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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Of the atheist STEM postgrad degree people I know that love to talk about astrology/tarot, they usually retreat to this type to defence: it's a useful tool for introspection. Sure. But then if I ask them to admit that believing in
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
On 21 April 2023 Google blocked usage of Stable Diffusion with a free account on colab. You need a paid plan to use it. Apparently there are ways around it, but I just switched to runpod.io. It's very cheap (around $0.80/h for a 4
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Would you mind explaining the unstated premise that basic research should in any way should be directly applied to solve real world problems?
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
I used to follow their progress but I unsubscribed from the mailing list due to donation request spam. There have been very few public updates in the past year. There is still some movement but it seems to be happening at a geologic pace fr
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
>Purdue pharma There was an attempt. Dems introduced a bill (the SACKLER Act) was that would stop the bankruptcy judge in the case from granting members of the Sackler family legal immunity during the bankruptcy proceedings, however it f
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
>only 18 people joined it. I've unsuccessfully been trying to create a Lemmy account for the past three days. The signup button just spins. I've used many different combinations of usernames, email accounts, browsers, origin IP
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by luc4sdreyer 3y ago
Not sure why they went the discord route. That's not what some big subs did. For example, /r/nottheonion (definitely not niche) simply pinned a single post with three comments to simulate a poll. 88% (87.3k votes) supported c
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by luc4sdreyer 4y ago
> So, if classical mechanics is deterministic, and describes nature, nature must be continuous at arbitary depth. Isn't that the classical assumption though? That nature is analogue. To avoid problems with infinities, you can just s
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by luc4sdreyer 4y ago
For anyone else that wants to try: https://ucriverside.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9Hme3Gzwiv... I got 40% but I did worse on the questions I spent more time on, so I think I got lucky.
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by luc4sdreyer 4y ago
It's still unclear to me. Did you then feed the entire above blurb into GPT3 on a continuous basis to get the actual interview? To be more specific: In: "Podcast.AI Great people, great interviews with our host Joe Rogan. Episode 1
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by luc4sdreyer 4y ago
Can you elaborate more on what the prompts for the text content were?
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by luc4sdreyer 4y ago
Zeilinger got the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2010, which is often considered the second most prestigious award after the Nobel prize.
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by luc4sdreyer 4y ago
A very easy way to do it would just be to serve the ball at > 400km/h. It's unlikely that a human could accurately return a ball at that speed more than 50% of the time.
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
> in the limit of near-infinite degrees of freedom. Can you explain or express this in a simpler way? Is it almost like saying macroscopic?
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
Oh well, that's too bad. I guess it'll stay that way until the Sun swallows the Earth. It's an incredibly difficult thing to do, and it can't come from the outside. Russians have to collectively decide that they don&#x27
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
These polls paint a somewhat different picture. I'm not claiming that they're more accurate than yours. Just that it's difficult to understand the situation as an outsider. Sample size is at least 1600 people and was done by
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
No, that's now much they think businesses or other professional consumers will pay.
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
The third link talks about it in detail: https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/10/22/132497/sorryorga... The "natural" pesticides used by organic farming can also bioaccumilate, that doesn&#x27
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
Organic crops are much worse for the environment in the long term. The biggest environment problem right now is habitat loss. In 100 years it might be climate change (of course we should definitely try to prevent climate change), but for th
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
Why? What would that tell us about the computational complexity of a neuron?
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
Here's another way to explain it: Since string theory is extremely tunable, you can just overfit it to all the data we already have about how the universe works. So the only way to get some certainty would be to have it make a predicti
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
It bothers me to see so many spelling mistakes on an otherwise useful page with no way to notify the author.
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by luc4sdreyer 5y ago
You're saying this is a PR piece? The story didn't claim that there are any benefits to eating Cicadas, and hardly made a case that they taste wonderful. If this is a PR piece, who's standing to gain from it? Your comment see
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by luc4sdreyer 6y ago
Users will switch if there is a viable alternative.
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by luc4sdreyer 6y ago
> He's been remarkably open every time he's changed user content I have no stake in this story, but how could you, or anyone, possibly know that?
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by luc4sdreyer 6y ago
> The biggest piece that is broken in our country is our Justice system. I completely disagree. SA faces the same problems that other countries do, just more of them at the same time. Corruption networks are hard to penetrate if it'
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by luc4sdreyer 6y ago
Thanks for the link
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by luc4sdreyer 6y ago
> but synthetic fertilizer, as typically applied on commercial scale farms, is pretty darn bad for ecosystems. True. It's a big problem. However, the biggest environmental problem _right now_ is habitat loss. As in, massive habitat
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by luc4sdreyer 6y ago
>It's not clear what exactly are you referring to with "organic" I'm referring to both, and more. All of it. Here is the definition from wikipedia [1] > Organic food is food produced by methods complying with the s
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by luc4sdreyer 6y ago
>who many researchers in the West lauded in private I've only heard universal condemnation from scientists, where can I learn more about this private support for him? Or am I going to take your word for it?

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