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by mecsred 4y ago
I don't think that follows? Just because a better method exists (the inverse) doesn't make the original perform better. Imagine the following method: take whatever the bit was, and set it to the opposite of that. 0% < 50%. Of c
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by mecsred 4y ago
People in general will tell you a lot of things. We're wrong most of the time, that's why we do studies.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Fair, mostly joking. The cynic in my says the opposite happens and these technologies make it even easier for systems to treat actual people as replaceable objects.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Yeah now we can get back to normal internet usage, which definitely doesn't involve strange emotional attachments and wierd rabbit holes.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Kids can feel like they're losing a real friend if they lose a stuffed animal. What's the progress on making teddy bears people?
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by mecsred 4y ago
You don't "just" do anything when networking is involved. You can check out a course on TCP/IP if you want to see some reasons that is not enough. What you're describing is essentially a part of the TCP and isn&#x27
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by mecsred 4y ago
Nikola also had videos of their electric trucks "driving" on YouTube. These were convincing enough for people to invest millions. Not a high standard.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Ok, I'm on board with the frustration for "AI believers". I have to deal with it every day. I don't think the strategy is to be _more_ annoying than AI evangelists. That blog was painful to read.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Sure but they were smart enough to know it's a stupid idea back then /s
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by mecsred 4y ago
This is so academic. Take any two samples; slope > 0 => we're going to be dropping messages!!! Slope < 0 our threads are idle!!!
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by mecsred 4y ago
Unfortunately when your working with concepts that can't be measured/only exist in the eye of the beholder, any definition you make will have that problem. The only litmus test for "personhood" is if you think they'
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by mecsred 4y ago
Any reasonable manufacturer will rotate firmware images and have the bootloader fall back to the most recent validated image. Though I imagine this could happen if this practice becomes common enough that you get it on some 5$ gas station c
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by mecsred 4y ago
Obligatory xkcd[1] [1] https://xkcd.com/1102/
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by mecsred 4y ago
It makes a lot of sense if you assume his main goal is the YouTube channel. Common device, common problem => thumbnail and title alone have a good chance of driving clicks. Anything even remotely close to "advanced" will requir
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by mecsred 4y ago
You can pass all the judgement you want. You should just be more ready for it to be inaccurate the further you get from things you practice.
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by mecsred 4y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to be upset with the phrase. Using a "stock line" with no intent behind it when you're putting someone through a traumatic event is shitty behaviour. If the phrase changes, get mad at the new ph
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by mecsred 4y ago
It's still ivory if it's on a living elephant. Attributing the word ivory to poaching seems like attributing gold to piracy to me.
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by mecsred 4y ago
"SPDC is a quantum optical technique in which correlated pairs of photons (called signal and idler) are produced probabilistically from a higher energetic pump photon in a non-linear crystal following energy and momentum conservation16
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by mecsred 4y ago
If you know the answer, you should write a paper. I think a few people are still working on that question.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Google says energy of combustion for hard coal is 25 MJ/Kg. E = mc^2 gives 278 picograms of mass lost per kilogram burned in ideal combustion. Consider the amount of earth's mass that is coal and reduce it again by 278e-12 /
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by mecsred 4y ago
Or a filesystem that loses all of your files 5% of the time.
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by mecsred 4y ago
A key point here, what does it mean that the machine is being "deliberate"? Imagine you had a machine that generated a random string of English characters of a random length in response to the question. It would be capable of givi
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by mecsred 4y ago
Here's[1] a resource discussing some sources. It mentions Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus cereus, E. coli as some common examples. [1] https://www.foodsafety.ca/blog/what-are-bacterial-toxins
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by mecsred 4y ago
The thing that does the damage are the toxins the bacteria produce, not usually the bacteria themselves. If you leave the food in the danger zone, the bacteria colonies multiply wildly, producing whatever metabolic products the entire time.
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by mecsred 4y ago
I think there's good reason to be optimistic about diversity at that scale. The environment shapes the direction your easiest path takes. Available material as well as the policies of an alien culture may be enough to send the local mi
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by mecsred 4y ago
Greg Egan's "Permutation City", ostensibly.
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by mecsred 4y ago
"The solution is not obvious, it's obvious only to zealots. It's kind of obvious that the solution is [...]" Seriously?
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by mecsred 4y ago
It's a pretty fluid term depending on who you're talking to, and it's mostly a buzzword in marketing. Most people I know use it as "edge of the network", as in something likely running off solar and cellular out on
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by mecsred 4y ago
It's not a view, it's a fact. Most environmental projects don't have a budget to support more than a couple people. If you'd like that to be different, yeah, me too. Complaining doesn't change it though, which is wh
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by mecsred 4y ago
You're blaming your straw man for "nearsightedness and expediency", yet it took you 0 rational arguments to come to a conclusion about the correct outcome. I also have no idea where you come up with this taboo against skeptic

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