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by gowld 10mo ago
I think you need 0-5 to avoid bias. (If you are good at generating random 0-9, then you are biasing 0-4 over 5-6, in the mod-6 regime, and I can preserve that bias by preferring to choose small or large numbers depending on whether I want a
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by gowld 10mo ago
This appears to be equivalent to playing rock-paper-scissors to generate a random bit stream.
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by gowld 10mo ago
There are billions of humans. Not every one speaks the same way all the time. The default behavior is trying to be useful for most people. It's easy to skip and skim content you don't care about. It's hard to prod and prod to
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by gowld 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ Smart Pipe | Infomercials | Adult Swim Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart Pipe, the hot new tech startup that turns
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by gowld 11mo ago
Houston has less homelessness than California because people at the edge of homelessness prefer to live in California than Houston.
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by gowld 11mo ago
They should be called "minis".
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by gowld 11mo ago
OpenAI was founded a non-profit to benefit humanity. Why does the "race" matter?
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by gowld 11mo ago
The shop customizes measurements. Is it easy to modify the STL with custom measurements?
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by gowld 11mo ago
I got a 3000 word story. Kind of bland, but good enough for cheating in high school. See prompt, and my follow-up prompts instructing it to check for continuity errors and fix them: https://pastebin.com/qqb7Fxff It took me
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by gowld 11mo ago
In fairness, how much time did you give it? How many totally new ideas does a professional researcher have each day? or each week? A lot of professional work is diligently applying knowledge to a situation, using good judgement for which kn
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by gowld 11mo ago
Not everything is entertainment. Some software is useful, but buggy or poorly designed. Yesterday, I was using a slow and poorly organized web app with a fantastic public-facing API server. In one day, I vibe coded an app to provide me with
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by gowld 11mo ago
Does mastodon or whatever that UI is not have a way to block someone from appearing on the main commenter's own feed? This thread is hosted on GrapheneOS's server so I'd assume GrapheneOS team could block multimilliardaire h
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by gowld 11mo ago
The laws already exist. Graphene team is accusing the French law enforcement of this: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115584160910016309 > This doesn't have anything to do with how French journalists have
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by gowld 11mo ago
Fooled me because it was locally correct!
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by gowld 11mo ago
Why is this not a VS Code Extension?
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by gowld 11mo ago
Kagi could scan the Internet to detect published accusations of AI slop. There are probably multiple slop trackers already online.
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by gowld 11mo ago
The original audio is always available when viewing an auto-dubbed video. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15569972?hl=en If Kagi wants to avoid serving auto-dubbed content for language-specific intent, K
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by gowld 11mo ago
non-responsive to the parent comment. Oil is not nuclear.
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by gowld 11mo ago
> what is the argument in favor of longtime residents having to pay for that CapEx? The argument is that people like air conditioning and lights, so they will pay, or leave.
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by gowld 11mo ago
This is publicity gimmick, right? There are much easier ways to get more-random data.
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by gowld 11mo ago
It's only natural that someone promoting an AI-slop-as-a-service should be suspected to be AI-slop itself. "Meet HAVVA. The new face of luxury brand" 1. The AI couldn't even grammat-check a half-sentence. 2. Who wants to
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by gowld 11mo ago
Life goes on.
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by gowld 11mo ago
If no one uses the stream type, then not fixing the bug won't hurt. The people who do use the stream type are at risk, and have been at risk all along. They need to stop using the stream type, or get the bug fixed, or triage the but as
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by gowld 11mo ago
Cheating on your wife would put off your ability to buy that yacht off by 20 years, and yet here we are.
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by gowld 11mo ago
If the software makes no guarantees about being safe, then you should assume it is unsafe.
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by gowld 11mo ago
But the compensation for film should be a cheap 2-D color filter pass, not an expensive 3-D renering pass.
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by gowld 11mo ago
I recently asked a leading GenAI chatbot to help me understand a certain physics concept. As I pressed it on the aspect I was confused about, the bot repeatedly explained, and in our discussion, consistently held firm that I was misundersta
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by gowld 11mo ago
The "Dunning-Kruger Effect" Effect: A reference to Dunning-Kruger Effect is almost certainly incorrect.
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by gowld 11mo ago
Both comments are missing the reason that an encyclopedia should not be cited: An encyclopedia does not cite its sources, and does not claim to be a primary source, its potentialymistakes cannot be checked. (Wikipedia has the additional
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by gowld 11mo ago
"Sidestep" : "violate" :: "po-tay-to" : "po-tah-to"

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