mateo1

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by mateo1 3y ago
Yep. All these tech giants are taking the labour that people provided to the world in good faith in what I've seen described as a gift economy, and trying to lock it up. On the internet for the longest time people were providing their
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by mateo1 3y ago
I agree, which is why merchants should be allowed to charge different prices for different card operators and for cash.
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by mateo1 3y ago
The absurdity is unbelievable but it is true!
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by mateo1 3y ago
There's a simple formula that makes you chose it: they keep as few manned checkouts open as possible, as long as the wait for the manned checkouts is inconvenient enough the majority of people will use the self-checkouts.
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by mateo1 3y ago
It's also a step towards individualized pricing, which many people, myself included, absolutely hate. This can be done with self-checkouts but it'll work much better with handheld scanners. Normal price: 3x, member price:2x, indiv
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by mateo1 3y ago
It can be run real time. Might be 640x480 or 20 fps, but many algorithms out there could never been run on an $10k graphics card or even a computing cluster in real time.
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by mateo1 3y ago
I did something similar a few years back. Basically converted binary data to a matrix and printed it max res (1200dpi inkjet), also wrote the software to read it like a QR code (with perspective & error correction etc). You can easily s
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by mateo1 3y ago
Producing hydrogen using electricity will only be more economical than than steam reforming when natural gas, coal and oil all run out. I respect the choice to move away from fossil fuels but if you do the calculations on how much this will
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by mateo1 3y ago
I wonder how that would look like if it used word2vec.
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by mateo1 3y ago
That's indeed fantastic. It also gave me perspective on something: the reasons there are so many interactions is because of the number of collisions: a water molecule will collide 10^14 times in a second. Mind-boggling stuff.
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by mateo1 3y ago
Really cool, but I can't turn off the music.
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by mateo1 3y ago
Nice paper. But my take is this: If this model of operation of the human mind is an emergent property of a simpler network architecture that's scaled up, nothing is stopping us from building a massive version of it and training it. Thi
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by mateo1 3y ago
It's really cool to be able to make a surface like this and prove it does kill viruses (even cooler since it exists in nature), but obviously it has no practical use. It would only work in a cleanroom for a little while until it clogs,
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by mateo1 3y ago
After reading the diagnosis I caught myself wanting to examine the MRI to see if the bright area really exists, which means I fell for this too. Imagine being the person who received this diagnosis. Of course you're going to be concern
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by mateo1 3y ago
I've been suspecting for a long time that Google might be doing something similar. Of course you need enough devices around (and internet) for this to work but it's pretty cool, I hope it takes off. Maybe a device manufacturer wil
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by mateo1 3y ago
Maybe it's ChatGPT speaking, although would it be making such obvious mistakes?
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by mateo1 3y ago
To quickly summarize: A Turing machine program or method can't solve the Entscheidungsproblem, which means you can't have a general algorithm to prove all possible statements true or or false (or equivalent) within a formal system
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by mateo1 3y ago
No matter which country gets the contract, they will have a stranglehold. As you see only a handful of countries around the world are capable of building, operating and refueling a nuclear power plant. Which makes it incredibly inconvenient
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by mateo1 3y ago
Also with the other woman they used as an example, the only thing she did is say that X date was a Thrursday or something, which might simply be a trick and not a memory recall.
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by mateo1 3y ago
I used to have almost 10k bookmarks that I was keeping from circa 2010 to 2017. Only to realize the majority of them were now useless. Some kind of tool like this is way overdue to become commonspread.
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by mateo1 3y ago
Who will write pages for google to summarize from now on? This will kill the last bits of remaining organic content creators on the internet.
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by mateo1 3y ago
Is there a mailing list or something that I can register to in case that actually happens? I bet Ill miss the news.
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by mateo1 3y ago
Swiftly followed by: living in a region known for home invaders shooting victims on sight.
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by mateo1 3y ago
That's a good point.
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by mateo1 3y ago
All these guidelines are what is making BBC unreadable for me. The language they use is just so artificial. I understand why they do, and how they feel like they have a responsibility to "optimize" language for some metrics, but i
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by mateo1 3y ago
Does anyone know if this site is getting geoblocked? I can't access it for the past few days.
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by mateo1 3y ago
That's a great summary of what's happening. I'd probably add in the financialization of real estate and having effective oligopolies in some countries and cities. It really is that simple. If you want people to have decent,
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by mateo1 3y ago
Removing both the informed and the consent part of informed consent didn't exactly help.
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by mateo1 3y ago
This has a precondition: the existence of targets unique to the cancer cell. That's not necessarily true. In theory you can have cancerous cells that are (at least in the epitope-space) indistinguishable from normal cells. I'm not
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by mateo1 3y ago
Yeah, right. Study after study can prove whatever the author wants, but the facts of life are that nobody is going shopping on a bike. On a bus, sure, but a bike? I've lived in 2 cities with beautiful, wide bike lanes that nobody parks

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