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by calibas 2y ago
Why does an extra 16 GB of memory add $400 to the price?
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by calibas 2y ago
From the study itself: > Moreover, exceptionally well-preserved complex networks of neurons, axons, and other neural structures have been revealed by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) investigation of the brain remains and those of the
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by calibas 2y ago
From Wikipedia regarding the Trump meme coin: > A disclaimer said that the coin was "not intended to be, or the subject of" an investment opportunity or a security and was "not political and has nothing to do with" an
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by calibas 2y ago
I think it's pure AI hype to claim these are beyond human understanding, and I doubt that's what the professor really meant. There's real physical processes going on, and we can study them carefully to eventually learn how th
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by calibas 2y ago
> a type of agricultural waste known as furan Important note, it's not waste, it's manufactured from waste.
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by calibas 2y ago
“It's only illegal if you get caught”
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by calibas 2y ago
I don't believe it has anything to do with the results of the test, they probably just toss that out. It's that you grant these companies partial access to your Facebook account when you take these quizzes. https://www.
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by calibas 2y ago
I see these on Facebook and have avoided them. Isn't the whole point of the "tests" to collect personal data? I don't know if it's "a new type of psychological myth" so much as a scam.
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by calibas 2y ago
It's mostly the Republicans fault, but it didn't help that Biden supported it too, in spite of how other top Democrats felt: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/27/democrats-biden-som...
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by calibas 2y ago
You're delegating powers to the President that would normally require an act of congress. The sanctions against Iran are a relatively tame example, there's 46 other national emergencies that give the President far more power. Here
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by calibas 2y ago
If you're wondering why the President can essentially write his own laws when that's not how our system is supposed to work, it's because the President gets extra powers whenever we're in a state of national emergency. W
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by calibas 2y ago
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by calibas 2y ago
The part about <aside> is worded in a way that can be confusing. It implies that a <div> is always going to be displayed as a block, but an <aside> is some kind of special element that could be either a block or inline. Wh
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by calibas 2y ago
Let's take it even further and replace all soldiers with AI so humans don't have to fight and die in wars anymore.
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by calibas 2y ago
> For Japanese soundtrack producer Nujabes, the “lofi” sound wasn’t an aesthetic choice. It was an artifact of creating such forward thinking music with the dusty equipment from 20 years ago. I trying to figure out where the author got t
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by calibas 2y ago
> I've heard people wax poetic about programming old, limited-memory machines. I wouldn't know anything about those---at the time they were current, I was writing rudimentary number-guessing games in BASIC. But doing this compe
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by calibas 2y ago
Which systems use the string "null" to represent a null value? That seems like a bad idea...
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by calibas 2y ago
> You'd think a group of people devoted to being rational would be a group of monk-like beings, cerebral, disconnected from the concerns of the flesh. Human beings are fundamentally irrational, and it's a really great way to de
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by calibas 2y ago
> We've got the technology to detect gut bacteria but we don't seem to have good targeted ways to affect it. Healthy diet, fasting, probiotics, reducing stress, among other methods.
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by calibas 2y ago
GoDaddy is one of the sleaziest companies I know of. I ran a website hosted on GoDaddy for a local business when the server cluster was hacked. GoDaddy admitted it was their fault, but the business ended up having to pay me to fix the site.
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by calibas 2y ago
Bilinear is nice for performance, but if you're concerned about image quality you generally want to use bicubic resampling instead.
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by calibas 2y ago
I don't get this whole debate, surely what's meant by "reason" can be strictly defined and measured? Then we can conclusively say whether or not it's happening with LLMs. It seems to me like the debate is largely ju
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by calibas 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoHealth_Alliance#Project_DEF...
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by calibas 2y ago
A while ago, I attempted to use ChatGPT to research the history of sexism in the Christian church. ChatGPT feeds me this line: > The New Testament offers various teachings on how to treat women, emphasizing respect, equality, and love wi
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by calibas 2y ago
Consider video game RPGs. They're largely based upon D&D, yet they remove the dungeon master entirely. They are enormously more popular than D&D itself. Now imagine something in between, where you have a video game, but the NPC
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by calibas 2y ago
It prevents Oracle from suing, but everybody calls it JavaScript anyway...
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by calibas 2y ago
> What are the fundamental limits on how deeply a fractal can be accurately zoomed? This question is causing all sorts of confusion. There is no fundamental limit on how much detail a fractal contains, but if you want to render it, the
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by calibas 2y ago
I accidentally opened the EPUB3 file in 7Zip, then realized you can just decompress the archive and open the .xhtml files in any standard web browser. Seems like it would be fairly simple to have web browsers support EPUB3.
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Slime mold microfluidic logical gates(sciencedirect.com)
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by calibas 2y ago
It seems like they just grabbing every possible bit of data available, I doubt there's any mechanism to flag which edits are corrections when training.

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