DaveZale

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by DaveZale 1y ago
that graph showing zero growth without "tech spending" seems to indicate that. What puzzles me is that human brains require only about 20 watts of power, plus food, shelter, relationships, medical care, and 20 years of experientia
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I was dreamin' when I wrote this So sue me if I go too fast But life is just a party And parties weren't meant to last War is all around us My mind says, "Prepare to fight" So if I gotta die I'm gonna listen to my b
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by DaveZale 1y ago
I think therefore I am - Descartes To be is to do - Sartre Do Be Do Be Do - Sinatra
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Okay nice essay. But why can't weights be changed? A few years ago I participated in a kind of AI method using near infrared spectroscopy to monitor a process. It was a success but required constant revalidation with "known valu
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Well, some good journalists go to alternative media when cancelled by corporate media. Look at the ownership of big media to know their bias. Getting fired by big media is a rite of passage for uncorrupted, honest journalists. Especially i
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it doesn't matter. What is happening is demolition and genocide. Simple as that
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thanks for clarifying that! "The Zetans are a race of aliens that have been involved in the affairs of Earth and its inhabitants both before and after the Great War. They have appeared multiple times in the Fallout series."
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Well, Steve Bannon is making good on his promise to have maga flood the media with BS. We were warned. It's cognitive warfare in his perspective, he even clearly said as much. At least that's a partial explanation.
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nobody is forcing anyone to use meta products. or Chrome. Here come the downvotes. Okay fine, take your six figure salaries and live with yourself. Go with Brave browser, or equivalent. The targeted ads can be so tasteless, they stick in
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Did we all get spoiled by effectively negative interest rates for a number of years in the 2010s?
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A Patrick Lawrence essay describes "voluntary immaturity" - the inability to think solo and form opinions without guidance, which seems to complement your discussion. Isn't independently and critically thinkingthe essence of
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and then what happens? Sam: It's all about compute, trust me. It will make everything better. No wars, no shortages, no traffic jams, just utopia, right?
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sure, like a study of tylenol plus probiotics supplement (kefir might work) to restore healthy gut microbes that might have been compromised by tylenol consumption? Also, Harvard, Johns Hopkins and others might also be trying to curry favo
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Good points, but maybe international outsourcing is the way to go in some areas. This is how it was sold "a few years ago" in some circles. Specifically, one argument ran that you could have people working around the clock globa
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the NWS (weather service) was heavily impacted, including the launching of weather balloons. It's a safety issue
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kava?
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Rivian makes a superior truck for sure. R2 next year...
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sure, and the Saudis have cozied up to nuclear-armed Pakistan. The Law of Unintended Consequences is playing out before our eyes.
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Easter Island! Both of those. Tacrolimus was discovered in 1987 by a Japanese team led by pharmacologist Tohru Kino; it was among the first macrolide immunosuppressants discovered, preceded by the discovery of rapamycin (sirolimus) on Rapa
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Look at the 1940s/1950s when some classic antibiotics were discovered. Pharma workers taking vacations overseas were asked to bring soil samples back to the lab. Great reading if you enjoy science history. https://asm.org&#
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the usual suspects? Re: Uber ... this very aggressive growth company sold out its customers to facilitate adoption in urban areas. "let us do business in your city, and we'll supply our customer data to your police" kind of
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yes, and it's all a kind of incestuous and self-fulfilling relationship between OpenAI, Nvidia and Oracle (with a sprinkling of Softbank thrown in), according to a post here earlier today. Although meta and microsoft have their own ap
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That's very insightful satire. The idea of it could work as a science fiction novel, if it weren't so plausibly true. Anyone else recall the "sell it by zealot" guidance of the very early internet commercial push? It&#x
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AI "Hyperbole and Silly Numbers"?(theregister.com)
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Thanks, that's the first thought I had, thanks for reporting mitochondria. Which are not localized stuctures as pictured in undergrad courses.
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it sure was different 30 years ago... like all conspiracy theories some of it is true. It is a concern that one search engine dominates.
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Phytomining(dw.com)
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how about ads for dump trucks?
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"dominant software" ... huh? "A dominant design is an industry-standard technology solution that becomes the norm for meeting users' needs in a particular market, even if it's not always the most technically superi
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Well for one thing, even in freshman philos, we were introduced to the 5 different kinds of truth. That sets up the foundation for more years of study in which faith in anything is hard to recognize as objectively true. But that university

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