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I'm pretty sure the key difference between the shuttle software and commercial software is just that the latter operates in an environment of much higher uncertainty, and qualitative uncertainty, in that they don't even know the
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Article from 2013.
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Yes, my personal website is currently hosted on GitHub pages. One site.
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This is the bill itself, which is pretty short and understandable: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... I think it's pretty sensible. For any digital good (including books and movies etc
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It sounds like a chiptune remix of "Kobito of the Shining Needle ~ Little Princess" from Touhou 14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv1yYDzvFtQ
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A newer version of the browser does work, so I guess the bug was fixed recently.
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My Firefox can't load that site. The tab always crashes. This war is going too far...
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> Here’s the scandal no one at Meta wants you to know: There is a backdoor built into Meta’s front-end infrastructure. Yes, you read that right. This isn’t a conspiracy theory; it’s fact. A hidden mechanism exists within the code base th
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> However, the AMD-GPU compatibility for CuPy is quite an attractive feature. Last I checked (a couple months ago) it wasn't quite there, but I totally agree in principle. I've not gotten it to work on my Radeons yet.
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Yeah, I'm going out on a limb and predicting there's probably no case here, and if brought to court this lawsuit would be borderline frivolous, if not outright. These numbers fluctuate from year to year for many reasons apart from
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> Among the variables shaping the current numbers is the jump in the percentage of students who chose not to check the boxes for race and ethnicity on their applications. At Princeton, for instance, that number rose to 7.7 percent this y
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Nice! I haven't tried this yet, but I love that the functionality of Jupytext is also incorporated, so I guess you get to reproduce the whole end product and all dependencies just from a plain-text script that you can track in Git.
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Cool article. I don't think I would change or add anything there, but I have some thoughts. To make this analysis more rigorous, you could express a utility function in terms of the different dimensions ("currencies" here) an
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I've also been using it for years, and it seems to work exactly how it should, but it does seem to be a bit of a "hidden feature" in my opinion. It wasn't super easy to figure out that the feature existed and how to use
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A while back the Biden administration proposed an "AI bill of rights" [1] that says, among other things: > You should have access to timely human consideration and remedy by a fallback and escalation process if an automated sys
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> If you read your work outloud before submittingit, you are more likely to notice omitted words. If you proofread your article before publishing it, you are more likely to notice obvious typos.
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I'm finishing a mathematical art project I started in 2007 and then left sitting for about seventeen years. It's technically not open-source yet, since only I have the code, but the code will be fully published under an open licen
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Yeah, pretty much. What's not clear to me though is how non-targeted content curation, like simply "trending videos" or "related videos" on YouTube, is impacted. IMO that's not nearly as problematic and can b
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> If my forum has a narrow scope (say, 4×4 offroading), and I delete a post that’s obviously by a human but is seriously off‐topic (say, U.S. politics), does that make me legally liable for every single post I don’t delete? According to
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There's nothing in the article about making the social media sites liable for what their users post. However, they're made liable for how they recommend content to their users, at least in certain cases.
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From the article: > Because TikTok’s “algorithm curates and recommends a tailored compilation of videos for a user’s FYP based on a variety of factors, including the user’s age and other demographics, online interactions, and other metad
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For some reason that link didn't work for me, but this does: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1f2iism/openai...
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IANAL, but I think it's flat-out illegal in the US, not just harmful. (And if it's not illegal, it should be.) From https://www.eeoc.gov/prohibited-employment-policiespractices : > An employer may not base hirin
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> A mismatch between the name displayed on the resume or networking site, and the candidate’s command of English (e.g. Chris Smith with a B.A. from a large US research university who can barely speak interview-level English is surprising
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Thanks for expressing this. When I hear "code as art," I think of code that is itself poetic, which I think is the same thing you're saying here. Like natural language, computer code can be prosaic or poetic.
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I don't think that's a good argument. An inexperienced developer can inadvertently do a lot of damage in infinitely many ways, and your example is just one of them. I don't think it's a good principle to structure a code
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Once they're committed into the repository, they're no longer ignored, so what's the problem? The IDE files being listed in a hypothetical developer's global .gitignore do no harm in this case.
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Yeah, the article's point is also that you need both: > The contents of the repo’s git ignore is for the project only files and folders. Developers can customise their own global git ignore with extra exclusions they need. The two g
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There are a few different ways, so I'll choose a method that's pretty easy to explain, but not necessarily the simplest to actually execute. I'll assume you can do addition, subtraction, and multiplication of binary floating-
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> The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is currently investigating these banks to determine whether they intentionally steered clients toward “cash sweep” accounts that provided little to no interest earnings, despite the ava

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