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by giardini 2y ago
Excellent example how media twists words.
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by giardini 2y ago
dborehamsays "Btw the one thing that will be left to show is a wider realization that it's a bad idea to elect a crazy person." Regret to inform that all of them are crazy.
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by giardini 2y ago
My sneakers have been $200* for the past 5 years but then they're made in the USA. It's time to buy a new pair. * - I have a large foot and believe I'm paying primarily for the materials in my shoes, which easily weigh twic
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by giardini 2y ago
We don't need "peasant farmers" to educate, we need AIs to program!8-)) The race between manual labor and machine labor is heating up anew. We don't yet have humanoid robots but they're on the design table, so it ma
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by giardini 2y ago
What percentage were in the USA illegally?
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by giardini 2y ago
There's some evidence that your career success depends heavily on the timing of your entry into the job market. That is, if you start working during an economic slump your career will suffer but if you wait and enter during a peak econ
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by giardini 2y ago
Thanks for this bit of history that I was unaware of. Note that the chicken tax applies to light trucks however.
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by giardini 2y ago
> Lenat personally did not release the source code of his PhD project or EURISKO...< Now that Lenat is dead, can his PhD project code and EURISKO code be released?
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by giardini 2y ago
I was a member of Mensa briefly but found it boring and so let my membership lapse. My early reading history, in order: - a few childhood stories read by my father, - textbooks from school, - comic books! I didn't have money to buy the
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by giardini 2y ago
cycomanic says> "Europeans seem to be much more susceptible to an "if you don't want it to be done to you don't do it to others" argument" < While they may "talk the talk", Europe doesn't &
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by giardini 2y ago
A good idea and one that Elon Musk tries to do. But he chose to go into politics too. Now his every move (even every past move) seems to be under scrutiny and politicized. Of course, this isn't the first time this has happened, but it
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by giardini 2y ago
No, that was intentional. This incident was an accident.
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by giardini 2y ago
A series of "just-so" sentences revealing more about the convoluted manner in which iammjm thinks than anything about the world. Sad.
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by giardini 2y ago
Would keeping a few nukes have protected Ukraine from Russia? Likely a prolonged period of espionage and subterfuge by the Russians to gain control of those nukes would have ensued. Maintaining control would be difficult especially in Easte
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by giardini 2y ago
Saved monies can be used to reduce taxes, to rearm or rebuild. Also, military spending can be reduced by reducing military costs in the USA. Wait until DOGE gets it's scalpel on the Pentagon's budget: likely much can be saved ther
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by giardini 2y ago
Both smoken and ingested marijuana?
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by giardini 2y ago
Thank you, your report is eye-opening, for I have never cooked anything requiring more than 3 hours (other than yogurt - boiled milk, cooled, yogurt added and then left in the oven overnight). How about safety? grilling/smoking usually
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by giardini 2y ago
CHATGPT 4 is at 1.8 trillion parameters. Perhaps the magic will occur at 4 trillion, or 8 trillion or more parameters. Any reasoned guesses? Perhaps some component is missing from current LLM models and, despite Moore's law, we've
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by giardini 2y ago
1. Is everyone using LLMs to solve problems? No, they aren't. Not even close. 2. "...in a few years..." No, this has already happened. LLMs are producing output that is then posted on the Internet which thence finds its w
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by giardini 2y ago
Given the numerous crazy possible pasts, presents, futures and conspiracies spoken of in this conversation alone, should any one of the potential outcomes vented here (they do seem to be ventings, indeed of a gaseous nature) should come
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by giardini 2y ago
That would be good for Canada - better weather, more laborers and capital and more reasons to complain about their friendly neighbors to the south.
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by giardini 2y ago
Let's have it then: what is great about your "pellet grill"?
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by giardini 2y ago
I thought the "Cholesterol Hypothesis" was dead! What is all this whoop-ti-do?
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by giardini 2y ago
Condos have operated successfully for hundreds of years. Being an officer is sometimes a struggle but good officers make good condominiums. Anyone who lives in our society and champions pure democracy might benefit by spending six months as
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by giardini 2y ago
As opposed to "lethal femininity", which is what the male octopus gets if he doesn't disable the female?
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by giardini 2y ago
"They hypothesized that early (first 10000 days) exposure to micro-organisms might play a key role in training the immune system not to over-react to (harmless) micro-organisms later on in life, and thus "train" the immune s
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by giardini 2y ago
We don't need more PhDs. People foolish enough to have sought a PhD will benefit as they are now limited to a master's degree, with which their career will be much better.
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by giardini 2y ago
How about "Stop Wasting My Time", nytimes!
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by giardini 2y ago
What could possibly go wrong? pbmonster says "Pure, ammonia vapor is incredibly toxic and even tiny concentrations are bad for the mucosa." As in "dissolves the mucosa"! The 1976 ammonia truck disaster: In 1976 a truck
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by giardini 2y ago
Cherry-picking!

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