Tarq0n

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by Tarq0n 11mo ago
I'd hardly call the solution to Malthusian traps "ham fisted". Modern industrial agriculture, or at least fertilizer use, has let us escape from constant famine.
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by Tarq0n 11mo ago
No. The regulation is about processing your personal information, cookies are just an implementation detail.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Ok but what are you going to decode into at generation time, a jpeg of text? Tokens have value beyond how text appears to the eye, because we process text in many more ways than just reading it.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
The discomfort visible in many commenter's reactions is telling, even if it isn't a good vs bad dichotomy. The fact of the matter is that any data visualization brings with it some advantages and drawbacks. This can be projection,
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
I do all my GIS work in R, and prefer it to a GUI first approach to be honest.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Pages 16, 32, 50 and 62 have breakdowns of mean score by ethnicity actually.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Have you used a Microsoft product lately? So many bigco's publishing their org chart as login domains.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
The law doesn't care whether it's a cookie or an equivalent.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
If someone doesn't use one modality of thought, it's probably wise to assume they rely more heavily on other modalities, rather than that they think less. Compare for instance to a blind person using sound, touch, memorization, si
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Animals have emotions, but jumping to their qualia being the same as ours seems unjustified.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
People are motivated by status just as much or even more so than by money. Consider startup founders who eat ramen for years just for clout, or people who continue to pursue wealth long after marginal diminishing returns have gone to 0, tha
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Only being able to work under pressure is textbook ADHD.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Last year is just when they started being honest about it. Before then they left their terms intentionally ambiguous, then shook people down anyway.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
I think that's almost completely backwards. The input and output layers just convert between natural language and embeddings i.e. shift the format of the language. But operating on the embeddings is where meaning (locations in vector-s
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
This is very common. Log without further specification can be assumed to be the natural log (log e).
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
My understanding is that F-35's come with a deployment of US personnel that hold the encryption keys necessary to program the flight computers. You're always flying these at the mercy of the US. Not to mention the dependency of mo
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Isn't part of agricultural productivity tied to manufacturing nitrogen fertilizers with fossil fuels though? Curious if decarbonizing will drive up the price of those.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Korea has a binge drinking culture where adolescents frequently peer pressure each other to drink more.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
I'd be very interested in hearing what conclusions you came to in your research, if you're willing to share.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Software bill of materials type of initiatives could help with that.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Why does that require growth? If a population is at replacement level and keeps a uniform population pyramid, things are stable as long as the retirement age is set at the last 15% of life-expectancy or so (to account for labor force non-pa
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Ever seen a photoshop expert at work? Every human endeavor has a skill distribution. Hammering in a nail takes skill.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
This is how terrible API's are kept in use, wasting professional's time and making the field way less accessible for newcomers. Compare ggplot to matplotlib. They both serve the same purpose but one has an API you can actually rea
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
The more appropriate term is an oligopoly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligopoly
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
Sadly the openAI debacle has undermined faith in those kinds of structures as well.
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by Tarq0n 1y ago
OP's thermostat wasn't wired, that's why he'd need the electrician.
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by Tarq0n 2y ago
Ok? Not everyone has the same resources or technical sophistication.
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by Tarq0n 2y ago
The problem in your example is threefold: 1) what are my rights, I.e. Against what constraints was the algorithm implemented? 2) "we have decided": who is "we", it's actually good that a particular entity is respons
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by Tarq0n 2y ago
Other counties need dollars to settle their international trade (particularly oil but practically a lot more), and to hold in reserve. The dollar is actually the only currency that's been printed enough to serve this purpose alongside
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by Tarq0n 2y ago
Their washing machines and dryers are best in class IMO. At least in Europe they still have a reputation for quality.

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