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by keernan 1y ago
I came across a reference to a TV Show I never heard of - 'Power Book IV Force' - so I searched youtube for a trailer to season 1 of the show. As always, youtube fed me an ad - this time a political ad with election day tomorrow.
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by keernan 1y ago
My comment has been getting some downvotes which puzzles me. Is the AI algorithm not essentially a lookup table of sentences containing a word and then doing some statistical analysis of all the sentences in the lookup to determine the prob
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by keernan 1y ago
I would be shocked if the Fed Chairman intended his comments as advice regarding the relative valuation of the price of the SP500. In 1999 people correctly understood that this thing called the internet was going to transform life like noth
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by keernan 1y ago
One of the best - and profoundly disturbing - essays ever written.
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by keernan 1y ago
I conceive of AI as a lookup into volume 24 (the word index) of my Encyclopedia Britannica in 1965. The primary difference being the enormity of the size of database, but the concept is identical. To think 13 year old me had AI sitting in m
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by keernan 1y ago
tldr; If there is an AI failure, the rest of us lose when the economy crashes. If AGI is achieved, the rest of us lose when we all lose our jobs.
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by keernan 1y ago
I lived two blocks off Times Square for two years. The 'claustrophobia' described by the article provided me with a sense of anonymity which in turn made me feel safe. Living in the suburbs is much more like living in a fish bowl.
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by keernan 1y ago
Just yesterday: President Vladimir Putin says Russia has conducted a successful test of a new atomic-powered and nuclear-capable underwater drone, declaring that the new weapon can’t be intercepted https://abcnews.go.com/In
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by keernan 1y ago
The linked page contains a broken link to the latest XDB Base Directory The correct link is: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/
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by keernan 1y ago
>>So that means the case has been referred to a prosecutor who has already started the criminal case, right? I certainly do not know how every state sets up their Judicial system but in my experience most states have a County Court Sy
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by keernan 1y ago
I view Debian apt as helpful. I view Apple App Store as limiting and controlling.
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by keernan 1y ago
I assume the law will only award a medical provider in a fee collection dispute for fees that are reasonable and within what the provider usually charges and receives in the normal course of business. Every EOB I receive shows medical charg
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by keernan 1y ago
If I read the story correctly, he was delivering the summons. Therefore she was charged and a court date was pending.
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by keernan 1y ago
While I'm not a criminal attorney, I'm not sure if this is much different than a prosecution based upon an allegation that the defendant being identified by a bank camera capturing an image of a bank robber. If criminal charges ar
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by keernan 1y ago
If AI turns out to be the powerhouse it is claimed to be, AI's impact will be corporations replacing corporate dependencies upon 'Excel projects' created by self-taught assistants to department managers.
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by keernan 1y ago
>>They already doing that with AI, rejecting claims at higher numbers than before . That's a feature, not a bug.
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by keernan 1y ago
From a constitutional perspective, I find a different question much more interesting: What method does the Constitution provide to handle a situation when a sitting President, with the support of the DOJ and FBI, refuses to leave after his
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by keernan 1y ago
The ABA should immediately commence disbarment proceedings where evidence exists a DOJ lawyer lied with an intent to mislead a federal Judge. And I would hope the Judges in question have already submitted referrals to the ABA on each occasi
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by keernan 1y ago
I cancelled my only cellular account 11 years ago. Maybe Google's algorithm targeted my account as not having identified my cellular footprint they assume I must have?
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by keernan 1y ago
I just looked at my account info and didn't see a date of creation. I did see that I last changed my password in 2020. I'm going to guess that's when I created that account.
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by keernan 1y ago
OP Here: I posted because of the very obvious effort to remove anonymity from the internet. BTW, my post is a copy of my inquiry to Google AI and the AI response. By way of context of the request: I am from the USA. I do not recall the arti
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Google Demanded My Drivers Lic Before Letting Me Read an Article
80 points by keernan 1y ago|34 comments
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by keernan 1y ago
>>Representatives of the Trump family have held talks to take a financial stake in the U.S. arm of Binance.
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by keernan 1y ago
>you can't pay off a bond early Only assuming it doesn't have a call provision.
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by keernan 1y ago
>>many voters are completely fine with the boomerang effect They know liberal governments won't engage in similar activities.
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by keernan 1y ago
To a billionaire, hundreds of thousands of dollars is similar to 25 cents to the average person. Do you think a billionaire would not spend 25 cents to hire an army of people to post on social media to advance their position? It would be pu
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by keernan 1y ago
I've struggled with social anxiety for years. Just yesterday I discovered that I am unable to visualize mental images such as faces (aphantasia). I have always struggled in social settings where I people will be attending whom I'v
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by keernan 1y ago
When openAI made its Nov 2022 chatGPT announcement, why did they try so hard to hype it in anthropomorphic terms? Why did they push the idea it was a 'black box' that they didn't understand how it worked? That it was a seriou
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by keernan 1y ago
Alcohol is intimately integrated into our social fabric. I don't know how many gatherings I've been to in my 73 years, but I bet I could count on one hand the number where booze was not served.
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by keernan 1y ago
e.g. this time is different

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