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by SkyBelow 4y ago
It would depend upon the details of what is meant by learning calculus. Learning enough to pass the average high school class on it isn't much. Above average at math, but nothing very impressive. But the same language could also des
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There are some sentences in English that use a zero pronoun as the noun, though it is generally in cases where it feels like the noun is already specified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_(linguistics) Perhaps the e
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At a simple level, the use of particles feels somewhat programming-ish. As one's knowledge expands, the exceptions and idiosyncrasies end up destroying that picture, but I get where it comes from. I would assume it is similar to intro
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>They were wrong, so there were layoffs to correct it. Aren't the cuts smaller in size than the increased head count going into the pandemic, which would indicate there was a shift, but not one as large as they had prepared for?
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>Children don't have any special ability to pick up languages They do. One example I recall from a neurology class is that the auditory cortex of a young child is able to differentiate more sounds than that of an adult. As a child
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I've found YouTube videos can do a good job. Entry level: 3 Blue 1 Brown, Mathologer More advanced: Many random one offs which I haven't yet to establish a good pattern for, Richard E Brocherds seems to have a few series though I
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Is something deemed bad in one place acceptable in another if it isn't as bad as the alternatives? I could give numerous examples where this is not the case. So assuming we will be consistent in what we consider acceptable or wrong,
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It is also possible that the inability to pay back would negative effect the friend's ability to maintain the friendship. Between feeling they let the loaner down, or feeling guilty they couldn't repay it. Even if the loaner set
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>To address your later point, intelligence does not equal knowledge. This is just one of the many paths to the fundamental question that plagues this sort of topic, what is intelligence. Is intelligence the capacity for gaining knowledg
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>Humans existed a long time before proper technology development, and those humans were just as intelligent as modern ones. The ability to create technology is not a requirement for higher intelligence. Is that actually true? In cases o
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While you go into detail on the generation of the world, I think the simulation is another major factor that goes into it. Once you start playing the game, the level of detail used in generating the world is now used applied locally to simu
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>the idea that all human-readable code accessible on the public internet can be ingested into such a system without regard for its license would effectively mean that anything posted to the public internet is entered into the public doma
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Humans aren't great as being logical. A scientist giving an expertly sourced claim with plenty of disclaimers is going to have their idea given less importance than a charismatic speaker using conviction and force but having no eviden
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There are people who are choosing, and there are reasons behind which might end up being better than others, but those are often half science and half politics. Sometimes the end up being done for less than justifiable reasons. One factor
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It is a bit like asking how exactly does the XGB matrix build in stable diffusion create images. We know the end result that is produced, but we can't pick a single number and talk about what it contributes to the overall algorithm.
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I think the distinction is between 'feels bad' and 'makes this post'. I totally get why someone would feel bad about this, even despite the upfront agreement and the paycheck. I don't really get the post, especial
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That's still a form of tracking. Maybe not enough to identify unique users in some use cases, but even just knowing someone has been here n times is enough if the user numbers are low enough that you can identify users by unique n cou
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Counting is not tracking, but counting unique visitors requires tracking to know they are unique. If the person outside of Costco is counting unique visitors, they must be tracking who has already visited and who has not. Even if they are
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>which is typically not a desirable feature in a payment system. I think it would be desirable. Some people will get into specifics of which laws they like to break and which laws they want enforced, but my experience has been most peop
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I think so. If the argument is that people will make associations that the original person did not intend, then it seems quite possible that pointing out bad usages of memes will result in people likely memes less overall. This is but one
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My initial guess is that regression determines how well you fit an existing pattern or group of patterns but doesn't find out if there is an even better fitting pattern not used. Linear regression will determine how well you fit a lin
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>They aren't. We're nowhere even close. They are and have been for decades. One of the reasons of passing laws preventing businesses from engaging in certain forms of discrimination is because because businesses had enough pow
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>Yes, for example hitting someone with a real sword is punished more harshly than hitting them with a plastic one. Intent will be a factor. If you thought you had a real sword and intended to kill someone, your penalty will be the same
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There are a number of differences. First is that road rules apply to public roads. Private roads have far fewer rules. You might not be able to endanger a child or have duels to the death, but there generally aren't speed limits at
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>It's ok to have different standards for humans and computers. Is it? The computer is a tool doing it on behalf of a human, so different rules for computers ends up being different rules for using different tools. Should the effic
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What does it mean for speech to be protected if not meaning to be protected from the consequences? Could I not say one is free to murder but one is not protected from the consequences of murder? I think we can break down government and no
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>The underwritten currency of human society is violence. Perhaps this should be changed to life in general, with a possible exception for the forms of life that produce their own energy. All others engage in some form of violence to sec
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Without a sample case I can't say for certain, but couldn't it also be a defense that some code is generic enough that it shouldn't be copyrighted?
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This works if you are at the end of your career, but otherwise one should look at building their career in case something happens to their current job.
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One major issue with humans is that sacrifice begins to be expected and often is not rewarded. When a job not only becomes thankless, or near enough, but also expected as the default, it becomes hurtful to continue doing it. Are the stewar

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