ignoranceprior

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   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   how I imagine (straw) hyper-capitalists think: "why is poverty bad? not because we have empathy for poor people, nah, just because poor people are not being optimally productive worker bees"
2. 62.▲
   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   GP said that f-strings were "the f***ing shit", not "f***ing shit", so I assume it was meant as a positive comment.
3. 63.▲
   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   The fact that we find ourselves in such an incredibly unlikely situation, on a planet that seems perfectly designed to harbor life, is probably the best argument for the existence of a higher power.
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   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1987/
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   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   > No community has ever decided "no, we believe harassing women is great" (is there a gop.wikisomething.org?) I mean, the Amharic Wikipedia used to ban people for being gay. And I think I remember things like that happening on
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   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   I can't wait until I have to annotate all my documents like: <sentence lang="en-US-x-Pittsburgh" intonation="falling"><word pos="subject-pronoun" ipa="hi">He</word> &lt
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   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   Your summary of the Newsweek article is pretty misleading. They're not accusing r/WSB or GME investors as a whole of being far-right extremists (which would be false), they're referring to actual alt-righters talking about GM
8. 68.▲
   by ignoranceprior 6y ago

   Yeah, sorry, I can't edit it.
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   Teaching a Bayesian spam filter to play chess (2005)(dbacl.sourceforge.net)

   58 points by ignoranceprior 6y ago|29 comments
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    https://www.jpost.com/omg/former-israeli-space-security-chie...
11. 71.▲
    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Is this any worse than a proxy or cache/archival service?
12. 72.▲
    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    What about that Israeli military official who claimed that there was a Galactic Federation of aliens? Could this be one of their probes?
13. 73.▲
    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    > really tough follow up question about a different group of people's language What are you insinuating?
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are not autistic.
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Oh, is this what Leverage Research turned into? Interesting.
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Larry King previously stated that he wanted his body to be cryopreserved after legal death: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/larry-king-is-pr... > He has arranged to have his body frozen an
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    Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI(alignmentforum.org)

    1 points by ignoranceprior 6y ago|0 comments
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    This is nostalgic for me because my dad always had this as the homepage on the family computer when I was growing up. Well, it was actually a slightly different Netscape page (I think the URL involved CompuServe) but it was functionally ide
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Yeah, I would definitely like to see more HN-like sites for different fields.
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Richard K. Guy also died in 2020. He coauthored Winning Ways on combinatorial game theory and had some notable contributions to number theory.
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    Birds, Planes, Brains, and AI(alignmentforum.org)

    1 points by ignoranceprior 6y ago|0 comments
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    I think Interlinear Texts tries to do something similar, showing the original language and literal word-for-word meaning in English: https://interlinearbooks.com/
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Works fine for me in the US
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    The main changes were the switch from UseModWiki to MediaWiki (using the Monobook skin), and from Monobook to Vector. https://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/?useskin=monobook
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Wikipedia was originally intended to be a smaller sandbox area for Nupedia, the expert-authored encyclopedia from Bomis (Jimmy Wales's company). Of course, Wikipedia turned out to be much more successful. But there were other collabora
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Mastodon, GNU Social, and the Fediverse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_social https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse Th
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    I feel like they're trying to cash in on the Tesla/EV hype to stay relevant, but I'm not sure it'll work since a lot of the hype is based on a personality cult around Musk.
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    > the BSD version comes pre-installed on macOS As discussed elsewhere in the thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25659223 ), it looks like macOS uses an early version of GNU Units.
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Does this address NLP skeptics' concerns that Transformer models don't "understand" language? If the AI can actually draw an image of a green block on a red block, and vice versa, then it clearly understands something ab
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    by ignoranceprior 6y ago

    Do you think investing in MSFT/GOOGL is the best way to profit off this revolution?