Gregaros

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by Gregaros 2y ago
> The programmer is in the unique position that his is the only discipline and profession in which such a gigantic ratio, which totally baffles our imagination, has to be bridged by a single technology. He has to be able to think in term
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by Gregaros 3y ago
DMCA abuse begs to differ.
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by Gregaros 3y ago
It seems entirely plausible that there wasn’t a good setting just emphasizing her and all her art for an article photo, and that paintings were temporarily moved to create one - in which case what you’re picking up on would represent the ph
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by Gregaros 3y ago
As seems to be the case for another commenter, the double Crichton’s was one of my favorite parts. What it introduced to the storytelling and narrative and characterization was a unique depth and capacity for analysis and consequence that I
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by Gregaros 3y ago
We don’t know (and they don’t either) that the text of this book appeared in the training set.
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by Gregaros 3y ago
>OpenAI doesn’t disclose what data it used to train GPT-4, its most advanced large language model, but lawyers for Sancton say ChatGPT divulged the secret. “In the early days after its release, however, ChatGPT, in response to an inquiry
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by Gregaros 3y ago
I think rather this is a case of the mathematical notion of [homology]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology_(mathematics) ) - which, roughly, is when a collection of objects combine together to fill a hole (or form th
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by Gregaros 4y ago
No, it is not at all a bridge to Einstein’s ‘gravity and acceleration are equal’, which is "the gravitational force is physically indistinguishable from any acceleration", which has to do with changing to relatively accelerating r
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by Gregaros 4y ago
> The condition that a defendant “avoid all contact ... with a potential witness who may testify concerning the offense” is a standard condition. 18 U.S.C. § 3142(c)(B)(v). Indeed, the no-contact condition is routinely imposed in cases i
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by Gregaros 4y ago
> wanting to make your own at home instead of spending $7+ a day on Starbucks isn't unreasonable So spend $500-$1000 on an espresso machine instead when, as OP points out, there are perfectly fine, affordable options that will for m
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by Gregaros 4y ago
I see you’ve read the blog post by noted military historian Bret Devereaux and boiled the whole thing down to three sentences for everyone, but you’ve missed some of the nuance that makes him so fascinating to read. I recommend everyone els
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by Gregaros 5y ago
Because cloth is porous and absorptive but skin is not.
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by Gregaros 5y ago
Really want to upvote the joke but can’t bring myself to reward the implicit criticism of LaTex ….
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by Gregaros 5y ago
That’s not right, either, since he is speaking in the present tense and comparing his current local high school’s attempts to emulate what Los Alamos high currently does: > Reminds me of the fact that Los Alamos High School has the hig
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by Gregaros 5y ago
> It also explains why the professors’ kids are a disproportionate fraction of the National Merit Finalists in a college town. […] But those kids, although smarter than average, usually aren’t as smart as their *fathers*: partly because
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by Gregaros 5y ago
Reminds me of dependent types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependent_type
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by Gregaros 5y ago
> it normally takes me 1 sentence max to realise i've clicked on an ad by mistake. Good thing that has no cost, then. Especially with how poorly optimized all the javascript on these pages is, slowing loading to a perceptible crawl
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by Gregaros 9y ago
Adversaries will simply use common pass-phrase words as though they were part of a larger alphabet. Depending on the distribution/definition of "common", 2-4 word passphrases are then much worse than an 8 character password,
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by Gregaros 9y ago
You really ought to read his document before commenting. And when you do, keep an eye outfor any quote whatsoever that says justifies your claims. You won't find one.
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by Gregaros 9y ago
You missed my sarcasm. I did indeed think it was quite an understatement / poor writing to be so afraid to say "one of the best physicists of the 20th century".
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by Gregaros 9y ago
Sarcasm. "Probably one of the most" is quite a few weasel words for somebody universally included in any list of significant physicists.
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by Gregaros 9y ago
>Richard Feynman was probably one of the most talented physicists of the 20th century. Starts off bold.
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by Gregaros 9y ago
How available is knowledge if nobody knows they can attain it? This is the first I've heard of seatguru, and given the post you responded to, I'd hazard I'm not the only one.
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by Gregaros 9y ago
>Shouldn't imagination and planning be observed spontaneously as emergent properties of a sufficiently complex neural network? Why would you think that? We have no theoretical knowledge of how human "consciousness" emerges
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by Gregaros 9y ago
Medicine knows much, much less than it ought to know (from the perspective of hard limits to current knowledge.)
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by Gregaros 9y ago
>that's probably fairly rare. No, it isn't. Ticket prices fluctuate incredibly wildly, and tend to increase sharply in the month leading up to the flight. In fact, this move is largely to displace overbooking to a new mechanic.
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by Gregaros 9y ago
And not a single one of them in Mathematics. This seems like an incredibly narrow selection.