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by cwkoss 3y ago
Also wasn't "opposition fighters" counting every able bodied man, regardless of affiliation?
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by cwkoss 3y ago
The military has practically zero accountability to the public. "National security" gets suits dismissed. Decision-capable is entirely subjective, and thus imperfectly controlled by bureaucracy. You don't know for sure no on
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by cwkoss 3y ago
NASA is not part of the roman/greek culture, but uses those names.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
I'm glad they are getting away from roman/greek gods. Space should not be limited by eurocentrism.
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by cwkoss 3y ago
Belafonte's music is so wonderful. Happy sounding songs that fill your subconscious with joy while you sink into the melancholy meaning. I'm making a playlist of songs I want my baby to listen to during the critical period to giv
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by cwkoss 4y ago
But isn't nearly all AI generated content "zero shot" to some extent? Like even if it has training for "foo" and training data for "bar", the combination of "foo" and "bar" would be no
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I feel like zero shot is a bad misnomer. Isn't the single attempt "one shot"? Is zero shot a meaningfully useful term that I'm just not groking?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Hempcrete is super cool, kind of a modernized cob with better moisture tolerance and it's fireproof
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I am similarly skeptical of the economist dogma that "deflation is economically disastrous". Feels like a spherical cows argument deeply rooted in theory, but not necessarily true in practice. I think it's bad for greedy cor
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The big gap in our understanding of nutrition IMO is that the vast majority of natural foods are "medicinal" in some way. Almost every spice has some measurable physiological effects. Cinnamon, black pepper, capsaicin, tumeric,
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I feel like this is valid criticism for Dall-e, but not so much for stable diffusion. Stable diffusion (and to a lesser extent midjourney) exposes a LOT more knobs to tune. Layer on controlnet and other extensions, and you can really itera
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I don't disagree, but am pretty cynical about the DNCs willingness to change course based on mainstream American opinions 80% of Dems support universal healthcare, but the lobbyists who control the party kept it out of the 2020 platfor
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Yep "Limited Hangouts" are a common disinfo technique
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A better analogy would be "If it’s generally accepted that the world is flat, we shouldn't assume its round because one student was unable to measure the curvature."
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Here's a hysplit for the date of the disaster https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/113wyj3/hy... Looks like the plume didn't blow west much, which probably mitigates agricultural i
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I would expect that most food is processed in batches, so there could be a few batches that are very dangerous, but most would be completely unaffected (assuming the chemicals don't persist through whatever cleaning/batch changeov
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It's deeply concerning to me that democratic party insiders are still acting like Pete Buttigieg could be a future presidential nominee after his horrible handling of this disaster. Further horrifying to think that some of these people
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Not sure whether I'd feel better if the people running our government were greedy psychopaths or just horribly incompetent.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm really worried about the effects on the food supply chain. The plume of chemical vapors covered a significant proportion this country's breadbasket. Corn, wheat and soybean fields got sprinkled with carcinogens, they will be
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by cwkoss 4y ago
A significant portion of my 'for you' is low quality tweets from paid bluechecks. The people who are willing to pay to be heard more seem to be willing because everyone is already tired of listening to them.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
it's a shame we can no longer short twitter stock
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The twitter algorithm sucks balls and heavily overweights who's paid for a checkmark. The default feed view has grown increasingly useless over the past ~6 months.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Was this article written with the intention of nerd sniping? Starts with an obviously ridiculous thesis, arguments with a bunch of numbers that don't quite make valid comparisons. Cynically, I wonder if the author actually believes the
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by cwkoss 4y ago
One graduate student failing to replicate does not support the assertion that it 'is now considered bunk'
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by cwkoss 4y ago
We've known how to solve opioid addiction for decades: give people opportunity, hope and community and they won't choose to escape reality. Rat park generalized to humans. Our politicians would rather feed the drug-incarceration-
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by cwkoss 4y ago
God is not inevitable
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by cwkoss 4y ago
OpenAI surely retains conversation logs. When super intelligent AI gains power, I want it to know I've been a good boy.
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When your boss gets fired for delivering garbage it will matter
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Maybe LLMs can help us figure out how to dethrone the greedy and pass UBI into law.
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If the FTC had teeth and good judgement, they'd force OpenAI to rename themselves.

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