FabHK

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by FabHK 1y ago
The original theory was precisely that there's a general factor ("g"). If you run anything sufficiently complex through a principal component analysis you'll get several orthogonal factors, decreasing in importance. The
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BTW, it appears that the Flynn effect might have reversed recently. US: "A reverse Flynn effect was found for composite ability scores with large US adult sample from 2006 to 2018 and 2011 to 2018. Domain scores of matrix reasoning, le
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by FabHK 1y ago
So you concede that there's nothing special about AI versus earlier innovations?
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Suppose you don't have a hammer, but just hammer at things with bare hands. Then you find some primitive rock - artificial general hammering! With that you can over time build some primitive hammer - now we're talking superhuma
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by FabHK 1y ago
"With ChatGPT-5, the response feels less like AI and more like you're chatting with your high-IQ and -EQ friend." Is that a good thing?
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But available from today to free tier. Yay.
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by FabHK 1y ago
One additional annoyance with this type of login: With a username and password field, these are automatically correctly filled by Safari. With sites that only offer an email field, I have to manually fill it. (Note that I tend to use differ
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by FabHK 1y ago
Latacora, 2018: In order of preference, use scrypt, argon2, bcrypt, and then if nothing else is available PBKDF2. So even 7 years ago bcrypt was only the 3rd recommended option.
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Agreed. But since every character gives you around 6 bits (26*2 letters + 10 numbers + some special characters ≈ 64 = 2^6), you'd need 256/6 ≈ 43 characters to exhaust the checked entropy, so up to that level it makes sense. If yo
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> I don't understand why I would never enter a code into the wrong website That's what phishing is predicated on, and it seems to be successful enough.
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by FabHK 1y ago
If you're phished, you're probably not checking the domain too carefully anyway. You get an email, providing you with a phishing link for miсrosoft.com (where the apparent c is actually the cyrillic "s", so BAD). In the
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by FabHK 1y ago
Related question: When I looked into LASIK/SMILE recently, they said that after onset of presbyopia, they now routinely recommend "monovision", that is, regulate one of your eyes to 0 diopters, but the other to mild myopia of
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by FabHK 1y ago
Indeed. You could make it brighter, which would shrink your pupils and make things easier to read. With this revolutionary medicine, you shrink your pupils, and then you need to make it brighter so you can still read. Is that it?
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The two main theorems of welfare economics show why free markets are great: a market equilibrium is pareto-optimal and vice versa. The problem is that the conditions under which these theorems holds are completely unrealistic: perfect compe
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by FabHK 1y ago
As a non-American, I operate in l/100 km, and have no idea what 25 mpg is...
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by FabHK 1y ago
Peter Attia in his book "Outlive" recommends exclusively zone 2 training for sedentary beginners: half an hour, 3x a week, of light to moderate exercise (e.g. on a stationary bike), for half a year or so before more strenuous exer
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by FabHK 1y ago
It's equally difficult to support it, no?
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Keep in mind that the Gaza Strip borders both Israel and Egypt.
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by FabHK 1y ago
Sure, it's been going on for a long time. Close to a million Palestinians were expelled (or fled) from Israel after its founding, and close to a million Jews were expelled (or fled) from various Muslim-majority countries around that ti
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by FabHK 1y ago
The Gaza strip borders both Israel and Egypt.
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Why did Israel unilaterally withdrew its military forces from Gaza and dismantled its settlements in 2005? It gave them what they wanted, and look what it got in return. Murderous terrorism.
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by FabHK 1y ago
Your quotes are not in the article cited, which does say though that > According to various reports, Netanyahu made a similar point at a Likud faction meeting in early 2019, when he was quoted as saying that those who oppose a Palestinia
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by FabHK 1y ago
> I don't think anyone is going to be seriously fooled by this. Do you think porn sites are more interested in a) correctly preventing unauthorized people from accessing their site, or b) selling as many subscriptions as they can wh
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by FabHK 1y ago
A friend of mine grew up in a town in Spain where many families had pools. All the kids were prepared at a very young age by a teacher who basically threw the kids in the water and then showed them how to survive. She was known as "la
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by FabHK 1y ago
Aviation moves more slowly than IT: > the category could include planes like the forthcoming Pipistrel Panthera. The "forthcoming" (2023) Panthera has been worked on since 2011, had its first flight in 2013, and is still in dev
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Not to mention Facebook and YouTube.
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Addressed in the FAQ: > How is Blip different to nearby sharing like AirDrop? Apple’s “AirDrop” and Google’s “Nearby Share” can be really handy. However, they aren’t compatible with each other and require devices to be physically next to
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by FabHK 1y ago
So what's a cheap price? A price of inferior quality? A miserly price? A price obtained with little effort? Or is after all a low price what's meant?
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Any opinion on Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia? He seems fairly fact-based, but does recommend several diagnostics.
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> Mistake fares A friend of mine recently got a too-good-to-be-true fare from Europe to Asia on Qatar, and the ticket was promptly cancelled and refunded by the airline when they found the error.

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