Tarq0n

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by Tarq0n 3y ago
I get sent to the login screen maybe once per day. Very annoying if you searched from the address bar because your query isn't preserved anywhere. Not actually logged out, resending the query works.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
You're not going to get anywhere trying to apply technical solutions to a social problem. Maybe see if the parents would be willing to get a cheap device just for your niece so they don't have to share?
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
UPF isn't about what nutrients are in the food, it's about what optimizing for manufacturing process and hyper-palatability moderates the effects the food has in our bodies.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
It's a pretty large gap between enterprise organizations that have lost the capability to do anything but buy mostly terrible software in the open market and organizations that maintain some amount of ability to make things. If you&#x2
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
The way YouTube doesn't show you the metadata for removed videos anymore is infuriating. You end up with playlists where you can tell something was removed but not what.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
I wonder to what extent its output correlates with that of wind energy in the same region. Having a reasonably independent set of generating technologies might help with the intermittent generation of sun-based renewables.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Resouces, maybe. But they'll experience a refugee crisis in their lifetimes unlike any seen before, as well as potential food insecurity.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Different people have different kinds of cognition. For instance this Joseph Conrad quote from the article: “My job as a writer of fiction is to make you see, to appeal as accurately as possible to the visible, and that is everything.” is a
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Some of the best recordings I've heard (NPR) are only on YouTube. This leads me to believe recording quality is orders of magnitude more important than encoding, as long as a decent bitrate and encoding scheme were used.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Wood captures carbon within it and has minimal energy cost compared to steel, glass and brick. Lumber can also be regrown. So highly sustainable from a global warming perspective at least.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
The swipe sideways on an item is the worst, i once spent half an hour trying to delete a sleep record in the health app.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Science should aim to create general (that is, generalized or generalizable) knowledge. One prompt is just an anecdote, a method for creating performant prompts or deriving prompts from model characteristics would be more scientific.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Maybe GMO crops are a better analogy. We understand them well enough, but if we mess up at making them unable to reproduce they could easily proliferate beyond our control.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
The typical example is the paperclip maximizer, an AI that pursues the goals we gave it to such an extreme that it dooms humanity. Not because its values were opposed to ours but because it has no values.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
The causal relationship between amyloid plaque and alzheimers is controversial nowadays.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
I don't think static typing is the right way to go for every kind of application (imagine doing data analysis without dynamic typing), but every dynamic programming language should ideally support progressively adding types to a codeba
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Undoing self-sabotaging thought patterns is the essence of cognitive behavioral therapy though.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Though people are making valid points in the other comments, don't underestimate what stress and bad circumstances can do to one's cognition. This isn't necessarily how he was performing before.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Considering the developments in data engineering land I wonder if we'll be describing our operations as a DAG rather than maps and folds specifically.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Is there value to most breaking news? It's simply a facet of competition between news outlets, most news actually benefits from some delay.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
I noticed you're an incorporated organisation. What's your business model?
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Name reuse is a huge security concern and probably shouldn't be done even if a name is under-utilized.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Fauci is just a figurehead and the vaccines were developed privately. Don't confuse celebrity politicians and bureaucrats being involved with the actual issue at hand.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Pluralism can be valuable even if all the participants are reprehensible. Ideally they compete each other to a standstill, allowing separation of powers and human rights to gain a foothold. That said western media does have the habit of glo
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Surely they'd have to give this up the moment they receive a FISA national security letter?
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Should Americans pay for the overthrowing of democratic governments in Iran and Panama?
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Facial recognition algorithms are a set of different and developing models. There's no guarantee any system aimed at the weaknesses of an existing algorithm would work against different or future facial recognition systems.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Prophet is such an appealing package because it promises to abstract away all the difficult parts of forecasting. However, in practice it does not fulfill its promises. I think this is a good discussion of the problems: https://w
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Sounds like the precursor to what Lattner is trying to do with Mojo: embed everything into a Frankenstein of a compiler and runtime. Time will tell if such a thing is maintainable.
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by Tarq0n 3y ago
Inflation is a kind of slow debt relief that may have largely replaced the need for jubilees.

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