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Great stuff. I had gone down this path last year with not using attr and it was so hard to find good examples like this. The thing I never figured out was how to use d3 axis as a s…

I am sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What is hard to measure is what could have been done with the money to make the US military stronger but was wasted instead. The worst…

This is nonsense. People are more informed than ever before. The past looks better only because it is a distorted view from a lack of information at that time.

I don't think you can separate out the higher order effects of financialization and the downgrading in social status this has had for anyone not involved in some kind of finance. I…

I completely agree but it seems to me the Enlightenment was just a brief window in time, a temporary state and we are simply returning to the equilibrium of a top down, clergy like…

The problem is 50% of the people in the US are spendthrifts and absolutely terrible with saving money. It doesn't matter what their income is. A spendthrift can always find somethi…

No, I have generated a few thousand midjourney images and there is quite a difference in these images actually. It is hard to describe but there is a very unnatural "sheen" to the …

My short term memory sucks too. I need many exposures to retain the information for a standardized test. I wonder if intelligent people with poor short term memories are more impre…

I don't get it either. What is is even worse is that the algorithm has pulled a some incredible music recommendations for me but they are so few and far between. My fav is Countdow…

I am not a big Marshall McLuhan fan but this is what is meant by the medium is the message. You are not going to have the same discussion in print that you have electronically and …

It is absurd to believe there is no danger of over regulation from government that a company would need to push back on. I guess you just take news headlines at face value though.

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It will really come down to the cost. I would be dishonest if I said I would pay a premium for meat as to not harm animals. If you can kill two birds with one stone(ok maybe not th…

Andrew Ng doesn't agree but that is a boring story. It seems to me the big names in AI research our having a moment that appeals to their vanity. Easy to get your name in the headl…

For me, reading on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 inch screen with 2560x1600 is an upgrade to paper. I think the words are actually sharper but most of all the lighting is always absol…

I have even lost the positive emotions I use to have seeing a bookcase. All I see now is "what a pain in the ass". The physical nature of books use to be a feature over ebooks and …

What is most interesting about LLMs to me is the vastly different experiences people are having with them. Personally, I can't understand how someone who has spent time with chatGP…

Yes, most people are not skeptics at all. Most people believe what they are told at face value. I stop just short of Feynman questioning the dentist on the evidence for brushing on…

It is a straw man to pretend that political discussion looks like an Intelligence Squared debate when almost all the time it looks like a food fight about nonsense. The idea the wo…

I am sorry but this is a ridiculous reason to stop reading a biography of a historic military dictator and one of the all time cult of personalities. Did you think he was going to …