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MarceliusK

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MarceliusK
·3 days ago·discuss
Fond memories and a slightly terrifying electrical inheritance
MarceliusK
·3 days ago·discuss
The image of him in the home shop with the radio playing and people still bringing him supposedly unfixable things is wonderful
MarceliusK
·3 days ago·discuss
There is something pleasantly backwards about a school teaching people to repair objects that were designed to last, while so much of the rest of the economy is optimized around replacement
MarceliusK
·18 days ago·discuss
If people follow your direction, it is usually because the argument made sense, the trust was already there or you did the unglamorous work of aligning everyone beforehand
MarceliusK
·18 days ago·discuss
In a way management should be treated more like a role change than a one-way promotion
MarceliusK
·18 days ago·discuss
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MarceliusK
·21 days ago·discuss
A lot of "rapid adoption" in software is really the result of unusually cheap distribution and feedback loops
MarceliusK
·21 days ago·discuss
I think part of the difference is that in software we can often try the new thing immediately and see whether it helps. In biology, "this is real" and "this is important" are much harder to establish because the system is noisy, the experiments are slow and the implications may not be obvious until other pieces of the puzzle show up
MarceliusK
·21 days ago·discuss
So I'd say diffusion models make the philosophy less mystical but not necessarily solved
MarceliusK
·21 days ago·discuss
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MarceliusK
·21 days ago·discuss
What I like about this story is how physical the problem is
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
Describing that loop from outside is not the same as paying the cost of running it from inside
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
Science is incredibly good at producing descriptions that are shareable between observers, but subjective experience is not obviously shareable in that same way
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
The point isn't that a human could literally sample bat experience. It's that if bat experience exists, it is tied to a form of embodiment and perception that we can describe externally but not fully inhabit subjectively
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
A bat might not have a "personal point of view" in the human sense, but that doesn't mean there is no point of view at all
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
Soo an outside description of a system, no matter how complete, does not obviously give us the inside of the experience...
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
But for actual use, especially screens and reading, the tradeoff can be pretty bad
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
The camera analogy is a really good one
MarceliusK
·last month·discuss
What struck me here is how much "good UI" changes with age
MarceliusK
·2 months ago·discuss
For that use case I'd probably optimize less for "best keyboard" and more for "least annoying thing to pack and set up"