Dr_Birdbrain

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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
What is the Year Zero stuff?
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I don’t think the claim in the article is true at all. A high mutation rate is definitely bad for the virus in the short term, which is why Molnupiravir has an effect on reducing disease in individuals. But, of course a high mutation rate a
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Haha my thinking exactly. I actually read some of Guzey’s crazy ideas on sleep last year, and I am happy to discover he was just going through a phase.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I thought it was quite clear. i interpreted it as a humorous turn of phrase to say that not only did they hallucinate the belief of the fossils, but then they also hallucinated the fossils themselves, and later started seeing them everywher
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I think search is about to become a big expensive meat grinder, extremely competitive. The good news is that everybody who was just laid off by BigTechCos is likely about to get rehired at a premium—they are going to need lots of hands to b
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
It’s one of those things where if you don’t have the math knowledge, the opportunities to apply it will be literally invisible to you. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail—but the converse of that is that if you have ne
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I wonder if it’s the other way in this case? It seems to me that Japan’s advocacy of hydrogen is geopolitical, and the corporations like Toyota are getting dragged along to make poor business decisions, favoring hydrogen over electric. Japa
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
Right, so your check should be in a context where another move was mate in 1
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
This take is surprising to me, because it actually seems to me that it would be easy-ish to auto-generate accessibility aids, for example in the form of automatic caption generation for hearing impairments.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
That’s an interesting idea. Maybe.
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I actually disagree with the idea that alienation is a feature of capitalism—I think it’s a feature of an industrial mode of production that is not necessarily linked to capitalism. Suppose there is a creative designer who develops a widget
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I don’t understand this sentiment. The rating of a player will reflect their strength, regardless of whether they are an unaided human, a full computer, or a human with some heuristic to consult an engine. Whatever the player is doing, thei
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
The article mentions it’s a freshwater environment. Are they going to get wiped out if the ice melts enough to expose them to salt water?
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
It’s not about protecting their rights, it’s about encouraging corporations to release the processes of their invention. The point is that we provide legally enforced protection in exchange for it entering the public domain after a few year
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by Dr_Birdbrain 4y ago
I would recommend two things: - Do lots of tactics puzzles—treat it like exercise, consistency is key. 1 to 3 puzzles per day is ideal. - Read strategy books. Don’t worry about memorizing, just get the intuitive gist of things like moving r
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by Dr_Birdbrain 5y ago
ML is Turing complete in the sense that every computable function can be approximated to arbitrary precision by a 3-layer neural network. Classic result from the 90s, the paper in question (iirc) is titled something like “neural networks ar