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> pushing..for a bit

They could have waited another 30 mins for the markets to close before making the move. This isn’t the culmination of a long-standing problem.

* two orders of magnitude actually.

73,000/240 ≈ 300.

Interesting.

Mind if I ask how a sound recorded by two different sensors can be identified as the same original sound if the loudness is different? Unless the frequency of loud sounds is less than the time taken by the sounds to reach the sensors, wouldn’t it be hard to pick up two sounds spread apart by say a second but know that they are the same sound?

For example, if I’m on the phone with a friend during a thunderstorm and we are on opposite sides of the city, will we hear and be able to identify the same thunderclap?

Does sound have usable distinguishing features other than just loudness?

Put such protections and limitations in the constitution and make it harder to subvert.

“The right of a citizen to use public spaces without causing the creation of a long term, indexable, searchable, hashable record of their presence shall not be curtailed.”

Side note - I’m not even an American citizen but can evoke the style of the second amendment without much trouble. That’s soft power!

But making that right decision is largely based on the answers to “how long will this take?” and “how much will it save/earn me?”.

Which brings us a full circle to the nerds hating the suits because they want to quantify the unquantifiable.

OR, you could just go with what the experts say and be tagged a pushover.

Musk as Twitter owner doesn’t seem to pay much mind to research and a subdued approach to product development.

Custom GPTs are fine but they’re sort of useless. Since anyone wanting to use a custom GPT has to have a ChatGPT Plus account, they themselves can spin up an even more targeted, even better prompt than anything you could come up with and use that instead.

Unless your custom gpt provides some special bells and whistles through functions or APIs, your custom gpt ideas are going to r copied by someone who can spin up those special bells and whistles and API calls and cut you out from the middle.

These black holes sit in the middle of the galaxy so it’s likely they were created early in the life of the galaxy.

Galaxies were still being created much after the Big Bang and the universe coming into existence.

Isn’t that the crux of the conversation? Jasper had to fight to survive because they were a wrapper.

Just as an fyi, eastDakota is in Cloudflare’s executive team. Think he’s their CEO.

Not saying not to trust him - he’s probably a very reasonable and standup guy - but you should know this about him before taking his word on a topic like this.

No disrespect @eastDakota

One such measure stands out to me - they described the accuracy of some computer hardware as “missing one blade of grass while mowing a lawn the size of a football field flying from a helicopter over mile up in the air” (paraphrasing and using quotes to demarcate the interesting bit; not a literal quote).

I guess it’s effective and memorable because even months later, I remember the gist of the accuracy claim (though not the hardware item name)

Isn’t steam just water vapour off boiling water? I.e., water vapour which, on condensing, yields heat to the surface on which it condenses. Steam is hot water vapour, IOW.

Emailing you at the email in your profile

I’m curious if there is a way to build forms on the fly in response to user responses?

I want to create a chat interface but instead of doing that from scratch, can a form builder become a starting point?

The way I understand it, a form consists of a series of fixed questions. What if the questions were dynamic but restricted to short answer type? This would make creation of chat interfaces so simple and beautiful.

The original comment seemed to imply that every software engineer is deserving of more by virtue of being a software engineer in a trillion dollar company. That seems very questionable to me which is what I was calling out.

I’m sure there are a handful of Zuckerberg type people (let’s be extravagant and say there at 10k such developer/entrepreneurs who have built unicorns by dint of their software skills) but the software engineering discipline is orders of magnitude bigger than 10k.

Edit - Since the original comment was focused on dollar value created by software engineers, we can discount much of FOSS where value has been captured by the likes of AWS and RedHat, not the FOSS community.

A software engineer can create but can they sell? Can something you create be worth a billion dollars without selling it? Even the highest selling piece of art tops out at a few dozen million dollars...

I fear you may have a very skewed sense of a software engineer's place in the world.

They were treating the malaise by importing people but now, with widespread internet access and isolationist politics, I fail to see how US can continue to be the default destination for academics across the board.

Is there a specific breakdown above which you’d not consider someone claiming combined heli+aircraft experience a heli pilot?

Azim Premji University? Wealthy people are definitely setting up universities except they are outside the US. The center of gravity of academia is shifting eastward imho.

Lagging indicators like patents per capita and Nobel prizes will also follow in a generation or so.

If you were talking about asking someone’s permission to surfs your own cash money, that would be outrageous.

A bank account or a credit card is a relationship where you rent someone else’s infra to make payments. Makes sense to work together to minimise friction for both parties.

> with people in the org thinking small ways to not do things "by the book" and escalating from there

…and then you get the chaos of India.

> authoritarian leader

So, let’s go out, vote, and get others to vote.

So why aren’t plants moaning in pleasure when insects pick up their pollen?

Why does not one tree use vocalisations to attract insects? Why flowers and not, say, the death sounds of an antelope to attract a bunch of animals whose fur can be vector to transport burrs?

If the theory of evolution is valid and it is also true that animals have been eating stuff from plants - like caterpillars eating leaves(painful) and bees pollinating(pleasurable?) - wouldn’t there be selective pressure to develop vocalisation to convey sentiment?

So, maybe trees haven’t developed these abilities to speak because they’re sturdier and feel/sense less (or the ToE is incorrect/incomplete).

Face recognition comes to mind as a counter example of a technology which isn’t (yet) reached the level of ubiquity of email spam even though it has obvious economic benefits.

I’ve been pitched in building face recognition based systems countless times and I always demur on ethical grounds. I’m sure there are others like me. If only the tech guy who implemented the first spam system had refused to go for the easy money.

1. It's a gifted link so doesn't count against your free articles for the month

2. While the content is political, the tools used and the challenges faced to support the agenda are technical.

Thank you for taking a look. Will work on these.

Decriminalising and regulating marijuana reduced costs to consumers - such as the cost of going to jail in return for possessing marijuana.

That prices were falling prior to deregulation and did not fall even faster after deregulation proves that deregulation wasn’t a factor.

If you’re coasting to earth in a parachute and someone gives you a cup of coffee to drink which does nothing to change your rate of descent, would you then attribute your descent to the cup of coffee?

You even say it yourself: There’s lots of reasons… but deregulation wasn’t necessarily it especially not in the axiomatic way you say when you say that by “first principles”, regulations increase prices.

E.g., regulations and legislation around marijuana access have decreased prices, the ultimate “price” being a stint in jail for possession.

Muck Fodi.