akomtu

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811.
by akomtu 3y ago
How do lawyers, doctors and actual engineers communicate? Do they use emojis?
812.
by akomtu 3y ago
We can discuss your feelings, if you want.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Most documentation is poorly written, outdated and disrespects readers' time. However, imagine if every paragraph, every page, every document, would have to be prefaced with a brief summary? It's a small culture shift, but it woul
814.
by akomtu 3y ago
What's the use of karma points if not spending them to make fun of the dogma? Those points don't buy bread, and you can't even put them on your resume.
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by akomtu 3y ago
Well, Amazon makes good money selling conterfeit stuff under genuine labels. Sellers who ship stuff themselves deprive Amazon from this profit. Looks like 2% is what Amazon is being deprived of.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The old Europe feels cornered by this tech and acts aggressively to defend itself.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The two futures of high tech civilizations are determined by who prevails: lifeforms may become "machinized" or machines may become enlighted with life. The first future is the doom of civilizations highly intelligent, but selfish
818.
by akomtu 3y ago
Addressing a vampire as "they" may be in fact dangerous, for most of the vampires are from the pre-internet age.
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by akomtu 3y ago
> the space of viable commercial applications that will survive without indefinite VC funding remains kinda small That's because the field of ideas on how to use ML looks like a desert with a lonely oasis of chatbots.
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by akomtu 3y ago
What prevents the formation of many sub-universes with different space-time configurations? We happen to live a large 3+1 one, but others may exist. Speculating further, some black holes could be bridges between e.g. a 3+1 world and a 4+3 w
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by akomtu 3y ago
If the poor could tax the rich, they wouldn't be poor.
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by akomtu 3y ago
One way to explain this curiously geometric composition of the solar system is to note the analogy with drum modes or even electron shells: suppose the sun's gravity produces a very slow oscillation that creates a stable pattern of nod
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by akomtu 3y ago
What kind of metadata?
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by akomtu 3y ago
Misinfornation or wrongthink suspectibility? The difference shows when you're asked a question that cannot be answered with facts.
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by akomtu 3y ago
If you're a mechanism, which part of you makes a choice to do something vs something else?
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by akomtu 3y ago
Is the certificate recognized in major pirate organizations? Can you go to Somali, show the certificate and receive some respect?
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by akomtu 3y ago
It's occurred to me that UK isn't lying about protecting children, but what's meant is protecting children of the royalty from peasants who will need secure communication methods to organize.
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by akomtu 3y ago
What's the end goal of the belief that everything is a mechanism, blindly following some rules? Say, you've convinced yourself that you're an organic mechanism driven by dna mutations or whatever, and then what?
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by akomtu 3y ago
> they drew up a list of genes known to be essential, assembled them in a yeast cell and then transferred that new genome into a closely related bacterial cell that was emptied of its original DNA > Afterward, Lennon asked him, “What
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by akomtu 3y ago
Why do you need it in China?
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by akomtu 3y ago
For unions, workers are the profit center. For corporations, workers are the expense.
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by akomtu 3y ago
A langugage model sees a pile of examples with digits and imitates those examples. A reasoning model sees the inner principle behind this pile, and instead of imitating examples, it uses the learnt principle to produce answers.
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by akomtu 3y ago
If GPT is fed 99 text samples claiming that sky is red, and 1 sample that sky is blue, GPT will happily tell that sky is red. A reasoning model would be able to spot the bogus data. However most people hardly use reasoning skills at all: ju
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by akomtu 3y ago
What's the magnetic field of an electron in the double slit experiment before the electron has decided where it wants to be? The electron travels slowly, the detector screen may be very far, while the magnetic field travels fast.
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by akomtu 3y ago
This is why I think cancer is more like a lifeform than a chaotic pile of cells. Matt Levine demonstrated that applying certain electric field to a growing embryo alters its morphology without changing its dna, and since cancer is always in
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by akomtu 3y ago
He probably needs a higher dose: addiction to Hawaii and surfing develops quickly, and it's hard to break.
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by akomtu 3y ago
The state is afraid of mushrooms because they let users detach from the groupthink that guides the people from birth to death. The groupthink is made of many polished thought-circuits that compel an individual to do certain things, such as
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by akomtu 3y ago
Speaking plainly, Zoom steals user data to train its AI models and to sell that data to whoever pays. Imagine a regular business run like this: you enter a coffee shop and by pushing the door you agree to terms of service (250 pages of te
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by akomtu 3y ago
On this dual nature, can it be that the electron cloud is the electron itself? i.e. it's not a point-like particle that jumps around, but it's the probability function itself, that upon interaction with another cloud-particle ma
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by akomtu 3y ago
Is it the shape of lithium's electron shell?

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