danielmclaury.bsky.social
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Makes it especially funny that the first adaptations of the books to the screen were made with Tom Cruise of all people.
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Of course, Orson Scott Card wasn't inventing the idea. He had seen how effective judicious sock puppeting could be on BBSes and the early internet, and was just extrapolating what would happen as they became more universal.
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Bill Gates invented a *ridiculous* number of dirty business tactics to create and maintain a monopoly. If we don't remember this now it's just because his successors have taken things in such a cartoonishly villainous direction that Gates's villainy looks quaint by comparison today.
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Every actual retired spy I've ever met looks a lot more like Wallace Shawn than Daniel Craig.
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What specifically in this article are you highlighting? I read through it and I don't immediately see any relevant information that wasn't already in the .gif at the top of the thread.
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If it is the case that this is simply an unavoidable consequence of the weather conditions -- which were known in advance -- then it would follow that everyone involved in allowing this plane to take off in the first place was grossly negligent.
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I think they just believe that we are.
The goal isn't to fix anything, it's to cause enough plane crashes that they have cover to privatize air traffic control and disband the FAA.
That in turn leaves nobody to regulate a lot of the stuff SpaceX is doing.
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He does them before determinants, so it's early in the same sense as "early transcendentals"
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This is kind of like saying "someone who knows how to use Google will do better than someone who refuses to."
I mean yeah, up to a point, but it won't help you if you don't know what to do with the stuff you Googled.
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If you then pick a particular catastrophe and "analyze" it by saying "well, this particular failure happened in a lot of other runs, so that's not the problem" n+1 times in a row, you can pretty easily obfuscate what happened there as long as you're not talking to someone who groks the system. 3/
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If you push everything closer to the edge in this system, you increase the average number of failures per run, which increases the proportion of runs with n+1 or more failures, which increases the rate of catastrophes. 2/
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Most real-world systems have some n such that they tolerate n failures well, start getting dicey with n+1, and start falling apart with n+2 failures. (Of course you may do better to think of these as being weighted rather than raw counts, but that's beside the point.) 1/
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Seems like it's a really poorly-made bot also. First post says "shoutout to all my melanated people here in the streets," which it has accompanied with a picture of a white man in suspenders eating a peach in a field.
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I do wonder if their whole VR boondoggle was actually a way for them to buy up GPUs to train AI without telegraphing what they were doing, because the idea was otherwise just patently absurd.
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"Linear Algebra with Early Eigenvalues" is Axler
"Combinatorics with Early Generating Functions" is Wilf
"Topology with Early Homology" is Tokieda's lectures
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Although I guess an hour drive each way is probably not a good thing for several other reasons, unless you have another reason to go into town anyway.
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FYI Costco has a members-only gas station at most (all?) of their stores that charges below market rates.
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This accomplishes absolutely nothing.
If you want to accomplish something, cancel Amazon Prime and never buy anything from Amazon again. Stop going to Target until they reinstate their DEI programs. Switch to Costco permanently, or buy from local small business or unionized chains always.
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If you want Jesus as an author, as opposed to one of his disciples, I guess you'd have to adapt one of his parables directly.
I recommend the one about your neighbor waking you up in the middle of the night and demanding bread.
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"Accepting the Academy Award on Homer's behalf, please welcome Jason Mantzoukas to the stage!"
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I wish there was something like imdb for journalists that included grades that take stuff like this into account. You'd automatically get one the first time you published something and people would be excited to show it to their friends and compare how they stacked up with one another.
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It's soooo much worse than that, actually.
There was a whole literature where they were doing it wrong, and then some person reinvented the trapezoid rule and they started doing it right, and then after a decade of this they asked that person to publish an article so they'd have something to cite.
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Oh so to clarify the rules, they are each handed an n-bit number and they are trying to figure out whether or not it's the same n-bit number?
Or do they also have to figure out whether the actual questions are the same?
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Pna gurl abg fvzcyl cyrnq vaabprag naq nafjre "ab" gb rirel fvatyr dhrfgvba, ertneqyrff bs jung vg fnlf?
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For example, no matter how many times I hear or look up the name of the comedian Jack Benny, I can never remember his name at first. I always immediately come up with either Harry James or Henry James, realize that that is wrong, then go to someone whose *first* name is Benny.
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Probably not, because step 2 of that is to indoctrinate your children into your worldview, whereas from what we hear from his children they've basically never met the guy. (Except for the one he's recently been using as a human shield.)
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Surely this is against both American and international law. Anyone involved in this flight should be facing a court martial.
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I was kind of curious what would happen once it started snowing but the course was the wrong term for me to find out.
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I once had a student who submitted all their homework by placing it outdoors on the pavement, standing on it so that it wouldn't blow away, and then taking a cell phone photo from eye level.
I was just a grader, not instructor, so I never met this person to ask what motivated this.
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In that case I have some bad news about what's going to happen as you enumerate finite cardinals
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... she literally won an award at the Intel Science and Engineering Fair when she was in high school. She likely has more raw brainpower than anyone who's ever served in the legislature. We're just lucky she went into politics; people like her usually become rocket scientists instead.
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It's just the same frozen / shelf-stable stuff as you'd get at a regular grocery store, but in smaller packages so that each one costs $1, though. Like it doesn't taste different...
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Arby's and Long John Silvers are both good, though. Well, Arby's would be if they stopped taking potato pancakes off the menu. And Long John Silvers would be if they stopped closing all their locations and making me drive an hour to get it.
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The entire video consists of four headshots, a couple stock photos of a town and an interrogation room, and a narrator. Doesn't even seem to matter that most of this was made with AI; anyone could have pulled off the same hoax in 1980 with a similar amount of effort using a handful of stock photos.
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like the concept itself, or the ridiculous Latin name for the concept?
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These kinds of figures are always skewed by the fact that something like a third of all living American veterans are Vietnam-era draftees.
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I'm not sure where you're going with this, but Teslas are extremely common cars for rideshare drivers.
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I'm not sure if this is quite true if you consider people who drive Teslas for ridesharing. They might by relying on their rideshare income to make the payments, and they may have been talked into it by the rideshare-industrial complex on the grounds that they'd be "uber green" eligible.
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Maybe they salted the ground to get the snow to melt, but the salt went into those grooves and so didn't melt the snow over the lattice lines?
and/or the melted snow runs into the lattice lines and they act as a refrigerator for the snow above?
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Naturally T will be toilet, then.
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You want my real opinion?
Kids are going to look at this, sigh with relief when they determine it's not an assignment, and then close the window without reading it.
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"Pubert" was the name Charles Addams suggested for the character that was eventually called Pugsley on the show. (In Addams' original cartoons for the New Yorker, the characters didn't have names.)
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I watch YouTube on the TV maybe 5% of the time