metamuas

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Graph of Federal Debt Held (6.2T) (258% increase since 2020)(fred.stlouisfed.org)
1 points by metamuas 4y ago|1 comments
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by metamuas 4y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
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by metamuas 4y ago
Can you elaborate on CUDA? I thought nVidia prided themselves on FreeBSD support.
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by metamuas 4y ago
I downloaded Brave after googling it and got a .pkg instead of a .dmg because someone wanted to hack my new laptop, and didn't want to risk a hack that leveraged an exploit only nation states know about. They are sMArt. Like me! I stil
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Ask HN: What to do about no work ethic?
4 points by metamuas 4y ago|3 comments
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by metamuas 4y ago
The main mistake you made was not realizing artificial complexity exists, that it is not natural, and that it is a form of control, possibly the most important. Evidence A: C++.
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by metamuas 4y ago
Stay true to your path, dear sir: you have conquered one quest, only to question another. The path ahead is fraught with forks in the road, but stay true to your ossified idea and question yourself as you do others.
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by metamuas 4y ago
Just remember, don't take Tylenol if you are in pain, as you can die from liver poisoning quite quickly. "Engstrom suffered an accident in the lab when a monitor fell on his foot. He took too much Tylenol which caused liver toxici
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by metamuas 4y ago
Well the stock market succeeding depends on people having irrational faith in the stocks like Tesla, despite making most of their money from Bitcoin than selling cars[0], so that isn't really a valid counterfactual point, since market
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by metamuas 4y ago
If you have the time, please find out what traffic noise is closest to. I tried to find out but couldn't get any further than this wikipedia page[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadway_noise
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by metamuas 4y ago
"Diagnoses of autism have risen dramatically over the past few decades, from an estimated one in 2500 children thirty years ago to one in 150 today." is one of the first lines of the article. If you are so smart, and only you are
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by metamuas 4y ago
Basically, humans are pattern seeking creatures, and children exposed to white noise will try to find patterns in white noise, when there are none, thus leading to the brain maladapting to random patterns. My theory, but I couldn't fin
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by metamuas 4y ago
Precipitation means the kids stay inside and are more likely to watch television[0]. This was influenced by another paper about the link between precipitation and autism[1]. Why do you think it is joke research? Why did you criticize before
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by metamuas 4y ago
Corrected, thanks.
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by metamuas 4y ago
Proximity to freeways increases autism risk, study finds [0]. Having a mother who lived within 1,000 feet of a freeway while pregnant doubles a child's odds of having autism [1]. Basically, white noise can cause autism. People are scre
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Does watching television trigger autism? (2007)(nber.org)
38 points by metamuas 4y ago|82 comments
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by metamuas 4y ago
Turning a decentralized internet into a centralized one seems like a threat, I mean with centralization of all knowledge then we are creating a situation where a centralized system would know everything. That is why we have to stick to dece
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by metamuas 4y ago
I hope they do something about government officials from random nations shitposting with proxy accounts.
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by metamuas 4y ago
Connecting a manshonyagger doesn't work out; see the death of Shardik. It would be horrible if 'connecting' someone lead to ananaphylactic shock.
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by metamuas 4y ago
Can someone explain to me why Tesla didn't bootstrap itself with cameras/LIDAR, then remove the LIDAR? I mean teaching an AI depth perception and the ability to model objects by vision, without including training data from LIDAR j
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Cosmos: How the creator of Family Guy remade Carl Sagan's pivotal TV series(theguardian.com)
2 points by metamuas 4y ago|0 comments
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by metamuas 4y ago
I have always thought that the best measure of intelligence is compression of information. If you can create a smaller, abstract model that is still accurate despite a loss in details, then you are intelligent.
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by metamuas 4y ago
I think a good name for this is 'discontention'. Discontent + contention. People are now dissatisfied with their view of reality being challenged by people they know and talking heads, and because of that there is major contention