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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and the Origins of Religion(medium.com)
7 points by Udik 7y ago|1 comments
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by Udik 7y ago
I tried a similar experiment on GPT-2 a few days ago, giving prompts like "if I drop a stone, it will" or "wood floats in water while a stone". Because that thing definitely has some knowledge of the real world, otherwis
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by Udik 7y ago
Cohen is advocating for political censorship in front of an ADL audience. The ADL, or Anti-Defamation League, for those who don't know it, is a powerful Jewish organisation claiming to fight agaist anti-Semitism- but mostly lobbying in
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by Udik 7y ago
Cohen is a great comedian, but I suspect he also has the skills of a con-artist, or a hypnotiser: he manages to get people to "sing along" with him well beyond what is normal and reasonable, and then ridicules them. It's funn
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by Udik 7y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not taking any sort of advice from the ADL, a lobbying group for Israel posing as an anti-racist organisation.
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by Udik 7y ago
Unless you're thinking of some cosmic catastrophe- and a much worse one than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs-, there is no comparison whatsoever between any disaster that can happen on Earth and the environmental conditions on M
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by Udik 7y ago
See also: the Netherlands, a country in ruins. /s Frankly the problem with Venice is not where it's built or climate change. The problem is that Italy has become a country living by the day and entirely unable to discuss and plan
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by Udik 7y ago
Interesting, but a bit deceiving. When selecting "current coast" it shows the current coastlines, but selecting even a single foot of sea level rise it draws the new coast respecting the actual elevation. The problem with this is
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by Udik 7y ago
I think he thinks that Kashoggi's murder was something like a situation that had gotten out of hand, or that it was decided by some low rank official. Otherwise, as you say, it wouldn't make sense to compare it to an actual accide
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by Udik 7y ago
> The thing is, when someone else benefits from you eating sugar, journalistic pieces that put try to put people on the wrong foot (like these) will come out. This is conspiratorial thinking. It's not healthy to shut off every opini
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by Udik 7y ago
At a first glance, they don't seem to be problems in which ML learning can have a huge impact. Netflix in the US has a catalogue of about 4000 movies plus a few hundred tv series. It's tiny- compare with 153707 items on a niche re
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> It's surprising how the general public seems to rely on research instead of first hand experience. But medical research assumes that first hand experience can be deceiving, because of placebo effect. It also considers the impact s
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by Udik 7y ago
What does Netflix do with NNs?
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Is sugar really bad for you? (2018)(bbc.com)
47 points by Udik 7y ago|67 comments
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A teaspoon seems to be equivalent to 4 grams of sugar. Therefore the recommended daily intake for males would be 36 grams. An apple contains 20 grams of sugar- so you shouldn't eat more than two apples per day? It doesn't make sen
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by Udik 7y ago
I don't think the point of the post is to encourage people to be kind. It is more to encourage people to be subtle . I think that in many situations language is a tool to make other people do what we want them to do. And turns out tha
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True, I've been trying to be polite and respectful and subtle at least in online conversations (I am far too emotional to do it effectively in real life, which is a big handicap). And I am not getting much results anyway. But maybe t
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by Udik 7y ago
That's the wrong measure, though: it's probable that productivity lowers with each further working hour, but you do still produce something. Americans still produce 10% more per hour and work 25% more hours.
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by Udik 7y ago
> CQRS is one of the biggest examples I've seen personally for this: your flexibility will go down, work to do "basic" things will go up The only time I've worked on a codebase that had implemented CQRS, it was when I
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by Udik 7y ago
Yes but why not simply a metal honeycomb structure, with air bubbles trapped permanently inside ? Also, an "unsinkable flotation device" can be made out of styrofoam?
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Because the options of the game are, in part by necessity, extremely simplistic. If there are tensions between states, you can be friendly or hostile towards either or both, but you can also try to understand why there is a conflict and t
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by Udik 7y ago
> It was a great tool to learn about real-politic and cost of surviving in a hostile environment I've tried to play a game now. The game is a political statement in itself: it assumes that if you try to keep good relationships with
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by Udik 7y ago
> I don't see how that takes anything away from the C64 Of course, it doesn't. It's a completely different world. But I liked the idea that there still are single computer models (not families) that break sales records.
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by Udik 7y ago
You're right, the bridge is very narrow and the lens has a very long field, which makes the picture a bit deceptive (useful also to give the impression of a concentrated crowd). The bridge is about 6 metres wide (two narrow car lanes)
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by Udik 7y ago
> Disregarding the price barrier Apple products are not cheap (I never owned one, partly for this reason) but I think that when I bought my c64, around 1984, it costed the equivalent of about 1000 euro. Of course, the reasons to own one,
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by Udik 7y ago
> Nobody doubts that the C64 was the greatest selling single computer model of all time The most sold computer of all time is probably the iPhone 6, with 220 million devices sold. Edit: wow, people feel very strongly about this! :) I&#
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by Udik 7y ago
There's a few hundred people in those pics.
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by Udik 7y ago
Thanks for the find! The second comment to the first answer says: "The equilibrium temperature of the connected panel should be slightly lower than the disconnected panel, because those hole recombinations introduce heat. But the effic
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When I stop a turbine I'm not simply breaking the circuit- I stop converting some fuel into energy, and keep it for later. If I break the circuit on a solar panel, the "fuel" keeps hitting the panel anyway. I guess the panel
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by Udik 7y ago
Because the whole premise is that you don't really have a way to store or use that energy in other ways. Then converting it into cryptomoney makes sense- then you can use that crypto to buy things which are helpful to the local communi

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