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You can make any page say anything by messing in the Developer pane.

Empowering for some, maybe. The anecdote reinforces the now dominant view that networking is everything and people deserve benefits and opportunities that at a different time might be labeled nepotism or favoritism.

Honestly the best opportunities I’ve had in life (in different decades, too) were all linked to favoritism by this one friend. The message this sends is that I should have more well-connected successful friends. Is this empowering?

It’s a crutch. I was first burned by Python back when 2/7 == 0 and avoided numpy etc for years.

A parallel reply is that the field of “omics” (genomics, proteomics, interactomics…) has long embraced graphs as their primary mathematical tool.

What, whatever is demoed by Neo4J in their playground is awesome, I used it for just a couple of days but could pull up convoluted queries off DBPedia (producers who worked with artists who were born in countries who have orange in their flag, things like that).

The basic uses of SQL are indeed easy to learn, but quickly you find out that many types of nested queries are no-nos.

A conservative history would emphasize more the contingency of the scientific process and the fact that it wasn’t inevitable that we’d get where we got.

Extending this: the Whig story on contemporary science (sp. as it affects policy) is that this is the best science because scientists have been improving it forever, while the conservative story is that maybe the scientists are wrong now, they’ve so often been wrong in the past.

You know what would be virtually unassailable? Send the original through img2img in stable diffusion

It’s a drop in alternative to SQLite that’s column-oriented/OLAP. I’ve been profiling entire projects in production switching between SQLite and duckdb (no clear conclusions yet)

SAT solvers <3

there’s something about SATPLAN that feels like it has metaphysical significance.

My answer to all these LLM threads is — play a little with the Python package “sentence-transformers”.

Just in case: “The kids are alright” is a The Who song from way before when.

Deleuze is the philosopher of creativity over recognition par excellence; I doubt he’d see much value in all of this. Then: if he had lived through the 90s to 10s (and seen how much the early internet makes him a prophet and what came of it), who knows how his thought might have changed.

Beautiful typography!

So people (MIT students, the elite) shouldn’t learn Real Analysis because Wolfram Alpha?

David Foster Wallace had a couple of essays published online that went viral if anything can be considered viral.

I wrote for essentially no-one for many years. I just discovered ideas while trying to complete ideas I previously wrote about. It was a long long digression. I’m hoping to start anew, in the same spirit, once I have free time again. Please take a look! https://asemic-horizon.com

This is a little unfair to _Listening to Prozac_, which was raising speculation about SSRIs effect on trophic and atrophic factors back in the 90s. In fact it’s unclear whether anyone ever believed in the catecholamine hypothesis (excepting simplified accounts for marketing or doctor-patient communication), and it’s been for decades now a cottage industry to disprove it in favor of something ele.

It’s on the other hand disturbing that there’s talk of broadening the term “depression”, when it really needs narrowing. There’s such a thing as a medical condition “depression” that one might as well define as “responds to antidepressants” and then there’s everything else — the invisible boundary accounting for how little effectiveness antidepressants have at large. It’s a damn shame that we don’t have the means of diagnosing it (whereasw Kraepelin developed the bipolar/schizophrenia differential diagnosis before Freud even arrived on the scene).

Overall this article does nothing to inform or educate.

That’s a particular social phenomenon, as linked to atheism as gospel music is Baptist churches.

I’m not fond of people who take ratheism as a major inteeest or even component of their identity, but pocm.info is just lovely.

So this is one of probably tens of thousands of websites (and I mean just with this overpriced provider-tool, many more people roll with more customized stuff) that are librarian-like but generated with an user-friendly tool:

https://publish.obsidian.md/zero-chroma-infinity/

We’re here, man.

I wish there was some lightweight (optional) web-ring like structure for Publish so we could learn from each other. Find me at

https://publish.obsidian.md/zero-chroma-infinity/Signpost

Creatives: look at this beautiful chalice made of Roman dichroic glass.

Security people: %drops it on the ground and it shatters% yes but glass is terribly insecure, why not redo it with PVC and LEF strip Christmas lights.

GDP is a flow per year. Like the flow of water through a pipe. Wealth is a stock. Like the quantity of water in a barrel.

Please pass this on when you see this cheap talking point, thanks.

We want psychology/iatry to sort out the normal from the abnormal, but that doesn’t work: normal and abnormal are fundamentally social. This is a version of the is-ought problem.

In my experience (both as a walk-in consumer-patient and with friends who happen to be shrinks) psychiatry is at its best when it focus on functionality — can this person brush his teeth; can he walk among crowds (and not lose his virtue); can he hold a job, a relationship. Most gratifying for a psychiatrist in private practice (I’m told) is to watch someone go from Mozart-and-the-whale nuts to having a good career, marriage and kids.

Of course, in institutional settings people want to cure madness like one cures pneumonia. That’s fundamentally dehumanizing, though.

With YouTube premium you can listen to videos on the iPhone with the app in second plane or even with the phone locked.

Yeah, I should use a hacked rooted Android yadda yadda. But I just spent a week hacking and hawking for my life in an ICU, and I certainly didn’t want sanity-saving podcasts to shut down whilst on an hour-long stay at the breathing machine. Life is short.

Now, to build a better IMAP on top of UMAP.

This article is way too padded with neural neural neural neural gobbledygook. This comment is brought by the sharp feedback loop between my brain, my fingers and the neural neural neural of the article writer yadda yadda

Loudon Wainwright put it best: “life was a quiz — now it’s a test”.

Google “Dasein”

You can override the relevant dunders, but why would you.