jamesgreenleaf

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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
It’s still the “bus problem”: Either they got hit by the bus, or they hopped on the bus and rode away.
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Timekeepers' Symphony by Ken Liu(clarkesworldmagazine.com)
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Is there a Bob Ross for websites/apps (or general programming) somewhere out there on Youtube or Twitch?
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
That's another good problem to solve. Humanity is large enough that we don't have to work on only one thing at a time.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
It's critical that intelligent life on Earth learns to adapt and survive in the greater universe. Staying on this one planet is a virtual guarantee of extinction in the long-term.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Short-term wasteful, long-term critical.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Let us consult the Book of Jobs.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Sometimes I'm in wondrous awe at the unfathomable scale of it all, and other times I can understand why the Krikkiters were so upset.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
A genuine atheist, or an agnostic? If the former, why deny yourself another fabulous mystery?
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Sometimes Occam's Razor reminds me a little of that joke about the two economists who notice money lying on the ground. Do we assume that our universe will turn out to be elegant because that's what we'd most prefer?
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
If you liked "Under the Skin", you should watch "Vivarium". Once was enough for me. I never want to see either of them again.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Let's fix the root of the problem and make Earth's rotation constant. How hard could it be? /s
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
It's from T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland": IV. Death by Water Phlebas the Phoenician, a fortnight dead, Forgot the cry of gulls, and the deep sea swell And the profit and loss. A current u
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
> Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
I'd be worried about the same thing, and wouldn't execute blindly. It seems like a useful way to quickly find out which flags you should be checking the man pages for.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
They require an email address and a phone number, probably as a way to mitigate spam accounts. If you're worried about privacy, you could probably use a burner for each.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
I'll eagerly await the ASCII-only "You Don't Need Unicode"
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
If Level 7 is minute to minute, then Level 8 must be something like a combat or survival situation in which every split-second matters. What's beyond that? Eldritch horrors?
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Not just any foreign government, but an authoritarian rival Great Power. In addition to data-capture, the app also employs a closed-source algorithm that can promote or bury certain types of content. It's a window into the minds of the
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
> Prompt: Write a joke about how many machine learning engineers it takes to turn on a light bulb. > Output: How many machine learning engineers does it take to turn on a light bulb? Just one, but it takes a lot of training data.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Richard Branson, in his autobiography, tells a story about his mother asking him one day while she was driving, if he thought he could find his way home from where they were, which was miles away. He got out of the car, his mother drove off
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
> The image generator seems to understand that you can’t see through opaque objects I thought this isn't the case for Stable Diffusion. Wasn't it the humans making the source images who understood things like that, and their kn
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Mostly.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
I've been wondering about this for years. Finally got an answer. > Prompt: wiki article on Moss-covered three-handled family gredunzas > Result: Moss-covered three-handled family gredunzas (Polish: Trochę węglemiarki) are a
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Well, genius borders madness, and it's been said that talking to oneself is a sign of intelligence, so you may be right.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
Human creativity isn't being replaced; new layers of it are being added.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
> Elon proposing a $20/month price for Twitter Blue, and then immediately dropping to $8 at the first celebrity pushback, something any pricing expert would know is a terrible idea Wasn't that a good idea though? Everyone heard
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
> ...a full, complete, and unconditional pardon... regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for this offense... Millions of people can now truthfully say that they've been granted a presidential pardon.
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
If you mixed it with Vantablack, would you get the greyest possible paint? /s
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by jamesgreenleaf 4y ago
I actually check that sometimes. Anecdotally, I remember the ratio being ~4.5 in 2019, then ~3.5 during the pandemic. This month it's at 1.8 I don't know if it really means anything though.

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