GrantZvolsky

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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Slightly tangential: The GPT-3-generated article that humans had the greatest difficulty distinguishing from a human-written article, with an accuracy of only 12%[0], contains a flagrant contradiction in the first paragraph. > Title: Un
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> Also photographer friend of mine said; a great photographer doesn't need to Photoshop anything to lie to you. I couldn't agree more if they used the word lie in the more general sense as a synonym of deception. The availabi
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Such a system will always suffer from false positives and false negatives. On a more positive note, when deepfakes become a problem, we will see the emergence of a culture where unsigned authoritative content is not paid any attention.
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
> The next slide had the text "And then when you finally do finish this nice feature, you should always make sure you drink the required amount of alcohol." with a background image of whiskey bottles. The decorative text on th
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
Being a speaker of Czech and English without a single dominant language, I use Google Translate to improve my writing. I will write a draft in the target language and feed Translate the other. It often comes up with improved style and more
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
As far as I remember the TOP500 list is updated more or less the same time every November and June. Google Trends agree[1]. [1]: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=top500
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by GrantZvolsky 6y ago
If you package one of the IdentityServer4[1] quickstarts with e.g. Docker you'll get a comparable result. [1]: https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer4
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
I couldn't do without a 'bookmarks' feature that I implemented for my terminal. It's triggered with `Alt+b`: 1. Scan an eternal history file for `cd` with absolute path except for /tmp/* 2. Sort and filter out
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
What would make you think so? I was in fact alluding to fallibilism.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
Proof of god? We can't even prove gravity, or for that matter anything else in the physical world.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
> "Modelling" can just mean a bunch of officials sitting around having tea and brainstorming potential scenarios. Good point, but it doesn't seem to be the case. From the Coronavirus action plan[0] published on March 3 202
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
To say the government opted 'to encourage the flames' is disingenuous. Presumably their statistical model indicated they won't be able to contain the spread which is why the current stated aim is to delay the spread[0]. Delay
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
The term carries a negative connotation in that it implies guilt for the collapse.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
The investment into learning regexes is worth it if you write or read enough of them. They become the human readable language you speak of, eventually. The question is where the threshold lies.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
The article doesn't really explain the difference merely saying Bohemia is a historical kingdom.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
'bohemian'[1] and 'Bohemian' are two very different cultures. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people#Exonyms
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
Here's[1] a proof I recorded a long time ago. Enjoy my notes on virtual memory. [1]: https://youtu.be/hM4-4G36H7U?t=31
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
My point was not to defend the blacklisting of expletives. I remember a CS prof giving us dozens of legitimate uses, including people with Scunthorpe domain email not having their mail delivered. My point was that Mr Fucks is not as helples
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
That guy's so used to services failing him that he doesn't use his real name unless necessary.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
These lectures are for university students as well. Anecdotally, MIT lectures were a vital part of my education while at university; they perfectly complemented our own. Some professors even endorsed them.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
Is it really impossible? About a decade ago an astrophysicist friend of mine told me that you can store lightning energy into some kind of a supraconductor, the problem being that we don't know how to take the energy out. I believe he
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
> Reduce milk Have you got a source for that assertion? A brief search yields contrary evidence[1], unless you limit your audience to those allergic to bovine milk. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/2628
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
The article offers several explanations. Let me offer you another: Upon perceiving a face, the brain reads its visual cues to determine its bearer's intentions. The uncanny valley occurs when we fail to determine a perceived individual
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
I just switched my pet project to Cue. It did take me cca 5 days to get familiar with the language, but the result is much more elegant than the original Kustomize configuration. I'm looking forward to using Cue in future k8s projects
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
The article fails to mention https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_post-Soviet_aliyah , the mass immigration of, on average, a highly educated demographic, through which Israel gained cca 17% of its 2007 population.
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by GrantZvolsky 7y ago
I suspect there is a vulnerability in the flow: 1. Attacker reads the photo form the passport 2. Attacker prints out the photo, perhaps with some perspective correction 3. Attacker tricks the phone into recognizing the print as the