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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
https://marketplace.upbound.io/providers/upbound/provider-aw...
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Mathematics is just an exercise in symbol manipulation according to a particular rule set. Mathematics is a _game_. Park Place exists in the context of a game of Monopoly and also exists in Atlantic City. The tokens in a game of Reversi
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Hashicorp gave away basically everything valuable they had, and charges extortionate prices for the few features they've paywalled. Only way they're going to survive is by becoming a feature of some bigger cloud offering. We&#x27
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I can assure you that you have many deeply held delusional beliefs. Of course it's impossible to convince you of that.
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I think mostly the problem with arguing with people that have certain classes of delusions is not the belief that they're crazy or lack agency, or even that they're just inherently _stupid_, but that they're either profoundly
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> Delusional thinking is a dysfunctional process almost by definition, since it produces invalid conclusions. His point is that delusional thinking is _normal_ and almost all people have deeply held delusions of one kind or another. The
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Dark matter is a proposed explanation for an observation, that's all. All these other theories (MOND, etc) are also kludges. Nobody has a satisfactory explanation for galaxy rotation speeds, yet.
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The entire human experience is, in some sense, a delusion. You couldn't really survive without the delusion that you're a solitary, unitary entity that persists across time and not a temporary collection of vibrations in various
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It's hard to get even professional djs to agree on what genre songs are.
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...with what?
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that's also engineering.
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https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/the-big-idea/
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You can find good techno in almost any large city because those DJs tour a lot. I don't think you're going to find something like Berghain in any other city, but if your city has any kind of underground scene at all, there's
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by empath-nirvana 3y ago
There's two definitions of EDM, the first is it's original intended definition, which was as a blanket classification for all electronic dance music -- techno, jungle, house, dubstep, whatever. Instead of calling it techno or ele
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> after the second world war. I think you mean the cold war.
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The iphone was heavier than almost any phone on the market when it was released.
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basically this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox One neuron doesn't think. Three neurons don't think. Billions of neurons think. Somewhere between one neuron and billions of neurons, thinking
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It's pretty amazing at generating rust structs from yaml examples, and also at writing generic versions of rust functions. Neither of those tasks are especially _difficult_, but they are _annoying_.
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What if it just inserts filler words when the text generation is too slow, to make it sound more natural. It's exactly what people do when they're thinking about what to say next.
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I think it's always going to be the case that we'll get to AGI through a collection of neural networks and symbolic logic systems and not through just a single neural network. For some reason a lot of people think that's &qu
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No, it's an attempt to force them to sell it. The us government has zero motivation to ban any social media site.
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> Then China was right to ban Google, Facebook, and Reddit? From a strictly pragmatic, real-politik point of view, yes. From my personal point of view, it would be preferable if the US and China were on friendlier terms and were not mili
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> If TikTok is a national sovereignty issue for the US, should a lot of other countries similarly be banning US tech companies? Not only should they, but they do.
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A) china doesn't let American companies operate freely in China. B) The united states doesn't _do_ state owned media in the United States. Even PBS and NPR are independent.
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Probably the right fix is creating some competition that drives them out of business.
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Chat GPT4 is a technological miracle, but it can only produce trite, formulaic text and it's _relentlessly_ polly-anna-ish. Everything reads like ad copy and it's easily identifiable.
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There is not a limited amount of software engineering that can be done. There's only the amount of software engineering that it is _economical_ to do at any given point. If AI makes software development cheaper and more efficient, pe
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Also whole pepper corn and whatever herbs you might have around.
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There are two things a good meat stock provides, one is flavor, and the other is _gelatin_. Vegetable provides the first but not the second, and store bought meat stock has the first, but not the second. A really good homemade meat stock
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i use a mesh sieve, but i also give the vegetables a press as i'm doing it.

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