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You mean the People’s front of Pareto!

Depends, is P = NP?

4chan is down the hall and to the left

It’s pretty much a religious eschatology at this point

No. Firstly because it is spelled “typo.” Secondly you typically use the diaeresis to tell the reader to not confuse it with a similarly spelled sound or diphthong. So it tells a r…

Yes, this is exactly correct, and I will die on this hill. Additionally, I don't like the way a hyphenated "techno-optimism" looks and "technOOPtimism" is a bit too on-the-nose.

> I think it's the first time I'm asking myself: Ok, so this new cool tech, what is it good for? I feel like this is something people in the industry should be thinking about a lot…

Your criticism is entirely reasonable despite the pedantry. Yes, these people are bad people, but I think that could be the point here. Not to mention, this is just another chapter…

Strong parallels with Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1967): https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/

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Knowing Google’s tendency to kill things they try and fail to revamp, I’ll take this stagnation as long as they keep updating it with new imagery. Street View is the greatest proje…

re: consistency https://xkcd.com/927/

Au contraire, in a rather realistic way

What about this policy has anything to do with English language skills? And how is this “good policy” if it penalizes important next-generation researchers even when they speak Eng…

This is possible but you'd have to deploy it right by a black hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_sphere

Not to mention you would need an order of magnitude improvement in on-device inference speed to make this feasible at current smartphone costs. Or they could offload it and sell an…

The U.S. is ranked #17 in that list at 101,900 tonnes, not #55.

Honestly, even getting through 1/3 of it in a night is pretty impressive. Certainly took me several weeks freshman year of college.

Erratum: I meant to say that REI is an initialism but not an acronym

Looks to me like initialisms get periods unless they are acronyms or trademarks. So "ICE" is fine because it is read as "ice" and not I.C.E. (eye-see-ee). REI is not an initialism …

Yes, of course that is terrible and should be made way more clear. My response was a joke about how it technically sure does eliminate distractions.

Matter of time until markets reckon with AI investment crowding out non-AI investment (cf. the massive oversubscription of Meta's latest bond offering). Must suck to be a small-cap…

What did you think they meant by distraction-free? Vibes? Essays? Papers?