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by jowday 5y ago
Gravity’s Rainbow Book of the New Sun
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IIRC the CIA and other parties were upset Kennedy didn’t commit further to the invasion. Kennedy’s refusal to provide direct air support after the CIA backed forces lost the initiative is usually cited as a major point of contention. More c
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I think this one got revoked because the car was actually in autonomous mode without a safety driver in the car.
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> Sounds like we can expect the state-of-the-art AI techniques to be jealously guarded eventually. This isn’t an eventuality, it’s the current state of the industry.
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That’s not even distant - most of the self-supervised vision and language models at the bleeding edge of the field require huge compute budgets to train.
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I hope they don’t release an API the way they released an API for GPT-3.
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by jowday 5y ago
Wasn’t SB239 mostly passed so that people whose HIV treatment has rendered it untransmissible can resume normal sexual activity without having to warn everyone they hook up with? I’d agree it’s a weird way to go about it - probably would b
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by jowday 5y ago
More like collateral damage will be attributed to the machines.
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I mean they also just dropped certain feature, like radar on autopilot.
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https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8 Obviously this is cherry picked, but you don’t think a car equipped with LIDAR, imaging radar, more cameras, more compute, and temporally dense HD maps that has focused on the same area for its
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There’s a pattern of deception on his part that is way more regular and extends beyond that insult that can’t be attributed to Asperger’s - I didn’t event mention the pedophile insult in my parent comment.
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>Tesla has a safety record that’s not unimpressive compared to the 36k people who die every year even though their failures have been more public and newsworthy. Their stats have been relatively objective. They haven't released a de
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by jowday 5y ago
Sounds similar to Google’s S2 library. s2geometry.io In S2, the binary representations of a cell’s parents (larger cells that contain the cell) are always a prefix of the cell itself’a binary representation. This lets you perform constant t
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by jowday 5y ago
I missed your link in the parent - if there's plenty of evidence that getting the vaccine is actually more risky for a certain group than not getting it, sure, let's avoid giving them the vaccine. It should be obvious that when I
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What's the most onerous restriction you saw in SF while you were here, I'm curious - maybe I'm biased from living here, but like I said for me it's been limited to masking and flashing my vaccine card at bars. Unless you
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by jowday 5y ago
No, but we had to put off a lot of medical procedures my grandparents needed done because the hospital beds were so full that they were airlifting people to other states. We also had to move them out of the assisted living facility they wer
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by jowday 5y ago
Yeah, I don't have kids so I'm sort of out of the loop on what's still in place at schools, like I said. Stuff like "social distancing" when they already have the kids sitting in rooms for hours at a time seems sill
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by jowday 5y ago
It sounds like you just disagree with the tradeoff between liberty and safety, then. But it does lower transmission, and flashing a card before you go into a bar the same way you flash your driver's license isn't as onerous as the
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>Half the country is just stuck, focused on short-term and no attention paid to anything else and it's freakin disastrous. The pandemic is largely over culturally and mentally for pretty much all of the country - I'm in the mid
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I was talking about Germany specifically in the parent - the least vaccinated state in Germany has a ~10% higher vaccination rates than the least vaccinated state in the US. But it looks like there is a good deal of variance even inside Ger
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by jowday 5y ago
I'd agree with you that vaccine passports definitely represent a sacrifice of individual liberty for safety - but what makes you say that that they're "completely unnecessary"? If we accept that a vaccinated person has a
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>If you are previously infected or not in a vulnerable group its not selfish or stupid to avoid this vaccine. You can manage it with monoclonal antibodies if you do get a severe outcome. But there's a chance of you spreading the inf
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I think most people who disregarded COVID had made their choice before these lies came to light - it just provided justification for them later on. The small town my family's in in the South's COVID response consisted of closing W
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by jowday 5y ago
I wish I could say that if authorities hadn't lied about, say, masks or this stuff with natural immunity, things would gone a lot better and people would have behaved much more rationally about COVID, but I don't think that's
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by jowday 5y ago
Yeah, I pointed this out in my comment - I wish I could say that I think this would have all gone a lot more smoothly if authorities were just honest about things from the start, but I think a lot of the outrage about, say, Fauci lying abou
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by jowday 5y ago
I mean ultimately we’re guessing at the rationale of the leadership of each of these countries - but I’d guess based on vaccination rates that Europe generally has less of an antivax problem than the US, so authorities there might be less c
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by jowday 5y ago
The answer is pretty simple - the moment authorities start saying "well, natural immunity is probably just as good as vaccination, we'll accept that as equal to vaccination for passport purposes", a huge segment of the popula
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His schtick is claiming he’s real “father of deep learning” and that all major work in ML has been built off of work done in his lab, and that he’s unjustly remained unrecognized while other pioneers in the field have received tons of award
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Any claim Schmidhuber might have is always drowned out by how obstinate he is about demanding recognition. He’s interrupted lectures at major conferences from other leaders in in the field to quibble about citations unrelated to the subjec
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Except they’re nowhere near using an end-to-end model - their perception and planning stack still looks the same as every other self driving company, but with incredibly degraded performance since they’re using nothing but cameras and flake

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