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by kortex 3y ago
> Look I know ANNs and NNs are quite different, but the experimental evidence with NNs shows that what I described above, a mix of feature detectors that just approximate the structures of the data to deeper and deeper detail and are jus
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by kortex 3y ago
Why don't we just have a schedule/tier system? Category A - approved by the FDA, basically what we have right now Category B - approved by some other established regulatory body (EU). Comes with all the warnings, doctors can write
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by kortex 3y ago
Giving someone Treatment X likely means they won't be pursuing Y, whether it be to avoid polypharmacy drug interactions, or simply because the patient prefers X's side effect profile to Y. Y may be the proven treatment, with wors
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by kortex 3y ago
I agree more/most folks ought to try them under the right circumstances (yada yada mental health caveat here), but I also know plenty of psychonauts who are complete pricks, even some who have broken through on DMT and are still comple
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by kortex 3y ago
You can philosophise yourself into just about any position: death is real & life is meaningless, death is real and life is meaningful, death is but a transition & this life is meaningless, death is merely an illusion and life is mea
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by kortex 3y ago
I'm way more at risk of locking myself out than someone getting onto my system, getting into my password store, exporting secrets, and using them to ruin my life. Honestly it would probably make national news if someone physically burg
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by kortex 3y ago
> the TOTP _key/seed_ is quite similar to a password It's not though. The whole point is the secret moves once , from server to client (ignoring user exports and whatnot). Pass(word|key)s are basic authentication, and so have
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by kortex 3y ago
Why is this python's problem? You are choosing to use a c/rust accelerated library. If your project were pure c or rust, you would still have to build everything.
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by kortex 3y ago
https://emojipedia.org/spaghetti/ Praise His Noodly Appendages. Ramen.
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by kortex 3y ago
Oh yeah, languages are never controlled by committee https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise
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by kortex 3y ago
Why is the sequence of bytes representing 是的 ( Shì de - yes), valid human symbolic language, but the sequence of bytes representing thumbs up "absurd" language? Nowhere in the Rules of Human Language, Volume 12023, does it say &q
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by kortex 3y ago
>> keyboard gaming > We’ve got voice input that’s getting much better I have this hilarious mental image of someone playing Diablo by yelling "Double-you Double-you Double-you aye aye dee dee dee dee" Jokes aside, > If
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by kortex 3y ago
> When in Rome, do as the Romans do IOVMEANISOVLDRITELIKEDIS?
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by kortex 3y ago
> start using the correct unicode character for the type of space we want. but why
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by kortex 3y ago
I've never been wined and dined by Intellij. I just find their product very comfortable. It's always "just worked" out of the box for me. VS code I've tried a few times and it always takes a bunch of fiddling. Less
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by kortex 3y ago
Wheelchair bound would be capable of some workouts, but not all body weight. Actually what would be more useful than pre-selecting body weight, would be a setting to mark certain groups/muscles/appendages as injured, missing, disa
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by kortex 3y ago
Probably all of them on average then, but especially big groups, core, and erector muscles. Most humans who have to hit the gym in order to stay fit spend too much time sedentary. They need back and core strength to prevent back issues late
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by kortex 3y ago
Conversely, I'm a novely-a-holic and love trying out new, different, and obscure things. I also don't always go to the same gyms (there's about 3 ymca's equidistant to me, and they have different weight rooms with differ
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by kortex 3y ago
I worked for a few years for a contractor and we did several DARPA projects. Pros: work on really exciting stuff. I worked on cutting edge squad-embedded robotics platforms and media forensics to fight fake news. Got to travel a bit for dem
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by kortex 3y ago
> Yeah but jupyter notebooks suck at providing reproducible data science. Why? I have no problem with reproducibility when I use a little bit of discipline. Your workflow does indeed sound nice but also sounds like it involves way more t
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by kortex 3y ago
It sounds like you are using the tool wrong. Jupyter notebooks are strictly superior to anything else (namely: code only, spreadsheets, matlab/octave) at their primary use case , which is interactive data science (writing code to mani
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by kortex 3y ago
Wow, no mention of DVC ( http://www.dvc.org )? That has been invaluable for data scientist workflows. I definitely do like to strip notebooks and make them run-idempotent to the best of my ability, but sometimes you just need stat
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by kortex 3y ago
That to me sounds like a difference of degree or heap problem, rather than a categorically different condition. Sure, welding back on a hardpoint that broke off a plow is concrete and obvious (maybe that's analogous to fixing a broken
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by kortex 3y ago
It is AI; artificial intelligence has been around since the 60s. It's not AGI, and no one (credible) is claiming LLMs are AGI.
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by kortex 3y ago
Have you met farmers? They will readily tear apart their equipment to fix an issue or modify the tool to make them more ergonomic. This trend of massive multi-million dollar John Deere combine harvesters with DRM widgets that you need to ta
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by kortex 3y ago
Yep. They ship pretty fast too (though I bet they are swamped atm). Just don't try to order the ingredients for flash powder unless you have the requisite licenses. Basically, avoid fine mesh aluminum powder along with oxidizers. Appar
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by kortex 3y ago
> All of this is mildly depressing though. It feels as though we are just our brains (maybe obviously), but just that we're the strange effects of the functions of a non-magical/soul-less organ in our heads primarily just meant
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by kortex 3y ago
Prop 65 is especially dumb because it doesn't make producers say what the risky ingredient(s) are or how potent it is . I got some fish sauce from the Asian grocer which has a p65 warning. What is it? Are there heavy metals in the fis
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by kortex 3y ago
Sure, but the more links in the chain, the more control you need in order to prove the causative agent. In the absence of direct experimental evidence (give animals aspartame, they get cancer, which we haven't seen), you need to rely o
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by kortex 3y ago
Meat consumption is way up and fiber consumption is way down over the past 50 years. Those two factors alone are very big contributors.

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