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by jancsika 4y ago
Ray Kurzweil's most important argument[1] from that one book he wrote two or three times: If AIs can convince us humans they are sentient, we'll believe them. Does that webgpu demo run on anything more than canary yet? In any case
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Just try renaming it, like this: sudo mv /usr/bin/gimp /usr/bin/krita Do make sure to disconnect from internet first. I didn't and the new name somehow leaked out and backformed into a fully-fledged, activ
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Who did the music? I like the sporadically sprinkled "konk" synth bass notes on raised scale-degree 6. That, and the sparsely-spaced synth chords that aren't hard-sync'd to the straight-ahead dance beat. (As a friend of
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> I don't know many people who would Return Every Item (as the joke went), but it was common enough that there was always some really beat-up climbing shoes at their member garage sales. I think you chose an idiosyncratic case here.
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> Who could ever define that? The Port Authority: "based on the average of three lowest prices for Comparable Products at the approved Comparable Concession Locations" Per this definition from the specification, they were req
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So what? It's still decentralized and waits ten minutes waits ten minutes waits ten minutes waits ten minutes waits ten minutes waits ten minutes secure.
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> incredible what mental hoops people will jump through to disqualify AI! There are high peaks and troughs in AI buzz right now. Yes, on the one hand you've the but-can-it-dance crowd. On the other hand, Terence Tao on GPT-4 . I me
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Can GPT4 convert Python2 code to Python3?
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> While most convicted sex offenders in Florida are sent to state prison, Epstein was instead housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County Stockade and, according to the sheriff's office, was, after 3+1⁄2 months, allowed to lea
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I've had an open GSoC project for some years to create a library that makes a handful of these audio misconceptions true. So the student would design an oscillator or oscillator bank where the closer you get to Nyquist, the more some &
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> I wanted them to just cancel. "Sorry, $student, but I am unfortunately unable to continue being your teacher. [Personalized summary of student's progress, pleasantries, etc. go here.]" x $no_of_students Simple. Effective
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A counter-take, also with zero citations: Libraries are in the set of institutions that tamp down on envy, which-- according to many psychologists-- is by far the most destructive emotional force in modern society. Libraries achieve this by
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> Then, after a long discussion and exposing contradictions in the mainstream consensus, it stopped disagreeing with me and was essentially agreeing with my position. You need to go back and argue what you already know to be a wrong posi
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> Or rather, it lies in the same way that your phone "lies" when it autocorrects "How's your day?" to "How's your dad?" that you sent to your friend two days after his dad passed away. I've ne
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There should be a Bitcoin Satire Impossibility Law. Posts about Bitcoin that look like satire either a) oh boy are they not satire or b) will soon be interpreted acted on in earnest by Bitcoin zealots anyway. E.g., Dogecoin. Rest assured
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I still don't understand: why was the magic number changed in addition to the file version number? Edit: can someone running llama.cpp ask it whether it thinks it's a good idea to concatenate a running list of vanity initials of i
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Unfortunately, popular music of this era lacked both the speed and momentum sufficient to power the movement. It wasn't until James P. Johnson's invention of his famous Charleston engine in the 1920s that women's dresses we
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I think you meant, "pick nico's LLM." In any case, you bring up an important issue: can monkeys bitcoin? Could we backport a blockchain experiment in the same way that demoscene Hungarians have backported math hacks to fuel u
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> It's kindof like asking present day women: do you prefer a male with a wasteful Lamborghini or a male with an economical VW or Toyota hybrid? I think we know what the answer is... Would love to hear how "common knowledge&quot
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> It speaks volumes that we mediate these interactions through police rather than through mutual dialogue. I wouldn't call the police on kids climbing trees. But I'd attend a 3-hour timeshare pitch meeting at a Red Lobster befo
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> I find this a strong statement that's hard to question or refute, or know how one would show that it's somehow anything more than a general feeling that might be shared by lots of people? Let's divide and conquer: 1. The
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That's a fine motto for land-based music making. But with anything less than three chords you cannot generate sufficient lift to even get off the ground.
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The Prius Prime is definitely a "smartphone on wheels" by any measure. In fact, a lot of people appear to covet the lowest end model because it at least has some knobs for the AC. The upper models force the driver to use an enormo
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You missed the word "dying" in the OP. The popularity of orchestral music has waned to the point where what you are loosely calling "essentially donations" gets a lot less bang for the buck these days. Just for a single
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I can imagine three versions of first contact: 1. SYN - OMG they're out there! 2. ACK - wait, what exactly did we send them? 3. FIN - uh oh...
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pronounces the relevant initialism as a series of transients, Czech-style That acronym.
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Judge Burroughs’s opinion also addressed the striking fact that, when sending recruitment letters to potential applicants in “Sparse Country” (underrepresented states in the Harvard applicant pool), Harvard used an SAT score cutoff of 1310
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> Everyone ran into supply issues at the same time and naturally raised prices to the new point on the demand curve. Some fancy pants buying a car with cash at $35,000 over MSRP last year during the new car shortage could be called a &qu
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> There are thousands of people with middlebrow blogs out there, why the focus on slatestarcodex? It's got to be the distance between the quality/tone of his writing and the quality/tone of his fansplainers on HN, no? See
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> it's pretty much an inescapable conclusion that at least some of the evil we see is their work. It's not inescapable, but it's certainly the first conclusion to jump to. :) But even then, it's been in a kind of god-

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