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by billiam 4y ago
People that charge class warfare just don't want anything to change. Wealth accumulated by the rich mostly by burning dinosaurs is just as fictitious as any QE from the Fed.
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by billiam 4y ago
I think they are saying the earliest extant minerals that crystalized on Earth are zircons that formed within the first 100 my of the planet's formation. The minerals he is talking about show up here on meteorites from elsewhere in the
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by billiam 4y ago
Let's realize the real AI success story here is the increasing speed with which Google's HR algorithms can identify researchers who need to be fired because they threaten Google's fragile advertising cartel.
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by billiam 4y ago
>It's surprising video codecs deal so little with the nature of the images (AFAIK) and try to be generalists. This. A small number of pixels matter, the rest don't.
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by billiam 4y ago
You will save even more lives if you over-communicate about the need to use your awareness tools (with better false positive reduction) to drive more effective diagnosis.
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by billiam 4y ago
>It is easier to start with a monolith, find the right design and then split on the boundaries than it is to make the correct microservices to begin with. Not pleasant, but true.
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by billiam 4y ago
My life will get a lot better when I abandon the platform the second this deal goes through. It's just the last reason, not the first.
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by billiam 5y ago
This old Palm guy loved the reverse engineering done here.
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by billiam 5y ago
Jesus, despite his inartful way of expressing it, all he is saying is look around for more recent Florensis bones, and don't be surprised if you find they survived until relatively modern times. He is also implying that the oral/m
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by billiam 5y ago
Great fun to make, a lifetime to maintain.
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by billiam 5y ago
Wow, that does suck. And where exactly are do you think we are getting? Use enough flops to raise the temp of the planet slightly to make banal doggerel? Seems like quite the wrong thing to do with GPT-3.
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by billiam 5y ago
Try Kashgar. It's dark until 10 or later every day in the winter.
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by billiam 5y ago
Minerals, particularly rare earths, that are a huge strategic asset to China and their desire to dominate the world economy. It's also in a strategic place vis a vis India, and they can't tolerate even a degree of autonomy of suc
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by billiam 5y ago
We've got excellent mechanisms for improving the efficiency of plants through engineering and breeding that doesn't involve a for-profit company controlling IP and maximizing short term returns (the way that YC works). There is an
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by billiam 5y ago
Geology excels at one thing: showing how huge numbers of observations and descriptions can build a body of scientific knowledge and theory, even in the absence of fundamental tools.
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by billiam 5y ago
sounds like he is pretty pissed at Amazon selling counterfeit versions of some of his 7 books. And he should be.
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by billiam 5y ago
seems like they would be doing this with Flex if they could support the old CPUs.
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by billiam 5y ago
Not totally useless. Some of us imagined it would keep some annoying people busy for a while. Seriously, what will we think about it 5 years from now?
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by billiam 5y ago
The real Dead Internet Theory is not that bots make the content on the Internet, but that bots train humans to make their content for them.
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by billiam 5y ago
It wasn't a meteorite when it hit the house, only when it hit Earth. I know, hit me with the downvotes.
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by billiam 5y ago
This is an extensive catalog of wishful thinking, debunked hypotheses, and outright lies. There isn't any new research in it. Whether a couple of stray molecular building blocks of life could have survived inside a comet or meteorite i
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by billiam 5y ago
Aren't you just saying a single threaded human voice interface is better than machine to machine and HCI to solve this one problem? You have at least 2 FA or 3FA with the phone call: your callerID # looks real, you respond appropriatel
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by billiam 5y ago
Old enough to remember every single thing on the early Internet was some version of this, other than the astronomy and physics papers that my girlfriend and her fellow scientists exchanged. Websites that take my time > Websites that take
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by billiam 5y ago
Said the guy or gal typing on a keyboard and reading the response on a display. Solved problem?
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by billiam 5y ago
Do we need any more reasons to avoid bats really?
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by billiam 5y ago
Priority was given to running an empire, which didn't require too much mechanical ingenuity, just political ingenuity.
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by billiam 5y ago
TMI.
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by billiam 5y ago
Don't know what to say, I'm speechless. We all love us some tardigrades, but this is quite a statement about the resilience of life. If anything from here can colonize the universe, it's these guys.
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Build and Run GraphQL APIs with minimum coding and fuss(graphql.stepzen.com)
2 points by billiam 5y ago|1 comments
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by billiam 5y ago
Saying that sucking billions of dollars out of whales who are almost entirely people with a serious disease (gambling/attention addition) is balanced out by pretty graphics and all is like saying the packaging on the fentanyl pills jus

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