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  • Real books FTW. At least for now.
    J jon-nyc

    One downside of digital books, at least with kindle, is you don’t see the title or author once you’ve opened it.

    With a paper book you see that title page daily until it’s finished. Not so a kindle. More than once I’ve forgotten either the exact title or author of a book I was reading.

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  • Training AI
    J jon-nyc

    We've all had this job, we just weren't paid for it. All those CAPTCHAs you do? That’s training Waymo.

    Notice they all have to do with traffic. Click on shares that have a bus, a crosswalk, a boat, a bicycle, a traffic light, etc.

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  • Training AI
    J jon-nyc

    Andrew Yang you mean.

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  • Real books FTW. At least for now.
    J jon-nyc

    I’m surprised more of the older set hasn’t picked up ebooks. I mean in a sense not really, as older people are less likely to adopt newer technology.

    But man, once you get used to being able to adjust the font size, it’s hard to go back. I’ve purchased digital copies of books that people have given to me in paper form - I’m just too spoiled by being able to increase the font size a notch or two.

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  • The hypercurious mind
    J jon-nyc

    Why is it always “are you autistic” and never “thanks for sharing your cool tornado facts with me even though I didn’t ask”?

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  • AI hallucinations
    J jon-nyc

    It's gotten much better. As an academic you should be aware that those tens of thousands of publications in 2025 were written ~2023. (though maybe linguistics is different than science)

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  • RIP Jonathan the tortoise
    J jon-nyc

    Answer is: they don’t. It’s an estate based on old photos that show him fully grown at the time they were taken. So they subtract 50 from that.

    Probably shouldn’t be reported to three digits of specificity.

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  • RIP Jonathan the tortoise
    J jon-nyc

    I wonder how they know it’s age.

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  • The “veni, vidi, vici” speech tonight
    J jon-nyc

    As I said next door this could be the new 2020 election. Trump will say he won. Magats will believe it. Career GOP politicians will pretend to do so. The rest of the world will know otherwise.

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  • Florida Megaloposis
    J jon-nyc

    One of my favorite development facts about Florida is that, in 1912 before the Key West rail bridge was finished, Key West was the largest city in the entire state, even though it was reachable only by ship. Its population? Less than 20,000.

    In other words it speaks to the total lack of development in the state as a whole back then.

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  • My fast-- Day 4
    J jon-nyc

    Certainly periods of no food were a big part of our evolutionary history.

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  • My fast-- Day 4
    J jon-nyc

    Wow. Good luck and keep us in the loop.

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  • Iran (Disclaimer-- the war, not the country)
    J jon-nyc

    I’m pretty sure that isn’t true. Can you find some link to the actual legislation?

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  • Iran (Disclaimer-- the war, not the country)
    J jon-nyc

    @Daniel said:

    Oh, but we can't. The UK and US have made laws making criticizing the state of Israel a criminal offense.

    The US? What jurisdiction?

    As for the UK it wouldn’t shock me but the anecdotes I’ve heard to date are people getting in legal trouble for criticizing Islam and gender ideology.

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  • Iran (Disclaimer-- the war, not the country)
    J jon-nyc

    You don’t enrich uranium to 60% for industrial use.

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  • Iran (Disclaimer-- the war, not the country)
    J jon-nyc

    @AndyD said:

    Twelve thousand US soldiers potentially going to the area. Wonder where they'll be sent when they arrive?

    Maybe they’ll land directly on Kharg island.

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  • New words in the OED, 1900 edition
    J jon-nyc

    IMG_1241.jpeg

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  • Iran (Disclaimer-- the war, not the country)
    J jon-nyc

    I saw some excerpts describing the damage some have taken, and many of the troops were evacuated before the war, knowing these would be targets. But they’re all (or almost all) still being used for aircraft sorties, which means they’re nowhere near obliterated. It’s not hard to disable a runway with a bomb.

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  • Iran (Disclaimer-- the war, not the country)
    J jon-nyc

    Link?

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  • Anybody been to Spain recently?
    J jon-nyc

    @Steve-Miller said:

    We leave for Spain/Portugal/Morocco in 1 week.

    Cant wait!

    Nice!

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