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by SamBam 2y ago
That reminded me to try a version of the riddle that I had come up with that I had never seen an LLM successfully answer: Me: I'd like you to solve this riddle for me. A farmer has a cabbage, a goat, a wolf and a lion, and needs
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by SamBam 2y ago
Thank you, that makes a lot of sense.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Is the suggestion that an English story is told from Point A to Point B, while the other cultures meander in various ways? This seems confusing to me, as a regular reader of short stories and personal histories and other things in English t
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by SamBam 2y ago
That study is hardly strong enough to make that statement that firmly. "Broadly," only if you exclude all of the Western world, and much of the rest of the world as well. The study cites a dozen or so papers saying: > Within
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by SamBam 2y ago
Ok, fair enough, I didn't mean to be rude. It's just that it sounds a lot like stuff that people who push fairly sexist stuff say. The thread is about evolution, and sexual selection in the context of evolution generally implies h
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by SamBam 2y ago
If I'm reading this right, the hypothesis seems to be that in drier climates, humans need longer noses (simplifying) to increase the humidity of the air to an optimal level. Did the authors propose a counter-evolutionary pressure, to f
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by SamBam 2y ago
The article mentions an increase in upper respiratory tract infections in the air being breathed in is not humid enough. The hypothesis seems to be that in drier climates, humans need longer noses to increase the humidity of the air to an o
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by SamBam 2y ago
Evidence? Take just the easiest to measure of those factors, wealth. Per your hypothesis, wealthier men should have more babies. Do you have any evidence that wealthier men have more babies? In fact, it's quite the opposite. There is a
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by SamBam 2y ago
I don't see why you'd make that assumption. If we run a simulation forward to, say, Jan 1 2032, our uncertainty about where the asteroid will be is not only in, let's call it, the X and Y axes, describing a flat circle of whe
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by SamBam 2y ago
This happens in the YA book Life As We Knew It . A really great book (for a YA audience). I still feel cold remembering it.
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by SamBam 2y ago
The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be held in Canada, USA and Mexico. I do think spreading things out makes a lot of sense. Slightly less incentive for corruption, too.
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by SamBam 2y ago
I'm still a little confused. A monster of strength X seems to make me lose X HP and gain X gold. The first level is easy. I have 5 HP, and I need 5 gold to level up, so I kill monsters worth 5 and I gain enough gold to level up. But af
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by SamBam 2y ago
Instead you ought to pay someone $15/hr to sit next to you. Anytime you're distracted by a website for more than five minutes, they punch you in the arm. They also have to know they don't get paid if you manage to convince th
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by SamBam 2y ago
If your livelihood depends on 50+ miles travel every day, and you're 55 years old, you may well appreciate the assistance.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Or built for a place with only dirt roads, heavy muds during a rainy season, probably very limited ability to get spare parts, and a desire to use it for years after buying it.
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by SamBam 2y ago
I was very confused by that as well. I studied the video, and the only thing that I can conclude is that he simply unbolted the pedals from the chain ring. The pedals would therefore not be doing anything at all except support the rider&#x2
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by SamBam 2y ago
I'm interested in understanding whether they're looking for two essays or six. Is each essay supposed to weave together three quotes?
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by SamBam 2y ago
For starters, the Sieg Heil salute that Elon did was exactly the same as Hitler did it [1] and modern-day white nationalists do it [2]. Secondly, anyone who refers to Nazism as the "the National-Socialist party of the German working
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by SamBam 2y ago
ADL has been much more about pro-Israel than they have been about anti-antisemitism. They know which way Israel's bread is buttered. Trump just removed all sanctions for the settlers, and allowed the sale of significantly bigger bombs
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by SamBam 2y ago
> mounting evidence suggesting the entire solar system is teeming with at least microbial life ?
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by SamBam 2y ago
Regardless, the net carbon sink of a healthy forest is higher than the net carbon sink of a few houses that were built in its place. Simply think of the number of tons of wood in an acre of forest, compared with the number of tons of wood i
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by SamBam 2y ago
Are you sure that's supposed to be a heart? I see the three peaks of a "W" as well -- I think it's supposed to be a tulip, no? That also matches the background theme.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Right, but rave culture used to be the antithesis of cover prices and fancy drinks. Rave culture was very much the domain of the transient, the semi-homeless, the youth that had left their parents houses without much money. (Plus some trust
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by SamBam 2y ago
I'm wondering if you actually thought that there was a chance that Google Maps was going to answer you correctly? I guess we're entering an age where people might have a reasonable expectation that any app is a context-aware LLM
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by SamBam 2y ago
Wow, where did you go to school? Every 15 year old boy at mine was wearing a team shirt, an athletic brand shirt, or a band's shirt.
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by SamBam 2y ago
"Operated in Norwell" is the verb phrase that "under the radar" is modifying. It's about where it's based.
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by SamBam 2y ago
It's not wasteful if you're giving them to your local Goodwill, or listing them free on Craigslist or something. It's only wasteful if you're throwing them in your trashcan.
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by SamBam 2y ago
This will keep His spirit alive, like an Old God who is fed by our unknowing adherence to traditions, hanging glass baubles on Christmas trees in a pale reflection of hanging the heads of our sacrificed enemies, yet still providing a drop o
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by SamBam 2y ago
I feel like this is unlikely to go viral -- these drawing apps have been around for over a decade.
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by SamBam 2y ago
This isn't Reddit.

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