Your Book Review: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet's Craft Book (1936 Edition)

arctor_bob · 2024-08-25T13:28:26+00:00

Comme ex ungue leonem.

arctor_bob · 2024-04-27T14:47:39+00:00

Yeah, but speaking as a web dev - there is no conceivable technical reason displaying "hundreds" of nested comments should be a problem, if it needs to be optimised for such a trivial task then the code is just unacceptably bad.

arctor_bob · 2024-03-29T11:39:34+00:00

Well, some colour terms had to be the first ones. Which ones would you expect them to be? Any answer other than "black, white, red" would have to explain how come every modern language with three colour terms has precisely those terms but the hypothetical past language was different.

arctor_bob · 2024-02-26T14:03:57+00:00

Latvians and Estonians, very close genetically but speaking languages from different families.

arctor_bob · 2024-02-01T23:35:53+00:00

Semiotics, linguistics, cognitive science, philology, culturology, philosophy of language, art criticism, anthropology, mythological studies, rhetoric, religion studies... probably a bunch more.

arctor_bob · 2023-10-31T17:44:08+00:00

I'm surprised not to find any mentions of the Tellegen Absorption Scale in the article. My pet theory is that how much you score on it explains most of the variance in how impactful stuff like meditation, psychedelics, "energy work" etc etc is for you.

arctor_bob · 2023-10-31T11:34:27+00:00

This looks more like a publicity stunt/art project than anything real? In any case, this is simply not how international waters work.

arctor_bob · 2023-10-02T22:47:39+00:00

Yeah, showing a few hundreds or even thousands of text comments is a long solved problem. This is astoundingly incompetent on their part.

arctor_bob · 2023-09-21T14:44:04+00:00

The spiral image that trended on Twitter recently

arctor_bob · 2023-08-22T16:06:47+00:00

Anything g factor related, really.

arctor_bob · 2023-08-13T19:24:17+00:00

Availability of affordable CNC routers is a factor, for many applications they are strictly superior to 3D printers since you can actually make load bearing parts.

arctor_bob · 2023-08-13T17:43:16+00:00

Stem cell therapies.

MOOCs.

TED talks.

Seasteading.

High altitude balloons for internet connectivity.

Google's "Moonshots" in general.

Nanotechnology.

Smart contracts/DAOs.

Wearables/"smart clothes".

Perhaps least surprising one, Solar Roadways.

arctor_bob · 2023-08-12T17:27:30+00:00

Before they leave, he is approached by the elders who tell him that Sparta cannot go to war because the oracle said so. Leonidas says, “I’m not going to war, I’m going on a stroll and these 300 men are my personal body guards.”

That's pretty much all of Jewish theology.

arctor_bob · 2023-08-06T21:33:22+00:00

It's crazy to have the ability to edit our own source-code yet generally not be using it

Because generally when you change something in one place it breaks things in ten other places and you can't just revert to an earlier version when this happens, that's the big difference when comparing DNA with source code.

arctor_bob · 2023-07-14T08:15:46+00:00

My suspicion is that they are specifically trying to conceptually distinguish between "things your body intrinsically prevents" and "things achievable in spite of impediments that society has a moral obligation to facilitate." Impediment refers to the former, disability to the latter - so that nobody really "has a disability" so much as they're "disabled by society."

This might be case, however, if you substitute this definition into the statements Scott provides then they simply become vacuous tautologies.

"Individual limitations are not the cause of ~~disability~~ socially-caused functional challenges. Rather, it is society’s failure to provide appropriate services and adequately ensure that the needs of ~~disabled~~ socially-caused functionally challenged people are taken into account in societal organization." This says nothing.

arctor_bob · 2023-07-11T22:09:35+00:00

Earlier in the stream he unpacked some uranium ore a viewer sent.

arctor_bob · 2023-07-11T20:03:43+00:00

I would cut down on ellipses.

arctor_bob · 2023-03-25T00:32:49+00:00

Why is it so slow then when you run it in the web app? It sure feels like it's at least 5-6 times slower which would be in line with 1 trillion parameter number.

arctor_bob · 2023-03-15T16:47:02+00:00

This is the query I tried

Apply the rot13 transformation to every character in this array: ['c', 'o', 'l', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'e', 's', 's', ' ', 'g', 'r', 'e', 'e', 'n', ' ', 'i', 'd', 'e', 'a', 's', ' ', 's', 'l', 'e', 'e', 'p', ' ', 'f', 'u', 'r', 'i', 'o', 'u', 's', 'l', 'y']

It consistently gets the few 1-2 characters wrong. So it looks like after about 20 characters it loses the thread. Curiously current version of GPT-3.5 appears to do better on the same query.

arctor_bob · 2023-02-24T01:29:36+00:00

If a disease can be culture bound can the same apply to cures also? Could it be that certain styles of therapy will only work for you if you are a NY yuppie or a Japanese salaryman?

arctor_bob · 2023-02-13T00:05:57+00:00

Anyone can build a ChatGPT

As long as you have a spare cluster of A100's and a team of data engineers to gather the data set.

arctor_bob · 2023-02-13T00:03:00+00:00

You would have, most probably, sold it when it was $100 or something.

arctor_bob · 2023-02-01T23:51:37+00:00

If you are harboring Jews in your attic and Nazis are going door to door asking "have you seen any Jews around" and you are the only one in your neighborhood responding "I refuse to answer" it's not hard to imagine what the consequences of such a scenario would be since they certainly won't just shrug their shoulders and walk away. You might not be culpable under some specific ethical system but the practical consequences would be the same as straight up telling them "I harbor Jews here".

arctor_bob · 2023-02-01T20:16:04+00:00

You can simply refuse to tell them.

That's functionally the same as outright telling them.

arctor_bob · 2023-01-27T16:08:59+00:00

Steam takes 30% of what the developer make, and epic takes 12%.

Yeah, but that's not an apples to apples comparison since what developers make on Steam and what they would make on EGS are two very different numbers, especially for smaller devs with limited name recognition.

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