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by ajuc 3y ago
Does it matter to you how you got there, or do you only care about the result? If the former - chatGPT is not creative (but maybe we aren't either) - if the latter - ChatGPT is (but so can be a very simple dumb code if it runs for long
812.
by ajuc 3y ago
Most OCR libraries have that feature AIAK.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Software was there in 2017 already. I've worked on a device for blind people that did basically this (except there's no need for a stereo image). Here you can see how flattening works (this was handled by the library, we didn&#x27
814.
by ajuc 3y ago
Hard not to become dogmatic when your living depends on getting every comma exactly right and you're getting instant impartial feedback every time you get something not quite right :)
815.
by ajuc 3y ago
Would you agree there's a way to quantify preferences for people so you have: Preference(person, one_thing, other_thing) and it returns -1, 0 or 1 depending on what that person prefers? You can do math on this and try to optimize it, i
816.
by ajuc 3y ago
Offtopic but I could never understand why math people prefer θ to pointwise conditionals or min/max. θ(-f(x))*(-f(x)) vs max(0, -f(x))
817.
by ajuc 3y ago
The alternative (breaking !every([], !f(x)) == some([], f(x))) is worse.
818.
by ajuc 3y ago
Isn't that just minimizing -f(x) instead of maximalizing f(x)? So - the same thing?
819.
City was likely built on 7 hills(ajuc.substack.com)
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by ajuc 3y ago
It shouldn't because of utility monsters. If you weight everybody's happiness equally - the greedier you are the more resources should be assigned to you. That's obviously wrong.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Because criminals are often sociopaths who doesn't care about their families, and punishing innocent people might push them to crime as well. It's counterproductive on average.
822.
by ajuc 3y ago
This is so common there's a meme template :) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FffvEX5UAAAysZC?format=jpg&name=...
823.
by ajuc 3y ago
Modern mines have several kinds of sensors (pressure, accelerometer, magnetic, timer) and only activate when there's a pre-programmed combination of events (to prevent easy de-mining). They can often also be detonated or disabled remot
824.
by ajuc 3y ago
Sth like this: https://vortexbladeless.com/technology/ Or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaneless_ion_wind_generator
825.
by ajuc 3y ago
Mines are robots that kill not necessarily the intended people the intended way.
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by ajuc 3y ago
This is one of these things that sound easy as long as you don't think about the details :) Annihilating planets takes a lot of energy. For example if our Sun goes supernova it will maybe kill all life on Earth, but the planet will sti
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by ajuc 3y ago
> around 10B tonnes of C every year For comparison world uses around 97 000 000 barrels of oil per day, or about 3.5 billion tonnes of oil per year. Switching to synthetic oil (or any other hydrocarbon - I think methane is the easiest) w
828.
by ajuc 3y ago
Should have said "physical" not "real" probably. I didn't meant to imply it's more "real" than the integers or any other domain, my point was that you have to specify the domain and that there are man
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by ajuc 3y ago
One one hand it's absurd (it means that everything that can be imagined and many more things exist). On another hand the opposite (requiring a mapping from that computation to real-world objects) is absurd too, because for any sequence
830.
by ajuc 3y ago
Would make sense considering that asthma results in higher risk of colitis ulcerosa.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Polish has cło (modern, borrowed from German) or myto (archaic, Slavic root, implies it's different in every city). There's taryfa but it's mostly used as a slang word for taxi or any kind of constant payment for a service wi
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by ajuc 3y ago
Some have.
833.
by ajuc 3y ago
Polish has mama and tata. Papa is only a loanword and less often used than papa as goodbye.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Socialism is like LISP - at this point most languages adopted the best parts, and the remaining ones come with serious disadvantages. USA could really use some more socialism tho.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Yup Polish has A LOT of loanwords. Most people don't realize how many. My favorite example is how Polish stole Latin, German and Czech words for color and now each mean different things :) Kolor - color Farba - paint Barwa - hue Also P
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by ajuc 3y ago
There's no incentive for termites to be good at distinguishing impostors before there are impostors. So they could get away with very bad disguise at first, then arms race started.
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by ajuc 3y ago
"Często" sounds way more natural here than "zbyt wiele razy". Nobody says "zbyt wiele razy" :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
I'd skip "się" and reverse the word order. "Żegnała za często" sounds better and more poetic ;) If you want to include "before" (which Lating skipped): "Żegnała już za często"
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by ajuc 3y ago
Slavic too. In Polish: żegnała (she said goodbye) za często (literally too often, but used here it would convey the meaning and sound more natural than literal za wiele razy). BTW żegnała encodes the gender. If it was he it would be żegnał.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Nobody believes 100% blank state. The debate is about the percentage. Also intelligence (as measured by IQ) is not linearly correlated with success. After a certain point the higher IQ you have the less likely you are to be successful.

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