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Cognitive Psychology PhD turned Data Scientist turned Data Engineering turned Engineering Leader... Everyday We Stray Further From Science's Light... but also closer somehow.
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Come on... it is kind of hilarious that LaTeX has this progression for text sizes... \normalsize \large \Large \LARGE \huge \Huge

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

I find that for the first time in my life I'm less than enthusiastic about open sourcing/publishing something. LLMs will scrape it and make my having shared it less valuable (to anybody other than LLM companies and their customers). Anybody else addressed similar feelings of reservation?

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Does the loss of almanacs and encyclopedias mean that we can't remake the classic Carmen San Diego games? Are they teaching a skill that isn't as relevant anymore?

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

#dallas how degraded do we think tornado detection and warning are right now? Are things going to flow forward on autopilot right now, or do we need to exercise extra care?

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

When you see a headline you want to click, stop. Breathe. Ask yourself: why do I want to click this? What does that say about me? Do I like what it says about me? And, most importantly, am I likely to learn anything?

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

When the Nazis took power and gutted the Weimar era civil service in government, they also claimed the need to increase efficiency and to ensure loyalty to the nazi party. They did it through the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for...

submitted 74 days ago • 24 comments

I kind of miss the small blast radius of live journal. I feel like targeting on this and similar platforms is just so... insufficient. I want to follow public people... but I want to be able to share with curated subsets. This was something Google + or whatever it was called got right.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

My whole life I heard "mechs down at nav gamma" as "mechs down as Nasgana"... which I just took to be a fantasy place name. #mechwarrior

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

My evolution from "I hate install disk copy protection, what if I lose or damage the disk" to "I love install cartridge/disk DRM because then I can buy (and get) old games at reasonable prices" strikes me as weird.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments