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by JadeNB 2y ago
Right, those are important considerations, but I don't think that they're the same consideration. If you ask whether a celebrity chef is better at cooking a certain dish than I am, then the answer (no matter the dish, for I&#x2
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> the process of creating something is meaningful, even commercially. That's true, but why does it mean that the answer to the more or less objective question "will AI actually be better than humans at sequencing these kinds of
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I'm not sure why people are calling this a scam (or maybe they refer to the other exploits described?)—the article itself says "even the CBS executives ultimately admitted that he had broken nary a rule." But I have to say th
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> Twitter is more lenient towards specific rhetoric same with all the social sites and their affiliations Under Musk, Twitter is lenient towards specific sorts of rhetoric that align with, or at least don't conflict with, his own le
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by JadeNB 2y ago
> The moral issue I have is that simply put, if I don't have the money for something, I wasn't meant to have that something. I need to earn the money for it, after which I deserve to have that something. There's a differen
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> In Houston, bollards and raised pedestrian paths were removed recently (after being installed last year) because drivers kept hitting them. So the city chooses not to pay the cost of protecting pedestrians, in favor of letting individu
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by JadeNB 2y ago
It's been a while since I've seen a Slashdot link on HN! Why not link directly to the source, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/2/2238565/-RFK-Jr-su... ?
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> I’ve literally been in a meeting with a doctor in the last week who wrote something down wrong on the damn computer in front of me. And I’m talking a specialist consultant. I’m sure if I didn’t mention it that the incorrect data would
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> The solution to the shortage of doctors is to stop letting doctors decide the supply of doctors. I would certainly rather let decisions about certification of doctors be in the hands of doctors than anyone else. There's potential
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> Woodworking or any other hobby that you enjoy will be more pleasing than any real job you will do. I think that you mean that a hobby (that you can pick up and put down as you please) is always more enjoyable than a job (at which you m
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by JadeNB 3y ago
LaTeX is very much an open format, or, rather, it is no format—it's just plain text. It can be very hard to look at a LaTeX document and be guaranteed to know what the symbols means, because included packages, and even the document it
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Is it not? I'm not sure I understand the question. Yes, it is often attributed to him. If you mean "is it not true that he said it?", I don't know, but my suspicion, as with many such famous quotes, is that he pro
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Often attributed to von Neumann.
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> The outside with the solution doesn't have to live with the result and likely doesn't comprehend the un-stated nuances of the situation. Yes, that's the kind of thing I had in mind by saying that I thought that there we
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The suggestion was to credit LeCun, not Meta. (Perhaps you were responding to the secondary suggestion also to credit Zuckerberg?)
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But the claimed phenomenon here is that it's (almost) always easier for you to come up with a solution to someone else's problem than for them to do so, not just that some problems are easier for one person than another. There are
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Yes, the rest of my comment suggested that the point of view that the US is uniquely prone to this might come more from over-familiarity with the US than from causes that truly don't generalize.
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> It's easier to think in programming than math. I think that it depends a lot on background. My suspicion is that it's not easy for a random, untrained person to think in either. I think that a lot of folks here are programme
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> You think its a problem only in the US? Its a problem everywhere. Your parent comment: > How or why are any lobbyists allowed to be part of the legislative process? It's understandable in the US with the total citizens united c
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> Introducing a slight bias factor that is randomized each time results in a lower average bias compared to a bias factor that is the same every time. That's what I'm saying—it's reasonable to believe that the submission t
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> I only had to deal with a small class, so backtracking was doable and I graded the papers in whatever shuffled up order they were turned in, otherwise there would have definitely been a bias. Grading papers in submission order just int
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> Technically html + css + user interaction can be turing complete: https://github.com/brandondong/css-turing-machine Turing completeness is about what computations can be expressed, not what user interactions can b
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> This is just a fancy way of saying "blur out everything else" in the screenshot? Personally I prefer to crop the unnecessary content out of the screenshot. Other threads have pointed out that it might be useful for a screensh
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> Are there really electrons? Or does observable phenomena simply fit with the theory of electrons? Practically speaking, what is the difference?
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> > any problem with the lack of hard engineering, science, math, … > To be fair, that does exclude quite a lot of problems. I had some trouble parsing the comment, but I eventually settled on the reading that it means what it lite
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> Well you definitely want to use hardcode paths in some scripts. For example those that call sudo. I can agree that there are cases for hardcoded paths to executables, but I'd argue that (aside possibly from working around the bad
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> Steam horrible bash scripts have tons of things hardcoded to sbin... expect the worst (but the cherry on top is the usage of command gnu niche-options). sbin is still there, just symlinked to bin. (But, yes, hardcoded paths are deeply
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> Also there is no reason to do it as it's not a man-made "climate change". People need to adapt, not fight it. Even if you believe it's not man-made, the historical way that organisms "adapt" to climate cha
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I don't think that's entirely true. 100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions ( https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10... ); I don't have the statistics—I
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> I think everyone understands that but it’s cheap and the world depends on energy. So it’s not they people don’t get it, it’s that the world is working toward getting renewables cheap enough to fulfill current and future energy needs. T

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