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by giardini 2y ago
Maybe they need to move upstream. My wife is all-enthusiastic about oral probiotics (as a cure-all). She's been watching some Chinese medical experts yak about that.
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by giardini 2y ago
Indeed MBAs helped sell American USA) industrial production out to first Mexico and later to China. Sometimes a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. In Ricardo's simple economic model of "comparative advantage" an entir
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by giardini 2y ago
aaomidi says "he average citizen who is probably reading rhetoric like yours and then going and mowing down migrants because the world told them they’re evil." I know of no incidents of "average citizens... mowing down migr
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by giardini 2y ago
aaomidi says "Immigrants go through a significantly higher barrier of entry and background checking than your average citizen. " Nonsense. The vetting process can be as simple as wading across the Rio Grande and walking 20 mile
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by giardini 2y ago
Stanislov Petrov? The "man who saved the world"? Thank goodness for Stanislov Petrov! https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/18/551792129...
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by giardini 2y ago
Offload the cargo at sea to another boat? Barring that, flood it compartment by compartment and pump the fluid into other boats (to be later dried and re-packaged) or into the ocean (the ocean is big ). Then bring the ship in to repair the
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by giardini 2y ago
Sorry, these classes were years before the Internet existed. There's a world of data accessible only thru non-Internet sources. If you really need to know then hire a reference librarian + to find it.
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by giardini 2y ago
Kick a low performer off the team? (so use fear ?) OK, seriously, in psychology decades ago we were told that studies indicate making men angry increases their productivity. Furthermore, I know one project manager who swears this works e
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by giardini 2y ago
But they were caught! Wouldn't the best experts on dishonesty get away with it leaving others none the wiser? Perhaps delichon's hypothesis of "dark matter" dishonesty (post above) should be considered seriously.
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by giardini 2y ago
When a customer interrupts you while you are aiding another customer, merely acknowledge their presence and tell them "Yes, ma'am, I'll help you after I've helped this customer. Thank you!" I say this b/c not a
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by giardini 2y ago
Parent voted up for the wonderful phrase "ChatGPT is an idiot amplifier". May I quote you, Sir?
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by giardini 2y ago
But now you've added a sequitur ! (It's OK to leave a thread dangling in the wind.)
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by giardini 2y ago
Suppose AI can do anyone's job. Then, after massive layoffs, no one would receive a paycheck. How would that produce a burgeoning economy? Or indeed, any economy.
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by giardini 2y ago
LTI=Linear Time Invariant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_time-invariant_system
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by giardini 2y ago
Anyone tried using GPT in conjunction with Doug Lenat's tools (AM or Eurisko)?
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by giardini 2y ago
Hong Kong would be an excellent place to do such a study!
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by giardini 2y ago
Thank you, both, you are probably correct. I suppose it depends on where you're standing.
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by giardini 2y ago
I've always wanted a book that tells how to do field surgery. I don't feel intellectually complete if I don't know the basics of field-setting a broken limb or cleaning/debriding/sewing up a bullet/shrapnel wo
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by giardini 2y ago
Perhaps we're living in a black hole within a black hole! Or worse: it's black holes all the way down!
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by giardini 2y ago
Possibly my favorite cat died two years ago after an extended viral illness. It was terrible. He was a feral cat and so lived outdoors in the summer heat. I had found him on the sidewalk, pulling his body with his front legs (his rear legs
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by giardini 2y ago
softfalcon says> "I have found a lot of people I know (who have excellent English, but aren't native English speakers) despise metaphors." Language is impossible without metaphor. You might suggest this to your acquainta
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by giardini 2y ago
I was enlightened to read your interpretation, which Wikipedia indeed lists as a "more modern, alternative interpretation". The prevailing interpretation is a directive to make a decision rather than dally: https://en.w
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by giardini 2y ago
" Like clenching a quarter between your cheeks for a 100 yards." Is this an American game? What is it called? Who checks the quarters? How?
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by giardini 2y ago
"on the stomach "? More like "the asshole ! They're not called "Metfartmin" for nothing! If you want to live a long smelly life with no friends and certainly with no bed partner then Metformin may be the pill
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by giardini 2y ago
So... don't overdose?
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by giardini 2y ago
Drill, by all means! What could possibly go wrong? I mean, the origin of several dangerous viruses has sometimes been attributed to the exploration of caves, etc. How is this different!8-)) https://www.realclearscience.com/b
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by giardini 2y ago
More data on fasting should be available from Ramadan - annual muslim month of fasting. (The article references Ramadan in passing.)
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by giardini 2y ago
Knew a couple who adopted a young raccoon. One day "dad" remarked "It's like having a 2-year-old that never grows up." That raccoon tested every lock, drawer, closure and tool in the house (all the time). I stepped
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by giardini 2y ago
Publication the article is based on: "Shared Imagination: LLMs Hallucinate Alike" Yilun Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Chien-Sheng Wu https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16604

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