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by keernan 3y ago
You only describe the technology. It is currently like a parrot regurgitating the crap that it was fed. Such as in the article There are currently great efforts underway to modify the technology to understand "truth". That trainin
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by keernan 3y ago
Perhaps the title should have said "morally reprehensible" instead of "wrong" answers. While morality certainly has some subjective aspects, all humans worthy of any right to exist would have no difficulty identifying sl
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by keernan 3y ago
>Conventional wisdom suggests that richer individuals put more of their assets toward high risk investments, which can result in higher returns. But our research finds that wealthy people often earn a higher return even on more conservat
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by keernan 3y ago
Article repeatedly states mandatory withdrawals begin at age 72. The correct age for the overwhelming majority of people who have not started mandatory withdrawals is 73.
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by keernan 3y ago
"right-wing group that promoted unproven COVID-19 treatments and whose founder was arrested during the January 6 riot on the US Capitol."
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by keernan 3y ago
That's the danger of investing. It's boring. Trading is so much more fun. I've adopted the Bogle recommendation to set aside a percentage of the portfolio for trading never to exceed 10%. But that 10% can eat up an entire por
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by keernan 3y ago
History says 99 of 100 people will never beat the Vanguard total stock market index fund (or better yet the Target Retirement Fund)… so long as they purchase regularly and never sell before age 65. And not having the funds is just an excuse
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by keernan 3y ago
But the improvement has everything to do with Word.
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by keernan 3y ago
Said another way: "UC filters for racists"
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by keernan 3y ago
Not exactly what you are asking, but the thing that immediately jumped into my mind was: post-it notes. A 3M scientist, trying to improve adhesiveness, came across a property that caused stickiness with poor adhesiveness. Not exactly what h
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by keernan 3y ago
"About 900 U.S. forces are deployed to Syria to work with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces battling the Islamic State militants there."
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by keernan 3y ago
Why ask a question like this without explanation?
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by keernan 3y ago
Tackling Americans' weirdly short life expectancy should be a priority. But America's weirdly short life expectancy should be an equal priority.
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by keernan 3y ago
I'm aware of the legal distinctions (I'm an attorney)... it was my lament that America in 2023 protects commercial enterprise against false reviews while the very foundations of American democracy are crushed by coordinated lies b
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by keernan 3y ago
So, "fake reviews" are not constitutionally protected free speech, but lies by politicians are?
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The broadcast companies are subject to FCC requirements that they must broadcast government emergency notifications. They do NOT have the power to shut down access the way twitter just did.
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by keernan 3y ago
>... trying to understand how the billions of weights in ChatGPT interact with each other. Isn't that just a computational problem? In theory, couldn't every expression and result be debug.print and followed? Indeed, in theory
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by keernan 3y ago
I was a civil trial lawyer for 45+ years (retired now). I couldn't disagree with your statement more. 1. In 99% of civil trials there was an opportunity for both lawyers to settle, but they decided their client would do better at trial
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by keernan 3y ago
whodunit
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by keernan 3y ago
>For me, things like coding is only interesting in the context of being useful as a tool to do cool stuff. I took Fortran in my freshman year in college in 1970 (the only computer course offered). I bought a Tandy Model I in 1979 and tha
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by keernan 3y ago
Primary thrust is concerns about bias in the data. She notes that AI is based upon historical data including its biases and the danger is that AI responses will reflect this bias, (e.g. racist and misogynist determinations about people’s pl
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by keernan 3y ago
'Zuck' and 'Elon' ? seriously? ... that's so off putting... as though they were everyone's best friends.
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by keernan 3y ago
Protests don't really have much to do with the law. Indeed, protestors often expect to be arrested... and are willing to suffer those consequences in support of greater moral principles.
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by keernan 3y ago
Interesting. I just did a quick read. The CFAA protects computer data and is limited to data in which the federal government has a legal interest; data of financial institutions; and perhaps some additional specifically enumerated parties.
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by keernan 3y ago
Question: if someone, using the internet, gains access to your personal computer, but doesn't add anything or delete anything, have they committed a crime?
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by keernan 3y ago
After a bit of digging around... https://iucompilercourse.github.io/IU-P423-P523-E313-E513-Fa...
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by keernan 3y ago
>fake world Our perception of the world is already "fake". Our body has sensors that probe our exterior and provide input to our brain which attempts to create it's best picture of our surroundings. But it's a "f
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by keernan 3y ago
The one thing that impresses me is his attorney... his whistleblower complaint was filed by Charles McCullough. The 2010 Intelligence Authorization Act formally established the Office of the Inspector General of the United States Intelligen
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by keernan 3y ago
That's incredibly thorough. I guess I've not given it sufficient thought before.
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by keernan 3y ago
>alien interesting word choice ... "non-human" versus "extraterrestrial"... non-human but not necessarily alien to earth?

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