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I read thru several other articles by the author. He seems to be a deeply weird person, which we certainly need more of, but unfortunately a rationalist, which we don't.
If you put a flute in your mouth you're doing it wrong.
I stopped following football back when these studies started coming out and I realized it was a bloodsport, just slower.
> they actually give you an optimal outcome
The author got grief for playing the clarinet too, and from poking around at their other articles I think they'd have had a lousy time regardless of what instruments they might have chosen, if he hadn't got bullied about the flute he'd have gotten bullied about something else.
The basic construction of "(a) you will get harassed for action X (b) I will forcibly prevent you from taking action X therefore (c) this is a good thing" has a certain flaw to it that should be obvious.
You remove the obvious stuff and let the rest slide (for now).
I'm a former mathematician and this bit:
> Applied mathematicians often need to build a giant scaffolding of mathematical modeling to solve a problem. This scaffolding creates new mathematical puzzles that aren’t directly connected to the original problem of interest, but that entice problem solvers. You’ll then see dozens of follow-up papers solving the puzzles but forgetting the problem we cared about in the first place.
really resonated with me. The pure math tail is wagging the applied math dog.
Because hopefully soon the alternative will be getting banned from itch.
Then all the other agents get to write more bugs.
> In March, I wrote about a new trend: Tech companies are starting to treat AI tokens (the main way to measure usage) as a fourth component of employee compensation, alongside salary, bonuses, and stock awards.
There's a lot to unpack about this statement.
Seems entirely in line with Hollywood-style practices.
> Most people own a car for 3 years or less
This seems absurd on the face of it.
> China subsidizes them
Maybe we should subsidize some industries ourselves, probably a better investment than more war.
> US Army, ADP 6-22, Army Leadership and the Profession
I'm not going to let the army tell me what my job is.
"Older" in this context is "the gaming audience of 45 years ago".
> OG gamers expected to have their hair blown back .... pretty much every title every time
OG gamer here (started on the Fairchild Channel F). This is absurd.
What is true is that the hardware rapidly advanced, and as programmers got familiar with each platform the software also advanced, but the shelves were full of stinkers and disappointments and copycats.
> Cuomo downplayed the objections in a written statement to Fortune
I see he still has trouble with the concept of "consent".
I always got a kick out of those graphs of projected solar power capacity that showed the line leveling off if not actually shrinking, with successive year's predictions doing the same thing again and again, but the actual numbers continuing to shoot way up.
Like the itanium sales forecast chart, except in reverse.
> I think the earlier console generations where created by a bunch of passionate nerds eager to make something cool.
The very earliest, maybe, but not really once you get into the 1980s.
The most charitable thing you can say about "only those with over-active immune systems survived the 14th century plagues" is that it's so broad as to be meaningless. (Might you perhaps have been thinking of Familial Mediterranean Fever?)
Y.pestis is very good at evading the innate immune response (to the point of reproducing inside macrophages and neutrophils) and likes hanging out in lymph nodes. What kind of increased activity would help here?
> Cursing has a long tradition in
By and large the hacker news moderators and commentariat have demonstrated that they do not welcome those cultures here.
> Recently I learned that
Doesn't mean that what you learned was true.
> a revival of playing music (e.g. at the piano, on the guitar) at home
How do you know we haven't?
If I need to visualize a track in a DAW to detect that kind of thing, I probably can't hear it in the first place.
See also "Under Cover", by John Roy Carlson, who did similar stuff in the early 1940s.
