SamBam

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by SamBam 3mo ago
I think the objection about AI-generated cards, or decks found online, is that the context of the card creation is lost. What made you write the card? How did you find the answer/translation/whatever? What was all the learning ar
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by SamBam 3mo ago
The AI in the article isn't an LLM.
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by SamBam 3mo ago
> Hacker culture sees programming as a conversation with a machine as it runs. I wrote about this a fair bit as a party of my master's thesis, about tinkering as being a "conversation" with materials. Hacking can absolut
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by SamBam 3mo ago
I can't imagine how much amazing and important literature you'd miss if you were snobby enough to think that you could only read things in their original language. I'm so glad I get to read the Russians and Kafka and Calvino
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by SamBam 4mo ago
I was confused when I first read it as well, but the implication is that the higher reward-seeking risk tolerance can actually be more rational than the well-studied loss-aversion bias that the authors mention. Looking into this more, stu
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by SamBam 4mo ago
> The important catch > The favicon doesn't actually contain the whole website itself. This is the kind of thing that is extremely idiomatic LLM speak. There's nothing particularly wrong about it per se, but it just makes
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by SamBam 4mo ago
A large percent of espresso in the US is drunk iced. Iced Americanos, iced lattes, iced shaken espressos. If you don't need to heat the water before cooling it down it would be an enegy savings.
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by SamBam 4mo ago
> For the espresso samples, participants could not reliably tell the traditional and ultrasonic versions apart. There were no significant differences in aroma, flavour, bitterness or overall liking.
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by SamBam 4mo ago
Nah. I have a Roku 3 stick and a brand-new $700 projector with Google TV. The Roku 3 is light-years ahead in terms of speed and UI ergonomics over the Google machine. And both are better than the smart TVs I've used. But I fear this ne
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by SamBam 4mo ago
I'm a teacher. Our kids are using Chromebooks, and we want them to do research projects, but we don't want them using AI. Unfortunately with Google, it's impossible not to get AI answers. As far as we know, there's no cl
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by SamBam 4mo ago
I feel like unresponsive controls must have been a platform or hardware issue. On my (...Dell with Windows 3.1?) the controls were perfectly responsive, and they absolutely had to be. So many things relied on being able to, say, run and swi
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by SamBam 4mo ago
The tutorial made it seem a little too much like there is only one speed that would keep us in orbit. Any slower and we'd crash, any faster and we'd leave. In fact, though, if you've ever played any game with orbiting mechani
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by SamBam 4mo ago
Everything you're saying is right, but I'm not seeing what's wrong with step 14. Did they edit it? > Earth turns once every 23 h 56 min (one sidereal day) about an axis tilted 23.4° (the blue line). That spin gives us day
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by SamBam 4mo ago
Huh, perfectly snappy on my Firefox on Android.
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by SamBam 4mo ago
> wtaf? Do you really think this is the reality? Of course. American varsity soccer players play ~5 times a week for four months a year, August through November. February through April is the Spring season and varsity teams are forbidd
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by SamBam 4mo ago
Basketball is the only sport in the US that has a similar level of hundreds of hours a year of unstructured play, so it makes sense that the US is great at it. Hockey, who is the US competing against? Canada. No other country in the world t
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by SamBam 4mo ago
So leaving aside whether 5-6 times is "a few," the bigger issue is the length of the season. Varsity soccer season in the US is usually just four months, August-November. Spring season (with no games) is February-April. During tha
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by SamBam 4mo ago
I don't think the article really tried to answer the question, though maybe that wasn't its intent and the author was genuinely asking. I think an answer would need to look at the difference in how kids and teens play soccer in th
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by SamBam 4mo ago
Same order of magnitude.
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by SamBam 5mo ago
User should be required to explain the situation to an older and a younger family member, and get permission from both of them.
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by SamBam 5mo ago
I wonder how accurate a virtual model could be made of this, which could be iterated on millions of times faster. My first project as a research assistant in AI was doing evolutionary algorithms on Khepera robots, which had a virtual Java i
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by SamBam 5mo ago
That debate is 90% of the article.
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by SamBam 5mo ago
My wife is a great compliment giver. She'll walk down the street and see a person wearing a great shirt and say "Oh my God, I love that shirt! It looks so great on you!" The other person will smile and laugh, and they'll
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by SamBam 5mo ago
Presumably Banksy and associates would have been arrested too if they had been caught. This whole thing relies on doing it in a way that people don't question it while it's happening.
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by SamBam 5mo ago
Cliffhanger! Did it end with millions of Americans being freed forever from government surveillance?!? j/k It's a good excerpt, and makes me want to read the book.
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by SamBam 5mo ago
You need to stop spamming this message. This isn't Reddit.
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by SamBam 5mo ago
Find treasure hunting equipment on the beach...
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by SamBam 5mo ago
I only managed to get out once I had earned all 9 badges...
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by SamBam 5mo ago
I think the tapping phones feature -- for initial friend creation, not upkeep -- is THE killer feature of the app. Do I want my teens on any social media apps? No. Would I let them be on Facebook of 2006, when you were just connected to you
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by SamBam 6mo ago
It's probably just me, but I'm having trouble finding any images of the Middle Earth maps except for Numenor, Valinor and Aman. Maybe it's just OP's title that led me to expect otherwise?

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