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State Dept holds news briefing after Russia launches exceptional attack on Kyiv(pbs.org)
2 points by etiam 3y ago|0 comments
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by etiam 3y ago
The expert you set as the bar is purely hypothetical. To the extent we can get anything like that at all presently, it's going to be people whose competences combine and generalize to cover a complex situation, partially without preced
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As this was about a quarter-century ago now, I'm not certain, but I too suspect that the stochastic parrot is improvising a bit about the details. As I recall it, the statement was certainly not at the start of every mission nor after
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by etiam 3y ago
Almost completely unrelated but due to the naming and some aspects of the aesthetic I cant help but associate to that other EVA from the 90's :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75H5amC8Is
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Medical history of 100K patients compromised at HK healthcare group?(scmp.com)
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Not unreasonable maybe, assuming of course that the taxpayers nation's public will additionally pay their dues for all research ever funded in other nations on which the present research built. On a balance I think it simplifies a lot
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> The value they add is questionable at best ...or detract, one might add. I know of a researcher who has been meticulous about editing and wording, only to have the submissions "corrected" for publication to use the wrong word
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Okay. Then I think I see where you're coming from. From my perspective this was the mainly the first contact with the research presentation and the renderings, and I think those are undeniably very impressive to most people at this poi
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I'm going to have to defer to Louis CK on that one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFB7q89_3U
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Do we anyone here who feels qualified to comment on how much more it would take to run the process backwards and de-render a stream of general footage scenes to a compact, nearly lossless format for transmission or storage?
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Salakhutdinov R. R, and Hinton, G. E. (2007) "Semantic Hashing" Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Information Retrieval and Applications of Graphical Models https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/absps/sh.
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Wrapping up with "I think we should be cautious with AI, and I think there should be some government oversight because it is a danger to the public," Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said last month in a television interview As o
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PLA spy drone circles Taiwan again as Beijing tests new tactics(scmp.com)
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All of the observable data, implicitly, plus an evaluation criterion. They can operate on that, including starting to mine it in a strategically effective order, because the whole game system except the other player is defined by a small se
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Everything else equal, I agree. In this case I think that also ends up rewarding manufacture of drama and controversy though, and punishing a more truthful and neutral reporting of the same event through the merging and removing of the seco
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Not to rain on your parade, but I'm concerned we'll have massive further spike in violent mobs of believers in a world conspiracy of pedophile space lizards and such, while people can still lose their jobs over dumb things they di
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Metz / NYT: In 2012, Dr. Hinton and two of his graduate students at the University of Toronto created technology that became the intellectual foundation for the A.I. systems that the tech industry’s biggest companies believe is a key
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The Verge article was more accurate and, in contrast to the NYT article, not burdened by misleading narrative though. I think there may have been cause for the second post ranking better more persistently in this case.
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> Defensive drones will become as common as offensive drones. Probably not good enough, as an ironclad defense is likely to remain much more difficult than offense which is occasionally successful.
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Do you realize that page was established in 2013? If the reference is keeping all your messages, and potentially your PGP keys, in "cloud" storage at a PRISM provider it's not particularly hard to understand some ways in whic
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I wonder if this is also somehow related to Google ending Google Brain as an independent division. MIT Technology Review just published a short article partly derived from the NYT piece, but with other commentary and history references. ht
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>> We can still regulate the new ai tools, but we must act quickly. Whereas nukes cannot invent more powerful nukes, ai can make exponentially more powerful ai. I dropped in to comment on that bit too. You've described it well al
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With regard to the whistle, Ed Snowden described in his memoirs an old naval system of communication with whistles, and in particular how they could be used to signal that there were things wrong with the ship which put it in danger and war
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In my case it's an LG monitor from the early 2010s (IPS). Now that you mention it, there might be a slight flicker and dimming effect on mine as well when it happens, but if so, not very salient compared to the noise.
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I realize now I have never thought to keep track of a sample which triggers the phenomenon, and I can't really find time to probe for one right now. I'm not entirely certain, but as I recall it switching it off and back on again i
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That's completely inane. There's nobody home. The physician by definition wins actual empathy on walkover, no matter how bad for a human. Sad statement on the judgment of the respondents. But an important reason it can turn out l
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Remotely related, my screen makes a noise, somewhere between static and a whine, while displaying certain text files. Minimizing or closing the editor stops the noise, getting the text back on display restores the noise. I suppose it's
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Yeah, that seems to be the issue doesn't it. And this in a pharma sub-field infamous for not getting enough investment in corporate research because the effect of novel substances is almost instantly destroyed by precisely the sort of
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No. The numbers expressing it drop, but there are often enough advantages in competition situations that the trait stays around and can rapidly recolonize the population. Carrying the genetic material is a slight cost. Expressing it costs m
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Yes, that's the key part. Physiologically it's well known that that the antibacterial peptides are part of the immune system. They were discovered as a part of the pathogen defense mechanisms of insects, found to be present also i

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