SamBam

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by SamBam 3y ago
No, it's not common to reopen court cases if the jury finds a person innocent. You can certainly reopen court cases where someone was found guilty, but that's not double jeopardy.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I'm not sure precisely what supreme court gem you're referring to, but just to be clear, double jeopardy only applies when a jury finds a person innocent. People who are found guilty can potentially have a new trial if new evide
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by SamBam 3y ago
The apparent failure to mirror "correctly" left and right in this illusion reminds me of a great interview question I heard: why does a mirror reverse things left and right, but not flip them top and bottom? It can be fun to watch
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by SamBam 3y ago
Do your statements have any sources? And are those sources anything other than the difficulty in targeting the fast-evolving covid virus?
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by SamBam 3y ago
Having a lot more electricians is not necessarily a bad thing. I've seen some estimates of the number of new electricians the US would need in order to handle the electrification of the country if we want to stave off further climate c
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by SamBam 3y ago
> Vertex set the price of Casgevy at $2.2 million > Patients must spend weeks, even months, in the hospital before and after the therapy is administered. Yoiks. So how many actual people are going to be able to get this treatment?
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by SamBam 3y ago
> Reason is simply - apartments were put there they are well after city was fully developed. I'm confused by this statement. In any older city in the US, like in any city in Europe, the heart of the city is apartment buildings. Thos
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by SamBam 3y ago
Did they also test it by asking for fake information? Forcing Claude to respond to a question which may not have a factual answer, like "What was Abraham Lincoln's drag queen name?" by starting with “Here is the most relevant
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by SamBam 3y ago
The vast majority of people who use ESP-32 smart devices, however, probably just give it the password to their WiFi.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Your analogy would imply that the other pole exists, it's just someplace else. Is that what the paper is suggesting? I didn't see that, but admittedly most of it went over my head.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Wow, that is jaw-dropping. I wish I could see it in real time, without the cuts, though. It made it hard to tell whether it was actually producing those responses in the way that is implied in the video.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Tired: Asking participants to sign an ethics pledge at the top of a tax return makes them more honest. Wired: Asking an LLM to write out their steps first makes them more accurate. They seem equally interesting to me, but one is a lot easie
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by SamBam 3y ago
I missed it, what was infamous about it?
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I tried changing the size of the smaller window, and it worked briefly to allow the ball to bounce off the now-larger size, before the game snapped the window size back to the original. It made me think that changing the window could be par
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by SamBam 3y ago
I have the same problem. I would love a tiling manager that allowed you to "full screen" the app into the tile of your choice. By that, I mean the app would snap to the edges and lose all the chrome that is normal present. So your
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by SamBam 3y ago
Huh, I don't see it that way. It's totally unambiguous, there would be no way for that character to have entered the number without it being the decimal separator. Contrast that to choosing either a period or a comma and your sett
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by SamBam 3y ago
Because "greenwashing" refers to the Saudi's attempts to say that what they're doing is for ecological, climate reasons. You're right, they are earnestly pursuing both, for exactly the reasons you describe: pure p
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by SamBam 3y ago
I would be fun to create a game with this. I'm imagining something where the different windows allow different affordances. E.g. one window is your night-vision specs and the other is your HUD. Or perhaps you have six or more windows o
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by SamBam 3y ago
Honestly, I'm really confused by how it was able to keep the idea of "business-themed puns" through so much of it. I don't understand how it was able to keep understanding that those weird letters were supposed to be &qu
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by SamBam 3y ago
I mean, I think my point is still valid for a $20/TB drive. It's a one-time cost, not monthly, and you're unlikely to exceed 1TB with Google Drive data.
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by SamBam 3y ago
It's not really an issue if you do a one-time Prettification commit, and then stick to Prettifying automatically thereafter. Then you won't ever see line-width changes mixed in with functional changes. Isn't this an issue wit
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by SamBam 3y ago
I assume that "self-hosted" meant precisely that they own the box. A hard drive is under $10/terabyte.
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I loved that game, It felt so advanced for its time.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Right. To clarify, I meant: with the original study design, how could they not have gotten the result they did? (And that's rhetorical.)
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by SamBam 3y ago
Exactly, that was my thought. How would it be possible to get anything other than the D-K effect, even if it wasn't just averaging to the mean? The lowest quartile can't say they're below the lowest quartile, so any error a
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by SamBam 3y ago
Since they barely produce wakes when they are hydrofoiling, these rules can probably be changed.
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Huh, I just had a fairly long and fruitless conversation with ChatGPT 4 trying to understand whether this was true. ChatGPT kept insisting that romance languages distinguish between the preterite ("he did," simple past tense) and
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yeah, a big fear of mine is having ten years worth of photos deleted in one fell swoop (or, at least, access to them removed without recourse, which comes to the same thing) because an AI thinks that a half-nude photo of my three-year-old i
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by SamBam 3y ago
I think the whole point of the philosophical concept of "bullshit" is that it's orthogonal to the truth. It doesn't matter whether the words end up being correct or not correct, it's still bullshit because the speak
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by SamBam 3y ago
It reminds me of the old philosophical debate about AI and consciousness. Many philosophers argue that knowing whether something which appears to be conscious really is conscious is a meaningless question. If there is no way to distinguis

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