frenchwhisker

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by frenchwhisker 1y ago
If I lost the car keys, I don’t promise my partner to find them in the kitchen.
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by frenchwhisker 1y ago
This was mentioned in the article: > Having spent much of his life in the hat industry, Corbett could have been succumbing to mercury poisoning. The ill effects of the mercury vapors used in finishing, Corbett’s specialty, had become pub
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by frenchwhisker 1y ago
Roman wine was heavily diluted though, at least.
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by frenchwhisker 2y ago
Fair enough! Out of curiosity, in your words, what have LLMs achieved?
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by frenchwhisker 2y ago
I see what you’re getting at but it does feel like goalposts are being moved, no? By and large we can ask a computer today a question and it will almost certainly spit back a sensible (!= correct) answer. We can ask what the words mean and
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by frenchwhisker 2y ago
Though it was about the finance sector in ‘07/‘08 and its obviously different circumstances, I enjoyed the way the movie Margin Call portrayed layoffs as the author here described them—cold and myopic.
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by frenchwhisker 3y ago
Reminds me of a card game I played as a kid called Egyptian Ratscrew, where one of the possible rules is to slap the deck if a "sandwich" appeared (e.g. a 3, a J, then another 3), so you always had to keep the card before the last
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by frenchwhisker 3y ago
I've had the same idea (er, came to the same conclusion) but never acted on it. Awesome to see that someone has! Great name too. I thought of it while daydreaming about how to converge public opinion in a nation with major political po
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Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”(theintercept.com)
4 points by frenchwhisker 4y ago|0 comments
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by frenchwhisker 4y ago
I resent that 5.501 is a possibility.
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by frenchwhisker 5y ago
Use “App Expose” to show multiple windows (you can configure this to a swipe down gesture). Use Command+` (backtick) to switch between windows.
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by frenchwhisker 6y ago
Apparently it will, according to the ESA site: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/bepicolombo-flyby/venus1flyby