riazrizvi

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Comment · 4 days ago
I saw emergency and I immediately thought in case I couldn't access online docs or get my coding/platform questions answered day-to-day.

Apocalypse emergency I don't need help on. My crisis brain has collected more than enough info and capabilities over the decades.

Comment · 5 days ago
This is an example of the power of constraints that David Epstein talks about on Youtube (@DavidEpsteinAuthor) and in his book (Inside The Box).
Comment · 13 days ago
Only an audience of software developers would find that first statement insightful. The rest of the world generally understands that expression is a product of the human performing the execution of that expression.

That mowed lawn. That email message. That meal they made for you. They are windows into some specific humans.

Comment · 16 days ago
Are you? Not me. $19.9mm annual revenue would do fine for me. If anyone else is considering opening up their thing with a clause like this, you've got a friendly supporter in me.
Comment · 1 month ago
Feels right and sustainable, ballpark.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is a strong application of LLMs IMO. They are idea machines. Historical ways of thinking give us different paths to explore the world through.
Comment · 1 month ago
Good to know.
Comment · 1 month ago
As an alternative to Gmail can I recommend Hotmail? I recently created an account and a nice feature is that all new email goes into the Junk folder by default. It was obviously designed by a misanthropic hermit, but the benefit is that your emails drop to almost zero. It's a bit of a bummer if you had a job opportunity or a friend tries to contact you, but on the other hand, fewer distractions.

Crazy times.

Comment · 1 month ago
Very expensive and valuable information to come by, thanks for sharing.
Comment · 1 month ago
I noticed that. I'm getting ads now based on conversations. I'm okay with it. I don't mind relevant ads.
Comment · 1 month ago
Because money?

Ask me another.

Comment · 1 month ago
Very helpful thanks.
Comment · 1 month ago
I don't get this. Use cash like me and a bunch of us if you don't want to play the game. Or a debit card. Otherwise it's just an extra game. Extra games are choice. Choice is good.
Comment · 1 month ago
No. It's a shorthand for contextual bias. The context is the tiny window of the statistic. When it's applied to a real world situation, ppl promote the 'unbiasedness' into a real situation that isn't constrained by it.

Bias cannot be avoided in any information, because it's always a position of what is relevant and in what presented order. The only unbiased thing is nature itself in its immediate instantaneous totality.

Comment · 1 month ago
There is no position lacking bias. The question of bias against me is a political position not an epistemological problem that can be eliminated. I see authors that are unaware of things like context and relativity.

When ppl say there is an absolute truth that we need to stick to, they are slipping in a totalitarian political position and calling it truth. It runs against the whole premise of nature and life, which has rested for 4 billion years on: Alternative competing positions, seeing which one works best.

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