What is your preferred method of searching the internet? (not asking with snark, but genuine interest in what people find delivers better results)
Readit NewsEvanKelly commented on Exploratory data analysis for humanities data awk.dev/eda.html... · Posted by u/yarapavan
If I were at Princeton, I would take every one of Kernighan's classes that I could! I wonder if that's a problem there.
I'm at this point 15 years removed, but Prof Kernighan was one of the most accessible professors and taught the most popular CS survey course (333).
I have at least a half a dozen times where I was pointed his direction from another professor and Kernighan spent an hour with me looking into how to scrape a dynamic website for my auction theory project. When he was stumped he introduced me to a professor at another school who he knew had looked into the topic.
What would it mean for an AI to beat the best humans in a 5K race? Obviously robots can do that, is there some definition of "humanoid AI robot" which exists for such a task?
EvanKelly commented on Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4 blog.duolingo.com/duoling... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged
After a few months of Duolingo you should move onto comprehensible input for learning. Your Duolingo subscription is holding you back
That's a new term for me, but after researching it, it makes sense. What are your preferred sources of comprehensible input. After a few months on Duolingo I still find TV shows to mostly not be comprehensible, so not productive.
EvanKelly commented on Duolingo Max, a learning experience powered by GPT-4 blog.duolingo.com/duoling... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged
I've yet to try Super Duolingo. But I've also been tapering off my usage as they keep forcing to use the word bank instead of keyboard at an increasing rate. I've no desire to use the word bank, they seem to have no desire to let me use the keyboard. Unless that's buried in one of the premium options I see the writing on the wall.
Interesting, I am a Super Duolingo subscriber but I don't think that's one of the features. Anywhere I'm inputting a sentence I think I get the keyboard option, maybe I'm misremembering, but I do a lot of typing on my Japanese keyboard when I study.
EvanKelly commented on First signs of a slight decline in secondhand bookshops in Britain wormwoodiana.blogspot.com... · Posted by u/fogus
This is most likely due to the growing influence of amazon. Probably first place most people look when buying a book.
Not only Amazon, but the rise of ebooks in general. While there are still a lot of holdouts, I think every voracious reader in my family has switched at least some of their reading to ebooks. The ease of acquiring ebooks from the library through Overdrive/Libby means I treat the trip to the bookstore as an exploratory treat rather than an errand to buy the next book in the series
This hot take is a little extreme but not too far from the truth.
You'll only understand the depths to which the LDS church controls the state and enforces it's social and moral code if you've lived in Utah for an extended period as an outsider. It's pretty fucking weird.
- Hard liquor only sold by State Liquor stores, where they digitally record your ID. Only open a few hours a day, and on certain days. Additional state-mandated restrictions on what may be stocked (not too high of proof, etc). Fiendishly overpriced.
- Beer is all 1/2 the standard alcohol content, and may not be purchased on Sundays or after something like 10pm (forgive me, I don't recall the exact hours but you get the point). You must drive to a neighboring state to get regular alcoholic beverages.
- The LDS church wields immense financial power, usually wielded with a thin veil indirection to avoid running afoul of federal non-profit tax law.
- The LDS church is above the law, because they control it. Can't say they hijacked the state, because they founded it. There is no other place in the United States controlled by a single faction like Utah, which should terrify you. Fortunately for the rest of us outsiders, if you leave the morms alone in the macro sense, they'll ignore you, seeing you as a non-variable / non-threat.
- Church is full of porno fiends and sexual abusers; hypocrites at every level (denying human nature breeds curiosity and extremist effects on the population). It's really sad for all the victims, who are often the perpetrators' own family members.
- Lots of closet homosexuality. Also sad. The church has also squashed gay rights in the state and attempted to also suppress same-sex rights at th e federal level.
It's worth noting that over time as more non-morms move to Salt Lake City, some of the cultural norms and somewhat diluted just by sheer numbers of outsiders.
Once you get away from that lone big city, it's something like 80-90% "active" mormons. This is the phenomenon granting the church indirect controls over the vast majority of the politics and state at large.
The mormons and church are clever, going to great lengths to ensure their activities are technically legal.
Lots of nice individual people, but a scary powerful organization. It's a cult.
https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/06/20/mendenhall-lds-chu...
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/08/10/lds-church-moves-quas...
Beer info is out of date as well. Beer up to 5% can be sold at grocery stores with no day/time restrictions - which covers quite a lot of beer. High gravity beer (>5%) can be purchased at liquor stores or at the brewery (no time/day restrictions on brewery sales).
It's onerous sometimes, and often weird, but it's no more difficult to purchase liquor in Utah than in a state like Virginia.
They do have a strong hold, but they absolutely do not hold every seat. Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County districts are great examples.
I read the law, and... wow. Talk about nannying. The whole law basically amounts to "the government needs to impose more control and restrictions in order to keep citizens safe"
> Retail Gasoline Dispensing Safety Act
> a. Because of the fire hazards directly associated with dispensing fuel, it is in the public interest that gasoline station operators have the control needed over that activity to ensure compliance with appropriate safety procedures, including turning off vehicle engines and refraining from smoking while fuel is dispensed.
> b. At self-service gasoline stations in other states, cashiers are often unable to maintain a clear view of the activities of customers dispensing gasoline, or to give their undivided attention to observing customers; therefore, when customers, rather than attendants, are permitted to dispense fuel, it is far more difficult to enforce compliance with safety procedures
> c. The State needs stronger measures to enforce both compliance by customers with the ban on self-service and compliance by attendants with safety procedures
> e. Exposure to toxic gasoline fumes represents a health hazard when customers dispense their own gasoline, particularly in the case of pregnant women
https://www.nj.gov/labor/safetyandhealth/resources-support/l...
To be fair, there are many fewer deaths by wild dog/bear attack while pumping gas in NJ: https://www.cc.com/video/fz0xoa/the-daily-show-with-jon-stew...
Translated literature is interesting and I've recently read a few differing views on the "best" translations of Homer.
I've resigned myself that I simply must trust the masses in some places and I won't be learning Russian to read Tolstoy authentically.