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by confeit 6y ago
Before the elections, when Putin thought that Trump would lose, and influence campaigns were designed to promote him as a detractor and divider, calling out the rigged elections and the deep state swamp. With Roger Stone laundering Russian
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by confeit 6y ago
I am convinced that Q, if not started, was quickly taken over and turned into a Russian psyop. I expected the Mueller report to validate this (gross online astroturfing campaigns by state actors), but unless it is in the redacted parts, it
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by confeit 6y ago
> Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
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by confeit 6y ago
> anything trained on internet data is kinda doomed to poison itself on the high ratio of garbage floating around here? Low-quality noise cancels out and leaves the high-quality signal. In the limit, the internet offers the true sequence
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by confeit 6y ago
You can get a glimpse by scrolling websites like: https://www.darpa.mil/opencatalog?ppl=view200&sort=title&ocF... [.mil] and looking at DARPA and Office of Naval Research sponsored ML/AI research. The military
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by confeit 6y ago
My cursory research, after sensing something was amiss or forced with the narritive, is that the situation is much the same as border detention centers. These cages were in use during Obama era, but only went viral under Trump. The same thi
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)(wired.com)
1 points by confeit 6y ago|0 comments
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by confeit 6y ago
I saw it linked from the comments on a Tweet by Karpathy and found it intellectually curious. > By posting GPT generated text we’re polluting the data for its future versions https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/
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Low-Background Steel(en.wikipedia.org)
359 points by confeit 6y ago|107 comments
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by confeit 6y ago
Giving certain people, highly visible on social media, pre-public access to the model, and letting them cherry pick their completions to post without the prompt or amount of tries, is a smart form of propaganda/hype building/PR ma
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by confeit 6y ago
I don't care if you followed a two month course by Joel Grus on Fizzbuzz and graduated magna cum laude. I care if you can actually code Fizzbuzz. Coursera courses on your resume, is like listing your Microsoft Office skills. It would b
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by confeit 6y ago
> You're flying! How? > Python! I learned it last night! Everything is so simple! Hello world is just: print "Hello, world!" > SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print("H
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by confeit 6y ago
> Missing parentheses in call to 'print'. Did you mean print(1, 2, 3)? Yes, Python, I meant exactly that! I've never seen this error message in error. Now you know what I mean, please fix it automatically, I know you can
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by confeit 6y ago
Since at least 2011, the Dutch test wastewater of cities for traces of drugs, such as cocaine and XTC, and use this to inform public policy. Already in 2009 it was known that coronaviruses can survive and remain infectuous in sewage water f
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by confeit 6y ago
Did you reuse the password at any other site? Check your haveibeenpawned.
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by confeit 7y ago
Vitamin C, taken orally, reduces length of cold with 8% in adults, and 12% in children. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10796569 Vitamin C deficiency makes you more susceptible to the cold and severe infections. h
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by confeit 7y ago
Thanks, makes sense. Iceland also did voluntary testing and then estimated 1% of their population is infected. I doubt 1% is even showing mild symptoms. Remains the significance of asymptomatic spread. If someone does not cough or sneeze, a
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by confeit 7y ago
> "The vast majority of people infected with Covid-19, between 50 and 75%, are completely asymptomatic but represent a formidable source of contagion". The Professor of Clinical Immunology of the University of Florence, Sergio
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by confeit 7y ago
In Italy they use old laws for murder when you violate your isolation and infect others. Australia, NZ, U.S., Italy, they all see sustained local community spread. Australia is still exponentially increasing. Shutting down flights when ther
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by confeit 7y ago
During quarantines people are not shaking hands. I am not saying quarantines necessarily select for a higher death rate (a dead host can not spread), but for a more severe disease (the main drivers of a spread are when people ultimately dev
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by confeit 7y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/presentation-how-hospitals-a... > estimated projections of as many as 96 million cases in the US, 4.8 million hospitalizations, and 480,000 deaths associated with the novel coronavirus. Al
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by confeit 7y ago
> Human intervention may have placed more severe selective pressure on the L type, which might be more aggressive and spread more quickly. Harder to detect I would see in a strain that has a longer asymptomatic spread period. The only wa
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by confeit 7y ago
> People regularly become ill with a cold due to a coronavirus and may catch the same one about 4 months later. > This is because coronavirus antibodies do not last for a long time. Also, the antibodies for one strain of coronavirus m
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by confeit 7y ago
If I noticed anything in the past months it is that it hardly matters if you are an expert. There never was punishment for being wrong for hypotheticals. People just don't know. The WHO when declaring emergency said: "We don'
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by confeit 7y ago
I think "herd immunity" is a euphemism for: This virus will see community spread of around 30% to 70% and it is long impossible to contain. The U.S. is preparing for 30%, The Netherlands for 50%, and Germany for 70%. Herd immunity
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by confeit 7y ago
Last update: Please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcJDpV-igjs for Dr Richard Hatchett on the (long-term) dangerous effects of SARS-CoV-2. "Spanish Flu" and "WWII" he says. 3 weeks ago the first Ita
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by confeit 7y ago
Meanwhile the CFR was upgraded from 2.3% to 3.6%. Evidence of permanent lung damage and psychological damage and kidney damage well-established. The others are by comparing SARS-CoV-1 with SARS-CoV-2. The WHO telling you it is serious and c
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by confeit 7y ago
For countries with outbreaks: - Fully educate the general public on the seriousness of COVID-19 and their role in preventing its spread; For the public: - Recognize that COVID-19 is a new and concerning disease, but that outbreaks can manag
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by confeit 7y ago
> However, the total number of COVID-19 cases is likely higher due to inherent difficulties in identifying and counting mild and asymptomatic cases. > Nevertheless, all CFRs still need to be interpreted with caution and more research
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by confeit 7y ago
WHO wants to have their cake and eat it too. They designate Covid-19 as the severe disease, and want only those numbers confirmed with tests. Then to calculate death rate they look at everyone who is infected with novel coronavirus, includi

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