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by briga 5y ago
Have you tried the alternatives?
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by briga 5y ago
Basically it’s his updated thoughts along with some new research his company has done on cortical columns being the basis for human intelligence. It’s a good read but perhaps a bit over-ambitious in trying to propose a unified theory of cog
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by briga 5y ago
In their defense this field of study moves incredibly fast—there are hundreds of papers published every week. It would be a full-time job to simply keep up-to-date with the literature, to say nothing of doing your own research, so it’s hard
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by briga 5y ago
Are there any other Argentinian writers you know that perhaps deserve more recognition in the anglosphere? I’ve read Borges and Cortazar—both floored me and left a lasting impression, they make me curious to learn about some of the other gr
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by briga 5y ago
So is it the 400 years of readers and literary critics who are wrong, or is it you who are wrong? Whether or not you were entertained by it is a matter of personal taste, but declaring that it’s uninteresting suggests that you only gave it
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by briga 5y ago
Seems like such licenses only exist to help monopolies stay monopolies. Uber turned taxi rides into an free market—-bad news for taxi drivers and their lobbyists. The French law courts seem to be working their hardest to ensure that France
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by briga 5y ago
Maybe not to lose weight, but as far as I know the primary goal of most people who take protein supplements is to gain muscle. From my understanding this is literally impossible if you don't consume enough protein. So the question of h
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by briga 5y ago
Mozilla has a pretty good open-source TTS library. In general high-quality pre-trained TTS models are surprisingly hard to find--I'd also be curious to see if anyone knows any good alternatives
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by briga 5y ago
You could be right but do you have a better idea? Without environmental impact reports it's likely that there would be nearly no natural land left in California. Most of the SF bay would likely have been reclaimed by now and the remain
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by briga 5y ago
It’s on the front page of nearly every major news source nearly every week, it’s pretty hard not to notice. It’s not like people don’t realize something is going on, most just don’t want to think about it that hard. And can you blame them?
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by briga 5y ago
Definitely, but highly wasteful nonetheless. Easier to tell someone to stop growing their lawn than telling a farmer to stop growing their crops
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by briga 5y ago
Yeaaaaaah, if cities could stop doing that endless unsustainable sprawl thing that would be great
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by briga 5y ago
Just like we fight deforestation by planting trees maybe we should fight drought by re-watering our land. It's a massive logistical problem, to be sure, but it seems like humans already have a pretty good handle on draining water from
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A Conversation with an AI(jjanes.ca)
1 points by briga 5y ago|0 comments
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Evidently it's still trivial for crackers to patch it out
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by briga 5y ago
Not sure why this is on HN, but it is indeed a good game. Top-notch writing--really evokes the old-school style of point-and-click adventure games like Gabriel Knight or Planescape.
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by briga 5y ago
Some beautiful shots in there. It's somewhat reminiscent of the work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy ( https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265194 )
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by briga 5y ago
Haven't smartphones made it obvious that they can? How many times have you checked your phone today? If they're not literal mind-control devices they're certainly putting thoughts into our heads that wouldn't otherwise b
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by briga 5y ago
The bureaucracy in California definitely feels excessive. Taxes are too high and don't seem to be helping solve the numerous social problems that California is facing. But politically is seems that one of the biggest issues hindering d
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by briga 5y ago
Isn't South America already losing biodiversity at a rapid pace? Seems like it could be difficult to separate the effects of an experiment like this from the steady background of biodiversity loss already present across the continent.
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by briga 5y ago
>pretty much everyone who knows anything about it ... agrees it can be eradicated with no meaningful impact on the ecosystem. Any citations for this? Seems like a very bold claim considering this has never been done before.
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by briga 6y ago
That's true in silicon valley too, I remember seeing fish drowning in tiny pools of water because the creeks dry up so much. The floodplain of the san francisco bay has just been so heavily developed that there's just not enough w
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by briga 6y ago
It's a shame we don't have satellite imagery dating back to when Europeans first arrived on the continent. I suspect the whole western US was once far more lush and green than it is today. The central valley in California, for exa
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by briga 6y ago
So I've been biking most of my life and I almost never wear a helmet. Not because I don't think they would help if I hit my head on the ground, but because in the past 20 years I haven't been injured while biking once. Maybe
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by briga 6y ago
Meanwhile in Europe barely anyone wears helmets. It turns out you don't need them when bikes have their own dedicated infrastructure.
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by briga 6y ago
PBS and similar publicly funded channels seems to be the exception rather than the rule here. Apparently taking market forces out of the equations is a good way to make better content for kids
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by briga 6y ago
I would agree with the assessment, but isn't your typical kids TV channel just as vapid? Are US lawmakers worried about the ads and commercialism we bombard our children with on conventional television?
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by briga 6y ago
I would assume cycling safety increases proportionally with bike infrastructure. Something tells me the people dying on bicycles aren't dying from collisions with other bicyclists. If you have adequate infrastructure bike safety start
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by briga 6y ago
I mean, could it be anything other than speculative when I opened with "I'm guessing"?
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by briga 6y ago
I'm guessing they found that employees aren't as productive when they not obliged to show up to the office every day. Not to mention when they're not provided with a steady stream of free food and coffee. Fourteen days a year

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