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by gs17 1y ago
I'd presume it's not Facebook themselves, but they simply have no incentive to react to the problem as long as people keep buying their ads.
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by gs17 1y ago
> Unless we suppose those books describe how to implement a memory of sorts, and how to reason, etc It's implied, since they enable someone who does not know Chinese to respond equally well to questions as someone with Chinese as a
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by gs17 1y ago
If a human had a neurological condition where the only way they could communicate was some brain implant that uses text as input and output, and no other senses, would you apply the same logic to them? Would they "just generate text&qu
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by gs17 1y ago
> in service of the development of modern subterranean transportation It's not really that, it's a weird parody of "modern subterranean transportation". They could do interesting things with it, but right now it'
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by gs17 1y ago
Similar to this story from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45521920
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by gs17 1y ago
Yeah, I was expecting a gag game where you, e.g. try to build a subway but get told you don't have enough budget to do anything.
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by gs17 1y ago
> In its promotional materials, Plexure uses the example of charging extra for your breakfast sandwich on payday. You would hope this would be awful PR for them and anyone using their services. What disgusting corporate sociopathy.
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by gs17 1y ago
According to Wikipedia: > For carbon dioxide, the 50% increase (C/C0 = 1.5) realized as of year 2020 since 1750 corresponds to a cumulative radiative forcing change (delta F) of +2.17 W/m2
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by gs17 1y ago
The worst to me is trying to use someone else's AI code. This guy, for example, has thousands of lines of undocumented (there are a few docstrings but not much more) code. I'm not really motivated to go through that, and you can&#
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by gs17 1y ago
The article is titled "GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me", so I think it's easy to think he's referring to himself as an AI researcher. He does say "I don’t have any illusions about this making me a real
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by gs17 1y ago
> if you're not a pixel artist Are you looking at the input or the animation? The input is decent pixel art. The output is decent pixel art... on the first frame. One it's in motion it immediately becomes a blurry, non-pixel-ar
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by gs17 1y ago
The article Wikipedia cites for that says the group publishing the hypothesis cited a PhD thesis that "pioneered the idea of using the Old Testament as a guide to our understanding of cosmic airburst phenomena", and that they cite
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by gs17 1y ago
The best part is one of the cited articles: "Rebuttal of Sweatman, Powell, and West's "Rejection of Holliday et al.'s alleged refutation of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis" A rebuttal of a rejection of an "
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by gs17 1y ago
On desktop it's considered more of a privilege escalation (you could get your code run with the privileges of the Unity program) than a code execution vulnerability.
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by gs17 1y ago
One method requires a command line argument and the other is largely an Android thing, so WebGL is safe. But in any case, an HTML5 game wouldn't be an issue, it couldn't do anything malicious that websites in general can't do
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by gs17 1y ago
Let's say you're correct. If "the etymological order given in all sources" is yours, shouldn't you be able to provide an example of that instead of one that requires assuming you're correct and reading words th
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by gs17 1y ago
Really, there's no need to focus on political ads or on Facebook. It feels like all ads everywhere are full of scams now. > “Meta is very aware of these types of scams,” said Katie A. Paul, director of the Tech Transparency Project.
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by gs17 1y ago
> eg https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinker Does this page show something different in your region? For me it doesn't say anything about what you're claiming it does outside of one "chiefly
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by gs17 1y ago
Do you have a source for this? I can't find any etymology dictionary that says it doesn't come from either "tin" as in the metal or "tink" as an onomatopoeia (or a verb that refers to mending things). To be fai
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by gs17 1y ago
It's the newest chapter of a book, the previous one defines functors.
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by gs17 1y ago
There's two games I know of similar to that concept (I think Noun Town is more similar): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2313720/Noun_Town_Languag... https://store.steampowered.com/app&#x2F
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by gs17 1y ago
You have to click through a lot of it. If I open it and do a lesson, it will demand I commit to a streak (if I haven't done it in a while), show me the new 1-day streak, show me about streak freezes, see how much XP I got, see what que
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by gs17 1y ago
Duolingo should have been that. Founded by a professor who wanted to make language learning free for the world, funded by a MacArthur fellowship and a National Science Foundation grant. When they rejected making it a non-profit, it lost its
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by gs17 1y ago
I disagree. Duolingo will never make you fluent, but you'll at least learn some vocabulary. Even setting Candy Crush to a different language won't really teach you much.
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by gs17 1y ago
I've tried learning apps with LLMs and part of the issue is that you can't have much of a conversation early on. A conversation of "how many cats do you have?" "I have two cats" "what color are your cats&q
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by gs17 1y ago
That's a very, very low bar though.
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by gs17 1y ago
It means it's an article paid for by a PR firm and subtly benefits one of their clients (while the topic of the article is true, or at least not an outright lie, and not obviously an ad). https://paulgraham.com/submarin
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by gs17 1y ago
I also have first-hand experience, albeit a decade-plus in the past now, but that matches how it was at my school. They only got involved when there was violence, and a "zero-tolerance" policy meant they punished you for getting a
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by gs17 1y ago
That's hilarious. No wonder they didn't seem very effective.
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by gs17 1y ago
> a long-time Internet user and a nerd This is the reason why it was a pain. You or I might think "this is a decentralized platform, I should look at all the servers and find the best one for me" and immediately get choice para

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