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> The vice angle is that when inflation increases faster than wage work, people switch from a longer term wage, to selling what they can negotiate spot prices for to keep up with inflation This sounds a bit confusing. Does an increase of
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> The whole point of money was to last longer than the expiring and perishable things it was used to pay for. The purchasing power of a dollar in the last century is about 1/500th of what it was when it was paid for the value someon
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I try to avoid canned food as the inner coating might still contain BPA: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37154823/
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Not necessarily infinite. It stops when there's reasonable accuracy. Similar to how we would implement this in software.
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> I firmly believe that LLMs are stochastic parrots and also that humans are too. To the point where I actually think even consciousness itself is a next-token predictor. I agree with the first sentence but not with the second one. Consc
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Every thought we express, happens in the context of something we've read or discussed etc. before. For example, this comment is based on the original text linked, the comments here on HN, and my own thoughts. I think a writer should in
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> [...] – if you go back long enough, you will notice we have used barter systems that exchanged goods and services for other goods and services. Is the any evidence that barter economies existed in large scale? I know this is a complica
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The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
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I think this is just about pricing. A Macbook with 8GB RAM is a shitty product. But you get to advertise that Macbooks start at 1599. Apple does a lot of analytics maybe they see that there's really a group of people who just use the d
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https://archive.ph/CXBgZ
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Truly amazing. It sounds like three violins. There's also a version with transcription: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9km-lvs5IYA
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I simply don't as health news is mostly noise. I guess the largest health effect comes from exercise, stable/low blood sugar, no alcohol, enough sleep.
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Coke Zero contains phosphoric acid. It destroys tooth enamel. Might be connected or some other change of lifestyle during the pandemic.
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> How would you test whether some arbitrary thing is simulating the human brain? In my first comment, I didn't claim that it's simulating the entire human brain but aspects of it like language and memory. We can test such asp
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I think it's not possible in general. Humans seem to be part of superorganisms like ants. Basically, we need some form of social group to survive. Those who escape the superorganism tend to take resources with them (physical like tools
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The earnings Maersk has posted reflect the past. The mass layoffs reflect the future of the company (i.e., less demand in the future). So I wouldn't put these two things into one argument necessary. Then, an absolute number of profit d
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> LLMs aren’t people, and emergent properties are being over extended. LLMs are trained on human texts. And if they're trained well these models might start to simulate parts of a human brain. Might be that this is the simplest way
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> What’s so essential about moving? When I was doing my PhD, my supervisor always told me that scientists need to move around. It's somewhat of a tradition in academia even if few people understand the reason behind it fully (e.g.,
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The website doesn't show the text. I found the PDF was best for reading: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2854146
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> [...] but most importantly you have to architect your website to match what the framework expects. I guess that's what a framework is about. You get some abstractions that make your life easier and you pay by buying into the conce
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Can you explain how to do this?
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It's one thing that iPhones are prone to this attack. It's another thing that Apple confuses people with disabling Bluetooth. I always need to go to settings -> Bluetooth to really turn it off instead of using this pull-down me
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Even in a WWIII scenario, there would be some form of economy. The composition of the GDP would drastically change. But there would still be demand for food and clothing and of course military goods etc. All these require capital for which
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Or observe people how they interact with the browser. If they would observe my parents, they could learn a lot that cannot be captured by telemetry.
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I don't buy it. Wikipedia lists nine possible explanations for stotting. The author, however, simply picks the one that fits his story. There are also multiple explanations for sexual evolution. I can hold the belief "Defund the P
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I wrote a little command line calculator once. Main purpose was to learn about parsing with Bison/Flex. Now, I'm using it every day and haven't changed it in years. It compiles everywhere even on my M1 with Asahi Linux. All m
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What evidence makes you believe this? I _quickly_ checked the study [1] and didn't see anything obvious. Given that our voices reveal so much about the state of a human (think of mood, emotions), I think it's at least possible tha
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If you understand how this works, the result of the game becomes invalid. Imagine, you're a complicated machine implemented in Game of Life. The game is another not so complicated machine in Game of Life and you start exchanging messag
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Was expecting something about vector spaces and multiplication operations or the lack of them. Watched a quick ride towards quaternions. Also nice.
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> I personally don’t think we should have domesticated dogs for pets at all because I think that is cruel on its own. Having an animal for a pet to me, is selfish breeding of pets should be outlawed. I fully agree. Yet animal shelters ar

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