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by essive 2mo ago
It was a joke, son
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by essive 2mo ago
Everyone should read "Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development" by David Harvey. Written 25 years ago, it accurately predicts the data center trend - geography usurped by capatalistic growth.
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by essive 2mo ago
As did the reMarkable support for that device...
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by essive 2mo ago
LOL - agreed. I was a bit shocked by the title being the type that gets bonded with my devices. I still use my Windows laptop from 2017 and my M1 Macbook Pro from 2021 daily. Additionally, my Kindles are from 2010.
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by essive 5mo ago
"The US wants China to stop distilling its AI models, stop smuggling its chips, and stop fine-tuning its open-source models for military use." Sure - you tell'em USA!...as if China is going to stop.
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by essive 1y ago
Couple of references for road funding ev tax: - https://slate.com/business/2021/03/vmt-tax-buttigieg-driving... - https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/transportation/2023-02-22/demo...
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by essive 2y ago
Your group looking for any other position types besides Applied Scientists?
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by essive 3y ago
Right! And what it 'really' is will push the philosophical 'hard problem' of consciousness. Will we be able to penetrate something human-like to know if it is conscious?
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by essive 3y ago
If it passes the Turing Test then it's just semantics after that - linear regression gains artificial consciousness
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by essive 3y ago
I think the term "world model" is a highly overloaded term. What does it really mean in your opinion?
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by essive 3y ago
You must mean the new Albert Clippy!
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by essive 3y ago
Verizon network outages all over the country this afternoon - maybe that?
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by essive 3y ago
Agreed. You simply cannot pause an emerging technology as powerful as AI. We all know the US Government will not stop especially within defense circles much less other countries. This same dilemma has appeared multiple times and just has to
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by essive 4y ago
Agreed - I have the very same issue as well. Google Keep is my goto mobile app for most of my note capture just due to its speed and ease of use. Now I have a few github utilities to download my Keep notes to markdown for Obsidian use later
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by essive 7y ago
I just thought it seemed a bit odd to me to have the project tied to large organizations in China so much. I’m not saying to “buy American” but I do think it’s reasonable to be perplexed.
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by essive 7y ago
Why is this project tied so specifically to China? Honest question here....
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by essive 7y ago
Too much emphasis on YC - there are others
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by essive 8y ago
Good list! You should add Orientalism by Said and Open Society and Its Enemies by Popper - both classics!
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by essive 8y ago
Good list - except for Phoenix Project - sorry you had to read it - utter insipid crap.
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by essive 8y ago
Great picks!
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by essive 9y ago
Hmmmm...scientists are still debating whether the signal is dark matter or pulsar output (high energies create electron-positron pairs). I see this recent Chinese paper debating if DAMPE can even distinguish dark matter positron remnants o
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by essive 9y ago
Philosophy Degrees: Reid Hoffman - LinkedIn, Stewart Butterfield - Flickr, Peter Thiel - PayPal, Patrick Byrne - Overstock, Carly Fiorina - you all know her, Carl Icahn - Icahn Enterprises, Sheila Bair - FDIC, George Soros - Soros Funds, He
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by essive 9y ago
Agreed that 'state of the art' is the wrong question - but, it is worth watching David Chalmers challenge progress in philosophy (bear with the first 20 minutes or so - it gets better). https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by essive 9y ago
why don't i care?
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by essive 12y ago
I think as the earlier comment pointed out this really was about the additional data from AMS that helps refine and/or add confidence to the possible theories - some of which are dark matter related and some which are not. Unfortunatel
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by essive 12y ago
Excellent callout and my mistake missing the point on the wider energy range and the rollover. Thank you! The additional data will help the determination of dark matter vs. pulsars as the positron source. "To determine if the observed
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by essive 12y ago
Very strange to see this article posted now. This news from the AMS is over a year old. And clearly, there is considerable debate whether the positron excess is from dark matter particle annihilation or from nearby pulsars. There are many p