Reading this article is like walking through deep mud. This is largely due to the author‘s excessive and baffling use of commas. But also due to myriad grammatical errors and ambiguous sentence constructions. Parsing some of his sentences is like looking at an optical illusion or an ambiguous painting. All things considered, I had a bad time attempting to read this article. I do not look forward to reading more of this author‘s writing in the future.
Readit NewsJacksonGariety commented on LLM discourse needs more nuance proofinprogress.com/posts... · Posted by u/timdaub
JacksonGariety commented on Heart attacks on rise for 25-44 age group khon2.com/local-news/hear... · Posted by u/luu
For those who are desperate to draw a link between vaccines and heart attacks, this article essentially says the opposite of that. While the paper itself doesn't differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations, it does contain a graph showing a state-by-state breakdown of acute myocardial infarction (AMI)-associated deaths:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/c0aed082-9f81-4a88...
Dark purple is a higher rate of death, light blue is lower.
A state-by-state graph of vaccination percentage is available here:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2020/12/16/us/covid-19-vacci...
These graphs would indicate that the states with the lowest vaccination rates have the highest AMI mortality rates.
Comparing states is fallacious because there are so many confounding factors. The lowest vaccinated states, in the Bible Belt, are highest for almost all health conditions. People in those states are less healthy period. One cannot draw conclusions that way.
This begs the question, what is it that my country wants to do, and who decides that?
In my view it should be decided by a class of philosophers. People who from an early age were possessed of a duty to the whole.
I'm curious if you have any recommended reading on the criticism of liberalism?
I prefer Hegel’s critique. In his Philosophy of Right. It’s a difficult read but very much worth it. This is from the Editor’s Introduction:
“Hegel's liberal critics are in the habit of saying that he does not believe in founding a social order on the conception of individual rights. The element of truth in this assertion is that Hegel thinks personal right, apart from a developed system of ethical life, is an empty abstraction; he believes that a social order founded (as in liberal political theory) on such abstractions will be unable even to protect individual rights, much less to actualize the whole of concrete freedom. In fact, Hegel thinks that the greatest enemy of personal and subjective freedom is a 'mechanistic' conception of the state, which views the state solely as an instrument for the enforcement of abstract rights; for this sets the state up as an abstraction in opposition to individuals. In Fichte's theory, for example, Hegel sees the state as a police power whose only function is to supervise and regulate the actions of individuals through coercive force. The only real guarantee of freedom is a well-constituted ethical life, which integrates the rights of persons and subjects into an organic system of customs and institutions providing individuals with concretely fulfilling lives.” (p. xvi)
> People are noisy as fuck and dont seem to give a shit. Seems like every night there's someone with loud as exhaust on "sportish" car ripping around the neihborhood. For months this guy would start up his loud car at 7am and no one care when I complained.
> Police seem to not give a shit anymore. I've noticed what seems to be total lawlessness going on in my world. Folks stealing shit. People driving absurdly dangerously in cars that are not designed to travel like that. (tailgating, lane switch, accelerating at the fastest I've ever seen a beat up Sentra do...) . I never see cops hit lights and sirens at them.
Both of these resonate with me. I perceive it as a general decline in the willingness to enforce any sort of standards of behavior by any means (social shaming or formal enforcement by law). Antisocial behavior like drag racing, speeding through neighborhoods, arguing and even fighting on airplanes, being a grown-ass adult in pajamas out in public, etc. You're likelier to get resistance for trying to enforce any sort of basic decency than to flout old (but not that old...) standards.
This is the problem generally known as liberalism. Hobbes said the foundation of the state was the arbitrary Will of the individuals in the state. Modern states are thus founded on caprice. The solution is as JFK said: “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
JacksonGariety commented on Just use Postgres for everything amazingcto.com/postgres-f... · Posted by u/KingOfCoders
The graphic is misleading:
- You can easily do prerendering and asset packing in the frontend build step
- You don't need MVC on the backend
- You can use a third party for authorization
- Frontend can just be a React app
- VirtualDOM doesn't add any complexity in addition to the frontend View
- You don't need MVC on the frontend
- Frontend can fetch data from the API and cache it with cache-control header
The simplest setup is actually to host a React app from an S3 bucket and use Lambda / Cloud Functions to respond to network requests.
JacksonGariety commented on An Elixir/LiveView game written entirely by ChatGPT thetinycto.com/gpt-game... · Posted by u/heeton
Precisely. There's a schizophrenic attitude around LLM. People simultaneously refuse to accept what they're really good at and attribute to them capabilities they don't really have.
In this very thread there are people who claim they're afraid gpt3 is coming for their job. You must really suck at engineering if you think this is competition.
> People simultaneously refuse to accept what they're really good at and attribute to them capabilities they don't really have.
That's called neurosis generally.
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