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by hyko 6y ago
A lottery may be a poor investment vehicle, but unless the results are being biased in some way, or the published odds are incorrect, it is demonstrably not a scam.
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by hyko 6y ago
Testing is obviously not impossible, so let’s set that aside for a moment. The question is, why are you unit testing ML functions? ML is not software engineering, and unit tests not a good way to broadly evaluate them, outside some “third r
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by hyko 6y ago
This looks absolutely amazing. Nice one!
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by hyko 6y ago
How It Works The system consists of four components: A scientifically illiterate public, a gullible trade press, desperate capitalists, and wide eyed entrepreneurs riding the hype cycle all the way to the exit.
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by hyko 6y ago
Deposit your savings in the Alan Turing school of investment, AKA buried treasure: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-markets-saft/saft-on-weal...
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by hyko 6y ago
Even though Death is unavoidable, it’s still a good idea to wear a seatbelt. Edited to add: it’s hard to imagine a civilisation with the technology to successfully re-animate a corpse, but that is unable to treat heart disease & cancer.
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by hyko 6y ago
I guess you’re looking for something more full-featured than split view? What is terrible about the external monitor support?
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by hyko 6y ago
Wish I’d been able to mitigate the content on this page whilst fully embracing the joy that visiting the URL brought me.
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by hyko 6y ago
The future of human health is shooting people in the head to cure a broken leg?
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by hyko 6y ago
Time loop logic? I guess that would just about make it into the triple digits :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
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by hyko 6y ago
Yeah, good points–it seems even armed with a 3090 we'll be limited to 8K/120hz/12 bit over HDMI 2.1...we'll have to wait a while before we're actually driving 8K at higher refresh rates.
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by hyko 6y ago
...and I’d opt for the spatial resolution, completing the trifecta! Thankfully, we can just have all three :)
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by hyko 6y ago
I guess we can all agree that it wasn’t an attempted murder.
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by hyko 6y ago
Nobody gets nastier than the self-proclaimed good guys. If you’re a righteous person, then by extension everything you do is by definition clothed in righteousness.
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by hyko 6y ago
But there’s quite a lot of research on this? Yes, the numerous studies and meta-analyses I’ve seen suggest an effect of between 1–10 years of healthy lifespan added. That’s certainly not nothing, but considering that life expectancy at bi
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by hyko 6y ago
Lol. I seem to recall seeing a comic strip once, where a young, a middle-aged, and an old man were asked when anti-aging treatments would arrive. Their answers were respectively: fifty years, ten years–and this afternoon!
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by hyko 6y ago
Fortunately that is what we are positioned for. I would actually suggest that anyone reading this is likely to be too old to benefit. Thinking otherwise is completely fine, but we must acknowledge that the temptation towards motivated rea
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by hyko 6y ago
There’s nothing to fear really. Why would there be no kids? Why would biologically “young” people have no new ideas? I didn’t like extreme sports when I was young, but maybe if I was 10,000 years old, I’d think screw it and have a go at B
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by hyko 6y ago
Eat well, live well, still die. I agree with everything you’ve written there, apart from the idea that diet & exercise will extend your life by quite a lot, and the idea that you’ll have to gamble with interventions now if you’re in y
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by hyko 6y ago
Where are the windows? Human payloads need windows.
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by hyko 6y ago
Facebook are not in control of this, so their consultations and conversations will all be for naught. Thank god.
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by hyko 6y ago
I think it stems from an unreasonable reverence for the printed word. You never own a book, you’re just its custodian for a period of time! I’m only really calling it vandalism with my tongue firmly in cheek–obviously anyone can do what the
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by hyko 6y ago
Argh! The horror :)
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by hyko 6y ago
The only time it’s acceptable to write notes directly into a book is when you’re taking it into an exam. Otherwise, it’s just an act of vandalism!
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by hyko 6y ago
These kinds of metrics give the environmental movement a bad name. It’s complete bullshit. Edited to add: you probably have an intuitive idea of what “overshooting” our “environmental footprint” means, but I guarantee that your intuition do
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by hyko 6y ago
Every week in my inbox, there is [...] Another fintech play for payments and credit cards and personal finance, [...] another cryptocurrency Of course, there are a bunch of new horizons out there [...] Cryptocurrencies and finance. It s
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by hyko 6y ago
Why would you prefer actual aggression to passive aggression? For what its worth, I don’t think the OP was intending to be insulting; this seemed more like an inside joke designed to foster camaraderie.
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by hyko 6y ago
If deepfakes are so good, why do they always look and sound so crap?
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by hyko 6y ago
What’s the likelihood that someone who goes to the trouble to source and wear an n95/n99 mask is infected with SARS-CoV-2, vs someone who decides to wear a glorified handkerchief?
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by hyko 6y ago
Is this is a real paper? https://xkcd.com/605/

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