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by alephxyz 3y ago
Depends on the years and used to be worse imo (Harry Potter 4 and American gods both won best novel).
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Voting is open to all attendees of the World Scifi Convention and they usually get thousands of votes now. It's possible that you find the winners too "mainstream" but accusing them of being cliquey doesn't make sense.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
You can find the app if you use a non-google search engine (e.g. duckduckgo), and the publisher's name matches the medium username.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Very similar to Amazigh tattoos, who are also disappearing due to Islam. I wonder how widespread tattoos were in north African and middle eastern people in ancient history. There are paintings from 1200BC showing Lybian kings with body mark
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by alephxyz 3y ago
They've already been limiting some of the "AI" image editing features to newer pixels (but installing the same app package on older phones works just fine).
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by alephxyz 3y ago
That's essentially a light rail system. Have a look at the Montreal REM.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Even natural climate changes can be problematic, such as drier climates precipitating the fall of the Roman empire or the late bronze age collapse.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Except the civil war started a month and a half before NATO intervention
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by alephxyz 3y ago
I have a W10 install on a 7200rpm HDD and I believe it.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
It sounds like the slogan of an AliExpress GPU brand.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
First line in TFA: >Smartphone sales are down across the board, and that means component vendors like Qualcomm are also feeling the heat.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
There have been studies showing that higher coffee consumption correlates to slower cognitive decline. This study only looks at the effects of coffee in vitro.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
The saying is no honor among _thieves_. Unless you mean chiefs as in c-suite, in which case it's also accurate.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
What happens if you're in a society where most people are dishonest and expect other people to also be dishonest?
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Probably more than two hundred years ago if you consider where the word "animal" comes from
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Editorialized title
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Non-voting and dual class shares let you control a company with fewer than 50% ownership (e.g. Zuckerberg and facebook)
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by alephxyz 3y ago
> We've _heard_ from Googlers that those who spend at least three days a week in the office _feel_ more connected to other Googlers, and that this effect is magnified when teammates work from the same location," As an employee
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by alephxyz 3y ago
I became aware of that feature when one of my Pixel's power button got stuck and the phone kept trying to dial 911 while beeping loudly.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Cold front pushed the smoke southwest over lake Ontario yesterday and towards NYC/NJ today. Also it's been raining in eastern Canada today.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
But odds of rollover and braking distance are proportional to your absolute speed. So is crash severity when you're impacting a tree, animal or pedestrian.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Yep, I fell for it this week. Spent an hour fixing typos and minor bugs in their code before taking a step back and realising most of it was flawed. What I believe they're doing is feeding papers to a LLM as soon as they come out in or
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Ignore that link. Their implementation doesn't even run and seems to be almosy entirely chatgpt-generated.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Unofficial implementation: https://github.com/kyegomez/Sophia Looking forward to trying it out this week
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by alephxyz 3y ago
It doesn't. "Digital" is considered an anglicism when used in that sense. "Numérique" or "virtuel" is what's typically used instead.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Ultrasonic beacon tracking + being able to tell if someone is indoors, in a vehicle, at a concert, sporting event, watching something on tv, etc
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by alephxyz 3y ago
They haven't even figured out how to make power buttons that don't get jammed.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Red light doesn't overlap as much with the sensitivity of the rod cells in our eyes which are responsible for night vision (see https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1416_Color_Sensiti... )
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by alephxyz 3y ago
I wouldn't recommend PEFT unless you're only working with models pulled from the huggingface hub.
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by alephxyz 3y ago
Do these two new drugs (lecanemab and donanemab) work the same way aducanemab does? Does that mean that the aducanemab results weren't a fluke and that the amyloid plaque hypothesis may in fact be true?

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