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by lexpar 4y ago
The (relevant part of the) 5th amendment does not say "you never have to cooperate with the courts" it says you can not be compelled to incriminate yourself. People and companies are compelled to cooperate with courts all the time
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by lexpar 4y ago
I thought it was clear in the post that Meta is being compelled by the federal government to prove they are not a monopoly and as part of this they need to present a case where they establish they have legitimate competitors. This requires
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by lexpar 4y ago
That sounds mostly right to me. I think many constitutional protections do apply in case the USA is prosecuting an individual, eg even as a non American you could take the 5th if an American court was trying to convict you. However, when yo
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by lexpar 5y ago
Are you actually saying that Facebook is working to prevent _future generations of humanity_ from existing? I can't imagine how you expect people to take you seriously.
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by lexpar 5y ago
This is really not a high quality comment.
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by lexpar 5y ago
I think they announced that they're doing exactly that (or at least working on it).
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by lexpar 6y ago
I'm afraid that's just not true. I've made sourdough bread for years, and never added any sweeteners. There are plenty of bread recipes that require no sweetener, and it's definitely not needed for yeast to develop.
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by lexpar 6y ago
Interesting comment in the header of this site. https://github.com/prithugoswami/personal-website/blob/maste...
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by lexpar 6y ago
It's important to understand that this was already a very violent time in Montreal. Separatist terrorists were running rampant, and had a non-zero degree of public support.
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by lexpar 6y ago
I'm a developer with experience working full stack and recently graduated with a research Master's based on machine learning applications. I am looking for work that can combine these interests. Location: Montreal, Canada Remote:
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by lexpar 6y ago
I don't think she's a bad person, and I appreciate her response to the situation. But building a year (years?) around a project, attending multiple conferences for it, bringing up a couple students on a research idea, then finding
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by lexpar 6y ago
What a nightmare. I bet this raises the hair on the back of the necks of a lot of other researchers. So much time and momentum can be invested into a research track like this.
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by lexpar 6y ago
I like this idea. I don't know if I would say I'm 'hoping' for this, but I'm certainly interested to see what kind of incredible projects will come out of the increased necessity brought on by climate change. It see
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by lexpar 7y ago
Yeah, I guess this is fine if by "Transformers are Graph Neural Networks" we mean Transformers < GNN, rather than Tranformers == GNN. "Sentences are a fully connected graph". Ok fine, but that's a graph with basi
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by lexpar 7y ago
This is a great article. I've been conscious of and annoyed by the symptoms of these spirals for years. I was aware that this was the effect of one-upping and a desire to demonstrate personal virtue, but I didn't have a name for t
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by lexpar 7y ago
By "taught this" do you mean kill a kid?
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by lexpar 7y ago
Coffee might move the needle, although I'm sure the big chains (Starbucks, McDonalds, Dunkin, Tims) would quickly move to some ersatz blend of roasted plants and lab synthesized caffeine. If they transition the formula slowly enough, l
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by lexpar 7y ago
Pretty sure the Python developers have stated no more backwards compatibility breaking changes... Certainly with Python being one of the top languages in the wold today, the pressure to support backwards compatibility is much higher than it
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by lexpar 7y ago
This may have a kernel of truth to it, but it's difficult to treat as objective when the article is essentially an advertisement for the language the author is developing.
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by lexpar 7y ago
You have a good citation for your first sentence, but not for your second.
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by lexpar 7y ago
There is an obvious equivalence between unary numbers and binary numbers. Should be quite easy to support inductive proofs with unary numbers while supporting computation with binary numbers, and simply translate between them depending on w
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by lexpar 7y ago
I took a graduate class where we worked though the first and second volumes of Software Foundations ( https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/ ). These are very nice introductions to the Coq environment and are being active
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by lexpar 7y ago
It's not really a great analogy. In machine learning the cost function is static and is defined by a smart person working hard to come up with something sensible. In life, the cost function changes constantly and is developed consciou
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by lexpar 7y ago
Thanks!
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by lexpar 7y ago
Does anyone have a nice resource they recommend on what BERT does? I've gathered it was trained by trying to predict missing words in a sentence, but I don't have an intuition on how this is useful for downstream prediction (like,
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by lexpar 7y ago
Oh, I was not aware the US is not the only country on Earth. Snark aside, here's a source that says globally coal power production accounts for 30% of global CO2 emissions. That's a lot, but not quite the whole problem. https:&#x
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by lexpar 7y ago
I'm interested in the justification for this. The following link says about 25% of US GHG emissions are from coal, but coal burning makes up the vast majority GHG emissions for electricity production. https://www.eia.gov&#x2
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by lexpar 7y ago
Interesting stuff. I remember reading about this tongue posture idea (keeping the tongue pressed against the roof of the mouth), but nearly all the discussions I found about it online were on incel and bodybuilding forums (supposedly mainta
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by lexpar 7y ago
"The worst-case scenario of 6.5-7.0°C of warming assumed continued economic expansion driven by growth of fossil fuel production" I assume this means "doing nothing, all future growth based on burning coal", which hopefu
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by lexpar 7y ago
You must be getting much less frustrating team mates than me haha :)

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