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by calf 3y ago
Would you recommend the M2 or M3 though? My mom uses Gmail and shopping and the like. The M2 is perfectly sufficient, if not for the 2 year difference in future macOS upgrade support.
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by calf 3y ago
I'm helping my mom pick an M2 or M3 MacBook Air, and your comment keeps me on the fence. If it's just burst capacity for web browsing and simple home office activities, then why not save $100 and get the 2022 M2 machine? Whereas m
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by calf 3y ago
I don't know that. Rather, I don't know if an M2 or M3 is the better buy for someone who wants their computer to last as long as possible. My MacBook air will probably last 14 years and my mother's has lasted 13 years. That
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by calf 3y ago
Yes.. so hypothetically if not for Safari/Chrome not being updatable for MacOS High Sierra, she would still be using the same laptop. In fact I have the exact same model as her, a MacBook Air 2011 and I am still using it. I am typing
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Ask HN: Apple Store advised (my mom) M3 MacBook Air over the M2. Ideas/Advice?
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by calf 3y ago
The abstract says they did mice experiments; so do they draw any conclusions for humans?
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by calf 3y ago
Apple probably envisioned not a car company but a revolutionary personal transportation industry that highly integrates compute power in the form of self-driving AI. Remember, Steve Jobs famously poopooed the Segway. It doesn't surpris
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by calf 3y ago
This is reducing culture to money, which I imagine the safety culture theorists anticipated a layperson, misinformed understanding of it.
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by calf 3y ago
So is it saying LLMs have polynomial running time and that's it? LLMs can't solve SAT properly because of running time argument?
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by calf 3y ago
Someone being well-off, having power/wealth/influence, can still be a victim of racism and social marginalization. There's no irony or contradiction there.
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by calf 3y ago
I'm 17yr club casual redditor, I just comment without regard to karma or anything like that.
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by calf 3y ago
I've been writing rudimentary Python scripts to scrape online recipe websites for my hobby cooking purposes, and I wish there was some general software that could do this more simply. One of the websites has started making their images
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by calf 3y ago
Most analyses focus on ambiguity/inconsistency of ,/and with other ways to read the same sentence, but I've found it interesting to focus merely on the grammar of serial lists alone: b and c // binary operator
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by calf 3y ago
That's so alien to me, because my answer to your question is an enthusiastic "Yes!!". On further thought, I think the only humane objection is whether truth can ever really be separated from judgment. People don't like b
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by calf 3y ago
Maybe he's talking about the string theorist community
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by calf 3y ago
Why didn't the medical news journal hook you up with a professor? They could've taken a look at your work. Like, how do you know your scripts isn't just doing pseudoscience and based on a superficial understanding of all thos
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by calf 3y ago
I know of Sapolsky saying what a decade ago that LGBT brain structures are, like, flipped wrt. heterosexual people. But I thought the scientific consensus has been that there is no easy way to find a gay gene(s), so your claim of finding su
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by calf 3y ago
I don't get it. If you can solve for LGBT genes that easily, then why isn't this in the news? Surely academic scientists would have tried this if all you needed was some scripting to find patterns?
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by calf 3y ago
Canada is the way it is because it is next to the U.S. The Canadian brain drain was never entirely the fault of Canada; the gravitational pull of U.S. neoliberal capitalism (what you uncritically and a-historically call 'risk taking&
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by calf 3y ago
Godel did not argue or show "there are fundamental epistemic limits to the universe". The universe is not a formal axiomatic system. This repeats an very old, popular pop-philosophy misconception about Godel's theorems and GE
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by calf 3y ago
The computational semantics of the NFA simply requires that the next state be one of the allowable next states in the transition function d: Q x ∑ --> PowerSet(Q). Thus, this semantics implicitly encodes the notion that the machine is n
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by calf 3y ago
Why is randomness non-computable? In computer science, the theorem is that the set of all Deterministic Finite Automata is equivalent to the set of all Nondeterministic Finite Automata. It is a non-obvious theorem that is a one page proof t
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by calf 3y ago
Aaronson is one of the world's top quantum computing scientists, he's a professor at I believe UT Austin. He's also written papers that are basically philosophy of physics. It would be interesting to go over what he has actua
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by calf 3y ago
Is there an alternative model of human psychology? Would be nice if science could tell us something even if Maslow, or Freud, or cognitive-behavioral therapy each have theoretical deficiencies.
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by calf 3y ago
You're just letting "relevant" do the heavy lifting of your rationale. It's a poor argument. What the audiences make of the art is contingent on the social mores and cultural attitudes of the time - which depend on the s
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by calf 3y ago
Quite the opposite, I've read academic papers on critical theory and related subjects. I have an advanced training in a STEM discipline but as an undergrad I took electives at UC Berkeley, a highly regarded place for studying critical
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by calf 3y ago
No, the mistake is trying to understand these artifacts independently of the corporations. It is impossible to understand the artifacts without understanding of the corporations. The art cannot stand alone.
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by calf 3y ago
There's also the idea of the "hive mind" of ants and bees, so maybe quite literally our brains efficiently evolved as a meta-hive-mind internalized by our network of neurons.
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by calf 3y ago
My formative Mac experience was System 7, with the 8-bit and 16-bit (in the UI it was named "256" and "Thousands") color display. The icons and desktop UI was wondrous.
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by calf 3y ago
That is mind blowing! It reminds me of Conway and Wolfram's automata theories although perhaps those models did not emphasize the energy aspect of it.

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