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by bildung 6y ago
They do that for a reason: Businesses stay in business, employees remain in the company, which means customer relations, supplier contacts etc. are kept, company-internal knowledge doesn't get lost etc. - and those employees still have
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by bildung 6y ago
I stand corrected, annualized the quarterly shrinkage of US and Germany are about the same. This sadly doesn't change the main point, though: Most of the hardships of employees and small businesses are specific results of the lack of p
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by bildung 6y ago
Which is reasonable with sqalchemy because it operates at a lower level, where you manually handle sessions anyway. You don't do that in Django, by design. You can change commit behaviour if you want, though, and then you can just use
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by bildung 6y ago
The form factor reminds me of the OQO and similar UMPCs from that era. Edit: It even has the same sliding keyboard as the OQOs! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OQO
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by bildung 6y ago
Neither of which are banned in China. It isn't allowed to offer cab services with a privately owned car in China, but this is also true in most of the EU.
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by bildung 6y ago
I wouldn't say so. The economical costs are very similar to its neighbors Denmark and Norway (around -6% GDP growth projected for 2020), but the death rate is 10x higher in Sweden.
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by bildung 6y ago
Or just help those 40 people with federal funds, which is what every other rich country did, and _which worked_? The problem isn't the lockdown (the US didn't even have a proper lockdown, compared to European countries), the probl
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by bildung 6y ago
The cost of lockdowns are a US-only, entirely political problem. No other industrialised country has a remotely similar degree of unemployment or even homelessness as a result of the lockdowns - because they already had social safety nets a
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by bildung 6y ago
Apple Watch already had exactly this problem in the past.
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by bildung 6y ago
Found another article with more numbers: "The ship’s “independent multi-engine technology at minimum 3000hp drive shaft sea class” is combined with a wave energy device that’s capable of generating up to 300kw/h of energy, Salvado
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by bildung 6y ago
Why never? Gold was down over 40% between 2011 and now.
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by bildung 6y ago
Common mistake if you come from a language using the long scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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by bildung 6y ago
These are very good points! Current theories of reason are obviously assuming human minds. Still, even if one wants to create a new definition that includes AGIs, there has to be some concept of agency, of wanting to achieve something , wi
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by bildung 6y ago
Those from Locke, Hume, Kant, Habermas, among others.
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by bildung 6y ago
No, the compiler is following rules humans implemented. The humans were reasoning. The compiler follows a well-defined process. This is also what a scientific calculator can do - but the calculator isn't an example of AI, either. Many
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by bildung 6y ago
> Is reasoning something entirely separate from choosing what word is expected next in a sentence based on the logic of the words? Yes, otherwise a markov chain would be reasoning, too. > "10 + 10 = 20. 20 + 20 = ___" Yo
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by bildung 6y ago
I think fock's point is not about the 3rd grader's capability of reasoning, but only about their proficiency in writing syntactically correct sentences. GPT-3 does zero reasoning.
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by bildung 6y ago
> I think the markets have been completely messed up by stimulus since 2008 Maybe, but OTOH the stock market returns are actually no different from pre 2008 (S&P500 in this case): https://www.macrotrends.net/2526&#x
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by bildung 6y ago
> One data point: Germany is 30% renewables and pays 50% higher than EU average. The price of energy in Germany was already high before the switch to renewables, for reasons unrelated to renewables. The renewables surcharge only is 2
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by bildung 6y ago
> I don't recall the reason, wether it was fraud or terrorism. Interesting question to procrastinate with :) Apparently it was both, it started with measures to prevent money laundering by the mafia, with the Federal Deposit Insur
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by bildung 6y ago
> I’m always baffled by Buddhism getting such a free pass from otherwise perfectly sensible westerners. Romantization of the exotic certainly plays a role, but additionally there were projects like the CIA Tibet program: * https:&#x2F
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by bildung 6y ago
You mean beside not getting raped by the feudal lords anymore, the end of punishments like gouging out eyes and severing hamstrings, the doubling of life expectancy, access to healthcare and education? I'm all for criticising lack of d
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by bildung 6y ago
We have the phenomenon that we now have very sensible measurement instruments usable to detect trace amounts of materials, or miniscule changes in metabolisms. This enables much new research, but also leads to essentially irrelevant news
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by bildung 6y ago
> What it's really doing is subsidizing everybody that works in or is tied to non-essential face-to-face service industry, by everyone else. Not, not really. Canadas bond rates are 0.5% it seems. The country just has to lend a few
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by bildung 6y ago
AlphaGo Zero definitely falls in the same category as GPT-3 - yes, this is unsupervised learning, but it still is fundamentally the same approach, exactly because of the way discovery and reward work on the model. This isn't how a chil
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by bildung 6y ago
Both voice recognition had first working research machines in the 1950s. Of course present models are way better than these, but fundamentally these are the same as those in the '50s, "just" with tremendously better hardwar
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by bildung 6y ago
China would be perfectly capable of achieving that goal with Facebook in the country, just as with the domestic platforms.
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by bildung 6y ago
> His async code creates a pool with only 10 max connections[1] (the default). Whereas his sync pool[2], with a flask app that has 16 workers, has significantly more database connections. And the reasoning is explained in the article:
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by bildung 6y ago
Indeed, in Eastern Germany most electronic devices even came with a complete circuit diagram to ease self repair.
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by bildung 6y ago
There's a debate around UBI that goes beyond bumper-sticker wisdom, and that's what krapp and me were talking about.

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