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by krisoft 1y ago
The dig is three fold. (if the story is true, about which I have my doubts.) One: Elon instead of cultivating an organisation where the right people are rewarded and the wrong people are selected out tries to personally weed out the wrong o
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> ALARA would indicate that the increased costs from regulation are due to the design of the reactor. Yeah. Due to armies of highly paid experts spending almost a decade of their life arguing if the design is up to the regulations. And a
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> If regulations are the cost, name them and a solution. That is a funny ask. Regulation doesnt have to be a single thing. It can very well be cost-overrun by a thousand paper cut. You can drown any project in endless paperwork, environm
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> The blind and visually impaired people advocating for this have been conditioned to believe that technology will solve all accessibility problems because, simply put, humans won’t do it. Technology is not just sprouting out of the grou
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> You are free to use it yourself. Idk. That's not how I'm reading it. Someone reading my blog is a user of the blog software. So running the blog and letting people read it would fall under that limitation and therefore would
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> You wouldn't accept a random editor just because they're cheap or free. If the alternative is no editor then yeah i would. Most of what i write receives no checks by anyone other than me. A very small percentage of my output
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> AI Agents, instead, directly access the database, completely bypassing this layer. If so, then as the wise man says: "well, there‘s your problem!" I don't doubt there are implementations like that out there, but we shoul
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> This means Vector databases, Search Indexes or fancy "AI Search Databases" would be required on a per user basis or track the access rights along with the content, which is infeasible and does not scale. I don't understa
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> Is there any open-source software that calculates where a given planet or star might be (based on your coordinates) Sure. Skyfield is a python library to calculate that (among others). Right on the front page is an example how to calcu
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Coding with an LLM certainly feels like being a malconvoker.
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> I take smoking as a cautionary tale, in the beginning it was pushed as not just a recreational thing but a healthy activity While i agree the gist of what you are saying, also important to mention that humans started cultivating tobaco
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That is the “competent” part from the “competent quack”. Obviously if we can believe his numbers, that is.
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> he wasn't selling anything counterfactual or deceptive He was saying he is a physician, and by all evidence he wasn't. That's both deceptive and counterfactual.
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> I'm talking about basic use of a keyboard and mouse. You just expected other people will know how, yet have no basic knowledge of other professions, even those that are arguably more important. I'm a bit confused about what y
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> We can easily cherry pick our humans to fit any hypothesis about humans, because there are dumb humans. Nah. You would take a large number of humans, make half of them take the test with distractions and half without distracting statem
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> authors should have done a parallel comparison study against humans on the same question bank as if the study authors had set out to investigate whether humans or LLMs reason better in this situation. Only if they want to make statemen
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You can argue until the cows come home. The point is that they claim without evidence that humans are not suspectible to this kind of distraction. If they want to estabilish this as a fact there is a trivialy easy experiment they can conduc
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> which really wouldn't confuse most humans And i think it would. I think a lot of people would ask the invigilator to see if something is wrong with the test, or maybe answer both questions, or write a short answer on the cat quest
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> "This guy is a creeper and treats romantic partners terribly" is pure opinion, and cannot be defamatory. That is true. But i think untrained and emotionaly involved individuals will have trouble navigating the boundaries of d
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> We don't have any sound reasons to believe the next one will be simpler. Yes and no. I think you are right that the plasma shape is going to remain very complex. But that's not the only reason why W7-X looks complicated. It h
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> It would be interesting what this functional reserve is, right? It is most likely not a single thing. Looking for "the functional reserve" is like looking for which part of an airplane is the "multiple redundancy".
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It has nothing to do with the fuel cost. This is what ryanair's website says about oversized luggage: "Passengers who bring an oversize bag (over 55x40x20cm) to the boarding gate will either have their bag refused or, where availa
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I do not doubt that freezing them would kill the bugs. I would be worried that unless it is very carefully managed it might damage the books though. In particular i would worry that moisture from the air would freeze on the books and as the
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I assume, though it is unstated in the article, that to physically support the tissue while it is sliced it needs to be frozen solid? Or is it the chemical preparation which turns the carcas solid? Which part of the process described here i
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Very likely the jobs these North Koreans are getting would not be considered a good job by the devs struggling to find one. As a starter when you plan to phone it in from North Korea you can accept a salary which would not be liveable for a
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> what exactly does the kvm do? In this context the abbreviation stands for “keyboard, video, and mouse”. These are hardware devices you physically connect to a computer and then you can remotely see the computer’s screen and input keybo
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You don’t have to pretend anything. Just go on and explain where you see the monetary incentives with this research and researchers. (If you see them.)
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> Whoever does not have a monetary interest in the studied subject is the one who is more qualified. I’m not really understanding the monetary interest angle. The monetary interest in this subject is the curtain and window-blind manufact
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> Strange comment. Not realy. It is pretty common to compare the average ability when we are comparing between species. For example when we say cheetahs can run at X m/s we don’t talk about the speed of the fastest cheetah who won t
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> I think they're all aware the submarine stuff is risky. Yeah, but that only works if you get feedback back. The problem is not that the submersible sometimes breaks down. The problem is if you only have a gsm modem on it which onl

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