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by chongli 2y ago
That video amuses me to no end! All that work to carefully make a delicious pasta and then such a tiny serving at the end! The simple, classic Italian cheese pastas (cacio e pepe as well as carbonara) are so delicious you can't just ea
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by chongli 2y ago
I think authenticity is usually connected to traditional techniques as well as a sense of originality. A clear example of the latter is the original Mona Lisa [1] and the Prado Mona Lisa [2]. While I think most people on the street would ar
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by chongli 2y ago
Authenticity and accuracy are distinct concepts. Authenticity refers to artistic sensibility. It has nothing to do with scientifically correct rendering.
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by chongli 2y ago
There's also a more tactile, grounded feel to film photography. Since you can't just take a test picture and look at the histogram to correct the exposure (or even just dial back on the flashing highlights) you need to know everyt
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by chongli 2y ago
I have read some of the Aubrey-Maturin novels. They are a true joy! If you plan to read them try to get ahold of a dictionary of nautical terms. Wikipedia has a free glossary [1] which can be helpful but I'd prefer a paper version if I
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by chongli 2y ago
Another pair of traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, had more success cornering the onion futures market [1]. It caused such a crisis in the price of onions (and significant onion spoilage) that Congress passed a law specifically banning
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by chongli 2y ago
Well if the US had all the gold in the world then it will have cornered the market in gold. This would cause the price of gold to skyrocket and the US could trickle some gold into the market for immense profit. In this way the national debt
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by chongli 2y ago
It seems the pound has since been redefined and split into separate units: pound mass and pound force, the former in terms of kilograms (1 lb = 0.45359237 kg) and the latter in terms of the force exerted by one pound of mass in earth’s grav
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by chongli 2y ago
Pounds are a unit of weight, not of mass. 10 lbs of feathers is whatever amount of feathers causes a scale to display 10 lbs. If the scale also displays 10 lbs for the quantity of bricks, then they weigh the same, regardless of any differen
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by chongli 2y ago
The reasonable thing to do here is to discourage all of your collaborators from ever submitting anything to that journal again. Work with your team, submit incremental results to journals who will accept them, and let the picky journal suff
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by chongli 2y ago
No, it only says "ChatGPT Plus (Upgrade)" or "ChatGPT". Maybe it's different if you have a paid account?
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by chongli 2y ago
It does not show the model version anywhere on the page on chatgpt.com, even when logged in.
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by chongli 2y ago
OpenAI is not doing us any favours by using confusing naming schemes for their models and obscuring which models people are actually working with. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say OpenAI doesn’t want us doing these tests accurately and
824.
by chongli 2y ago
You mean they add $5 in cash to each AI’s account? Because after dividends and sold shares they should have even more cash to work with.
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by chongli 2y ago
Still, there’s a lot to be said for taking the high road. If the attitude of the upstream devs is so toxic to drive you to create a fork, then why not differentiate yourself by creating a toxicity-free community to the best of your abilitie
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by chongli 2y ago
Well I think a lot of those areas are even flooded with seawater. There’s not much you can do to preserve a fresh water source if it’s close to the ocean and always in the path of hurricanes.
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by chongli 2y ago
I would think one of the issues with trying to preserve pristine water in Florida is that they have hurricanes every year which can flood vast areas with polluted water.
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by chongli 2y ago
That's just restating one of the questions I previously asked.
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by chongli 2y ago
But do you own a river that passes through your land? If not then what is your responsibility for the river? Do you need to preserve the water in exactly the same condition as it entered your property or not? Similarly, what are your rights
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by chongli 2y ago
You’re right. It’s more of a symptom of the systemic problems than the main problem itself. But it still contributes to my distrust in science.
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by chongli 2y ago
A further issue is peer review quid pro quo corruption. The reviewer loves your paper but requests one small change: cite some of his papers and he’ll approve your paper. I don’t know how prevalent this sort of corruption is (I haven’t read
832.
by chongli 2y ago
I didn’t even read the paper, I just read the abstract. I was really impressed by the idea of using Shapley values to investigate how each token in a prompt affects the output, including order-based effects. Even if the paper itself is rubb
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by chongli 2y ago
A lot of the denials / diversions made by Putin’s regime can seem absurd to us but we’re not necessarily the intended audience for them. The regime as a whole has a post-truth propaganda MO designed to subvert reality by offering compe
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by chongli 2y ago
Right, but doesn't that offer the perfect cover if Putin actually wanted someone on that flight killed?
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by chongli 2y ago
What I don’t understand is why Russian SAM operators did not appear to expect the airliner via its flight plan. Commercial flights file flight plans with Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs). Flights into Russia would almost certainly b
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by chongli 2y ago
The NBA’s problem is the 3-pointer. Teams shoot more threes than they ever have before [1] because it’s a winning strategy (more points per attempt). At the same time, the league-wide 3pt% (percentage of 3-pointers made) has remained extrem
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by chongli 2y ago
That would be disastrous! There’s not enough scoring in the paint as it is, due to rule changes. Fans want more scoring in the paint! All the most popular superstars in the past were hyper-athletic guys who consistently got into the paint a
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by chongli 2y ago
because the guys who now have to defend the guys in the corners will go cut off the lanes to the basket They do that already. They leave the corner shooter open when the ball is on the other side of the paint in order to clog up the middl
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by chongli 2y ago
When you're talking about doing things interactively (in a shell, either directly via a terminal or indirectly via an editor) then the constant factors matter far more than the asymptotics. This has always been perl's target for o
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by chongli 2y ago
You can’t compare those because they’re two different events. The World Chess Championship is unique among chess events because of the very long time controls (120 minutes per side, additional 30 minutes after 40 moves, plus 30 seconds per

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