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by bloaf 4y ago
Alcoholism is in fact hereditary.
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by bloaf 4y ago
I'd be satisfied plugging a game log/history into a system that generates the epic tale of your victory/defeat.
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by bloaf 4y ago
Allulose? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psicose
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by bloaf 4y ago
I, for one, am confused why people choose erythritol over allulose.
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by bloaf 4y ago
See also: https://medium.com/incerto/how-to-legally-own-another-person...
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by bloaf 4y ago
There is/was an active disinformation campaign on Twitter attempting to link the earthquake to Türkiye denying Nato expansion. The ridiculous conspiracy theory is that the US used a HAARP system to cause the earthquake in retaliation.
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by bloaf 4y ago
It is better at symbolic integration: https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports...
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by bloaf 4y ago
https://www.12000.org/my_notes/CAS_integration_tests/reports... Giac/Xcas is slightly worse at symbolic integration than Maxima, and both are dramatically worse than Mathematica. FriCAS, an Axiom fork, is t
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by bloaf 4y ago
I agree. The hate metric is calibrated against responsiveness to insult, not a ranking of social advantage.
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by bloaf 4y ago
The mainstream culture of the hippie's day would have said, with just as much disgust as you hold for the 4channers: > The hippies are rooted in things like naiveté, lust, drugs, immorality, communism, apathy, and atheism. There is
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by bloaf 4y ago
Kids are like that too. There was some study that found ~50% of kids thought french fries were made from animals. The correct conclusion is not that 50% of kids are dumb and 50% smart. Actually, none of the kids knew but they had a 50% ch
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by bloaf 4y ago
I mean, pose that question to some random dev with little exposure to second life and you'd probably get an even more anemic/generic response. It's weird to me that people seem to expect current AI to be as good as an expert,
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by bloaf 4y ago
One thing I've wondered about if someone were to actually succeed at making themselves look and feel 18 is how our legal system would react. Imagine trying to buy a house when your face says 18 and your ID says 78. Getting a drink at a
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by bloaf 4y ago
So I thought this would be big news, so I did some reading. Turns out that in like the past 5-6 years we've gone from "who knows how many habitable zone planets there are" to "we're finding them all freaking over t
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by bloaf 4y ago
This is a popular take, but I'm not convinced. The world has counterexamples to both your claims and the "overpopulation/abortion" claims made by conservatives. Scandinavia has very strong social programs for new parent
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by bloaf 4y ago
I think it is more analogous to the laws prohibiting people from selling their own organs. The problem isn't that organ transplants are immoral, the problem is that allowing it can create perverse incentives especially for disadvantag
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by bloaf 4y ago
I agree, just think about how many people play Leonard Cohen songs (esp. Hallelujah) in religious/spiritual contexts and completely miss the heavy eroticism. I checked out "Show me the place" which is incredibly erotic. Leon
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by bloaf 4y ago
Rings true for me, I'm about at the reinstall stage with my HTPC. It will no longer send audio via HDMI due to some deep obscure pipewire config that broke itself without me touching anything. It also no longer connects to my Bluetoo
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by bloaf 4y ago
There was definitely something going on last night too, I noticed a number of sites having intermittent issues confirmed by down detector.
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by bloaf 4y ago
My point is that there is precedent for governments requiring companies to implement restrictions on what images can be handled by their software. As I explained: This kind of mandated restriction is looming over AI. Companies are trying t
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by bloaf 4y ago
They know they are going to be the next target in the war on general purpose computing. They're trying to stave it off for as long as possible by signalling to the authorities that they are the good guys. A confrontation is inevitable
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by bloaf 4y ago
You need to 1) Link to the documentation in your tools 2) Ensure everyone has edit access to the linked documents
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by bloaf 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcawqEpIRVo > A few people rushed and it was only a few "It's just the thugs and the scabs fooling you" A man grabbed his daughter and carried her down But the thugs held th
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by bloaf 4y ago
In TCL, zip functionality is built into the foreach loop. foreach x $list1 y $list2 { lappend result [Myfunc $x $y] } To directly return a list of outputs without having to append to a list, TCL also provides lmap w
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by bloaf 4y ago
This has been studied. There is a retest effect on most "cognitive performance" tests: scores increase on the first and second re-test, then level off. (i.e. the test scores for the 3rd and 4th time you take the test end up abou
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by bloaf 4y ago
Tutoring and extensive exam-specific prep can boost scores. They are not necessary for getting a high score.
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by bloaf 4y ago
That is an article which 1. Makes claims about performance 2. Provides no benchmarks The only concrete answer to "why have swap if I have enough RAM" is "well, if you run out of RAM..."
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by bloaf 4y ago
The drive to be differentiated is a way more powerful force than people appreciate. When big oil was deciding what to use as an anti-knocking agent (tetraethyllead or ethanol) the two biggest concerns that tipped the decision in favor of l
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by bloaf 4y ago
You must not believe any statistics if you think sampling 85% of a 110k population can't resolve a score like this to 1%. Your original question, which I have been addressing, was about generalization to the population (i.e. what th
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by bloaf 4y ago
So if you're worried about it, do the math. My napkin calc puts the margin at around +-0.3, enough to easily separate 3% from 5%.

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