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by klyrs 2y ago
> If true, that's really great that it's contributing to math! Spoiler: nobody needed a new formula for pi. Whether or not it's new is debatable
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The ability to think for oneself will diminish rapidly in an environment that rewards one for not doing so. Smart people still exist. They just aren't online.
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> I had no empathy for the character and approached it as semi-predictable inputs and outputs. I dunno about the "filthy rich" outcome but this strategy is actually fairly common.
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Is the so-called victim the pedant in question?
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This is more apocryphal than lore, but the understanding I've picked up from EE friends is that standard cells are used because they're proven to work in a given fab process. You don't want your layout software coming up wit
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This turned into a bit of a toxic tangent, didn't it?
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> They have Android, they don't need the web to exist. If not for apple, I'd agree.
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https://archive.ph/3cEtv
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No. Don't redesign the whole system! Why do people have that reflex?
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Vitamin-A enriched foods are indeed a solution that can be implemented by swapping a single component of an ecosystem rather than the complete overhaul that you're proposing.
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The blink and marquee tags are deprecated but they still work...
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What I don't understand about this story is that it takes a ton of work to uproot a tree, and if you don't do that, there would be evidence of exceptional trees in the form of their stumps. Makes me wonder who the builders know.
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by klyrs 2y ago
Yes, that Word. Imagine if we'd been focused on improving reliability this whole time...
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by klyrs 2y ago
And here I've always thought that Babbage's big mistake was using decimal instead of binary.
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GPT-4o is not a person.
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More scientists working on the Drake equation?
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Federal judge partially blocks U.S. ban on noncompetes(text.npr.org)
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Much better if they use a proton beam, and combine it with similarly split electron beams. Then, collect the resulting hydrogen in two bottles and measure the resulting mass. Boom, quantum gravity.
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by klyrs 2y ago
Or, your job is atypical and your chosen industry is frantically trying to automate your job (and every other middle class job) out of existence. Sorry! And that's why people like to talk about underemployment rather than unemployment
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by klyrs 2y ago
I'm not a pro cyclist but I've seen one stop before. By the intermediate value theorem, they can ride at 20mph.
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Timnit Gebru was fired in late 2020 for publicly examining the energy consumption of LLMs, perhaps that would be a more poignant start-time.
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Nah, financial crimes deserve jail time, not weirdly fetishized violent death.
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by klyrs 2y ago
Perhaps it was a self-aware statement about corruption in Outcome and Chicago?
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Reader mode for the win. The article mentions that the traffic cop was unable to cite the robot.
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If you think that's petty, look at what Trump is calling for. https://lite.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/trump-liz-cheney-mi...
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> I mean, the former governor of New York just said the New York prosecution against Trump wouldn’t have been brought against anyone else. Trump is flagrantly corrupt and coordinates crime through lackeys, many of which have been convict
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He's currently on trial, too.
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> > Judges can't gin up new "rights" from "emanations from penumbras" in the Constitution. > The 9th amendment (and federalist #84) would have some things to say about this. Funny how the 9th amendment was
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> the first step in that is the impeachment process Only, the requirement of a supermajority means that a minority can prevent a president from being convicted of blatantly criminal acts. This system is demonstrably weak against corrupt
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Yeah, this pearl-clutching about presidents being tried for criminal acts is loathsome. I think quite a lot of people believe that quite a few past presidents are guilty of war crimes, and that there should be real consequences for those c

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