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> Galaxies don’t rotate the way you’d expect from the matter you see In what way?
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> People who are generating trash (specifically plastic trash) are at fault for worsening the problem of excessive plastic trash, full stop. You can be absolutist about personal moral choices, but writing this reply used precious resourc
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I guess that mostly proves my point in the sense that it's not most people's personal choices that determine if plastic ends up in the ocean- it's either incompetence or downright deliberately deceptive actions by someone els
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Also, I think the use of plastics and it's impact on the environment is probably overstated from a consumer standpoint- no one really thinks about the systemic issues and the cause and effect cycles at work. Everyone is concerned with
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I feel like if you're using it in the right way, asking the AI to write code, or give domain context in a specific way then the answers it gives are easily verifiable enough- and it's domain knowledge you wouldn't have gotten
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Except in Oppenheimer he was like, I'll just do the actual atom bomb instead. I'm glad that he knows himself well enough that he went right to the source.
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I liked that in Oppenheimer, even though the plot of the movie was a similar sort of high stakes mystery heist movie, instead of the macguffin being a random piece of metal like it was in tenet, its the literal atom bomb. For that reason I
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by awongh 1y ago
Lance Stroll, the F1 driver also comes to mind. (Also basically every single other driver but not to the same degree)
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It's cheaper than I would have expected. Are there other humanoid robots out there at this price?
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I mean everyone has opinions, but isn't it actually verifiable that in aggregate Moody's gives accurate ratings (not just for US treasuries)? If not, why would anyone use them?
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Another way to ask the question is how wrong would they have to get it before people stopped relying on them? The interesting aspect to me is that they are not a government department- they make these ratings as part of a profitable busines
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For Moody's or any other agency, do they have any real insight on credit worthiness? I would have just assumed that if you're another big financial institution you're doing your own research. Is it that orgs below a certain s
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But how many times was the system prompt successfully changed with something more subtle and no one noticed?
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Would they go to all the work of making a newly trained model, or would they just edit the system prompt?
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What's an actually non-tinfoil hat technical explanation of the workflow that would have to happen for this to be implemented? Elon is known for his capricious demands, (for example reports that he made the algo promote his own tweets
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Those employees might not be unionized, though.
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For american cars at least, I read that one of the reasons this process exists is because car companies want to work around union rules for manufacturing by outsourcing components of the cars to subcontractors that they can make deals with.
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Probably the next step for online-only courses is for the ghost student to start submitting AI generated homework....
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According to this tweet the government contract for the software was originally from 8/24 during the Biden administration: https://x.com/_MG_/status/1918148557670105354
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> "racist", "bigots" and "single-digit IQ yokels" One of the narratives I hear repeated a lot that is simply untrue is around white americans. Trump doubled his numbers for minority (male) voters vs. the las
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TIL what NTP is. Interesting to read about how the underlying algorithm works, and that they had pretty good accuracy 40 years ago.
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Meta wanted to have 100% algorithmic accounts: https://www.contentgrip.com/meta-deletes-ai-generated-accoun... They got rid of them already- it makes sense that no one wanted them.
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In the age of the social feed things are currently tipped more towards the selector/curator/consumer, where before, when all you could do was listen to songs on the radio, it wasn't really possible to participate. But culture
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The thing is that in this century the creative interaction seems to be moving up the value chain- it wasn't long ago that people would say that being a DJ wasn't creative. Simply selecting songs wasn't creative. Now lots of p
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We as in, it's not a social cooperation thing, many people's individual moral ethics make it so they themselves would be uncomfortable with the idea of not working to earn a living. Currently, society as a whole generally beli
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I guess this is for type-ahead speed type queries? I found the page: https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/admin/Installation... But it doesn't mention why you need this amount of RAM or how you coul
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by awongh 1y ago
I'm also thinking of trying to set this up. Can you give a specific example? Are these common house numbers?
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To be specific my use case is for a seasonal-based app. So I neither want to pay for 10 months where $45 is too large, or buy a pre-determined amount without auto-reload where it's possible to run out of requests if I'm not carefu
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Thanks! Is there a chance you guys will ever switch to a per-request pricing model?
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The comparison page link is comprehensive, nice! To summarize the main point of roll-your-own vs. a pay-per-request api the main point seems to be updating with updated/new OSM data. In terms of comparing Google Maps vs. Open Cage vs.

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