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Strange to call it “British” when it originated in Ireland.

In-person requests for access to any app. Request interview includes word association exercise that monitors your emotional reaction to a string of key words.

Shellac is used to finish wood surfaces as well. Ridiculously versatile stuff!

If the mother took the child to a place that he couldn’t go, then yes.

I do not miss StackOverflow. It wasn’t a community, it was a toxic environment that rewarded asshole behavior.

I think, sadly, these fields will collapse further into a tighter in-group. Anyone outside that group will find it increasingly hard to penetrate. Talent won’t get you there anymore.

The alternative to money is that we all farm, hunt or steal food from someone else, and build and maintain our own shelter; the universe owes us nothing. Money is how we trade our time and expertise for someone else’s.

In real life, you have to navigate nature as well.

This was already a well-known problem back in the dark ages, when BERT models were cutting-edge. The model is just a compression of the data, so if the data is poisoned then the model is too.

For the 3/4s serious part: you’d have to spend billions of dollars to dig pretty big tunnels before you get to the same starting point as the aboveground version.

When the senior designers at Apple stared out, desktop UI was still being invented and they needed to be a kind of avant garde UI designer. They’re probably still hiring those people, but the job now is totally different, with desktop UI design being in a kind of maintenance mode.

If I have to choose between hearing advice (which I can ignore), or not getting any advice at all, I’d much rather get the advice. I’ve ignored a lot of advice in my time, but every once in a while a diamond sneaks through, and often I get an idea or two for a different way of looking at things.

I think the Gell Mann effect applies on Wikipedia just as much as in the papers. I’ve often come across articles in an area where I’m an expert and they have issues. I used to try and have them changed, but many years ago I just got exhausted by fanatics who seem to have just gotten really attached to their (incorrect) prose.

I was actually shocked to find that Subaru in the US was this kind of safe, maybe outdoorsy brand. I had never seen anything but Imprezas inspired by WRC before I got here. Only boy racers drove them where I grew up.