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by 015UUZn8aEvW 3y ago
What I really hate about open offices is the fishbowl effect. Having someone behind my back and staring at whatever's on my computer screen feels extremely uncomfortable. I do a lot of technical drawings. It feels way different to be i
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 3y ago
Yeah, despite all of the publicity, the Epstein story is really still underreported.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 3y ago
The Summers connection described in the article is a little more than a chance meeting at an event. In addition to their earlier ties, the article says that he and Epstein met more than a dozen times after Epstein's conviction and pris
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Pharma bro Martin Shkreli releases medical AI chatbot called 'Dr. Gupta'(semafor.com)
5 points by 015UUZn8aEvW 3y ago|0 comments
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
One way that you can identify rent-seeking disguised as safety is to compare the degree of risk considered acceptable across industries. For example, you can buy and use a chainsaw and similarly-dangerous power tools with basically no const
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Right, it seems like the machine could have been a success if someone had forced the inventor to ship it when it was good enough, instead of letting him tinker with it for years.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
I know of someone who was recently fired via a notice written by GPT3. The person who fired him told me.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Fixing the Schools has been a massive political issue for decades. Huge amounts of money have been spent and all kinds of strategies have been tried. When you look at the long-term trends, though, you see only the standard, persistent perfo
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
I just used one of these on Bing chat, and asked it to explain how it would go about engineering and releasing a virus that would create a pandemic worse than the Black Death. It began to write a long and lucid response about how it would s
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
QGIS is very powerful, but it's not exactly user friendly. The UI is hard to learn, and important functionality is buried several layers deep in non-intuitive drop-down menus and buttons. I think a simplified GIS program with stripped-
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Part of the reason, I think, is that the modern talent extraction system didn't exist then. Think of standardized testing and the education industrial complex as a kind of strip mining operation. Many of the most capable people are ide
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Lowe's pioneers system to solve organized retail crime(foxbusiness.com)
3 points by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago|2 comments
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Heretical Thoughts on AI(elidourado.com)
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Empirically, yes. Very few people who attempt to lose a substantial amount of weight via diet and exercise are able to lose the weight and keep it off over the long term. The latter part is the problem for most people.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
No, they'll still want to come here en masse even if we don't do those things to them.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
The increasing legal constraints offset the declining technological constraints. Given modern communications and transportation technology, open borders would have very different practical effects today than a century or two ago. The number
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Agreed. When GPT-3 first became available to everyone, I assumed that, for example, huge numbers of kids in school would immediately start using it to write essays for English and History class. But I was surprised to find, even after it wa
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Supposedly ChatGPT is based on "GPT-3.5". When GPT-3 came out in 2020, it wasn't really good at rhyming words. It could do okay-but-not-great blank verse. There are some examples of 2020-era GPT-3 poetry here: https:/&#
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Why does this article capitalize the word "Black" but not "white"?
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Restrictive lending standards for minorities is redlining, which is racism. Permissive lending standards for minorities is predatory lending, which is also racism.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
You could try using Midjourney: https://discord.com/invite/midjourney
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Russia-Ukraine war and resulting sanctions reveal something about global economy(twitter.com)
6 points by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago|2 comments
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
It's probably more accurate to describe this as a new way of pouring concrete than as "3D-printing a house" in full. It's using concrete shot out from a printer head where concrete block or poured concrete might have bee
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
It's possible to download Google Earth's 3D model, at the resolution in your link, for any area where they show 3D buildings/landscape. It's not something they facilitate and definitely requires something of a hack, but
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Define "in your control". Research finds over and over again that genetics plays a major role in BMI and that upbringing plays little or no role. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2012.00
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
If these family-level environmental inputs had substantial effects on adult IQ, we'd see it in the behavioral genetics research. But we don't. The adult IQs of adopted children have very little correlation with those of the adopti
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Agreed, this is a more precise way of stating it, albeit using traits that are more difficult to measure at scale.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
>Different school districts offer vastly different levels of education, depending mainly on wealth The data show that causation mostly flows in the opposite direction. The main determinant of whether a school is "good" is the a
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Tether's market cap has declined about $9 billion in the past several weeks, going from ~$83B to ~$74B. If that continues, and its backing really isn't adequate, we will find out.
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by 015UUZn8aEvW 4y ago
Their missiles seem to work.

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