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carrolldunham commented on Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)   cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/ch... · Posted by u/b-man
carrolldunham · 7 months ago
Here, person with a 300 IQ who is blind, can you count the letters in this written word? "Well no, bec-" Ahaha, dumbass!
carrolldunham commented on Stanford student collects her Master's degree at the age of 105   ed.stanford.edu/news/life... · Posted by u/onnnon
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
This culture of degrees as attainments is not good. It's supposed to be training for a productive research career but when some unlikely person collects the degree it's treated like a medal. The professor's time was wasted.
carrolldunham commented on Born to run? Endurance running may have evolved to help humans chase down prey   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/vishnugupta
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
Why did endurance cycling evolve? Oh, right, like endurance running, it didn't. I'm a human and I can't run far - unless I decided to train myself in that and then I can. Just as I could train myself to break dance. Did break dancing evolve? The book that created this 'theory' about running is nothing but running 'propaganda'. A meme pushed into the world by exercise addicted people who wanted a post-hoc 'naturalization' for their lifestyle.
carrolldunham commented on Home ownership is not the boon to older Americans that it once was   nytimes.com/2024/04/20/he... · Posted by u/MilnerRoute
reacharavindh · 2 years ago
How can one not understand that their house increasing in value means the house they want to buy also (proportional) increases in value?! Are those older Americans represented in the article thinking that their house will increase in value to 700K while the apartments they wanted will stay at 100K for 20 years?
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
Sell family house for 500k, get apartment 250k, 250k to live off.

Sell family house for 1M, get apartment 500k, 500k to live off.

What am I missing?

carrolldunham commented on Southwest Boeing 737-800 flight from Denver loses engine cover   cnn.com/2024/04/07/busine... · Posted by u/janpot
bustling-noose · 2 years ago
Another Boeing incidence. There should be a statistics page somewhere where incidences are marked on some graph or chart showing engine manufacturers airplane manufacturers airlines etc. if any exist would like to see such a page.
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
Incident, incidents.

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carrolldunham commented on What Monks Know about Focus   millersbookreview.com/p/j... · Posted by u/ingve
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
I thought you had rules against indulging in mindless entertainments (social media (hn)) and fraternizing with laypeople?
carrolldunham commented on The Existential Relief of Having Children   thelivingfossils.substack... · Posted by u/jseliger
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
Of course the removal of the curse of existential freedom is the reason for having children. Whether people consciously reason it out or not, it's agony wondering whether every decision is part of 'the right thing', and pure relief when a constraint descends of there being only one thing to do, which is imperative. 'You have to' frees you from the indulgent loneliness of 'You wanted to'. But neither the article or anyone here has stopped to consider whether it's ethical or defensible to bring beings into the world, to suffer, for the sake of easing your confusion and boredom. To me, it's not. Taking on a responsibility is one thing. Creating the problem that you then take responsibility for (your child's need of care), is neutral at best and, arguably, crooked.
carrolldunham commented on Show HN: Visualize the entropy of a codebase with a 3D force-directed graph   github.com/gabotechs/dep-... · Posted by u/gabimtme
gabimtme · 2 years ago
Nah, nothing like that, "entropy" in the colloquial meaning of level of disorder, it has proven to be a useful word for people to understand what it is about, even though it's strictly incorrect.
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
please don't do that, especially when presenting something that uses graphs, as entropy on graphs is an actual technical concept that's currently widely used in very hot fields.
carrolldunham commented on Show HN: Ambient scene builder – comfy, cozy, & ad-free on woolie.tv   woolie.tv/... · Posted by u/mk-
carrolldunham · 2 years ago
It could be a good site, who knows, but completely off-putting that you put fake positive comments from sock puppet accounts. Slimy.

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