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by b800h 4y ago
Sorry, that's wrong, at least as far as caffeine is concerned, and certainly as far as adverse behavioural effects ("behavioural toxicity") are concerned in humans. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a
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by b800h 4y ago
Phrenology Mk. 2! The dangers, of course, being generalisation, categorisation and prejudice.
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by b800h 4y ago
I believe leaded petrol is a counterargument.
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by b800h 4y ago
Out of interest - how capable a computer is required to retrain that model?
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by b800h 4y ago
To be fair, I should ask my kids.
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by b800h 4y ago
Have to say I was fairly surprised by this name. It's a fairly old-fashioned expression, but could well cause some misunderstandings.
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by b800h 4y ago
Part and parcel of the desacralisation of the human being, unfortunately, which is so hot right now, and has been since the start of the twentieth century.
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by b800h 4y ago
I'm thinking a bit more broadly than that. It'll be about real-flesh experiences, learning physical musical instruments and playing with others, experiencing real physical peril, a thorough rejection of transhumanist ideals; essen
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by b800h 4y ago
I predict that your second sentence will be thoroughly disproven by the next generation, who will go offline en masse to find reality once AI makes the entire Internet inauthentic.
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YouTube reinstates Donald Trump's channel(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by b800h 4y ago|0 comments
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The prison experience Elizabeth Holmes is desperate to avoid(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by b800h 4y ago|11 comments
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by b800h 4y ago
I like this. Obviously, internally, the original Minecraft runs Java, but that's quite a difficult sell to an 8-year-old. This is potentially a nice way to get them into programming for the game - the only thing I worry about is mainta
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by b800h 4y ago
I suspect it varies greatly between geographies.
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by b800h 4y ago
Blimey, Google wasn't the magical new thing. It was just a slightly faster version of what we already had. I can't remember the first Internet search I used. Webcrawler or Excite perhaps, or something earlier. It was quite magical
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Rolls Royce to develop nuclear reactor for moon base(theguardian.com)
3 points by b800h 4y ago|0 comments
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by b800h 4y ago
I disagree with this take, fundamentally, because both innovation through iteration and through cognitive leap are both possible with algorithms that are complementary to the likes of ChatGPT. The addition of mutation, recombination and sel
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by b800h 4y ago
I only started believing in the singularity this year. When AI which could write code was demonstrated to the public at large, it became a short mental leap, combining the tech with, say, genetic algorithms, to get to a runaway state. So ei
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by b800h 4y ago
Every time this happens I make a stupid joke about how it never used to fall over before Elon took over and fired all the staff. It wasn't even funny the first time, but it feels like the appropriate response.
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by b800h 4y ago
It may be a great thing. We have in-person events vs. completely fabricated online wonderland. It might - I hope - mean that people flock back to IRL activities.
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by b800h 4y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...
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by b800h 4y ago
They seem to have fallen into the Yahoo! trap of attempting to keep you on their properties for as long as possible. Search for a basic word definition or simply answer and they'll offer you a YouTube video which takes 60 seconds to ge
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by b800h 4y ago
Well I should imagine that "the street finds uses" (as per William Gibson) for his "Cob Quicky".
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by b800h 4y ago
This is terrible advice. One of the most important things in security (amongst other practices) is to ensure that people take regular longer breaks, because it's a great way of seeing where there are dodgy practices going on, and in pa
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by b800h 4y ago
The curse of Babel.
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Falsehoods programmers believe about time(gist.github.com)
28 points by b800h 4y ago|19 comments
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by b800h 4y ago
This seemed relevant, given the lunar time discussions.
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by b800h 4y ago
US political debates are being driven by religion all the time - abortion for example. That's a much bigger deal in the US. That said I'd argue the culture war is quasi-religious, and it's being fought equally across the Angl
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by b800h 4y ago
If you mean British Prime Ministers, then we have for a long time been allergic to the discussion of religion in British politics; but that goes hand in hand with British reserve. Not a uniformly wonderful thing, to be honest. If the Bishop
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by b800h 4y ago
That's why my kids now play MineTest. Despite having bought them Java Minecraft before that was an issue. Shame the money was wasted. Product changed. Ought to be able to get our money back.
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by b800h 4y ago
My suspicion is that what's happened here is that Jeff's daughter has used his laptop for something from school and clicked straight through an overly-inviting message that asked to join the account to the school's domain. I&

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