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cwmma
3y ago
You can not tell whether a particle was measured or not by looking at its entangled pair.
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3y ago
the current thought is that these are measurement errors not actual differences in expansion rate but even if they were actual different expansion rates, they are separated by time not space.
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3y ago
Things like time dilation are accounted for in the measurements.
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3y ago
It's not that she didn't graduate high-school, it's that she didn't GO TO high school, which probably meant that she was home schooled, which in America can mean a lot of different things and doesn't preclude you fr
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3y ago
Plus they didn't know the distance to the moon
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3y ago
Obligatory link to the Bret Devereaux article on the Sparta myth https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-p...
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3y ago
The whole issue with spoofing is that the caller has no relation to the number they claim to be calling from, you can't "sue the number" because it's probably done unrelated 3rd party's number. The fcc bad been slow
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3y ago
I think one of the issues is just that for thermal power plants in general, there are big economies of scale, one big boiler/turbine/etc is better then multiple small ones)
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3y ago
probably not as not all municipalities are contiguous
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3y ago
As somebody who's company has been involved in creating those maps and has been accused of "destroying property values and ruining lives" there are some really complex trade offs that go into these things.
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3y ago
if there is choice (like in my town growing up where there were 5 elementary schools and you could choose to go to any one) there was no guarantee that you'd go to the one you wanted with priority based on various things (distance, pop
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3y ago
There are a few ways it could happen 1. it's imposed on them by an outside force like through a voter referendum or court order 2. the party is currently in power but thinks it might lose power soon, they could adopt this on the way ou
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3y ago
How is that unethical though, seems like it's just not useful
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3y ago
Return to office
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3y ago
An avid motorcyclist is just somebody that motorcycles a lot, while their per mile chance of having an accedent might be lower, their overall chances are much higher.
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3y ago
Okinawa specifically is one of the poorer areas of Japan especially for the elderly and had all of its vital records destroyed in WW2. It's also allegedly a "blue zone" where people live especially long.
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3y ago
We're really fast forwarding to the end of Accelerando where the earth gets dissembled to make a dyson sphere of computronium that ends up being filled with sentient pyramid schemes.
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3y ago
From what I understand, there is at least one problem that is basically impossible to solve (in a useful amount of time) on classical computers, but theoretically solvable on a quantum computer (in a useful amount of time). That problem is
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3y ago
In addition to what the other commenter said, disparate sources with incompatible schema, often updated at a glacial pace are a big problem and possibly a root cause of the issue in the article.
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I think one of the key differences is something pointed out in the article, in that what the Open AI is doing is a substitute for reading the new york times and possibly a rival to it. On the other hand having an archive link to a times art
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3y ago
This is surprisingly not really the case a lot of the time, including this case, Anthem would have actually saved money had the mother been transferred out of the hospital. Instead insurance are allowed to set premiums based on how much the
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3y ago
> You need the right horses. Little horses are no good. War horses are the thing. to add to this, making big horses takes time, like centuries of breeding.
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He's talking about the value proposition RIGHT NOW which is for higher accuracy but also more expensive (because you'd need the same human in the loop + pay for the AI) and how that's different from how AI is being pitched ri
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May I suggest reading the article before commenting on it? As your question is answered in the first sentience.
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The song is finally up https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_mAoOZEAM
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You know I almost mentioned that in my original comment but the more I think about it, the more I don't think it's actually bad. I think a lot of what men might consider "soft skills" in the bedroom (pun intended) would
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I liked this, but you could tell a guy wrote it, the tip off was when the women (briefly) contemplates killing her girlfriend for for embarrassing her.
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no it's because space itself is expanding which causes things more distant from each other to be moving away from each other faster, the wikipedia article about hubbles law has a graphic illustrating the priciple with bread https:
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The Chinese written language isn't as conductive to use with a printing press as compared to Latin or Arabic scripts which is why it didn't make as much of an impact there.
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Sounds like your describing complex systems thoery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system
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