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> Pretty much any empire ever founded was built on a gold standard. Ahistorical bullshit. Gold coinage was never really a big thing, because gold was too rare to make gold coins for everyday usage feasible. Pretty much all historical emp
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> So we would have to capture nearly half of all available geothermal energy to replace current energy usage. No, you're completely misunderstanding the meaning of that number. 50TW is not the power generated in the earth's c
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As opposed to Trump, who is an adult, a leader of a country, who has many lives in his hands, and behaves like a baby that needs to be coddled.
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Sources, please. And pay attention to dates, it's not 2022 anymore.
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Elaborate?
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The author is writing on the context of formal verification. From that point of view, modelling an error condition on a network call as non-deterministic and just lumping potential bugs in the remote API into that as well since you don&#x
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Determinism is relative. "Non-deterministic" means that an observer, to the best of their ability, cannot predict the result even with full knowledge of all inputs. This can be used as an abstraction for a theoretically determinis
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It mainly allows you to quickly destroy your organization's ability to do anything, including repairing the damage you just did. Which is, of course the goal: to destroy the United States. They already explicitly said that's the g
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It's the exact opposite of "brilliant", it's extremely stupid and destructive. It shows they are absolutely incompetent at what they do and have zero understanding or even desire to understand how things work.
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Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
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Fuck, that sounds familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds I wonder if the DOGE kids will be also sent off to the countryside once they're not useful anymore... https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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Ahhh, that reminds me of my year as an exhange student in Yohokama. Specifically the time when I cought the last train on the Den-en-toshi line from Tokyo towards my dormitory at Aobadai, only to realize that the last train doesn't go
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Men are dying of thirst in the desert and women are dying of thirst in the ocean. (not my analogy, but IMO very succinct)
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If I see a very attractive person with professional photos on a dating website, I'll assume it's a scammer using photos of some model.
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Your statement, not mine. And I wrote intelligence, not sentience. People who become quadriplegic as adults (or older children) have already developed intelligence before. My theory (which I have not researched in any way) implies that some
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Only about how she experienced that discovery. But then, she lost her sight and hearing at the age of 19 months, so after lots of cognitive development had only taken place.
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> Interesting to think about what structures human intelligence has that these models don't. Constant direct feedback from the real world and the ability to continuously integrate it to update the model. That's probably the big
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I worked on an application used in a paper factory that produced paper for banknotes. The entire point of the application was to make sure every single sheet of the paper was accounted for. There were unique barcodes printed on it as soon a
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The river Isar through Munich, Germany, which is one of the larger tributaries of the mighty Danube, is also "unknown". The data outside the USA is definitely lacking in that regard. I guess the names are taken from an underlying
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And there was a man named Francisco Moreno who explored the area and was able to use his knowledge to resolve border disputes about some of those edge cases in favor of Argentina, making him something of a national hero. Argentina's mo
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The funny thing is: tulip bulbs were actually a productive asset . You could plant the bulbs to create more of them.
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That scenario seems to me fishy to begin with, is that something that actually happens, or just something people imagine? How would it work that you "change your mind halfway through" and somehow cannot stop your finger from press
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"seems pretty reasonable" is not evidence.
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> you can absolutely ctrl+c before 100 more ms are up Not gonna believe that without empirical evidence.
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> Ok but doesn’t that cancel out with other platforms that push the thumb in the other direction of the scale? The point is not to push Americans towards Israel or Palestinians, the point is to push Americans apart from each other, so th
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"unbiased" as in: maximally biased to serve Chinese interests.
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> Now that I'm grown, I see it having a Slavic or Russian aesthetic. Maybe it was in fact produced in Russia or one of the former Warsaw Pact countries? They had their own animation tradition, and some of it was translated in the We
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That's a lot of words to say "I don't need to make money from this, and really only want to publish some texta". Everything follows from that, but not just in a bad, dark-pattern profit-optimizing way. If you provide a p
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