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by Isamu 1y ago
One of the potential uses of AI that I have most wanted is automated citation lookup and validation. First check if the citation references a real thing. Then actually read and summarize the referenced text and give a confidence level that
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I found that the languages are hard to break into as an amateur, owning to the available literature. In contrast Egyptology has many popular treatments, you just have to watch out for the junk.
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It’s common knowledge, less so now because we never need to do it. But go back in time and it’s common frontier knowledge, you can do this in a pinch. And in Medieval times, you can boil something in a pouch. It’s just less reliable, the up
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>Consider the scenario of GPT-5 training GPT-6, which would be incredible. GPT-5 secret tips: * If you don’t know the answer, hallucinate with confidence! Most humans won’t know the difference. * You can mash-up anything together, don’t
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>To address this question, we analyzed 408 publicly available YouTube videos featuring a single cat in a clearly visible sleeping position while lying on one side, with an uninterrupted sleep duration of at least 10 seconds and full-body
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I struggle with taking this too seriously YET, knowing that we ingest all manner of tiny things, and breathe in all kinds of particles and toxins all the time. NOT SAYING this is fine, but rather I haven’t heard anything yet to bump it up h
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No mention of Rimuru Tempest? I don’t know why I expected it but I did.
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Funny though that “paper” is not about paper anymore.
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We listened to his show in the CMU dorms around 1979, I think his show was where Weird Al Yankovik was introduced to the world.
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This was part of Disney’s early struggles, where the business was nearly killed off by losing the contract to continue with this successful character, because Disney never owned the rights. Disney faced repeated failures and took big risks.
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> Those who criticize so-called “AI doomers” often overlook that there is a broader, intellectually serious tradition of technological doomerism that goes back decades. Not wanting to be snarky but the “intellectually serious”
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Ha, I’m another person that says “hey” in response, nice to know I’m not the only one with a preference for brief interruptions.
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I developed an in-house app for the Palm and supported it for several years. The developer support from Palm was very primitive. They did the very minimum and it showed in the lack of software ecosystem. I don’t think the leadership knew ho
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I’m doing my bit to wear them down, one glass at a time!
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Often people are justifying moral systems that make sense overall but contain individual values that are grandfathered in, but maybe don’t make as much sense as the rest. There is a resistance to the kind of clarity that could force you to
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Thank you, I think it pursues a human aesthetic that I needed today. I appreciate your work. I wish you well on your journey.
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I’m not looking for this product but my daughter could use something that identifies and reads everything in the environment that she can just query
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So now you know why tall wrought iron tree guards are a thing in older cities.
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I think what would be unfair is putting words in the mouth of the animatronic, making Walt say something that he wouldn’t have agreed with. Same with any historical figure.
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>Yet soon a social media missive critical of the attraction from Walt's granddaughter would go viral. It raised anew ethical questions that often surround any project attempting to capture the dead via technology, be it holographic
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This is a really great deep dive, I wish I could upvote more to reward this kind of quality work.
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Right, these are ideas lacking precision. There’s the common usage of “theory” to mean any kind of notion, but in physics a theory is the really the math, it’s the main course not some side dish.
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>Only six months ago 52% of Canadians saw the US as a positive influencer; now only 19% feel the same. This 33-point fall is the largest recorded for any country. Not shocking, we’re all bundled into a clown car, you get that lurching “h
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3. Barrel vault.
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He wants to get rid of his taxes, reducing other people’s taxes is part of the deal. Tariffs are moving taxes around, everyone pays but he’s hoping that he will be the least affected.
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It’s worded that way to assure the user that they will ask again. And again.
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Yeah cow manure is VERY wet. Compare to horse manure which is relatively dry, easy to shovel.
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Why doesn’t Dyson create a vacuum urinal? We could use that for space stations anyway.
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That is interesting indeed, thanks!
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People have made the point many times before, that “hallucination” is mainly what generative AI does and not the exception, but most of the time it’s a useful hallucination. I describe it as more of a “mashup”, like an interpolation of stat

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