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I’m either too high for this or not high enough

That's an even better deal for the stores than I thought. Strange setup. I can't think of too many deals like this that ran for an appreciable period of time (although Australia is a bit of a backwater for this kind of "innovation").

This is the *5th* generation of this system. How many gigabytes of training data and how much relentless GPU use was needed to produce this absolute gibberish?

I suspect Ikea just pays them for the placement, so it doesn't matter where the customers buy their Ikea stuff. Strange idea nonetheless. Maybe there could be a corner of the Ikea store where they sell their famous meatballs, that would get me there.

True. I got ushered out of a bar for dancing to a punk band too vigorously and the bouncers fingers met on either side of my bicep. I don't have small upper arms. I felt a moment of enforced calm, probably the way a kitten goes limp when mama cat picks it up by the neck.

Al Overview Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

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I'm not talking about being an all-wise gym philosopher unleashing my rusty word hoard in some unfortunate youngster. Just stuff like "how do people get jobs in real life", "how do you stick at some activity and is it OK to leave if you don't like it", etc.

As the old head at various martial arts spaces (BJJ, Muay Thai) I often wind up in conversations with younger guys and say something pretty normal, but slightly reflective, and get the impression that no-one is talking to these boys and young men about *anything* in real life. ...

I want to talk to you about Palantir and its expanding footprint in Australia. TLDR: You should be worried.

This US surveillance tech company has secured multiple Defence contracts worth over $11 million. We need transparency about what data they're accessing & why. 🧵

a doctor or an architect or whoever to do this kind of "prove you're not a big liar who lies, damn you" verification of basic competence you'd probably get punched or walked out on.

Not faulting you for going along with the system as-is, but this is a hazing ritual.

Can I just say it's beyond ridiculous that you have to do whiteboard interviews? I did a quick review of your LinkedIn to verify my intuition here and making someone with your level of experience do whiteboard interviews would be considered demeaning in almost any other field; if you asked ...

Interesting stuff. Caffeine isn't high on my list of things to moderate (and I'd have warned you off a cold-turkey exit - it's way nicer to taper down caffeine and not hard), but this is food for thought. A bit more focus would be nice.

Only magnified if they got the BLO Editions of these dolls ("let's go shopping", "The beach is the place for summer!").

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_...

So if you want to start training Muay Thai, I recommend going to a place with an excellent dog (Tupac!) and excellent merch and even better excellent merch *of* the dog:

(model is me, unfortunately)

Ugh, I should try this, but I have a near-Balzac level of coffee addiction. The only time I ever tried it I expected some sort of amazing well-being increment to match the awful withdrawal headaches. Said increment never happened.

Anyhow, now isn't the time. :-)

My youngest, when he was little, proposed a movie called "3 Days Without God", which would open in a church where everyone is fighting with broken bottles, and cut to the image of a priest, victorious, standing over a pile of subdued bodies. Still sounds like an art movie banger.

Scientific American has delved too greedily and too deeply into data mining and disturbed that from which they fled, Durin's Bane

I think both points stand. Questionable deep algorithms and questionable "shallow-but-the-tendrils-are-everywhere" mistakes are both very hard to undo once a thicket of code has grown up around the core mistake.

were all the schemes for building dynamic DFAs ("compile as you go", like RE2). Once you start doing this, you bake all sorts of things into your design (need to lock the database for multithreaded runs in case you compile-as-you-go on it) and your users also design around the expected performance.

Yes. I view performance optimization as being like scaling a mountain. The number of possibilities diminish as you get higher. Many people's code is inherently in a foothill not even connected to the mountain and there's no path off the local maximum.

In regex, an example of this ...

6'3" is the Last Convenient Height, imo. I'm a bit over 6'2" and see a lot of stuff that would be excruciating if I was 2 inches taller.

I will hazard a guess that the median American male uses the phrase "completely bitchless", in any context, approximately 0.0 times in a typical year, however.

I hope so, anyhow.

You're telling me the Lift Run Bang guy doesn't have the secrets to relationship success? That couch, in addition to being clueless about fitness, doesn't have sensible ideas about politics? My world is ruined.

At least we'll always have Dr Squat's poetry.

... or, frequently in SHW, didn't want to have to *see* their feet

wantrepreneur-in-residence

Wikipedia has one of the more understated treatments of this general topic:

"Tsatsouline claims to have been a PT drill instructor for Spetsnaz, the elite Soviet special forces unit, during the late 1980s (when Tsatsouline was in his teenage years).[6][7]"

By the time everyone burns out or gets bored from doing your ridiculous program you switch to a new grift and anyhow most people quit everything after a few weeks.

Bonus points if you can pretend this is all Navy SEAL or Spetsnaz stuff.

2) Pretend that some weird skill-based activity is fundamental and get everyone to make beginner gains on One Leg Uzbek Jumping Split Squats while thinking that boring lifts like squats are mysteriously bad in some way.

Either way gets you lots of posts about how good everyone got in a short time.

Engagement is better served by "quick great-appearing results in a short time frame". So the two tactics are:

1) Disguise peaking programs ("all intervals all the time" made famous by the DNF mavens of CrossFit Endurance, "lift heavy singles daily until your eyes bleed") as Your New Program.

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