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One of the main reasons I'm still on twitter is because of how you can mute certain topics/words and accounts. Extensively using that has turned twitter into a source of learning and knowledge for me. I have also used uBlock to bl
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The limit is RAM but GPU RAM is much faster than computer RAM.
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Has nothing to do with Russia. This is about the future European Ariane 7 rocket that is meant to be fully reusable like the reusable SpaceX rockets.
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Pollution Reveals What Russian Statistics Obscure: Industrial Decline(wsj.com)
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>Karpathy (OpenAI, ex. Tesla) recently tweeted about KISS and just using np.array instead of a vector database The context was a very underwhelming side project of his: A movie search engine but you had to use the exact titles of the mov
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>ethnonationalist No one ethnic group makes up more than 10% of their supporters. They are religious populists.
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The rest of the world didn't care about Indian politics before the right-wing populist BJP was elected. Many Westerners have seen Modi's name along with the year 2002 so they assume he has been the sole dictator of India since 200
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Telegram and Signal are much more popular in India than many if not all of these apps. So why are they not included in this ban?
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The vast majority of people building LM apps with (or without) LangChain are using OpenAI. I sincerely hope local LM tech like Galpaca (or vicuna/koala/etc) succeed but I don't understand why we are collectively pretending th
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John McCarthy (1927-2011) co-authored the document that coined the term "artificial intelligence" (AI), developed the programming language family Lisp, significantly influenced the design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sh
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Soviet takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1968 witnessed by John McCarthy [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
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>Yes, there's been a substantial decline in the use of the dollar, but that's not because some other currency is shooting up to take its place. It looks like countries are diversifying their portfolios, not fleeing the dollar f
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Both SVB and Signature Bank were atypical banks with atypical depositors. SVB catered to risky tech startup and Signature Bank was involved in risky crypto shenanigans. On SVB: >As a regional bank in the Bay Area, SVB offered services sp
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The claim/lie that there were "over 30,000 US banks just 10-15 years ago, it's now less than 3000, and they are all about to fail" is disinfo that is being pushed hard on twitter and reddit. On reddit it seems to be r&#x
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On the contrary Mozilla correctly anticipates that low quality AI generated content will increasingly ruin web experience and has therefore correctly chosen to invest in technology that will combat that.
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>Did the Soviet government actually follow the Constitution of The USSR The Soviet Union did allow some internal dissent and freedom of speech from 1985 to 1991. That might have accelerated its downfall. https://en.wikipedia.o
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It's fascinating how the ideology of Marxism–Leninism (Communism) today is more popular than ever among young people in former capitalist heartlands like the US, Canada and UK. A simple European-style welfare state with universal healt
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This is actually interesting. If you get you finance news from twitter and reddit you would actually assume that the claim/lie about "50% reduction of Google's stock price" is true and that FAANG is about to collapse alo
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Why is it a problem to be Putin-friendly? I don't understand how you can praise Snowden and completely ignore what he has been telling us about the Ukraine and Russia and why we can't trust what US media and politicians are tellin
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>trying to link him to anti-US foreign policy sentiments Being anti-US foreign policy is generally a good thing and the only reason you are going to leak to Glenn Greenwald of all people in late 2012. Snowden also exposed that it was not
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I am 99% sure Snowden is cringing at the term "American patriots". Snowden's primary motivation was most likely opposition to US foreign policy and control of the world. There is no other reason to contact Glenn Greenwald in
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As a European I actually think Snowden's primary motivation was opposition to US foreign policy and control of the world. There is no other reason to contact Glenn Greenwald in late 2012. In 2008-2012 Glenn Greenwald was primarily know
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They should be happy that OpenAI went after them with the DMCA and not for computer hacking and fraud, which is what they technically did by hijacking other people's API keys.
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>The man was an administrator of closed groups and channels in the Telegram messenger, where he sold personal data of citizens of Ukraine and the European Union. >Depending on the amount of data offered for sale, the man demanded from
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The OP is from Sudan. Ukraine has been impressively fast in rebuilding critical infrastructure after Russian cruise missile strikes. It also helps that many of the Ukrainian men that have gone back to Ukraine are construction workers, elect
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To be honest The Lego Movie franchise was annoyingly American for my Danish taste. It doesn't surprise me that many people think Lego and other European companies are American when they behave and market themselves as pseudo-American c
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Our modern omni-directional digital broadcasts probably don't go far. But what about our focused beams from airport and weather radars?
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Realistically this war will continue for two more years. Russia's useful idiots are hard at work lowering Western popular support for Ukraine. Will the West still be giving military aid to Ukraine in 2025?
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>a major blunder On the contrary this war is Putin's multiyear bet on Russia's useful idiots in the West. US Republicans overwhelmingly supported US military aid to Ukraine in the beginning of the war. However Tucker Carlson an
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The Wagner Group is all over Sudan's gold: https://unherd.com/2023/04/how-wagner-plundered-sudans-gold/ They are also active in the rest of Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3

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