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alchemism

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aiOps hacker | Athens, Philadelphia, NYC https://sxs.io

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alchemism
·3 dni temu·discuss
…young children have immense neural plasticity while adults, especially 40+, have little.
alchemism
·5 dni temu·discuss
Congrats! I am also an autodidact who desired a stronger school name on my resume after a long run in startups, so I took a senior engineering role at Johns Hopkins.

I'm not affiliated with the engineering school or familiar with their curriculum. It may not be as famous as the schools of medicine or public health, but in general they are quite good.
alchemism
·6 dni temu·discuss
You mean like the British Empire? ....The Spanish Empire maybe?

The only modern contender, the Japanese Empire, arose partly by the encouragement of Teddy Roosevelt.
alchemism
·6 dni temu·discuss
Fun fact: a successful invasion of the North American continent has very little to do with weaponry and more to do with logistics and projection of force across an ocean. There is only one superpower with the capabilities to do it at all.
alchemism
·7 dni temu·discuss
...and if you aren't pronouncing it "Var" you might be one ;-)
alchemism
·8 dni temu·discuss
It's a fair comparison. There's a fair amount of plausible-sounding bullshit being peddled as a transparent advertisement for an ai-driven "code security" firm.
alchemism
·10 dni temu·discuss
In a couple of years he will be 60, too. Then 65, then 70.

Seniors will be able to stay in the game much longer than before, mark my words.
alchemism
·17 dni temu·discuss
Not to wade too far into weeds, but the spiritual and temporal authority of Rome (ie what is now called Church and State) were considered separate entities. When the temporal authority collapsed, the spiritual authority preserved its content and form and then simply waited for conditions to improve.

Τhus the various attempts to re-manifest a Holy Roman Empire in Europe across the subsequent centuries.
alchemism
·21 dni temu·discuss
Yes, make the teachers on $25-35K annual salaries do /more/ work for no extra money. I'm sure that will fix education.
alchemism
·24 dni temu·discuss
I’m sure the same justification was trotted out in Hungary when they purged the intellectuals there, too.
alchemism
·24 dni temu·discuss
My 1.8 GPA is literally discriminated-against, too. So unfair!
alchemism
·25 dni temu·discuss
You might lease a Regus (et. al.) business address for <$100/mo.
alchemism
·25 dni temu·discuss
The AWS Kiro (https://kiro.dev) spec-driven coding harness operates this way in Auto mode which offers the base token rate.

Manually-specifying Sonnet or Opus is a multiplier on the base token rate; specifying Qwen fractions it. Left to its own, it presumably uses the heavier models to create the plan and orchestrate the work; the bite-sized task definitions are delegated to smaller models.
alchemism
·26 dni temu·discuss
The next % stake will be acquired at a discount, it seems.
alchemism
·26 dni temu·discuss
Still better than the half-brained man who loves Israel above all else.
alchemism
·26 dni temu·discuss
Fear not: “As you can all probably tell, I got a lot of criticisms about the way this government functions. But in order for us to make it functional, we’re gonna have to do stuff,” Platner said. “And you can’t just go down there and be John Fetterman and ... just sort of be an a*hole.”

Source: https://nebraska.tv/news/nation-world/graham-platner-calls-p...
alchemism
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
Athens Greece would blow your mind, friend.
alchemism
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
"All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages."

— William Shakespeare, Fantasy Author
alchemism
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
You can buy finer-tipped replacement caps for the mechanical pencil effect. Then there is the second problem: the texture of glass instead of paper.
alchemism
·w zeszłym miesiącu·discuss
That is an illustrative failure. It might be absurdly simple 4/4 pattern progressions which a calculator should be able to automate. But inducing a trance requires consciousness; electrical activity in a meat brain. They will never understand such things.