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I grew up fascinated by these essays from maybe age 8 onward. Now I realize the pervasive bad faith in them, e.g. dismissing Murray (The Bell Curve) and enthronizing the in-retrosp…

Is it supposed to be flattering?

> new pandemic is killing millions > yes, but viruses existed long before it

Maybe I wasn't receiving the full Fitness Message as someone proudly sedentary, but the way I experienced the world (seen through what I think I know now), it always seemed like pe…

Ctrl-F doesn't seem to show anyone remembering the Ballad of Scott Alexander. There's no reasonable narrative in which OpenAI are not villains, but NYT is notoriously one to shoot …

AlphaGo passes Hubert Dreyfus's test -- it has a world -- in a way that LLMs don't.

"Trash Truck" and Pocoyo.

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Ehh. Sometimes you don't want to have to have string builders to assemble REST calls.

You can always restrict the meaning of "causality". E.g. Granger casusality means that A is typically detected before B and not the other way around (so not mere correlation). It's…

This ain't it, chief. > Jazz is music performed by an ensemble of players, each (very) specialized and proficient in their respective instrument. So wait, a duet with Cecil Taylor …

NestedText + Pydantic.

Tihs probably refers to comon mispelllings an typo's.

Is any of those easily modifiable to return the arg-median (the index which has the median).

YouTube may have peaked as the outstanding source of impressively high quality content on a very wide range of topics about 3-5 weeks ago; possibly with Horses' guide on surviving …

What are the advantage of Cython over something like C++ with pybind11 or whatever the equivalent in Rustland?

I've been using ChatGPT to develop the concept of a novel or TV show in which Al-Andalus never fell to the Reconquista, but rather conquered chunks of Central Europe... and fast fo…

This is unintuitive, but modern fortran is a shorter jump from Matlab than Python. The greatness and wretchedness of Python is "pythonicity". It's very hard to miss the mark with P…

I wish the Python Rust interop story was a little better. I learned to write some C++ for an embedded thing (smart flashlight, story for another time) and immediately started writi…

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I wish there were more serious studies on "Matlab risk". There's a lot on $old_lang risk already, and Excel risk is now a serious thread of research, but many in academia (and very…

A better idea yet is to spend the time with Ralph Waldo Emerson.

My biggest issue with i18n is not the grammar. It's the sheer uncanny valley of it. There are translations to "Hello" in Portuguese but I'd cringe at being greeted with them by a w…