shanusmagnus

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Comment · 4 months ago
It seems like you'd get a lot deeper understanding by doing it that way, and be much more able to adapt the knowledge to the real world, vs only knowing how to solve problems in the exact form they were presented to you. I had so many semesters of undergrad math, did fine, but feel like I took basically nothing from it.
Comment · 6 months ago
This is going to seem either beyond idiotic (which it may be) or a troll (which it is not) but: is this game actually fun? Like, if you have zero nostalgia or anything, and your evaluation of it is based solely on what it is, is it something a person in their 20s would want to play? Is it fun in a different way than, say, Dwarf Fortress is fun? (Haven't played DF but I think I understand why people do.)

Would really love informed takes on this.

Comment · 1 year ago
A lot of life wisdom wedged into those two sentences, I think, that goes beyond journalism.
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Comment · 1 year ago
Are you saying the US is the only country that has an excess of applicants for entry-level positions? Or the only one for which credentialism is the solution to this problem? If the second, how does the place you're from solve it?
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
What would you suggest?
Comment · 1 year ago
But in a larger frame, of "things tightly associated with coffee", they mean something extremely close. Whether these things are opposite from each other, or virtually identical, is a function of your point of view; or, in this context, the generally-meaningful level of discourse.

At scale, I expect having dairy vs non-dairy distance be very small is the more accurate representation of intent.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
Comment · 1 year ago
There are psychological hypotheses that can be stated and tested empirically. So yeah, you can find people who maintain that it's a science.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is org-roam still alive? Last release almost 3 years ago. Could be because it's nearly perfect, which, if so, great.
Comment · 1 year ago
I didn't know this term before, thanks! Are there any examples (e.g., products you like) that demonstrate this One True Way in practice?
Comment · 1 year ago
Emacs org-mode -- it's less visually obvious that it's exactly equivalent from a structural / hierarchical point of view. But the editing experience is infinitely better, because Emacs.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ironically, if it plays out this way, it will be the biggest boon to actual AGI development there could be -- the intelligence via text tokenization will be a limiting factor otherwise, imo.

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