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by bustadjustme 8d ago
... but you have to pay to read the NYT. You paid for the information. Guess who didn't.
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by bustadjustme 3mo ago
Maybe you were thinking of Utah in 2016? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_McMullin_2016_presidentia...
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by bustadjustme 10mo ago
You make a good point -- it's easy to knee-jerk react based on the "I like free things" vibe and decry long-copyright as nonsensical. I think a reasonable argument against copyright being so long is that things I experienced
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NIH suspends pathogen studies over 'gain-of-function' concerns(science.org)
28 points by bustadjustme 1y ago|17 comments
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by bustadjustme 1y ago
Sorry if I missed it, but how is a single token output from an LLM comparable to a search result from an engine? The author here compares 1k tokens (as an estimate for an average LLM single query response) to 1k web search queries . How
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by bustadjustme 1y ago
> By uploading any User Content you hereby grant and will grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, displa
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by bustadjustme 2y ago
"Writers disagree on how best to define and classify atheism, contesting what supernatural entities are considered gods, whether atheism is a philosophical position or merely the absence of one, and whether it requires a conscious, exp
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by bustadjustme 2y ago
But the polls weren't wrong [1]. This was a normal polling error. If we expect polls to give us pinpoint accuracy, it's our expectations that are wrong. [1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-model-exactly-predi
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by bustadjustme 4y ago
Note that the prompt is AI-generated as well, though. From the linked blog post: > OpenAI has another AI, GPT-3, that I used to generate many of the ideas for DALL·E prompts. I wanted to explore DALL·E using a wide variety of styles and
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Study: Racial Bias in Football [Soccer] Commentary(runrepeat.com)
1 points by bustadjustme 6y ago|0 comments
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by bustadjustme 6y ago
> The ʻokina has historically been represented in computer publications by the grave accent (`), the left single quotation mark (‘), or the apostrophe ('), especially when the correct typographical mark (ʻ) is not available.
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by bustadjustme 7y ago
While this does kinda suck, note that Marianne Williamson is excluded from many (if not all) of these same examples, while having announced her candidacy well before (and even making it into the televised debates as well). Politics aside, m
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by bustadjustme 7y ago
Looking at LibriVox specifically (linked to by many of the entries in OP), each audiobook has an RSS feed, so I'll just be listening to them in a podcast app. If you have a decent one that keeps track of which "episodes" you&
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by bustadjustme 7y ago
.... whales certainly aren't bony fish. They're in class Mammalia, which is not within the superclass Osteichthyes. I.e. they're mammals, not fish.
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by bustadjustme 7y ago
The way I read it, the Bible makes it a point to communicate that Jesus was/is a real person (and that his importance actually hinges on that fact). AFAIK, this is and has always been the Church's position.
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by bustadjustme 8y ago
Wow, there's some fantastic mapping of this effect from a few years ago: https://calepa.ca.gov/2015/09/16/urbanheat/ . Links to a study and lots of data produced from it. Southern California: "u
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by bustadjustme 8y ago
From OP: > Interestingly, this same pattern holds for more numbers, and for different intervals. He's not claiming it holds for _all_ n, just for _many_ n.
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by bustadjustme 9y ago
I don't follow their reasoning. Given their premises: 1. The solar eclipse of Oct 30, 1207 BC is recorded in the book of Joshua, describing events concerning the people of Israel in Canaan (specifically, a battle with some Canaanites).
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by bustadjustme 9y ago
Yeah your number's surprisingly (to me) actually not far off. Use of Tasers varies pretty widely from department to department -- according to [1] the Richmond County SD reports about 0.053 uses per officer-month, Miami-Dade PD about 0