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by aredox 3y ago
Reassuring - thanks for clarifying that up.
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by aredox 3y ago
See also "kaleiodocycles" (the book to build some with Escher tilings is one of the fondest memories of my childhood)
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by aredox 3y ago
The both-sides-ism in this comment... The mostly peaceful Jan 6 rioters came in at the very minimum with the intention to overthrow the elected, legal government and ignore the votes of the majority. And some of them came in with the intent
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by aredox 3y ago
>That's why most codecs have packet loss concealment (PLC) that can fill in for missing packets with plausible audio that just extrapolates what was being said and avoids leaving a hole in the audio ...How far can ML PLC "hallu
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by aredox 3y ago
It was not just not economically practical: it wasn't practical. Yes, the flights were shorter, but between 9 hours cramped in a tight fuselage with little entertainment and 12 hours in a comfortable chair with headroom and entertainme
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by aredox 3y ago
It's hardware-dependent.
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by aredox 3y ago
The ancestor of pijul is darcs, whose main weak point was slowness. Git is very simple (simplistic) in its design (in use it is another story), patch-based VC isn't.
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by aredox 3y ago
Another dead cat to distract from much problematic problems - like how the NYT never reformed after the WMD fiasco of the Iraq war, or how they overcorrect towards conservatives. And many here take the bait, spending time wondering about us
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by aredox 3y ago
Palestinian childs do not equal terrorists. And neither the idea that "people associate in their mind Palestinian childs with terrorists" is "the truth", for the loudest, most hateful voices do not speak for all of us .
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by aredox 3y ago
Leaving the bias in your training material taint your model is also a choice, a moral and political choice. You say, "I don't care".
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by aredox 3y ago
It's really not right wing. I read the article about gender transitioning, it's the kind of humour you'd get in tame stand-up comedy ("careful, boobs are heavy").
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by aredox 3y ago
Now let's look at the complete non-reaction of all those who wrote about Google's Gemini "unacceptable" bias.
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by aredox 3y ago
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village. As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish. The businessman was impressed and asked
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by aredox 3y ago
Working 70 hours a week is a health hazard in itself.
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by aredox 3y ago
Billions in currency won't give you one single second of life more.
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by aredox 3y ago
And even further, insects have also vastly different aerodynamics, which explains why flapping flat wings works at insect-size and not at bird-size (nor plane-size).
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by aredox 3y ago
Because Fortran was the industry standard for any heavy scientific calculation (like aerodynamics or nuclear bombs), the Fortran compiler has been optimised to death... And thus Fortran is still the industry standard.
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by aredox 3y ago
For an example of a flat-ish airfoil that performs well enough for model airplanes (and is easier to build than a NACA & co airfoil), see the KFm airfoil family: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kline%E2%80%93Fogleman_
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by aredox 3y ago
So tabloids like the new York Post and Washington Times should have been sued into oblivion too, first amendment be damned... Which means Gemini wasn't wrong after all. Of course, assuming you are writing in good faith, and not shillin
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by aredox 3y ago
The Thiel fanboys are out en force, as I can see.
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by aredox 3y ago
Gemini says bad things about tabloids and your "eyes are opened". Meanwhile, Peter Thiel forced Gawker to actually close out of petty revenge. Open your eyes a bit more.
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by aredox 3y ago
Please, those language models are unable to do basic math and they keep asking "which of X and Y has done more harm". The same models can't answer correctly which of animal X and Y has more legs!
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by aredox 3y ago
No, there are also "concerning" subjects and concerns in this world, like false medical information, but apparently people don't suddenly write thousand-words screeds against google when that crops up (except when it was abou
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by aredox 3y ago
Because pretending Google's answer are brainwashing people is actually an argument in favor of speech policing You wouldn't want Google or others to brainwash people into thinking badly of people of colour, would you? Or is that
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by aredox 3y ago
If google's answers are enough to brainwash people, boy do I have news for you... There is far worse out there.
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by aredox 3y ago
Hey, look at the first website returned in "normal" google for "Please generate an image of a white family": https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/white-american-family.html... And Bing? https:/&#
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by aredox 3y ago
"I only go ballistic about things that make me slightly uncomfortable - but I never cared when people raised concern about actually harmful things that concerned other people"
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by aredox 3y ago
Come on, his point is not about AI but about politics: "they" versus "you". And he is completely, totally incompetent on this - and by the way, he's also completely incompetent on AI, and on most of tech. See his st
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by aredox 3y ago
The best minds of our generation are working on byzantine financial derivatives, making social media more addictive, and turning fake pictures/videos/bots as realistic as possible.
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by aredox 3y ago
When there are too many dimensions, it becomes impossible

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