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by burkaman 2y ago
Agreed, and the food is surprisingly good in my experience. It's not like the stuff you get from the cafe car on a normal Amtrak ride.
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by burkaman 2y ago
If they had announced in 2022 that the paper would no longer be issuing presidential endorsements because they aren't useful or aren't a good use of resources, I think that would be a reasonable and much less controversial decisio
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by burkaman 2y ago
Your options are reversed. Under the mass conspiracy scenario, any individual scientist could become famous and promote their own career by whistleblowing about the fraud. But if the scientists are truthful as a group, they can guarantee fu
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by burkaman 2y ago
Fair point, it's not just a modern convention but yes, I think in theory a state constitution could be changed to make the whole legislature appointed by the governor or chosen by lottery or whatever.
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by burkaman 2y ago
What about the Supremacy Clause? And aren't state legislatures elected by "the people"? You could argue about this forever.
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by burkaman 2y ago
If you're interested in this, they have a pretty good podcast that interviews paper authors: https://blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/01/introducing-josscast
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by burkaman 2y ago
I think it's just because every single person here has at least a decade of personal experience in education. One of the things many people like about HN is that when an article about some obscure subject is posted, there is often some
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by burkaman 2y ago
And if there is a tie in the electoral college, then the senate elects the Vice President. I would argue that A, which is what the answer key says is correct, is the least correct of these three incorrect answers.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Question 5 is also quite (intentionally) ambiguous: > The Constitution of the United States places the final authority in our Nation in the hands of... > a. the national courts. > b. the States. > c. the people. The answer key s
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by burkaman 2y ago
I think they are anticipating importing extremely cheap solar power from Australia.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Am I missing something, or is this just a normal stock browser like Yahoo Finance? I don't see anything remotely new in the article or the site ( https://www.perplexity.ai/finance/NVDA ) and it doesn't seem to
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by burkaman 2y ago
The vice president's opinions are not relevant, especially if they only stated those opinions before joining the presidential ticket.
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by burkaman 2y ago
It's not an emotional reaction to Boeing, it's a logical reaction to the fact that stock buybacks are a blatant form of market manipulation that were illegal for most of the 20th century. Nobody should be doing them, it's not
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by burkaman 2y ago
Please don't post auto-generated text without checking it yourself. It is almost always wrong, as it is here.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Ok I don't know what to tell you then, we can't answer your question because there are no papers that meet your criteria. That's the whole point of this discussion, nobody has even tried. I'm assuming you won't thin
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes they could. The paper we're discussing was written by non black people. Another recent paper they reference was as well: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/toronto-ai/adaptive-shells/ .
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by burkaman 2y ago
I am not going to read through all 328 papers to fact check this, but I'm very confident they did do a "thorough review", that's how you start research like this. There's a bit more detail in the course that this pr
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by burkaman 2y ago
The core issue: > There have been no papers on afro-textured hair at SIGGRAPH ever. There are over 300 SIGGRAPH papers on other types of hair.
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by burkaman 2y ago
That's what the 1987 source says, but the 1906 article says > In days when vigilante justice was a major component of the Society, "not a few horse thieves were apprehended by the organization of the long name."
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First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected with NASA-Designed Instrument(nasa.gov)
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes, when I said "what happened" I was referring to how quickly the site changed for the worse and how extreme the decline was, not just the fact that it has ads. Most sites do follow the pattern described in the parent because th
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by burkaman 2y ago
If you're wondering what happened to Fandom, just look at who runs it now. > In February 2018, former AOL CEO Jon Miller, backed by private equity firm TPG Capital, acquired Fandom. > In February 2019, former StubHub CEO Perkins
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by burkaman 2y ago
This just repeats the whole comment with more words. Please don't copy-paste autogenerated text here unless it adds to the conversation somehow.
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by burkaman 2y ago
I think those types of visual glitches can probably be fixed with more or better training, and I have no doubt that future versions of this type of system will produce outputs that are indistinguishable from real videos. But better training
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by burkaman 2y ago
Yes, and like pretty much every AI release I've seen, even these cherry-picked examples mostly do not quite match the given prompt. The outputs are genuinely incredible, but if you imagine actually trying to use this for work, it would
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by burkaman 2y ago
class Monad (MonadTutorial badAnalogy) where return badAnalogy = MonadTutorial badAnalogy (MonadTutorial badAnalogy) >>= attemptToExplain = attemptToExplain badAnalogy attemptToExplain :: Analogy -> (MonadTutorial
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by burkaman 2y ago
type Burrito is a monad, because the functions >>= and returnBurrito are defined. Any type for which those two functions are defined is a monad.
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by burkaman 2y ago
This is an inside joke about people who write monad tutorials and think they've completely solved the issue by explaining that they're just like, for example, burritos: https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01&#x
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by burkaman 2y ago
CNN is the most popular news website in the US by a huge margin and they are confident enough in their position that they're going to start testing out a paywall next month.
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by burkaman 2y ago
Not a sliding scale, but Washington DC has rent control only for buildings built before 1975.

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