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AI, deep learning, numerical, functional programmer. Looking for a job! Uilleann piper, highland piper, extreme Gaelic music enthusiast. https://jmerritt.blog
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Looks like Amazon Australia might be having issues. Lots of one-day deliveries are now two-or-more-day deliveries. Sydney metro area. (No, Australia doesn’t have any new tariffs.)

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

No Strava, nooooooooo! (But that’s a nice way to do an outage message.)

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

You can give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Or you can teach a man to fish and watch him die slowly from mercury poisoning.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

If this is true: a) why don’t other Western nations know already? if they do, why are the public being mushroomed? (why is Spain acting pro-China, etc?) b) can we *finally* talk seriously about widespread severing of Western ties to China?

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Brawndo stocks have dropped to zero!

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting; an all-cause mortality study that found no benefit from resistance training: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... I have to wonder whether any association between RT and all-cause mortality is perhaps due to incidental aerobic exercise and better diet.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Q: why was the USSR an economic disaster, but China is successful? A: access to Western markets. Neither Chinese nor Soviet style economies work well as closed systems. But there’s a cheat code if they can simultaneously exploit both their cheap/slave labor and the wealth from Western nations.

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

To anyone building activity / sleep trackers: PLEASE account for different average heart rates! Just because my HR is 40 bpm, that doesn’t mean I’m asleep! (I got about 4h sleep last night, but my Apple Watch thinks it was 9h+ because it can’t seem to tell whether I’m asleep or not!)

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

“The marginal cost of labor is dropping to zero.” Victorian-era people: “How wonderful! Let us all enjoy the bounty of leisure and wealth!” Modern-era people: “How will I pay for my health insurance? What will all the baristas do?! There will be riots in the streets; PEOPLE MUST WORK!!!”

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Australian politicians are now trying to push house prices up by allowing people to erode their retirement savings to buy a house. Desperate to keep those prices from crashing, at the expense of literally everything else.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

The difference between having an idea and having an implementation isn’t hammered into the general public strongly enough. The illustration I like is “There was a talking computer on Star Trek, but nobody’s suggesting Gene Roddenberry invented large language models.”

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

“There’s a WHAT?! In AMERICA?!!!” 😁

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

SOTU review: Support act at the beginning: 7/10 Ass boring middle: 0/10 Big crescendo: 3/10 If Trump could actually speak, the end had the potential to have been quite stirring. But he sounded like he’d already lost interest by then.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

I clicked that “deep research” option in ChatGPT for the first time just now. It asked some (appropriate and intelligent) clarifying questions and how now gone off to do stuff. Is this what being a manager feels like?

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

In Nike Run Club, there’s a looong way between Black and Volt levels!

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Algebraic numbers. I’ve been trying to figure out what to use as an exact “field” type to use when testing a NURBS library I’ve been building. Algebraic numbers seem to be the answer. I wish they were as well-written-about as the rationals!

submitted 113 days ago • 1 comment