Wow. Such a unique experience.
What was the whole process like? Did you see anything on set that was amazing but didn’t make as big of an impact on screen?
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What was the whole process like? Did you see anything on set that was amazing but didn’t make as big of an impact on screen?
I’ve had pretty good results with kagi.com
YMMV.
Perhaps a dating app that only allows photos taken with the app, that ensures no filters or edits were done to the image probably increases the bandwidth. But then, that’s an antifeature - I doubt people would want to use such an app.
My hypothesis is that the bandwidth required to present oneself and assess another person is larger than what fits in the self_awareness -> profile_creation -> dating_app_algorithm -> profile_selection -> personality_model_creation -> model_evaluation pipeline.
We already know that a lot of communication happens non verbally. There are other signals we care about: do this person’s friends like them, etc. There are questions about compatible value systems and one’s relationship to risk, money, independence etc.
If there is a technology solution here, I doubt that it looks like a collection of profiles.
Anecdotally, online gaming and niche reddit communities have a somewhat high success rate at creating friendships. One possible way to use this model is a dating app that lets you solve puzzles with another person real time instead of swiping on profile pictures?
I don’t know. I’m throwing ideas here to get a conversation started.
Afaik, this covers everybody except Tesla.
Looney Tunes attacks on Teslas might become a real subreddit one day.
Is selling a device on Ali Express enough to qualify?
I bid $990
I can strongly recommend an excellent biography:
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
I knew of von Neumann because his name shows up many many times when studying computers. But I had no idea he had several equally monumental bodies of work in such a wide range of subjects.
It’s that rare biography that helps understand the history of multiple different disciplines: quantum mechanics, game theory, computer science and more.
Nobody found cars on lots.
One guy bought a Tesla literally because he could buy a car and felt waiting a few months for delivery was his only real option.
Another couple had a minivan shipped all the way from Nebraska.
The remaining two haven’t purchased a car. They would rather wait till cars they like come back to lots.
These played out over Q2/Q3 2022. Not sure if the situation is different now.
The automobile industry did this to themselves. I’m not a Tesla fan, but I see them winning by literally being the only manufacturer who is able to deliver cars to customers these past years.
(Yes, there are a ton of caveats and my sample size is small and doesn’t reflect *reality (TM)* etc etc)
This is setting off some massive BS alarms in my head. Why is this not violating conservation of energy?
Give it a try. I often find what I’m looking for within the first few results.
The interesting question from Graham Hancock’s books is along the lines of: “If these societies were that advanced, how would we know?”
Until Gobekli Tepi was discovered, there was no evidence that humans did anything other than bang rocks together till the end of the last ice age.
We can not use radio carbon dating on inorganic material. We can’t look at a stone monument and determine it’s age purely by looking at the stones. For big monuments, the best we do is “the oldest thing we found here that shouldn’t be here unless someone put it here is xxxx years old. Therefore this is at least xxxx years old”
Graham Hancock and others pointed out that several monuments were aligned astronomically if you assume they were built at the end of the ice age. We didn’t believe anyone could have built the monuments that early because we hadn’t discovered Gobekli Tepi yet.
Basically the current problem isn’t absence of evidence that people were advanced back in the ice age. The problem is determining what is evidence and what is coincidence - and a lot of things that should have been evidence were brushed aside as coincidence because that determination was done pre gobekli tepi.
I learned a lot about the ventilation situation at my place by tracking CO2 buildup. I now know that the time I should leave a window open to get CO2 levels indoors to approximate equalize to outdoor levels is 10x longer than what my intuition suggested.
I also discovered that every time I felt the air was “stuffy” and I needed some fresh air, it actually corresponded to a spike in VOx levels. When mom was visiting over summer, we discovered she is also sensitive to VOx levels.
This is my first winter with airthings wave. I’m curious to see how humidity levels are impacted by trying to keep my house warm.
Wifi works just fine. I remember that the wifi drivers aren’t part of the base install system for licensing reasons, but they provide a very simple tool that will download it and set it up.
Generally, with openBSD, if something is supported, it is supported correctly. My go to example is that my keyboard backlight controls work even from the tty terminals.
But also, if there is something that the developers don’t think they can support correctly, they don’t hesitate in removing it entirely from the OS. They removed Bluetooth support for example.
It’s not for everyone. But for me, I love the idea that I can trust my primary computing environment because the developers care soo much about the little details.
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
I’m going to add the usual disclaimers here about everything that comes with listening to a guy who has been predicting doom for a decade. He is very entertaining though and he has some unique insights and some unusual data comparisons - it’s fun to read.
To be fair, he did predict events in Ukraine a few weeks before they happened [1]. That counts for as much credibility as one can have with a title of “geopolitical strategist”
[1] Jump to 7:45 https://youtu.be/UA-jOLF2T4c
Pick two topics every time. Send one topic to your wife on Whatsapp. Write paper messages to your wife about the other topic and give it to her.
Track how often you see advertisements for topics in both channels. A significant difference in any one channel will be worth sharing.
Can you share some references?
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Battacharya[0].
It’s a really good biography of John von Neumann. The book follows both his life and the impact of his work carried on by people who came after him. I can recommend this book.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Man-Future-Visionary-Life-Neumann/dp/...
Can you please elaborate? What problems would you pay to see solved in MDMs?
Writing on my phone, adding pictures, copy-pasting passages from the internet are easy to do.
Once printed and bound as a hardcover volume, I know it’ll outlive the app, my phones and probably myself.
It is by far, the best series I've read. Book 1 is hard to get into, and doesn't reward the reader as much, but stick with the series. It's worth it.
I’m finishing up on the last few Malazan books, looking for recommendations on what to read next.
I didn’t expect this to be so… literal.