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5y ago
Folding screen breaks in the crease. I'm shocked! Shocked. Well, not that shocked.
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5y ago
Yes, also because then it feels less like you're committing to buying N books per month from a particular vendor.
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5y ago
> However, you run into the starting problem of needing a trusted authority to verify a rights holder is in fact the rights holder. Again, this is a different problem. One can imagine a service with a seignorage fee to verify such things
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5y ago
> Is AI art (eg. VQGAN+CLIP stuff) public domain? Iirc cdpa 1988 in the UK holds it to be copyright of the authors of the program. But I'd be surprised if the law was a comfortable fit for practice 30 years on, or that it had been t
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5y ago
Fairly clearly what you 'get' is dependent on the surrounding system. It's one for a legal-crypto startup but you can imagine selling some NFT being linked to a contract for transfer of copyright. Maybe nobody is doing this,
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5y ago
> On social issues average European and its country is way more conservative than average American. Dubious.
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5y ago
lol, yeah, I am ancient.
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5y ago
I first saw this on a documentary about 20 years ago. Still hoping :)
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5y ago
> I really think Watson is one of the biggest tech marketing bamboozles of the 21st century. The weird thing was that to anyone following ML this was detectable bs.
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5y ago
Depends what the cause is.
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5y ago
Khan academy and Schaum's Outlines are your friends. Then some textbooks with exercises (e.g. Axler on lin alg). The notation is usually an expression of a mental model, so just approaching via notation may cause some degree of confusi
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5y ago
Could it be the advert for his book 'Be slightly evil: A playbook for sociopaths' by any chance?
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5y ago
The Wire nailed this with, "I'm not even Greek."
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5y ago
> had saturation coverage of the cities with lots of 1m^2 blocks of real estate Tfw learning a new perspective every day :)
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5y ago
IIRC most of these stories are about bitcoin payments. If they switch to monero, sure that's different. But then we need to conduct the debate on the basis of different cryptos requiring different policy. Rather than saying crypto->
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5y ago
> when you see how it allows criminal to move money anonymously. Pseudonymously. Cash in a bag is anonymous and very widely used by criminals. The other big difference is with the public ledger currencies the whole transaction history is
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5y ago
> I quite fancy doing a Phd myself one day, but I assume I'd have to do it in "stealth mode" unofficially for a few yrs without a supervisor first I'd suggest you think very carefully about this first. There's
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5y ago
Ba-dum tish!
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5y ago
> in most EU you can do your PhD while working. You really can't at good universities in the UK. At Cambridge we had to get special permission to live more than 10 miles from Great St Mary's. My advisor's advice was that i
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5y ago
This and op is all wholesome content. On the criticism, do you think more limited / lab-bound systems will help develop control technology in advance of better muscles?
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5y ago
> If you do error propagation using uncertainty on your parameters, you can get non-sense results. Only if you do it wrong, generally. Events which are impossible under some hypothesis should have zero probability under a model for it an
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5y ago
Not sure we can fault them if it is a justified true headline but we expect that 'other people' can't read. Per the Wason selection task this is a great experiment to run, because if it isn't true then that's stro
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5y ago
I think the lesson is that competence is scarce.
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5y ago
User called fnord posts bait ideas, yeah I'm not biting.
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5y ago
This would actually be a thing.
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5y ago
> A senior dev in London makes 60-80K This is just not true. Senior dev at non FAANG could well add 50% to those numbers.
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5y ago
Well, that escalated quickly.
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5y ago
Nice to know there's a python wrapper, might make it easier to mock up / do initial validation before heading into the long grass.
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5y ago
Is this a minikube alternative?
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5y ago
Read this as 'sit down'.
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