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In 2021, worldwide, Tesla had 21% of the purely electric market and 14% of the plug-in market, down from the previous year's 23% and 16%, respectively. Source: https://insideevs.com/news/564800/world-top-oem-s
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Why would you assume a crime by default? The presumption of innocence is only a slogan in the US, just like the above mentioned secularity. Look what happened with the guy in this post. You can't even take a photo of your own kid.
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In theory, his version is right. In practice, yours.
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Racist take: if one Japanese bayonets a child, we should nuke them all.
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"Jap" is not simply short for "Japanese", but a racial slur. Edit your comment while you can. (Or maybe remove it entirely.)
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This is from an AnandTech interview with Jim Keller: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16762/an-anandtech-interview-...
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That's my point. Without additional context, humans would make the same mistakes. Having all information that humans have, this AI could perform at human level. One of the hardest aspects of software development is communicating with t
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That's a good one. BTW, it's case sensitive: "on independence day": “At 12:00 AM, only on Thursday, only in July” (0 0 * 7 4) "On Independence Day": “At 12:00 AM, on day 4 of the month, only in July” (0 0 4 7 *
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But isn't translating from English (or some other natural language) is what a programmer does when constructing a regular expression or a cron job? So it is possible, although humans make mistakes, too. Maybe fewer, or different mist
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Always: “Every minute” Sometimes: “Every hour” Once in a blue moon: “At 12:00 AM, on day 18 of the month, only in February” On my birthday: “At 12:00 AM” On Christ's birthday: “At 12:00 AM, on day 25 of the month, only in December”
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I like the idea, but I'd recommend the name "ToffeeScript".
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We just learned that any Bluetooth device can detect it easily.
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"20 MPG is about 0.1 square millimeters," according to https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/ . "If you took all the gas you burned on a trip and stretched it out into a thin tube along your route, 0.1 square milli
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Angular Diameter Turnaround: https://xkcd.com/2622/ .
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Circle Packing 2x2 (2016)
(julienleonard.com)
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Harmonizing Classes, Functions, Tuples and Type Parameters in Virgil III.: https://research.google/pubs/pub41446.pdf From OO to FPGA: Fitting round objects into square hardware?: https://web.cs.ucla.edu/
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For me, finding the exact licence (LGPLv2) on the SourceForge page was literally one click away: under the first tab labelled "Summary". Not too bad.
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While it's true that the power of a human is not much (certainly not enough to power a house), but we have a lot of energy . Most of us carries at least 1 kg (~2 lbs) fat, which contains ~37 MJ of energy. For comparison, a stick of
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According to my dictionary, the pronunciation of "libretto" (an imported, but already established English word) in IPA is [lɪbr'etoʊ]. We can extrapolate from this.
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> in most people's vocabulary In (monolingual) English speakers vocabulary.
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It doesn't have a laugh track to prompt you. Here is [Seinfeld / Laugh Track Removed: Soup Nazi]( https://yewtu.be/watch?v=23M3eKn1FN0 ).
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Don't overestimate humans. Most people (adults, not toddlers) can't even draw a bicycle, even if they used one for most of their lives, so presumably they have a conceptual understanding of how it looks and works. https:/&#x
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Thanks! I just found this: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss . Perfectly hidden on the site itself. That's what happened to RSS.
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Making mistakes is a sign of intelligence, and Einstein’s errors prove it (2020)
(inews.co.uk)
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From an interview with the directors: Sinclair: Why were they only able to jack in through hard-lines, but still able to communicate over cell? WachowskiBros: Sinclair, good question! Mostly we felt that the amount of information that w
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The claim here is even stronger, and somewhat different: that suffering and reward are fundamentally different kind of things, and cannot simply undo each other, not at any exchange rate. The difference is qualitative, not quantitative. For
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In the simpler case you are optimizing on a single scale between maximum suffering and maximum happiness. In the proposed, more complex case you have two independent scales, the suffering scale (on which you want to primarily minimize), and
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"Negative utilitarianism is a form of negative consequentialism that can be described as the view that people should minimize the total amount of aggregate suffering, or that they should minimize suffering and then, secondarily, maxim
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There's no simple and easy way as far as I know, but there are many approaches both for blur detection and automatic correction (kernel estimation). It's called blind deconvolution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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I think the most famous example of using this technique, that's maybe easier to remember and refer later, is the correction of the flawed mirror of the Hubble Space Telescope. https://www.nasa.gov/content/hubbles-m
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