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by escape_goat 4y ago
The practical deep learning course from fast.ai is what I've been working my way through, at a much slower pace, I am sure, than someone would if they were writing code for a living. The difficult technical hurdles are getting used to
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by escape_goat 4y ago
I'm not sure where you got that story from, but there was pneumatic tube mail in New York city from 1897 to 1953, operated under contract to the USPS. Networks existed in four other cities but New York's was the largest. It eventu
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Toy Models of Superposition [in Neural Networks](transformer-circuits.pub)
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Maybe he does know what risible means and is in fact extremely well informed, much better informed than you are, to the point where offering sarcasm on the apparent basis of absolutely nothing but what you've learnt from the internet i
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Wow, you went right ahead and did the thing.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
There is a strong prejudice against the Fujianese. Cheating is an endemic problem throughout China due to extreme competitive pressure and lax oversight, but when someone from Fuijian is found to be cheating the explanation will of course b
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Libertarianism as an absolutist ideology that proscribes courses of action for moral reasons and literally requires helplessness and passivity from everyone is not, I believe, the original flavor.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
This. Once one posits the abstract properties of God as infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and a priori to all things, a lot of religious presumptions look like failures of the imagination. It is trivially obvious that God is unknowable, tha
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by escape_goat 4y ago
IIRC there was similar language in 'trigger' laws in some other states but I don't have a link to a good overview site and so am just pluralizing on the strength of that recollection.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
If anyone — say, the doctor who told you you were pregnant — has evidence that you were pregnant, you could be investigated and charged with a crime for suddenly not being pregnant. This has ALREADY happened to at least one woman who was si
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by escape_goat 4y ago
The Supreme Court decision will affect people's work lives at Meta, and that is something that needs to be discussed. There are apparently states now where women lose rights just by visiting a doctor, where they can be criminally prose
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Of course it doesn't. Only the actual auditing of the code could do that. Nobody in the world wants to audit code they are relying on every update to make sure that the developers have not added potential new security concerns that the
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by escape_goat 4y ago
What if I ask for a diagnosis and recommend course of treatment in writing, then?
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by escape_goat 4y ago
”While undergoing functional MRI, participants completed an aggression task against both an ingroup and an outgroup opponent in which their opponents repeatedly provoked them at varying levels and then participants could retaliate. Particip
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Xe has been in use as a gender neutral pronoun for nearly thirty years. I, a startlingly ordinary person, was familiar with it as early as the late 90s.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
In the study reported on in the article you cite, they do no such thing. Rather, they fail to find a statistical correlation between display size and mating success. The people doing the study, incidentally, are also 'evolutionists&#x2
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by escape_goat 4y ago
To be fair, hedging against the event might lend one a sense of control over one's circumstances. It might not be an optimal use of the waiting time for most of us but for some people it might be the best alternative.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
I will trust our younger readers to draw their own life lessons here, but the general model being described is that of the "company union." They were outlawed in the United States in 1935.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
I'm sort of fascinated by the estimate that walking would be at a pace of 20 km a day, because a modern human can maintain about 25 km a day indefinitely without an inordinate amount of training (worst part will be conditioning your fe
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by escape_goat 4y ago
It was indeed a reference to the physical substrate of the disk, not the bendability of the media per se. They were still truly floppy.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Aspects of this idea will probably not work out, most especially the math, from the first few answers. The baby that HN has in the bathwater is the infrastructure aspect. The arguments for physically centralized educational institutions as
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Further up the thread there's an attorney who does arbitration all the time, but just in case he doesn't respond to you I will point out that professional specialization is exactly how everything works.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
It's not an 'exaggeration' so much as an explicit guarantee that he does not know enough about Maoism or equity training to have an interesting opinion about either one of them, and to be honest I found nothing particularly i
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Well, either the professor in question has "a history of xenophobic, homophobic and racist behavior," or he does not, and I suppose people affiliated with Duke Medical might care about that in some way. But. For the love of God, c
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by escape_goat 4y ago
I don't know what it's like these days but I recall especially the pernicious 'evangelism'. People on a literal salary promoting frameworks like they were from marketing. As a bargain basement, self-taught, late web 1.0
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by escape_goat 4y ago
I think this description of asphalt is in error. Asphalt itself is a form of petroleum, specifically a type of pitch, which occurs in nature and is also known as bitumen. It is used as a binder for various aggregates in asphalt concrete, wh
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by escape_goat 4y ago
I understand the impulse to point out the obvious, but when the question is asked honestly rather than arrogantly or dismissively, it is even better to wait for someone to provide the specific answer; in this case, the reason that Zipf&#x27
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by escape_goat 4y ago
"Alita: Battle Angel" might be a candidate. I thought the 3D cinematography was pretty good.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
If one wishes to teach web development, one teaches JavaScript. That's the end of the story.
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by escape_goat 4y ago
Given a source language and a destination language, I wonder if a linguist could design a series of translations that exacerbate the loss of meaning which occurs when words are automatically translated from the context of one language to an

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