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rjurney
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About rjurney
I'm into large networks and language models. I build economic graphs and bibliometrics.
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Comment #49204832
It is this or wait on hold forever... triage it should be able to handle.
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Comment #47463235
So try Mounjaro. It works better.
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Comment #45929751
I've tried the Perplexity browser and... I can't figure out what it does or how it is better?
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Comment #45752722
One bad message in a Kafka queue and guess what? The entire queue is down because it kills your workers over and over. To fix it? You have to resize the queue to zero, which means …
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Comment #45067075
You need a sales / product cofounder to be CEO. Create a compelling demo of it doing amazing things, then put all your energy into finding a cofounder. Startups are a team sport an…
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Comment #45048410
This is not a surprise to anyone that has engaged in prolonged meditation, especially across more than one day. It makes shortcuts like psychedelics look foolish. During a ten day …
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Comment #44137189
Workers in denial are like lemmings, headed for the cliff... not putting myself above that. A moderate view indicates great disruption before new jobs replace the current round bei…
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Comment #44135396
As a writer, this is deeply comforting. The book is total shit. It sounds like an AI, not like something a person would connect with for even a moment. Not even in the opening line…
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Comment #43968339
When AI is cheap, why use juniors, regular software engineers or off-shore labor at all? AI replaces these things. Why not use the best available talent to oversee and guarantee th…
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Comment #43968337
When AI is cheap, why use off-shore labor at all? AI replaces it. Why not use the best available talent to oversee and guarantee the work of coding agents? To define requirements a…
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Comment #43968297
Yes, you rarely hear specifics like this as to where new jobs will come from. Hear, hear!
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Comment #43729956
I am building a knowledge graph using BAML [baml-py] to extract documents [it's opinionated towards docs] and then PySpark to ETL the data into a node / edge list. GPT4o got few re…
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Comment #43577551
I don't really mean you, but let's say you are compromised... if I put a localhost http server up on the web using your stuff, am I now compromised? Not clear how this would work..…
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Comment #43574386
This thing is really cool, I want to pipe data between systems... can I trust you to have that kind of access?
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Comment #43405228
Well... that's one solution the the problem.
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Comment #43396679
There isn't one for those three apps.
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Comment #43396187
I'm really tired of shelling out $90/month for Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat...
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Comment #43286039
What about tables in PDFs?
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Comment #43102685
Sparta buried her war dead on the field in mass graves. A hoplon shield isn't useful to carry a body in the first place. This is the first I've heard that attributed to Plutarch, h…
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Comment #43086091
You're not a... engineer, engineer if you haven't worked on a legacy project. You're a junior engineer. Title inflation.
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Comment #43085751
Usually they fuck with something like extra sweating or a little trouble sleeping. Severe side effects are very rare, they are widely used because they are so well tolerated. My ow…
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Comment #43085741
I just object to the use of anecdotes on the internet from actual doctors.
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Comment #43081593
Okay, wow I've never heard of one of those!