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There's some nuance here. If you soak your meat in lime juice for several hours, the acid is going to penetrate deep into the meat. It doesn't do nothing.
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It collects through the edge, and the glass can be (apparently) flat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORPeCcIXRQ
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Also many interviews are structured so there simply won't be time to finish the exercise if you're going slow.
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GPT can make great sentences, it's just not the default operating mode. LLMs are capable of amazing things if you can get them into the right section of the latent space.
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This applies only to under-specified prompting. I usually go in with a finished image in mind, and use very long prompts and inpainting to make it real. It can take dozens of images to get the prompt to reflect what I have in mind, then sev
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Take your chances with what? The vaccine was free for me all 3 times I had it. When I had Covid post-vaccine it was much more mild than when I had it pre-vaccine, though there are several confounding variables present there.
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Literally. Seattle was pretty okay with taxi service in 2011, but in San Francisco, the same taxi company that dropped me off in South San Francisco one day in early 2012 just told me I was on my own and they could not help me when I tried
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Second this. I've taken to studying a list of previous examples because I frequently can't dig up ideal examples from memory on the spot. A touch of adrenaline from nerves, even if not obvious to others, really affects my performa
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3y ago
True in aggregate, but special conditions exist. E.g. when interviewing for a rarely available position with extraordinary compensation.
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4y ago
Latchkey didn't mean locked up at home, rather it meant the child was returning home alone after school and in possession of the home door key.
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There are some properties in a neighboring county where a guy has been running junk yards in residential neighborhoods. 50+ rusted junkers stacked in a suburban yard, against local law. When the law finally is about to seize the land, he&#x
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4y ago
In one notable case, it was decided to not bore all the way down to bedrock, resulting is a sinking building and many lawsuits. More commonly, someone complains that a planned building will cast a shadow, and after spending millions the bui
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Stability has a research team. They've just brought over David Ha (@hardmaru on Twitter) from Google Brain to lead strategy.
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4y ago
Like the Omicron booster that has limited availability?
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If I've learned anything from reading espionage fiction novels -- you book a flight for tomorrow and leave on the bus tonight .
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4y ago
Wave
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4y ago
Have you looked into any of the lending platforms? These are pretty well controlled for. Crypto loans are typically collateralized, so that below a certain loan-to-value ratio, the collateral belongs to the loan provider and the borrower ca
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5y ago
I'm fond of my loved ones, but I also like creating new ones. I also would like to see very long term plans come to fruition. It seems very much like a "640K ought to be enough for anybody" problem. Works of art that require
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>Imagine living a quadrillion years. Even as a god, that would be miserable. This seems very subjective, I don't agree at all.
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>Yes for the common retail person sure, but someone has to purchase stocks to put them into an index. Those are professionals who evaluate PE ratios, profitability, and financial statements. This is not what an index is. You are describi
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Plenty of alternative chains out there with cool experiments that are cheap to run.
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That seems like a really biased piece.
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The best description I've ever read: NFTs are a postmodern absurdity asset that you buy/sell independent of the underlying art, the NFT is given value by the fact the art was made in a way that anoints the NFT as canonical.
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Have you worked with GPT2 or 3 before? It is often convincing enough that it looks borrowed from a real source. To prove it is generating it from scratch, throw a non-sequitur in there. Ask it about cooking to attract dragons, or the recipe
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Netflix has no association with this ISP, you do. It's your choice to request Netflix streams for delivery through the ISP. Blaming Netflix for this would be like an apartment building blaming Amazon for delivering too many boxes to th
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These kind of posts attract lots of debate, maybe less so on HN, but to strengthen OP's statement: every technique beyond total calories intake is an optimization. Sometimes, if your body and lifestyle is in a situation that has many o
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Echoes of 2003 when we were forming corporations and organizing ranks and building websites for EVE Online before it was actually released. Except that game actually released.
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You can practice until the nerves are gone. I've been doing Leetcode weekly competitions, after a while it's just another timed coding challenge. I've noticed training cardio helps me handle anxiety better, both because I can
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Slightly off topic, but Captain Disillusionment did a great video recently on Flight of the Navigator: https://youtu.be/tyixMpuGEL8
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The E-bike rental business will be significantly more profitable with these. Automated delivery to your location when you rent, automated return when you're done. No more paying staff to collect bikes and return them to high-traffic ar
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