danachow

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by danachow 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(signal_processing)
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by danachow 4y ago
The posted transcript demonstrates a far more polished chat bot, but on deeper inspection it is still just a more sophisticated Eliza - even that could recall past bits of conversation. The thing is even with the Turing test - there is no c
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by danachow 4y ago
It understands? Or it may just be a sociopath.
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by danachow 4y ago
> The conversation between the chatbot is indistinguishable from an actual conversation between two humans We’re talking hypothetically here, correct? Because under any decent amount of scrutiny there were some quite obvious flaws - espe
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by danachow 4y ago
> But you are saying that isn’t like an aircraft - why? Because last I checked airplanes in cruise flight have a pretty constant engine noise, that’s why.
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by danachow 4y ago
Did you read the entire article? I think where you’re getting mixed up is that the article is using some poor assumptions and a broken thought experiment to derive a scheme for calculating or estimating the distance based on the sound/
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by danachow 4y ago
As far as burn in - even most newer consumer displays have similar anti burn features. And notably those LG signage TVs still run webOS.
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by danachow 4y ago
Yes, as stated, just like with the side stick/yoke it’s a superficial difference - but since you were making your case with pictures - whether they look similar or not really has to do with how detail oriented you are. Though you ignor
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by danachow 4y ago
The yoke/sidestick is really a superficial difference. Though I will also point out that anybody that is good at the 10 differences puzzles will call bullshit on your claim they aren’t very different - in appearance at least - just loo
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by danachow 4y ago
> Don't aircraft have more or less standardized controls and displays? No, not really. There are similarities in avionics, bare minimum instrumentation and historical conventions but there are type ratings for commercial pilots - th
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by danachow 4y ago
Anytime someone mentions the AMA I just have to ignore them completely. It’s not that the AMA hasn’t done some shady shit throughout the years (especially the 60s), it’s just that in 2022 they are so close to irrelevant that painting them a
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by danachow 4y ago
Um yeah, about that… most of this stuff wasn’t built for free.. it was either directly (think IBM and Oracle and Linux) or indirectly (the countless people including me that could contribute development time because of high compensation fr
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by danachow 4y ago
I mean this is still so much bullshit. The period when Linux really started to mature (the early 00s) for instance is when IBM of all things were bankrolling the major contributors including Linus and GKH (nevermind all the other devs at Re
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by danachow 4y ago
> modern processor would make a context switch a one instruction affair. Reduced instruction set (complexity) is a hallmark of modern processor designs, not the other way around. You might want to read about what is involved in a task sw
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by danachow 4y ago
> She admitted they were quite good, but there were no "bellies" (a particularly repellent portion of the dish). I mean for, you, maybe. But throughout the eastern US, clams in all sort are not an obscure food item. Steamed cla
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by danachow 4y ago
Rabbit Transit was an Atari 2600 game that is similar in theme to but not really the same as q*bert (I don’t think anything that isn’t an isometric pyramid would be “exactly the same”) - also there are no sounds other than beeps and bloops
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by danachow 4y ago
> So you believe then, that the majority of C++ code written at e.g. Microsoft is not 'modern'? Maybe some new code is modern - but there is a tremendous legacy code base that can’t possibly be (and Microsoft has released enoug
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by danachow 4y ago
> Possibly the most played tune worldwide? Not even by a long shot - even among Microsoft startup sounds. In the grand scheme of things, Windows 95 was a significant but brief blip for less than 3 years when PCs were still a growing nich
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by danachow 4y ago
The person you replied to said in the prior post: “ to play the britney tape they downloaded 28 years ago.”
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by danachow 4y ago
WinMX was release 21 years ago, and Britney Spears definitely didn’t break out until around 1999 around the same time as Napster. The difference between 1994 and 1999 is quite a bit in show biz/pop culture and an absolutely huge differ
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by danachow 4y ago
> The average term being a round 40 weeks, a pregnancy “month” is 4 weeks by convention. This convention is news to me - though the confusion is not. Months are plain old calendar months in pregnancy (ie about 4.3 weeks). https:/&#
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by danachow 4y ago
What has changed in the past 20 years? Because this sounds like the same shit I’ve heard since entering the industry. And it isn’t like this topic is new at all.
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by danachow 4y ago
For a USD backed stablecoin what are “tickets” vs what are dollars in your analogy?
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by danachow 4y ago
> I'm not a psychologist, but indulging in pathological behaviors would seem to strengthen them. Heroin addicts need to quit, not use methadone forever. Yes, clearly not a psychologist, nor an addiction treatment specialist. Methado
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by danachow 4y ago
NSAIDs are available in oral, IV, IM and topical routes.
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by danachow 4y ago
In the US topical diclofenac is common and sells well - brand name Voltaren. They (topical NSAIDs) are first line therapy for acute musculoskeletal pain.
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by danachow 4y ago
They pay with cash and options, not RSUs options that are fully vested and granted monthly at 40% value.
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by danachow 4y ago
Street Fighter II is a classic of the fighter genre and is the principal example of the 6 button fighter. If the marketing rendering was as closely attentive to detail as the item themselves there are plenty of 4 button fighters that could
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by danachow 4y ago
Yes. I’m surprised this was so difficult for people to pick out for a game as well known as SFII.
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by danachow 4y ago
No no, that is not the problem I was thinking of. Hint: what is displayed on the screen?

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