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by mistrial9 5mo ago
while tribal hunters simply killed for access to the best hunting grounds? Mongols killed why? IMO you can reconstruct this line of thought easily -- humans killed other humans brutally and without fail; some humans interpreted the world
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the reason you do not find them is that they were purposefully destroyed in "iconoclasm" -- the battles were so bloody that the Christian victors not only converted the conquered but also destroyed all traces of their cultural pr
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
after non-trivial inquiry from far-away California, my best understanding is that the Celts did gracefully embrace the Christian faith among the monks and those serious about religious life. Since there were vivid and lived religious tradit
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
> we used to value artists and give them money. Now we don't. this is wildly self-centered to claim as a general truth
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
narrowing the topic, that is exactly the quality that energy transition theorists are leaning on. The electrical grid is uniquely able to maintain a stable engineered and market place while inputs and loads change quite a bit.
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
this company Intuit is going to train their internal models on your data and other customers too. In order to train useful models in aggregate, they will ingest your very specific PII and you will do "nothing" about it. The entire
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
too bad about Lake Eerie
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
SiliconValley Founders drank a lot of alcohol and talked about this exact thing, except that they wanted to kill every Oak Tree seedling in sight, whereas you grew your Oak Tree over a decade. Zero chance of this approach working near Sili
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
> that exist at roughly the frontier no disagree, specifics matter.. There are a dozen well-defined LLM application subject areas that are regularly tested.. one overall grade IMO lacks important detail.. To go a bit abstract, it is iro
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
this is a false statement. There are many kinds of business structures around power generating companies, across the USA.
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
Pacific Gas and Electric was built by engineers, who had a mandate to transfer huge amounts of power across very large and difficult terrain. When the management in the 1950s post-WWII society had this mandate, they executed amazing feats o
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
you left out the people who enjoy the suffering and pain of the person it is being done to, while they supervise (and film it, in some cases)
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
> "invest 5 billion to make 10 million" business is contextual, and is a game of numbers? If you agree, then there is a difference between "I made money selling lemon drinks at my driveway, but I sold a car to make room&qu
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
"ChatGPT has over 900 million weekly active users worldwide. ... ChatGPT Plus has around 50 million paying subscribers"
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> makes you missed out on most of the world knowledge and, who knows what will happen to grammar ?
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
I disagree -- I suspect that no one expected this banal item to be put on such a visible public spot (front page YNews). I'll assert that it is the filters and amplification that is so changed, and results like this occur. It was a dra
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
this topic today, here, is on literacy, writing and the history of writing
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
feedback -- painting and screen luminescence are fundamentally different. Secondly, the chase after "most famous" seems to show the motivation here. AI generated arts, IMHO, is an economic F-U to the people who spend real years of
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
its because some people learned to put meaning into different ways to layout dense expressions, or different kinds of comments in difference contexts. python was "weird" at first to C-tribe, because of the strict layout used to el
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
anecdata - in Berkeley CA, in the late 2010s, two individuals showed up to be in the fast-paced AD scene. One was from a former Soviet Union country, who spoke English pretty well .. and the other a woman from Columbia .. to say that both o
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
"your browser is no longer supported" is just so terribly useful, for so many ..
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
yes, a quote from June Singer, a prominent Jungian analyst and author, has always stuck out for me.. Something about a stone, tumbled in a river over many, many.. many years.. specifically, passing through generations of people. If the cont
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
this advice is lazy if not well intentioned IMO. There are certainly basic epistemological classifications that cut through "everything is an advert or propaganda" assertions; for example Science. It is not a matter of propaganda,
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OK - HP C2089A "PostScript Cartridge Plus" that was a real product with ordinary thousands of hours of skilled coding in there.. That is certainly the part that is doing work. Secondly someone really knows what they are doing to
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> a natural disaster or comet strike or, that is what they tell you.
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by mistrial9 5mo ago
> .. with vibe coding we can just whip up a Preview app why deflate your own position with this (worthless-untrue-spineless) statement? Which library is doing the work? who writes that library and maintains it?
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filters
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by mistrial9 6mo ago
in a California port city, there were newspaper headlines when a City Council swore to everyone that tearing down hundreds of good houses to put in a freeway to a far away transportation center "will benefit this great city" .. It
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those are certainly Christian curated documents. The previous six hundred+ years had seen the development of vivid and exotic religion, philosophy and arts. The Christians famously slew the Dragons, condemned Herod as a sorcerer and astrolo
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there are two kinds of people ! those that claim that there are only two kinds of people, and those that do not claim that. Its supposed to be humor, because declaring "the only thing that ... is .. " is, well, literally stupid.

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