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by disambiguation 1y ago
In reference to this post i saw a few weeks ago: https://lemmy.zip/post/50193734 (Lemmy is a reddit style forum) The author mainly demos their "custom tools" and doesn't elaborate further. But IMO is sti
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Not my build and not coding, but I've seen some experimental builds (oss 20b on a 32gb mac mini) with Kiwix integration to make what is essentially a highly capable local private search engine.
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Sorry that's not what i was trying to convey, but rather the elaborate loop hole to exploit cheap off shore labor over domestic workers. And yeah to your point about bad technical, plus my focus on the high powered hardware, all add up
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Surely the overlap between people with both the wealth and the preference for industrial machinery remote controlled by an underpaid worker from the Philippines in their house (around their children) over an organic house keeper is vanishin
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Semi off topic, but i always thought it would be cool if there was a kind of multiplayer for ebooks - threads and notes in the margins similar to how dark souls lets you write brief hints for other players that you can hide around the game
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I suppose intelligence can be partitioned as less than, equal to, or greater than human. Given the initial theory depends on natural evidence, one could argue there's no proof that "greater than human" intelligence is possibl
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> people do have some ability to distinguish truth from lies In a pre-AI era, this is a reasonable heuristic. But I think everyone has their own internal barometer - how much trash are they willing to sift through for gold? I'm conc
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Your point is valid, but i disagree with the framing. The issue is the blind trust that the internet is built on top of. It's was that initial good faith that made the internet a special thing - you could come online and discover all t
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There are no politically neutral institutions anymore, is the more general issue. "You're either with us, or against us." It becomes less about doing a good job and more about playing for the team.
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Aging is related to shortening of telomeres - the speculated evolutionary advantage is that it's a mechanism to protect against cancer. Unclear from the study what the stem cells are doing to address either problem.
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An interesting take from EA a few days ago: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/hGwAohPbwCrDT5ynY/... There's obviously a lot to unpack, but IMO the buried lede - the new idea Thiel is trying to push -
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The effectiveness and pragmatism of economic theory aside - It's interesting to observe that highly opinionated topics (such as economics) tend to follow a "team sports" pattern. More than day to day utility, people argue pas
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> Others have looked more towards what a post-dollar world would look like: a gold-backed currency. A basket of commodities. A BRICS+ crypto-alternative. Bretton Woods 3.0. > All of it’s noise — and none of it matters. I've been
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by disambiguation 1y ago
Insufficient data for a meaningful answer. We don't really have a clear grasp of the relative benefits and harm yet. Automobiles offer enormous gains in convenience and productivity, but at the cost of a non-negligible mortality rate a
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Replying mainly to the title - but I'm surprised VR based 3D modeling never took off. I've only dabbled with blender, I know it's a powerful tool, but the learning curve just to navigate the interface is steep - compared to s
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by disambiguation 1y ago
Settling for less can be economically optimal; planned obsolescence for producers (securing revenue), riding the bus for consumers (affordability).
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Once it stops making obvious mistakes on a regular basis, then I'll take it seriously.
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The paper linked in the article is paywalled, but after a bit of sleuthing I found a full access pre-print (I assume hosted legitimately) https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d5fz2_v3 The section on measuring over-co
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> We are all, collectively, building a giant, shared brain. "Shared" as in shareholder? "Shared" as in piracy? "Shared" as in monthly subscription? "Shared" as in sharing the wealth when you lose y
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by disambiguation 1y ago
Your math is incomplete. The whole formula includes interest rates and total amortized cost as well as the average / median income, cost of living, time to employment, and employment rates of new graduates. Additional exercises for the
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Feel free to unpack at your leisure, it's all in my original comment. I think it's both clear and concise, though you're welcome to be specific about what's left you feeling confused.
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> US education and research is still one of our strong points, drawing in the brightest minds from the entire world. The Average Joe graduates with enormous student debt and ends up in a low paying job, one that's entirely unrelated
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The institutions are elite. So are the people who study there, and so are the decision makers directing the goals and strategies behind the research.
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This feels like a spectator sport to me - elite classes fighting amongst themselves while ordinary people are caught in the crossfire. Sure, I do feel bad for the well meaning professors, scientists, and researchers (some of whom are person
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by disambiguation 1y ago
I think one simple explanation is that the longer an organization exists, the more public opinion it will accrue. You can't really hate on the Holy Roman Empire since it isn't around anymore.
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For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeSearch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_manipulation_eff...
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by disambiguation 1y ago
There is a definite psychological component to depression - CBT and meditation are effective treatments - yet a point often absent is how one becomes depressed in the first place. We tend to moralize a lack of resilience and a bad attitude.
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"smart" could be defined as: the act of consistently making good decisions - which can further be defined as: effective optimization towards an outcome. (defining the outcome is itself a matter of making a "good decision&quot
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by disambiguation 1y ago
Previous Attempt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoreham_Nuclear_Power_Plant tl;dr it was commissioned, constructed, and closed due to local safety concerns in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident. Interesting ex
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> Iran is a very minor threat to europe and US, and very minor threat in general. Independently, yes. An axis is what's problematic.

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