
You can read an explanation of the status codes on the icann website. The explanation for clientRenewProhibited was interesting: "This status code tells your domain's registry to reject requests to renew your domain. It…
In the US it's been turned into a culture war thing, because ignoring the problem benefits some already wealthy people who think they'll either be insulated by their wealth or they'll dead before it's time to face the…
Glad this is only happening in the UK. In the land of the free I'm sure Amazon would never do something like this /s
You forgot to mention the name of the book
Leaving aside "which book is better" (which is hard to answer), I'll say that The Freeze Frame Revolution is much more approachable for most folks. It's the one I'd recommend to my friends first, then I might recommend…
You know, there's probably fewer perverse incentives with a government run dating service. Obviously I can imagine ways it could suck, but when I compare them to how commercial dating services are run it's hard to see…
No, but now you can talk to a model that pretends to be Willie ;)
Anathem was my favorite book by him. It has a lotta re-read value, I appreciate the work he did to make it feel like a complete, fleshed out world. But different folks have different tastes, and that's ok. I also liked…
I think keeping the questions simple is for the best though. If they included more explanation or a definition for each term, it might inject bias.
There's some scenarios where it could. One plausible one off the top of my head is: climate change makes the flow of the Indus (which has its headwaters in the glaciers of the Himalayas) less reliable. Two nuclear…
For what it's worth, the picture at the top of the article is a textbook example of very high accuracy!
I feel like setting up cameras pointed at the houses of influential people with public web feeds might help push some privacy reform.
What are your thoughts on January 6th?
A lotta highly processed foods combined with most people seeming to be unaware of the impact my friend FIBER has on your poop! Seriously, adding a fiber supplement will give you back so much time!
I read that book when I was probably way too young for it, and that incident made me spend a lot of time staring at the ceiling in the middle of the night. I'll have to dig into it more!
A few months prior to the midterms is exactly the right time for this sort of action. If the voters keep seeing prices increase because of Trump's tariffs, it increases the odds that the republicans will lose the…
"Free" as in "free to play by our rules or suffer"
Sampling bias. Most of those millions of people are white, cis, straight folks who present as the gender they were assigned at birth. The odds of something horrible happening are much higher if you don't check all of…
An excellent illustration of Chesterton's Fence
For most of my life it's felt like we've been moving away from this scenario, but lately it's felt like we're sliding back towards it
TMDA (too many damn acronyms)?
For anyone interested in the history of water in the American West (what's different about the west, and how did we get here?), I recommend the extremely interesting and readable book Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner.
I was never rabid about it, but I thought prediction markets were a cool idea for a while. I didn't anticipate all of the crazy second order effects.
It would be great if it worked that way, with the people living nearby getting concrete benefits from the new data center. Instead, they typically just see an increase in their utility bills.
The only time the Sunshine Protection Act has passed the senate was when gosh danged Tom Cotton wasn't there[0]. I swear, he's in the pocket of Big Time[1].…
You can read an explanation of the status codes on the icann website. The explanation for clientRenewProhibited was interesting: "This status code tells your domain's registry to reject requests to renew your domain. It…
In the US it's been turned into a culture war thing, because ignoring the problem benefits some already wealthy people who think they'll either be insulated by their wealth or they'll dead before it's time to face the…