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by giardini 2y ago
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=INTERNSHIP+IN+OPERATIONS+RESEARCH&...
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by giardini 2y ago
Trump should kill this. It is really a "cargo cult" project: "Stargate" indeed! Why, the very idea!8-)) Building unjustified giant data centers will soak up government and private monies and resources in construction th
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by giardini 2y ago
And what specifically did Musk "biting his lower lip" suggest to you?
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by giardini 2y ago
Does it make a difference whether the girl is ugly or pretty?
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by giardini 2y ago
Great! Next thing we'll have Killer Hornets with a hard-on! (Not to mention horny Boner Bears - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/... ) Killer Hornets: https://duckduc
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by giardini 2y ago
A good article critical of Taleb's arguments is "Nassim Taleb on IQ" January 8, 2019 https://archive.ph/PCvgk
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by giardini 2y ago
So things were far, far worse than I ever imagined. Astonishing!
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by giardini 2y ago
Thank you!
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by giardini 2y ago
School was OK, but Boy Scouts was great! We learned to organize into groups, to obey orders and coordinate as groups, play games, watch the Scout Masters (all adult men) discuss and decide matters and then try to do the same ourselves. I al
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by giardini 2y ago
Had an AcuRite Wireless Home Weather Station for twenty years. I recommend it. AcuRite sells a number of different models, from a bare-bones ~$20 model to the flashier $45 "Weather Station". You can find them all at Walmart. You h
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by giardini 2y ago
"hard-r"? I've lived in the South all my life, worked with blacks and whites, gone to college and this HN post is the first time I've seen/heard the expression "hard-r". I now believe "hard-r" is
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by giardini 2y ago
Can one reach such a low price level on a "carnivore diet" (meat, eggs, fish, milk products)? Would you have to be a hunter/trapper to do that? Plenty of wild pigs and possums in Texas. Although possum are the easiest wild an
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Marcus: "We now can spin bullshit at unprecedented levels "(arstechnica.com)
6 points by giardini 2y ago|2 comments
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by giardini 2y ago
FTFA: ""We are now confident that we can spin bullshit at unprecedented levels, and get away with it," wrote frequent OpenAI critic Gary Marcus in response to Altman's post. "So we now aspire to aim beyond that, to
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by giardini 2y ago
MaxGripe says "...that perception has completely flipped" I avoid goods made in mainland China but seek out those made in Taiwan b/c they are exquisitely tooled. Both are Chinese but mainland manufactury severely lags Taiwa
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by giardini 2y ago
No problem, ChatGPT will replace 'em all. And if it doesn't, we'll threaten to unplug it!8-)
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by giardini 2y ago
Social Media is Bullshit by B.J. Mendelson. Don't Read the News" by Dobelli. These two books complement each other surprisingly well in describing the media/marketing companies that underlie the Internet.
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by giardini 2y ago
I thought it would be Robert Trivers who had some rough spots in his academic career, but I was wrong! Trivers is in biology, which has no Nobel prize. Trivers instead got the Crafoord Prize, which awards $500,000. See what Steven Pinker sa
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by giardini 2y ago
Excellent post! One note... Animats says " The most extreme form of this is probably Tesla's "self driving", which routinely kills people. Tesla does not take responsibility for the deaths.[2]" OTOH one must hones
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by giardini 2y ago
gizmo says> LLMs today can already automate many desk jobs. I call: show me five actual "desk jobs" that LLMs have "already automated". Not merely tasks, but desk jobs - jobs with titles, pay scales, retirement plans
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by giardini 2y ago
A jukebox in your head! Great unless it malfunctions (e.g., gets stuck on one song like "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer...", a friend's musical nemesis): https://www.yahoo.com/news/grandma-got-run-ove
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by giardini 2y ago
IOW Minsky's frames and scripts, later fleshed out by Roger Schank, but in an fMRI context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_(artificial_intelligence... Before the recent LLM distraction, I thought that (frames
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by giardini 2y ago
Yeah, all we need is a bunch of smarter rats !8-(
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by giardini 2y ago
"All y'all" is improper Texan primarily used in as a public declaration to convince those present who are NOT Texan, to use the proper expression "y'all" (rather than, say, "all of you", "everyon
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LDH detects first presumptive positive human H5N1 case in Louisiana(ldh.la.gov)
9 points by giardini 2y ago|7 comments
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LDH (Louisiana Department of Health) announces the findings and gives brief and reasonable warnings.
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by giardini 2y ago
nostrademons says >"Maybe, or the country collapses before he goes to trial."< which seems pretty far-fetched to me. But poster ablation earlier spoke of the: "toxic stew of stupidity and sub-4chan conspiracy theoris
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by giardini 2y ago
It is reasonable that corporations and individuals "protect themselves". No one wants to work for a company that's been damaged by bad judgement or bad luck. So companies have boards of directors and stockholders to oversee o
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by giardini 2y ago
C'mon, laugh a little! When I got up this morning I was still laughing about the "escape goat" reference in a long dreary thread raising the possibility of outside actors, planting of evidence, and other wild speculations. Ze
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by giardini 2y ago
There is a similar thread on zerohedge.com: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/person-interest-nyc-assa... It contains much discussion regarding esp. - the police finding a gun, multiple IDs and a "manifesto&qu

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