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by ascotan 3y ago
This is what I call "Bayesian software" - it will get you quickly to 70% of what you want but getting 100% of what you want is a game of diminishing returns. For some companies 70% solutions are ok and it's a tradeoff in te
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by ascotan 4y ago
News flash - the internet is full of trolls. Unfortunately since this is now the dominant form of how people get their news it's quite hard to find anything of quality anymore. Everything is a competition for subscribers which leads to
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by ascotan 4y ago
With this project and the collapse of the Arecibo antenna it looks like the search for extraterrestrial life is on hold for the forseeable future. I loved the concept of the software though. It made people invested in the project even thoug
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by ascotan 4y ago
desert i don't think means deserving. It comes from the latin desertus which means to "make barren or empty/forsake". I think in this context it means to have something fail or be abandoned at a critical moment.
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by ascotan 4y ago
It's a bailout of the depositors not the bank.
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by ascotan 4y ago
true that. 40% of the code is AI generated doesn't mean any of it actually runs. Morely likely we're on the hype cycle of AI generated code right now.
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by ascotan 4y ago
I personally think this "we hired too many people" excuse doesn't hold water. This reminds me of the dot-com bubble where they jacked up interest rates and it caused companies to do layoffs. Back then interest rates were low
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by ascotan 4y ago
This app is fantastic. It's great to get children to explore the outdoors. My kids also love to trick it by taking pictures of hamburgers which get misidentified as mushrooms. So it's both informative and entertaining.
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by ascotan 4y ago
unit tests test a component in isolation, integration tests test the components when it's connected to something else.
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by ascotan 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... Are you exaggerating what your AI product can do? no Are you promising that your AI product does something better than a non-AI product? no Are you aware
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by ascotan 4y ago
Honestly I can only hear this in the voice of one of the hobbits from the Amazon LOTR series.
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by ascotan 4y ago
This is silly. There is no such thing as "native" English. English is a hodgepodge of languages from Scandinavian, Celtic, German, Latin, French and more.
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by ascotan 4y ago
I've been using the "Seek" app for plan identification and I'm floored to the amount of overgrown ornamentals from Asia everywhere. It seems like landscapers love to put non-native exotic grasses, trees, and shrubs all o
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by ascotan 4y ago
People have been working on bio circuitry for decades now. Not sure of it's utility but man-machine interface comes to mind. I think the fact that it's biodegradable is probably not the point.
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by ascotan 4y ago
https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2022-biggest-year-ever-... Seems like most of this theft is happening when people port currency between exchanges and the bridge is vulnerable.
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by ascotan 4y ago
The problem is that ML models are somewhat inscrutable and this inscrutability creates a problem for decision-based software. In particular you don't know why the algorithm made the decision. As the author notes, this makes the outcome
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by ascotan 4y ago
Strangely I don't think public schools do a good job teaching children how to write. I chalk this up to the fact that most school are testing and metrics driven and writing is somewhat more subjective.
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by ascotan 4y ago
Satire is the heart of the first amendment because by it's very nature it's political speech. Satire takes a very serious issue and makes it funny in a way that people think more about the issue. Nevertheless, this seems to be les
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by ascotan 4y ago
My guess is that the first balloon put people on high alert and anything that's unidentified now has a bullseye on it.
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by ascotan 4y ago
Just remember that there is nothing more permanent than the prototype.
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by ascotan 4y ago
It's the old GIGO problem. ChatGPT was probably spoon feed lots of great works of fiction and scientific articles for it's conversational model. Attach it to angry or insane internet users and watch it go awry.
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by ascotan 4y ago
A better title for this article should be "City budgets need to adjust to lower tax revenues".
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by ascotan 4y ago
Then again bats also eat many many many bugs that carry disease. All things considered I'd rather have the bats then the bugs.
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by ascotan 4y ago
lmao
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by ascotan 4y ago
I personally prefer a tool that formats because it avoid me have to go to meetings where I have to discuss coding style (which is even more boring).
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by ascotan 4y ago
Well according to the American Cancer Society, alcoholic beverages are a Group 1 Carcinogen. Right up there with Asbestos, UV radiation, Tobacco smoke, and Diesel exhaust. https://www.cancer.org/healthy/cancer-causes&#
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by ascotan 4y ago
You couldn't really play any games from the 80's without graph paper. To get anywhere beyond the house in Zork you needed to map out where all the paths in the game were. Same thing for Bard's Tale II (one of my favs). Genera
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by ascotan 4y ago
Do you become an ace after 5 ballons or do the ballons need to shoot back?
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by ascotan 4y ago
As a society we've been doing this forever. People are already separated by their visible traits (skin color, hair color, sex), however, now we can separate people by invisible traits (penchant for disease, carriers of deficiencies
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by ascotan 4y ago
The most likely scenario is the network surveillance. The defense dept has already confirmed the balloon was carrying surveillance equipment. I think the real point here was to probe the US response.

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