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felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Sure but why not give me file name matches first instead of random pictures, since I started the search from Finder itself? Why try to outsmart the user?

I have no problem with searching pictures using keywords if it’s limited to the Photos app.
felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Taxi, bar, hotel, restaurant, are very common. Maybe because of tourism?

I have no idea what “kaput” means…
felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I find it interesting that people write Google queries in correct, often polite English as if there is something intelligent on the other side. When I try this query: "where mango grow washington" I seem to get decent results, but the human-sounding query does return garbage.

Perhaps the problem with Google is that it's trying too hard to convince people that it's smarter than it really is. I treat it as a stupid, mindless computer and it works fine most of the time.
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·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don’t understand how it’s possible to make money in the stock market unless you have inside information. I deeply suspect the whole game is rigged and there are ways to do insider trading without getting caught, and the real secret to be a successful trader is to find out how to join the club.
felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Somewhat unrelated: shouldn’t it be pronounced “Dvorjak”? That is how the other famous Dvorak (Czech composer) is pronounced.
felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Merits and criticisms aside, carbon offset has a striking semblance with the sale of indulgences practiced by the Catholic church in the middle ages. Some patterns of thought seem ingrained in us.
felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I’m not in the least worried about the supposed dangers of AI; I don’t see it causing major unemployment, nuclear armageddon, or anything particularly scary. However, I think the real danger with those chatbots is how people are becoming emotionally involved with them. This is clearly by design and it’s working extremely well with so many people.
felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Tip for searching acronyms: put the word “acronym” in the query. Works for google and gpt.
felix318
·3 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Such techno-utopianism... political power belongs to people who control the guns. There is no way around it.
felix318
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
“ Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape. We who are Liberals once held Liberalism lightly as a truism. Now it has been disputed, and we hold it fiercely as a faith. We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to be reasonable, and thought little more about it. Now we know it to be unreasonable, and know it to be right. We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us. The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is a reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer. We shall be left defending, not only the incredible virtues and sanities of human life, but something more incredible still, this huge impossible universe which stares us in the face. We shall fight for visible prodigies as if they were invisible. We shall look on the impossible grass and the skies with a strange courage. We shall be of those who have seen and yet have believed. “

G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
felix318
·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Numbers also only exist in our minds but that doesn't make mathematics a branch of psychology. There is a rational side to economics because money can be measured and the measurements are reliable.

The unpredictable side of economics is of course the behaviour of the various economical agents, and regarding this I think economics is closer to astrology than to psychology.