As someone who conferenced some basic ML research in early 2000s and then left academia for a boring/stable software engineering gig in a non IT org to escape the hype bubble only to end up having to talk to people about ML/AI frequently this article speaks to me.

I don’t have anything against Rust, I’m just not very familiar with it

Pretty much all of the command line coreutils programs I use daily are in C; cd, ls, pwd, touch, rm, etc. If I want to write some small utility I’ll usually reach for a scripting language first like bash python ruby etc, but if it needs to be small and fast I’ll use C instead.

One track lover

I’m usually pretty good with Tuesdays

Crime rates dropping in US, multiple companies working with NASA for ISS access, direct observation of gravitational waves, left reddit for Lemmy, multiple COVID vaccines in like a year from outbreak, more usage of renewable energy sources, etc. There are some obvious problems we need to get together and address as communities, countries, and species, but there are a bunch of improvements and advancements being made too.

It’s not that intercessory prayer needs to work 100% to be convincing, it just needs to beat random chance and it doesn’t do that.

Natural processes can describe how those things came to exist without needing to appeal to supernatural claims or gods.

You’ve seen things you attribute to a god, but people in other religions attribute the same things to their god and so far I don’t think anyone has shown empirical evidence for any gods, and I don’t know about you but I use empirical evidence when changing my confidence on whether something or someone exists or doesn’t.

Many people have a negative opinion on organized religion because we can see the negative effects believing things without sufficient evidence can have on individuals and communities.

Probably take a break for a month or two then look for some oss project or activism to participate in, play more music and video games, etc.

No love for paleolithic design?

I’m not sure because google.com requires JavaScript and then when I enable it it says it’s had too much malicious behavior from my VPN address and to enable another host gstatic to connect to I’m guessing for a rechaptcha and I gave up

I’m a 30 foot tall lumberjack from Antarctica

If you find yourself in a hole, first step is to stop digging.

It’s more of an idea that’s like that than a place always being like that I think. Pirates, wild west, etc.

Where I’m from we call that Laissez-faire IT

Duck Soup, a comedy from about 100 years ago about a selfish clown who fails upward to political leader and ruins the country.

If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Don’t play rigged games

Try to do the right thing, but actually take some time to try to figure out if it’s right or just feels right.

Being right and being wrong feels the exact same until challenged with facts.

That’s weird because ‘In the background while you do stuff’ is Golden Corral’s new slogan

In space sciences coming up are new manned Moon missions followed hopefully by some Mars missions. Also LISA is a huge interferometer that is planned to be deployed in orbit by ESA around 2035. Different size interferometers can measure different wavelengths of gravitational waves. LIGO (the interferometer observatory already in action measuring black hole collisions) has arms 4km long and can measure wavelengths in the range of 7Khz-30hz. LISA will have arms 2.5 million km long in orbit around the sun and is expected to be able to measure much much smaller waves.

There’s not really a difference between 0 timezones and 1 timezone, let’s split it and go with 1/2 timezones