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Dunno. A lot of Wall St forecasting is honestly worse and less reliable than going to a watch doctor or playing roulette. I'll confess I'm a little sad at this attitude but people miss out o…

Well friend, you sure didn't bring that up to start. Your initial statements gave me a strong sense that you had arbitrarily decided that astrology was bunk without making any intellectual effort…

Oh? So you're over there like super-rational-all-the-time life has no mystery in it? > IOW, it's not an insult, it's a compliment. Neither, just an indication that you're comf…

I take downvotes as folks being intellectually not curious. Homies - Silicon Valley is full of people who are into astrology. FFS, this is a community of people whose favorite thing on earth is Burn…

False. That's just your opinion. The best astrologers are heavily into astronomy and follow astronomy news very closely.

The one thing I know from your comment is that you haven't seriously studied astrology.

> An unusual conjunction for sure. I see what you did there

> since it's just bullshit anyway Alright, you're on - post the place you were born, including date and time and I'll cast your chart and tell you what I see. Then you can tell me …

You can't do good astrology if the underlying math calculations are wrong. Most mainstream Western astrology uses Placidus houses and then places planets in signs within those houses. From the pl…

I mean, why do we let people without property vote in the first place? It's really only people with a vested interest who have something at stake.

Your argument makes sense until you have a horrible neighbor. You can see it in action in a state like Montana which to my knowledge prohibits housing covenants. Want to park 12 cars that are rusting …

A key scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ1icybB4s0

What you're describing sounds like what many people in the industry are doing, and likely what most AI-adopters are doing. It scales until it falls apart. The responsible and professional way to …

The loneliness aspect of the whale tugs at my heartstrings. I know I am most likely romanticizing and anthropomorphizing nature, but still.

This is the way! Very nice work. I want it!

A read I enjoyed in college was Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov.

"I never got into the Russians, they take too long getting to the feckin' point!" "Oh? Not even Dostoyevsky?" "Oh come on now, he was the main offender." - The Guard…

I am of many minds about this. I fully believe in the ego problem, but that's so universal that I don't think it's the only answer. Software engineers and especially architecture folks …

I don't remember the exact quote verbatim but the most likely candidates of where I got it from would be: You and Your Research , How Do We Know What We Know? (if indeed, we know it) , and/…

When I say humanities, I mean having a humanistic attitude. Looking at the social and environmental dynamics before looking at any specific technical issue in detail. Not necessarily anything to do …

> We never learn. To my mind, the key is that it's leaders who never learn. The sad thing is that the system gives them no incentives to do so. If you look into the work of Bob Emiliani, thi…

I am a great admirer of the late Dr. Richard Hamming and he said basically the same thing. Math and science education is important, but humanities is missing for most engineers to their great detrimen…

Welcome! These are trying times generally and it's on all of us to try and be the change.

Great read. Further proof that we are all victims of each others learning experiences.

You bet. I got triggered.

You know if this site gets popular and takes off, you could probably monetize it...with ads

I disagree with Steve Yegge's assessment that the curve is close to leveling off. It's not the models, it's the harnesses and the result automation possibilities that are the true unloc…

I'm curious the last time you touched reality