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by krona 4y ago
Then by that reasoning computers have, for decades, been 'artificially intelligent'?
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by krona 4y ago
I'm pretty sure he'd get sued in to the ground if anything published turned out to be materially false.
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by krona 4y ago
bigot bĭg′ət (noun) One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
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by krona 4y ago
Rapid dedollarization and announcing a new currency (e.g. BRICS currency?) Gold purchases suggest some countries are preparing for the post-dollar world.
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by krona 4y ago
If that means only hiring at half the rate because of the longer onboarding ritual then that's a good a reason as any not to do remote onboarding for some companies.
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by krona 4y ago
IQ also correlates with many other other things such as reaction time and other real, measurable phenomena, so to say 'yeah but that's just like, your opinion' is nonsense.
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by krona 4y ago
This is a bit of a strawman because IQ tests today rarely rely on language comprehension.
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by krona 4y ago
> I don't think it's supposable to conclude that flynn effect is reversing Lol, it's reversing all across western Europe and has been since birth cohorts starting around 1970. The Norwegian studies are the most cited AFAIK
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by krona 4y ago
"I'm afraid there is no money." - chief secretary to the Treasury under Gordon Brown
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by krona 4y ago
> unhealthy nostalgia for when we were more important in the world seem to be holding us back. Surely when things are in decline, the more nostalgic one becomes, and the less willing one is to let go of things that clearly aren't wo
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by krona 4y ago
What you're imagining is Hyperreality from Simulacra and Simulation and has been happening since the invention of the television, and later the internet. AI will accelerate this process exponentially and just like in The Matrix, most
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by krona 4y ago
> Guess they weren't as independent as they thought they were. The BOE obviously knows a lot more than is letting on. My guess is the bank had the same investment strategy of its parent, but failed even without much of a panic from
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SVBUK Taken in to Insolvency(bankofengland.co.uk)
59 points by krona 4y ago|40 comments
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by krona 4y ago
ChatGPT has state and representation, clearly. But that's besides the point. It's been demonstrated to have the theory of mind of a 9 year old child, and this will no doubt improve. All of this is a bit like saying a car isn'
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by krona 4y ago
(1) As it is with humans. It's not possible to attach a debugger to a human brain and determine the nature of understanding; you have to ask the human questions about that understanding and interpret the response yourself. (2) This is
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by krona 4y ago
And if the compiler of your ${favourite_lang} doesn't conform to these hypothetical arbitrary standards (Or maybe it does but Deloitte doesn't have a sales rep in ${compiler_dev_home_country} allowing them to buy the certification
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by krona 4y ago
Influence peddling in the EU is a feature, not a bug.
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by krona 4y ago
Nobody is saying maintainable code isn't important but rather that clean vs fast is a false dichotomy.
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by krona 4y ago
Without bounds checks: game crashes, core dump. With bounds checks: game crashes, meaningless error message given to the user. What am I missing?
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by krona 4y ago
> Which conservative, traditionalist societies are you thinking of.. Legitimacy laws were still prevalent across the western world until the 1970's. Furthermore, abortion was basically illegal in Britain until 1967. In the year that
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by krona 4y ago
For the reasons you say, I regard papers that report p-values without effect sizes to be at most interesting, but probably irrelevant for making actual real-life decisions.
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by krona 4y ago
> No one, literally no one is using "old hag" as insult. I'm guessing you've never met an English person then. Your grammar suggests this to be the case.
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by krona 4y ago
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered... Nothing exists except an endless present in which the P
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by krona 4y ago
Historically, the kinds of people who engage in such naked acts of demoralisation don't end up on the 'right side of history'.
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by krona 4y ago
Replacing evaluative concepts with sterilized descriptive ones is Newspeak 101.
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by krona 4y ago
Which of Shakespeare's plays do you think is too unfashionable to be relevant today, and in dire need of an 'update' to 'keep up with the times'? The best stories are timeless. If you think a story is no longer rele
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by krona 4y ago
In quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), there is an upper limit to the cost of any intervention because the most you can save from one intervention is one life. If the same money can be used to substantially improve the lives of 100 people
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by krona 4y ago
One of my friends was wrong once. I don't speak to him anymore.
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by krona 4y ago
A reference in a scientific journal to a piece of fraudulent research is far worse than a fake reference to a non-existent journal. Let's keep things in perspective?
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by krona 4y ago
> I don't want a search engine to be making up answers That ship sailed many years ago, for me at least.

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