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> We demonstrate that utilizing a large unlabeled multilingual dataset to pre-train the encoder of our model and fine-tuning on a smaller set of labeled data enables us to recognize these under-represented languages. Moreover, our model
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>What about my last paragraph? Do you deny that there's a two-step process going on, or do you actually see the phrase "Chinese cradle" and interpret it to mean "birthplace of civilization" rather than first assu
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>a first-order label for a thing in itself Let's bring this back to typing because I think it really helps. Typos from Greek refers to a physical mark or impression made by a stamp (not inherently letters, any physical impression
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4y ago
I'm very confused by your stance. I get that cradle started out meaning "basket" (like definire started out meaning drawing boundaries), but now it literally also means the place where a civilizations started (like defi
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Definition's etymology is literally from dēfīnīre, which was a Latin word that was originally used in the context of setting bounds to physical land. This then turned into setting bounds around the meaning of words. One can't p
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Per Merriam Webster: b : a place of origin the cradle of civilization An accepted definition of "cradle" is a place of origin. Please do not spread misinformation with such confidence without first doing a Google search.
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4y ago
> users are really damn good at immersing themselves using just a screen and a controller Not only that, but VR/AR doesn't solve any incremental immersion blockers. My brain is very good at 'not looking away from the sc
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>am wondering if the users are aware of these news, they don't care, or are confident Binance will come through. Or this is evidence that the 'true' market is thin/insignificant and the price is mostly controlled by i
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4y ago
But certain countries will build a culture and infrastructure that completely revolves around the car and results in the average citizen walking only 3,000 steps per day [0]. Interfaces will exist because sometimes we need them (walking bet
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It’s kind of wild to hear someone say this and it leads me to believe your expertise is outside the world of transformers. In 2014, we were training encoder/decoder models on maybe a billion tokens, mostly limited by models architect
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>live like its 1880 >sorry no biking, rubber is an industrial process Bicycles had rubber tires as early as 1870 and before that, rubber was widely available in the 18th Century. If you're going to snark, at least snark correctly
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> If we look only at the very tallest buildings, China builds much faster than the US. ??
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>A athlete a little bit later in their career, should have substantial investments Yes, that makes them a capital owner, but it's hard to make a metaphor where people aren't allowed to buy stocks with their excess money. >Th
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If your argument is that making change is a high value skill, then we disagree. It's fine that cashiers cant make change when these [0] exist. In fact, you may not be attuned to US memes, but older adults giving odd combinations of mo
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We agree. Creativity will continue to be more valued, while formulaic synthesis will lose value (in the same way recall has declined in value as databases get better).
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4y ago
My guess is also that it has a lot to do with infrastructure. This is probably why US tall buildings are slower than the rest of world. When a new tower requires metro station access, complex/new electrical work, etc. the US lags beca
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>The cynic in me says that there will be Chat-GPT generation of kids that won't be able to think rationally on their own It’s interesting to me that your implication is “ChatGPT” will give reasonable but wrong answers to things, the
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Isn't the point of Penrose tiles that it's made of 2 shapes (i.e. you only need two arbitrarily movable stamps to make it work)?
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4y ago
> These claims demonstrate a profound, ignorance of how these protocols work — something I'm calling into attention not to berate you personally, but so that people who stumble across this thread later appropriately discount your cl
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We’ll time and this argument are a flat circle then. I guess my final question is: do you think there is any risk to a user of those third party service providers going under and not returning capital (either due to slashing risk or normal
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It’s hard to grok but inflation is just the “price of money” in terms of goods and services. (I.e. I can ‘buy’ one pound with X good) Inflation only negatively affects the poor in that their wages are sticky and do not adjust in time (so in
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You maintain your position of what? That it's not a loan or it's not a security? Or both?
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>but probably moot if these "third party service providers" are just doing the busywork of interacting with the protocol, on behalf of Coinbase, on behalf of the user. I'm sorry, you can't just use the word protocol t
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I'm saying that the test was of 3,000 white British people born in the 1920's (they specifically excluded non-white people) and what they found was that distant relatives scored similarly on tests (that's what it means to sha
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From the 10-k: We operate staking nodes on certain blockchain networks utilizing customers’ crypto assets and pass through the rewards received to those customers, less a service fee. In other cases, upon customers’ instructions, we may del
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>Coinbase isn't giving my coins (rhetorically, I do not use Coinbase Earn or own any significant amount of blockchain assets) to anyone, they're interacting with a decentralized protocol on my behalf. This is an incorrect assum
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Validators. It's being lent to validators. Do you not know the mechanics of staking? If so: https://solana.com/staking
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I'm unclear how taking one person's currency (let's say Solana) and giving it to a different person/validator (who needs it to fulfill the requirements of a validator on that blockchain), who then puts it at risk (e.g.
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Wait, don't play fast and loose here. I defined a loan. because you said: >The bank is quite literally writing multiple loans. I was establishing that Coinbase is also making loans. Then , I said >Coinbase is doing the work of
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Maybe, I think in general though, this falls into uncanny valley territory. Humans like patterns or randomness, we sort of hate quasi-versions of either (See: our disdain for blurry pictures).
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