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Michael Foucault - Crime and Punishment - The Means of Correct Training [formatting for emphasis mine]: [A surveillance and hierarchical control] architecture that is no longer built simply to be seen (as with the ostentation of palaces)
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Clearly, since India had warm relations with USSR and it was an important diplomatic portfolio and the diplomats top caliber. That simply means he was one of their top diplomats. > He leans pro-Russia and anti-American Good for him. It’s
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This ex Indian diplomat analyses the recent Indian affair in context of BRICS and US’s views on the matter, and Modi’s “security state”: https://www.indianpunchline.com/nijjar-affair-poses-an-exist... ”All in all, the Nijj
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Software is the purely informational elements and constructs of a computing mechanism. Or (more broadly) Software is any construct that is functionally equivalent to its description. (edit)
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This is a very interesting read from the New Thought original sources: Prentice Mulford’s Your Forces and How to Use Them . https://archive.org/details/yourforceshowtou02mulfiala/yourf...
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by 38321003thrw 3y ago
> just what the heck is Larry Summers doing on that board? Probably precisely what Condeleeza Rice was doing on DropBox’s board. Or that board filled with national security state heavyweights on that “visionary” and her blood testing thi
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Color me impressed . This is what I typed: “ageh man beh zabooneh khodemoon benevisam, to mifahmi?” — So above is a question in Farsi written using Latin alphabet. The q is “if i write in our own language would you understand?” Answer: نه،
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Construction drawings are not done on A4. Typical drafted drawing is uses handful of ft by ft range, say 3x4. So that should give ~2 orders of mag less sheets. Does 10,000 sheets of drafting paper sound more reasonable? Internet says 747 ha
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by 38321003thrw 3y ago
You know Don, what touched me about this wonderful story of the charming visionary from SV —- thanks for sharing — is that his reach is as wide as his heart is big! Here you were, a mere fisherman somewhere off the coast of Maine, and here
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The world according to a gas molecule and the world according to a statistician. This needs to be amplified + defensive caveat regarding subscription to any “youtube” theories. That said, a member of a large organization, such as the US mil
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“Do not only ..”, or “Do not immediately ..” are reasonable and wise. But that absolutist “Do not” is neither wise nor reasonable. Malicious actors do exist.
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> First, there is no such thing as “galactic RAM” And there goes my plans for floating a “secondary system wrapper” around openGRAM’s apis and VCing my way to the top of the unicorn charts. Oh well. “This is why I come to hn”.
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Yes! This is the nugget of this affair if indeed you are concerned about the effect and role of AI in human civilization. The captains at the helm are not mature individuals. The mature ones (“the adult table”) are motivated by profit and c
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by 38321003thrw 3y ago
Plot twist: https://nitter.net/ilyasut/status/1726590052392956028 “I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions. I never intended to harm OpenAI. I love everything we've built together and I w
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by 38321003thrw 3y ago
I have a video link to an MIT lecture that disproves your assertion. Cache aware, cache adaptive, and cache oblivious algorithms are definitively analyzed using big O. In fact it is big O notions that provide assurances about these approach
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> It’s a bit tragic that Ilya and company ... There must be an Aesop’s fable that sheds light on the “tragedy”. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/923989-if-you-choose-bad-co... Or maybe this one? (Ape seems to map to
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We strongly & emphatically disagree. Analysis assumes a homogeneous computational regime for the said “infinite” store otherwise it is basically meaningless. If this assumption is known not to hold (for example in considering the role o
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This article has a strange take on algorithmic scaling. L1, L2, LL, MM, Disk, NetDisk ..., GalacticRAM. Wow, you actually expected traversing ‘system boundaries’ with distinct access costs and maintain theoretical scaling? An algorithm that
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I did say “compare”.
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These updates all seem to be coming from one side. Have they said anything at all?
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Compare: Successful test of Starship’s two stages ended in explosions, making progress over the initial test flight in April.
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“He also spoke with Masayoshi Son, the chief executive and billionaire founder of the tech conglomerate SoftBank” That made me laugh a knowing laugh even though I know nothing.
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How are you finding it out by [yourself]? Did you find out e.g. Facebook will do the damage that it did and continues to do in social terms? Have you done anything or has Facebook changed its way based on your ‘findings’? The choice here is
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“I think they could have won in the court of public opinion if their press release said they loved Sam but felt like his skills and ambitions diverged from their mission. But instead, they tried to skewer him, and it backfired completely.”
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Sorry but that is ridiculous. The wording of the PR blurb is not what makes gears move in a giant like Microsoft. I agree the board did botch this up. But this is in my view is a vindication of their being amateurs at corporate political ga
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There is a political economy as well as a technical aspect to this that present inherent issues. Even if we can address the former by say regime change, the latter issue remains: the domain is technical and cognitively demanding. Thus the p