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It is like having Google's MusicML output a mp3 of saxophone music and then ask what proof is there that MusicML has not learned to play the saxophone? In a certain context that is…

I just always assumed an "open office", really meaning a non-office, an empty building, was what was available for startups after the dot com bust in SF. Then after the fact we mad…

I think it is a really great article but I am a chef too already familiar with the ingredients and style of cooking. I think the main issue is getting people to try new dishes. Of …

I don't see how it really matters. A bigger issue is that some days there is just going to be nothing to report if you want "real" news. "Today nothing happened, the end" would not…

I love NPR but to believe NPR is not biased reporting is completely delusional.

Or we could just keep the same system we have now and politicians could focus on real issues instead of meaningless bullshit like this.

I still remain positive honestly. 25 years ago I could never have imagined the internet we have today. 25 years from now we could easily have a free internet protocol that is takin…

I am guessing you have never worked at a giant corporation with 5 levels of useless middle managers that have no purpose if there are no office politics to manage? Those are the ma…

I don't personally see how an individual can judge this at this point unless it is a huge leap. More importantly, if the model is not a huge leap at this point I just don't care if…

The truth is that we are very limited apes that are highly prone to self delusion and believing nonsense, trying to understand an impossibly complex world. At the aggregate we seem…

It is also the normal state of the economy to not job jump because it is normally hard to get a job. The far from equilibrium state was software jobs with 0% interest rates the las…

As if software is the same thing as a new biological species. I am just so bored of reading bullshit like this. If you really believe this then you need to level up your level of e…

John D. Rockefeller argued against Standard Oil being broke up on the grounds that it only was so big because it is just that efficient and innovative. It also kept the price of ke…

Because no one watches something like the shot put other wise, EVER. It use to be the Olympics were the one showcase for the non-popular sports. Case in point, the shot put. One of…

We are also only counting the winners who all took huge risk. Many more took huge risk in the past and lost everything. It strikes me as rather absurd to believe it was better in t…

I had never in my life heard of this before now and I am no stranger to hotels. I would go straight to the front desk, demand my money back for that day and then never stay with ho…

I thought the article seemed pretty bad so tried to read the actual paper too. It really might be one of the worst papers I have read. It is basically a magazine article using more…

I don't know, my experience is all this is really hard to judge. I would have a really hard time saying that 4 in April 2023 was better than 4o now though. I have always wonder if …

It is an absurd headline but having to take a drug for life is surely better than the pain of arthritis.

I am old myself. It is not ability to learn with age that is suspicious it is wanting to share it like this and it would be a clever marketing move. I will learn new things until t…

They most certainly were not. There is no netflix and chill without birth control. We take birth control for granted now but the dynamics are so different if casual sex leads to ch…

This is not really true either though. If you go to the grocery store or any place with many people you could do the same thing as online. What is interesting is the sociology of h…

My understanding of data fusion is that it wouldn't matter much what you do. If you live in the modern world you are producing data about your actions and that data is going to be …

I have been thinking about this comment and if it isn't a celebrity then just someone you know? If not someone you know then just a random stranger? Not that I can think of a bette…

Younger people really should consider this point. Personally, I don't use streaming video outside of work and there are no videos of me on youtube or any social media to train a mo…