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by briga 4y ago
Perhaps not as nonsensical as you think, considering the Sahara used to be a much more fertile and inviting place. The desertification started around the same time humans started practising intensive agriculture. Coincidence? Maybe, but I h
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by briga 4y ago
This isn't even considering the fact that most of the prime bison territory is now farm or ranch land. So unless you're replacing cattle farms with bison farms there's simply not enough room to sustain the sorts of population
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by briga 4y ago
I fully expect enterprise versions of ChatGPT to become widespread in the near-term. Modern tech firms already give their IP to dozens of third party tools and services, I don’t see why this should be any different
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by briga 4y ago
Au contraire, ChatGPT has already replaced search engines for me, at least for generalized knowledge searches. It provides better and more personalized answers to my questions than Google and is an excellent way to learn about new topics. I
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by briga 4y ago
But how would you know whether or not it’s a good idea if you don’t remember it? Any intuition you have on this is probably at least a little marked by survivorship bias
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by briga 4y ago
That’s literally how it’s been for pretty much all of human history, if you’re expecting human nature to change now you’re looking at an uphill battle. You’re welcome to keep wearing your mask, no one is going to stop you. I would question
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by briga 4y ago
I've been generally disappointed with my Apple Watch, though it looks good and the fitness tracking app mostly works as intended. I find the interface buggy and slow and you can never use it more than a day in a row without charging.
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by briga 4y ago
Even if it didn’t lead to empirical results I think most of the value of the book today is in the questions Minsky asked. How is intelligence organized in a distributed system like a neural net? ChatGPT may be able to do amazing things, b
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by briga 4y ago
I stopped drinking regularly once I realized how many empty calories are in alcohol. It’s diluted poison that ruins your sleep and makes you fat. It’s just suboptimal to be consuming on a regular basis. The psychological effects can be fun
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by briga 4y ago
Everyone reacts to chemicals in their own way, but I think what you’re describing might be more related to general anxiety than to a particular chemical. It may exacerbate these feelings but I don’t think it’s ever really the root cause
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by briga 4y ago
It’s definitely his most personal book, he spent many years writing it and it feels like everything he had written before that point was just a prelude to Suttree. It also helps that it’s less unrelentingly bleak than his other work, for in
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by briga 4y ago
A lot of famous writers today lived in poverty and obscurity and sold very few books until their old age. Seems like it would be unfair for them to not profit from their life’s work just because it’s more than 20 years old.
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by briga 4y ago
So on the one hand you’re complaining about regulatory bodies keeping standards for job titles. But on the other you’re gatekeeping the industry against people who don’t have traditional education. Surely the problem isn’t bootcamp grads, b
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by briga 4y ago
Yeah I think the problem is the model has been trained on T. S. Eliot, but it’s also been trained on every amateur poet that has ever posted their doggerel online. I asked in to write song lyrics for me, and while some of the verses felt in
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by briga 4y ago
2 flights (security screening, boarding, unboarding, security screening, transfer time, boarding, unboarding, taxi/train to the city) sounds much less pleasant than a train ride (hop on somewhere central, relax, hop off somewhere centr
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by briga 4y ago
> Guns, Germs and Steel is basically a modern eugenicist theory, racist and dumb. Um, run that by me again? It’s been a while since I read it but doesn’t the book specifically argue that the Europeans conquered the Americas because of ge
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by briga 4y ago
I don’t mind tipping 10-15% but complaints against the standard tipping options on payment machines are well deserved. Somewhere along the line business owners figured out they can magically increase revenue by 10% just by upping the pre-se
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by briga 4y ago
Recruiters are going to use it too for personalized messages to every single candidate. I suspect future developments are going to make it increasingly difficult to filter out spam from your inbox
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by briga 4y ago
If you think that’s bad, consider that some printers are literally cheaper to buy than the ink replacements. Since new printers come with cartridges it can be cheaper to just buy a whole new printer whenever you run out of ink
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by briga 4y ago
>And when he finally had the chance to read it in Spanish, he deemed the Spanish edition to be a poor translation from the English "original" Fascinating. Did he say which translation he read?
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by briga 4y ago
With the exception of Finnegans Wake I don't think that's true at all. Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are both fairly conventional books, nothing wildly different from the books that had come before. Ulysses
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by briga 4y ago
Personally I've had some of the rudest encounters of my life with strangers in SF. Conversely some of the nicest interactions I've had with strangers have happened in the Eastern metropolises. I would probably attribute this more
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by briga 4y ago
Have you been to other states? They're really not that different. California just happens to have way more people than most.
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by briga 4y ago
I mean, even if they don’t get hired they’re still contributing to open-source. Seems like a good outcome either way
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by briga 4y ago
It certainly raises some interesting questions. After a model has been trained is there really any surefire way to prove that these models are profiting from your individual code? How is this different, from, say, search indexing in Google?
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by briga 4y ago
Great work on the visualization, looks fantastic! Impressive how far web graphics have advanced.
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by briga 4y ago
Is that even possible? Any geophysicists here? Eventually I suppose that would also disrupt the Earth's magnetic field.
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by briga 4y ago
Kinda reminiscent of how dictators like Stalin and Mao surrounded themselves with sycophantic yes-men. Elon talks a lot about free speech but is that really possible when he's acting like a tyrant?
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by briga 4y ago
Ironically in my latest job search the interview I prepared the least for was the one that led to an offer. Put aside the pressure you put on yourself to succeed and you'll probably end up doing alright. I think it's similar to da
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by briga 4y ago
How exactly do a couple funny looks from strangers prevent you from enjoying being straight? If you were gay would you get mad at people for assuming you're straight? You can't control what people think of you, so it's hardly

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