IIAOPSW

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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Can an AI create a better version of itself, all by itself? Can you?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Does reddit without the redesign count as social media? if not I've been off since 2011. If so, why doesn't hn count?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
In latex its just $\omega$
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Well then you are agreeing to live with some very detestable general principles just for the short lived victory of seeing your moral convictions enforced in this specific case. Who cares what her past employment is or if you approve of it.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Depending on how much you want to stress it, you could do what I call "time dithering". You have a sequence of b/w images in several buffers. The first buffer represents pixels that are meant to be more than 50% black. The ne
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
If there is a book and its a non-trivial fraction of the volume, cant you just compare the weight of it to a block of the same volume?
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I've learned far to often that the international date line is not just tinder for expats. Can you put something to indicate the date on the timezones. Something just like your day/night indicator which tells me that on one side of
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
California is what happens when you take New York, get rid of the amazing public transit, then add a fake smile.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I kind of wish it didn't have editing. Or could only be appended, never revised. But still have upvotes or likes or whatever. You have one shot at making a highly upvoted comment. go!
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
It might help a lot if you could post a picture of it.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
IANAL but, at the very least, you can't be charged with identity theft if you never actually use a stolen identity for anything.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
So either that's a good sum to their standard of living, or the data isn't all that personal and private in the first place. The transit nerd in me kind of wants to buy it, not for maliciously tracking the customers, but to analyz
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
In character encodings, mind adding morse (including the non-printable characters[1]), international code signals[2], and semaphore flags[3]? Its easy overlook just how much of the information age was already present by the turn of the cent
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I've taken long Amtrak trips twice in my life, and both times they were full of Amish. One day I will work up the chutzpah to go up and ask why the train is kosher and the plane isn't. Though, despite superficial similarity to the
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I know a reasonable amount of game theory and I think you're looking at the wrong field for insight. The stung animal isn't making a strategic choice to carry pathogens around which might "payback" the some hypothetical
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Emotions in general are hard to define, let alone pin to a particular chemical. If I were wearing my contrarian cap I would question the extrapolation from "happiness correlates" in humans to other animals. Sadly, that's abou
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Are ravens ever happy with what they have? I legit don't know. What I do know is that the innovation of a permanently unsatisfied brain is an incredibly recent fork. So close we don't even separate it from modern humans. So close
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Oh you'll still pay a law firm for the responsibility of the document, but the firm is going to employ far fewer people for the same work.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
There's more than a few "oh shit the food supply" stories sizzling in the background. Wheat exports from Ukraine/Russia is an obvious one. Spotted lantern fly eating the crops we like to eat in the American North East is
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Congresspeople regularly outperform the market with their investment which is called "insider trading" Have you considered the selection bias going on as an alternative explanation. Maybe the people with the competence and ski
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'll let the depression turtle elaborate on my behalf. Now You Happy Always Maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWkq7btSQvs
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Bold and seemingly contradictory predictions by me: -The rapid advances in AI slow down. Dalle and GPTchat will be an exception not a rule in the long run. The fraction of hard AI problems that can be solved with raw force of more parameter
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Because there's an evolutionary advantage to thinking you could be happy, not for actually being happy.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Here's a profound realization. Utility is a function of both variables, time and money. Wholly unemployed people have plenty time but can't afford to spend the money using it how they want. So the situation is valueless. On the op
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The use of "elite" to describe people using public transit is absurd at face value, but makes perfect sense when you understand "elite" as coded language for anyone living in a city, tinged with a connotation of contempt
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The real answer is that financial ledgers used to use black ink for positive numbers and red for negative, hence the terminology "in the red"/"in the black" to mean an enterprise is in debt or profitable. Black Frid
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Sometimes when waiting, I tap out morse code on the beg button. I hope there's a log of button presses so that a traffic engineer will one day be impressed with the length of messages I've been able to .- .-. - .. -.-. ..- .-.. .-
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm not obsessed with Carmack, so I honestly don't know what has been said about him one way or the other. But really this is just a coat rack to hang a point about the epistemology of the argument. >Yeah well, you're anon
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Thank you for saying everything I wanted to say. I only add that the post above invokes some wildly spurious logic in counting the 5 instances of the same mistake as if they were 5 different mistakes. Such a basic error really makes me ques
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The story from Carmack is also based on his word. Unless you've worked with him directly, everything you know about John Carmack is based on some or other's words.

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