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The Only Game Worth Playing

newsletter.calvinrosser.com
7 points·by sillywabbit·3 months ago·2 comments

Security vendor slams supplier for delayed notice after staff data exposed

theregister.com
2 points·by sillywabbit·4 months ago·0 comments

Veil of Ignorance

en.wikipedia.org
6 points·by sillywabbit·4 months ago·0 comments

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sillywabbit
·2 days ago·discuss
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sillywabbit
·2 months ago·discuss
Maximizing shareholder value seems like a weird thing to hold as a moral imperative.
sillywabbit
·2 months ago·discuss
> AI doesn't exist to make extroverts feel better about themselves

Then why are the extroverts trying to replace engineers with AI?
sillywabbit
·2 months ago·discuss
Internet Doomsday Evangelist seems to be a role with infinite chairs.
sillywabbit
·2 months ago·discuss
You can store Perl in any file format.
sillywabbit
·2 months ago·discuss
I don't think you've seen many biology field data sets.
sillywabbit
·2 months ago·discuss
It's not even standard in academia.
sillywabbit
·2 months ago·discuss
What? Eddie and Alexei were the heroes of that story, and they got screwed.
sillywabbit
·3 months ago·discuss
Assuming that everyone you meet is conspiring against you seems to be a pre-requisite to these. The feasibility of that is questionable.
sillywabbit
·3 months ago·discuss
Back in the day, being a teenager and hanging out on freelancing forums was enough.
sillywabbit
·3 months ago·discuss
I've also heard good things about Celeste and Silksong.
sillywabbit
·3 months ago·discuss
Using the word priors in the way you (and others) do.
sillywabbit
·4 months ago·discuss
Could you point me to your research?
sillywabbit
·4 months ago·discuss
Meth causes brain damage. Dex doesn't.
sillywabbit
·4 months ago·discuss
I used to value this sort of communication. Sometimes I still do. Some feedback I got once that seems relevant to anyone who prefers this style:

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Key takeways:

1. People are more important than code.

2. People have a right to work in an environment free of perceived hostility.

3. There is a legitimate reason for the perception and hard work may be necessary to understand why this is.

Ask yourself these questions periodically during a conversation:

1. Am I listening to the other person?

2. Is there an equal amount of give and take or is my primary objective to make someone understand my point of view?

3. Does the person want to understand what I am saying?
sillywabbit
·4 months ago·discuss
Like the other poster said, the rabbit hole continues with suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_array#Space_efficiency), then compressed suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_suffix_array).

Also explained by the creator of this: https://www.abahgat.com/project/suffix-tree/

> the human genome can be encoded as a 3GB string constructed out of an alphabet of four characters

> As of 2019, a suffix tree indexing the human genome using state of the art algorithms can easily occupy tens of gigabytes.
sillywabbit
·4 months ago·discuss
In the event someone is encountering suffix trees for the first time and thinking of using one: the amount of RAM required for suffix trees is obscene.
sillywabbit
·4 months ago·discuss
Rushing prematurely into precipitate does sound pretty dangerous.
sillywabbit
·4 months ago·discuss
What game-changing insights did the philosophy and political science classes leave out? I'm all ears.
sillywabbit
·5 months ago·discuss
Hoodies are very comfortable.