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by mr_toad 1y ago
A distorted housing market that sucks up excess money, keeping interest rates low. Uncap the housing market, free up cash, which will force the Fed to tighten the money supply, freeing investment from the housing market into industry.
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Sea level rise will cause 'catastrophic inland migration', scientists warn(theguardian.com)
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Aircraft grade plywood is still a thing. Often used for model aircraft, but you can make small planes from it.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Why use fixed length decimals at all? Why not just store the date with sufficient bits and render it with as many decimals as required? 9998, 9999, 10000. Not an issue.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I was considering a stationary observer inside the event horizon, but that’s not possible. ldunn is correct that a free-falling observer will catch up with the photons reflected from their feet. Space being flat locally is important beca
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Yet another zombie dystopia story? The zombies are just a backdrop, the real story is focused on just two people, and it’s really heavily centred on their relationship and personal choices.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The horizon is the distance at which escape velocity is c. Closer to the centre, including your feet, the escape velocity is higher. Electrical impulses wouldn’t be able to travel from the bottom of your brain to the top, so you’d be uncons
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I’m very glad my kid’s school has hardcore banned them. Schools will ban anything they think of as sinister.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> Writers made elves by adding pointy ears to a human. Now that’s reductionist to the point of being diminutive.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
We’re not perfect, we’re just good enough to have survived. There are lots of hereditary illnesses and conditions that could probably be tweaked with DNA editing, if we can identify the responsible genes. If someone can cure male pattern b
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by mr_toad 1y ago
About 6 billion letters in human DNA.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> vaccines can spread illness to the non-vaccinated, since it has happened many times and is well-documented Nothing in medicine is certain. Nearly any medical treatment has a small chance it could kill you. There’s a small, but non-ze
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> machines offer the killer combination of durability and repairability You’d be hard pressed to find a machine with an average lifespan equal to a humans.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Landauer's principle?
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The mathematical concept is symmetry (which differs a bit from the layman’s definition). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry_(physics) Much of the universe, and the laws of physics are symmetrical. But condensed ma
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Sci Fi is quite ridiculous when it describes a cold logically machine, and then on the next page describes its malign intentions. Pick a lane.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> what if everything from mind, physics, value, selfhood, is simply a recursive pattern Most matter in the universe is various forms of plasma that have no pattern. You generally find patterns in condensed matter. And yes patterns, incl
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Patents are not the same thing as copyright.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
But AI is mostly scale and only a little bit innovation. It’s undergraduate maths and a whole lot of computing power and data. Not being able to train on data on the internet would be a significant handicap.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
The model is not compressed data, it’s the compression algorithm. The prompt is compressed data. When you feed it a prompt it produces the uncompressed result (usually with some loss). This is not an analogy by the way, it’s a mathematic
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> It's the kind of thing that people would have prevented if it had occurred to them, by writing terms of use that explicitly forbid it. The AI companies will likely be arguing that they don’t need a license, so any terms of use in
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by mr_toad 1y ago
Copywriter holders have always hated fair use, and often like to pretend it doesn’t exist. The average copywrite holder would like you to think that the law only allows use of their works in ways that they specifically permit, i.e. that whi
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> If a savant has perfect recall AI don’t have perfect recall.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> It would be a weird thing for nothingness to change state. If there are no physical laws, there’s nothing to stop that happening.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
No, all objects with non-zero temperature radiate heat. Stars, white dwarfs, black holes, even the universe itself.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I have yet to see concrete evidence that disabling Windows update and windows defender would elevate risk of having the system compromised in any meaningful way. It’s much less likely than it was 20 years ago. A lot of attack vectors
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by mr_toad 1y ago
I knew I was getting old when shop assistants started calling me ‘sir’.
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> If I mentioned that the code wouldn't compile it would start suggesting very implausible scenarios I have to chuckle at that because it reminds me of a typical response on technical forums long before LLMs were invented. Maybe t
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> I will never understand why it didn't take off. I’ve used XSLT in anger - I used it to build Excel worksheets (in XML format) using libXSLT. I found it very verbose and hard to read. And Xpath is pretty torturous. I wish I could
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by mr_toad 1y ago
> a webpage consist of a bunch of nodes, which can be combined in any way More or less, but manipulating the nodes requires JavaScript, which some people would like to avoid.

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