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by briga 4y ago
With a name like Paris Marx you hardly need to question where this author's bias lies. Right now with my smartphone (a device you can be sure would never have been invented on a government committee) I can stream any song released in t
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by briga 4y ago
It's generally been on the fringe of provincial politics, but the idea has been getting more attention from the Western provinces after years of being let down by the federal government. Peter Zeihan wrote a thoughtful analysis of it i
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by briga 4y ago
The prairie provinces are more similar to the midwest—culturally and geographically—than they are to the rest of Canada. It would be a huge economic boon for them to just succeed to the US. Without the prairies the rest of Canada loses its
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by briga 4y ago
The situation is a bit more complex than you're making it out to be. Leaving aside the somewhat unique politics of Israel, it is a much smaller and more unified country than the US--the problems in the US are simply orders of magnitude
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by briga 4y ago
Has similar research been done on bird song? It seems to me that bird song could also be described as ordered recombinatorial sequences, for instance the mockingbird takes the sounds of other birds and strings them together to create new so
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by briga 4y ago
>there was probably little actual reason to come here at all since, presumably, game and fish were as robust in all the lands they travelled to arrive here and fellow human pressure was non-existent. I don't think this is true, ther
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by briga 4y ago
Because you're not eating enough? You can eat only McDonalds and still lose weight if you're eating below your daily resting calories. Your body composition will probably change for the worse though. Likewise the person who strugg
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by briga 4y ago
Isn't memory also improved by novelty? For instance, your memories before and after a major life event (say, a surgery) are likely going to be more vivid than your memories around an average day (say, day 4000 sitting in a cage). This
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by briga 4y ago
It's a positive feedback loop: an author becomes high profile by getting positive reviews in the NYRB -> they become more likely to contribute to the NYRB -> they become more likely to get more positive reviews, and so on. Litera
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by briga 4y ago
>I killed my best friend of 14 years because he said hi to my new girlfriend Response: Not the A-hole NTA. He’s the asshole for saying hello to your new girlfriend. And you’re not a bad guy for killing your friend. New girlfriend + ne
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by briga 5y ago
Or perhaps this just opens doors to new types of art and creativity?
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by briga 5y ago
I assume you already consume a lot of English-language media? Try doing it without Spanish subtitles, or at least, only with English subtitles. Even if you don't understand everything you can pick up a lot passively and it will help yo
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by briga 5y ago
Having polluted air is one thing, but it seems like it could be confounded by what's causing the pollution: millions of people sitting in cars for hours a day, not getting physical exercise while under a constant barrage of micro-stres
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by briga 5y ago
This is really apparent in their “Top Picks” feature. They give you a list of people the algorithm thinks you will like, but you’re only allowed to check out one of them in free mode. Even though apparently these people are a great match fo
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by briga 5y ago
>The limitations to GPT3 codex and AlphaCode seems to be they're relatively weak at selection This really does seem like the key here--the knowledge apparently is all in the language model, we just haven't found the best ways t
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by briga 5y ago
I suspect there is some similarity between language models and the structure of language in the mind, but there's a whole lot more going on behind the scenes in the brain than simple runtime statistical model output. Intentionality, pl
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by briga 5y ago
Another way to frame it is that these models still perform very poorly at the task they're designed to do. Imagine if real programmer needed to write a solution a hundred times before they were able to achieve (average) performance. Yo
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by briga 5y ago
Well that still remains to be seen
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by briga 5y ago
Considering that the Aborigines spent tens of thousands of years doing controlled burns ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-stick_farming ), it's quite likely the ecosystem and climate changed quite a bit in that t
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by briga 5y ago
Yes, which leads to all sorts of griping about CBC just being a mouthpiece for the Liberal government. But to be fair their bias was the same even when the Harper government was in power.
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by briga 5y ago
CBC is widely criticized here for its distinctly liberal bias, usually from the nation's conservatives. Which is fair enough--you pay for it in taxes regardless of which side of the political spectrum you're on, so you'd at l
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by briga 5y ago
Is this what happens when you let large-scale language models into the wild? It seems like as soon as you start modelling your responses to queries on real-world text data you're going to run into this quality control problem. What hap
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by briga 5y ago
There are some important details missing here, but $3.3 million over 18 years is about $15k per month. Assuming that the 18 years are passed and he never paid a penny of support. Even if the guy had 5 kids that’s still $3000 a month per kid
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by briga 5y ago
> Good teaching ressources are the exception rather than the norm I have to disagree here. There has never been a time in history where it has been easier to access high quality educational materials. See, for instance, MIT OpenCourseWar
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by briga 5y ago
I can’t claim to know much about Venezuelan politics, but wasn’t the crisis in that country largely a result of over-dependence on natural resources? That might have described California in the gold rush days, but the state’s economy has si
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by briga 5y ago
It's hard to imagine the bay area going the same way as Detroit, if only for the fact that it has excellent geographic advantages. It's one of America's biggest Pacific shipping ports, and having access to the Asian markets w
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by briga 5y ago
> some percentage of the userbase will always run aggressive ad blockers and be impossible to effectvely monetize Can’t block ads when they’re disguised as user content. Viral marketers have had a heyday hawking their products on Reddit
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by briga 5y ago
Funny how famous writers often seem to be each other’s harshest critics. Was this in reference to any particular book of hers? I read Drive Your Plow and it seemed like fairly standard mystery noir fiction, certainly nothing to write a po
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by briga 5y ago
McLuhan isn't really an author to grasp so much as he is an author to be grasped by. He's often difficult to understand but I think the point isn't so much to understand so much as, like you said, to expand your mind to new p
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by briga 5y ago
In principle I agree but in this case I think Google is trying to protect itself from lawsuits. Which seems like a reasonable thing to do from their perspective. Any search engine that gets big enough will eventually have a target on its b

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