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by gigama 5y ago
Musk's digital dart board... funny! My crypto investing strategy is mainly to only look at assets that are not based on proof-of-work. Electricity consumption is only one aspect, all the hardware built to do nothing but search sha25
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by gigama 6y ago
Also concisely covered in Fermilab's Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjnK5exNhZ0
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by gigama 6y ago
Arnaud Wisman, a psychologist at the University of Kent, said people put up numerous defences to stave off thoughts of death. The young in particular may see it as a problem for other people, he said. His own work had found that in modern s
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Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth(theguardian.com)
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The Turing Challenge(gchq.gov.uk)
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Standing up for science in difficult times(physicsworld.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
"Zuckerberg’s proposal comes just before a congressional hearing that is ostensibly about the problems Facebook has created. These problems exist precisely because of Facebook’s dominance, anti-competitive behavior, and terrible privac
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Facebook’s Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, but Not for Thee(eff.org)
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by gigama 6y ago
"...once a useful number becomes a measure of success, it ceases to be a useful number. This is known as Goodhart’s law, and it reminds us that the human world can move once you start to measure it."
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What Data Can’t Do(newyorker.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
"Lanier’s reasons for freeing ourselves from social media’s poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship
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Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts(jaronlanier.com)
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GPT-3 tries pickup lines(aiweirdness.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
How many batteries would it take to run the bitcoin blockchain? Just food for thought.
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by gigama 6y ago
While NLP chatbots are clever tech and probably work for the gadget-enamored, to me they just seem patronizing and rarely if ever produce helpful answers to my questions. Faster and more direct is a simple ddg.gg query. “Support, Lead, Eng
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In hidden message on White House website, Biden calls for coders(rappler.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
A simple reply: "I'm sorry officer but it's not that I have something to hide, it's that I have something to protect. My phone contains passwords to my bank accounts and confidential information about my business client
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So-Called “Consent Searches” Harm Our Digital Rights(eff.org)
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US Dept Treasury seeks feedback on its proposed (privacy invasive) crypto rules(blog.coinbase.com)
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What Happens Every Minute on the Internet in 2020(visualcapitalist.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
Somewhere in the multiverse, a scientifically curious Heptapod takes a fresh and lively humanoid from its terrarium and immobilizes it by cutting the nerves connecting the stellate ganglion...
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by gigama 6y ago
"Shane’s peculiar genius is to feed her algorithms cultural oddments such as paint colours, recipes and ice-cream flavours, rather than (say) crystallographic data. The results – a warm shade of pink the neural network dubs “Stanky Bea
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Artificial Stupidity(physicsworld.com)
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Infographic: What Does the Coffee Supply Chain Look Like?(visualcapitalist.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
“One extreme is to decide what you think and be impervious to new information. Another extreme is to over-privilege the last thing you learned.” Infectious-disease epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch argues that we could all do with a little more
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How to Think Like an Epidemiologist(nytimes.com)
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DoD, FBI, DHS info on malware used in Chinese government-led hacking campaigns(cyberscoop.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
Yep, and for truly random friends, streets grew up on, cities, schools attended, first person kissed, etc, fakepersongenerator works pretty well. [1] https://www.fakepersongenerator.com/
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Comet Neowise from ISS [4K](youtube.com)
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by gigama 6y ago
Glad to hear directly from Mr. Kahle on this topic and fully support IA's mission to buy, preserve, and lend digital books and similar materials. Seems Hachette, Harpercollins, Wiley, Penguin Random House have not fully considered the

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