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JoeAltmaier

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JoeAltmaier
·5 giorni fa·discuss
Largely genetic, though diabetes can contribute to it's appearance.
JoeAltmaier
·9 giorni fa·discuss
So are cigarettes and liquor. And pot and on and on.
JoeAltmaier
·11 giorni fa·discuss
I understand that caves were used on and off over sapiens history. We must be sure to temper our view of 'cave men' as a normal mode of living. Caves preserve artifacts, to a much greater degree than open ground or forests for instance. It can be appealing to imagine they lived in caves routinely. But we have little data on the frequency of sites outside caves - they've washed and weathered away. A true ratio is hard to come up with.
JoeAltmaier
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Oral exams. Quickly evident who knows the material.
JoeAltmaier
·18 giorni fa·discuss
Don't want to hire a student that has no facility with the area they are working in.
JoeAltmaier
·21 giorni fa·discuss
And yet, claiming support for a feature doesn't tell all. Different implementations can have subtle differences. Knowing the browser and version can allow a client to survive that.
JoeAltmaier
·27 giorni fa·discuss
That's one viewpoint. No moral nor ethical foundation; just a personal view.
JoeAltmaier
·27 giorni fa·discuss
Soldiers don't use shit. It takes training, preparation, maintenance to use fancy gear. Soldier in theatre are operating on scant sleep, exhaustion, heat etc and have no bandwidth for fussing with tech. Or so my soldier reported from Iraq some years back.
JoeAltmaier
·29 giorni fa·discuss
Well, currently 6 Billion active Android phones exist. Not lifetime total: current active. So there's that.
JoeAltmaier
·29 giorni fa·discuss
Note that coal is dropping precipitously, which increased the effect.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
My son reports a burst of 'Jewish' soldiers when deployed. Because the rabbi had a rather long service period and he let the soldiers sleep on the benches. He still has his camo yarmulke.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
Puff piece - just an AI slam with no content, just that number '95%' repeated.

My AI chatbot remembers most everything we've ever talked about. No way is it forgetting much.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
Maybe could use to 'stitch together' arbitrary carbon chains? Do chemistry at scale? I see a big future for this.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
Lovely ironic paper - positing that all you need to publish is an 'all you need is x' titled paper. Or is it self-referential?
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
They may refuse to learn multiplication tables (a popular subject if I remember right, reciting them as far as we could, a competition) while memorizing baseball stats.

Kids will learn anything that gives them social standing or self-worth in another way, whatever it takes to be a cool kid.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
My son went there! Andrew the cello player.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
Just one big one? Saturn is surrounded by icy asteroids I believe.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
Re: terraforming Mars. How about, crash an icy asteroid into it?
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
My grand-aunt was a Blanche. She was married to an Alfred.
JoeAltmaier
·mese scorso·discuss
Don't know why not. Human cells can. Routinely, in petri dishes, for research.