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Same in Spanish. Propaganda and publicidad are interchangeable Which makes it actually really hard to talk about political propaganda
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> I honestly don't think LLMs can code significant real-world things yet and I'm not sure how else to prove that since they can code some interesting things In my experience it seems like it depends on what they’ve been trained
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Similar experience. Absolutely cannot share meals in silence. To avoid (if at home), I play music on the stereo
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> TIL Psychologist László Polgár theorized that any child could become a genius in a chosen field with early training. As an experiment, he trained his daughters in chess from age 4. All three went on to become chess prodigies, and the y
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How does it compare to gemma3?
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In case like me, you were also wondering what Transhumanists are supposed to believe in (what the article says is): > transhumanists have deepened their belief in a fated future in which the human species will achieve “augmented” evoluti
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There are two types of corporate bankruptcy, chapter 7 and 11. Chapter 7 is what you are probably thinking about. Chapter 11 allows for “rehabilitation”, ie. negotiating debt, discharging some, and setting up a plan to get out of bankruptcy
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When I first read “How to win friends …”, the advice in the book made sense, but I couldn’t take advantage of almost any of it, except maybe for written communication My social anxiety was so high, I couldn’t even get to the basic situation
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Are these models downloadable, like whisper? What’s the minimum hardware for running them? Would they run on a raspberry pi? Or a smartphone?
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> even on an A100 40GB for the 3 billion parameter model Would any of the models run on something like a raspberry pi? How about a smartphone?
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> but I have only a vague idea of why it works. When it does, it can be really potent, though it can be be incredibly hard to get The top reference in the article is the book The Charisma Myth (really highly recommend it) In that book, O
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I know you have good intentions with your advice, and maybe it has come easy for you But for a lot of people, developing social skills and "a nice personality" has been a life-long struggle There is a big overlap in STEM with the
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Overall the article is pretty good and makes a great point about the value of technical people developing soft skills > Charisma sets enjoyable coworkers apart from difficult ones This statement is not really true though. There are plent
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That book changed my life. I recommend for anyone and everyone to read it and at least try the 3 tips from the intro I've given away 100+ (paid) copies of this book to friends, family, co-workers and strangers I first learned about the
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Just tried it (gemma3:12b) using ollama and also through open-webui It's surprisingly fast and pretty good. Was really impressed that I can feed it images through open-webui However, it keeps failing, both on the terminal and through o
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> If I'm in a meeting giving a presentation, and I notice people glued to their phones during it, I'm not going to call them out on the spot, but I'll probably do something afterwards A tip from the book The Charisma Myth:
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Super interesting > As I read over practice questions, I spoke aloud This is also something that’s expected of the applicant in technical interviews The interviewers want to hear the applicants thought process and how they develop a stra
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> The reason the banking industry is so big is that it is close to the source of the made up dollars. If currency is gold backed, you could imagine something similar happening to the mining industry instead. However, the mining industry
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Is this just another form of the same concept behind smart contracts?
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> It no longer represents American interests, but Russian interests And Israeli interests And that’s across pretty much all branches of governments and administrations, for quite some time now American people’s needs be damned
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> license plates are random First time I hear about this. What’s up with license plates?
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And it's also the reality of hiring practices for most VC-backed and public companies Some try to do something more like "real-world" tasks, but those end up either being either just toy problems, or long take homes Personall
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Very cool idea. It would help to have testimonials. Also it looks kinda janky on Safari mobile Marketing/distribution/adoption is maybe the hardest thing about creating a new product or service I think you have the right idea abou
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Experimenting with training and running ML models on a “normal computer” (ie. no GPU or cloud servers, just locally on CPU/ram) Don’t have a background in ML, so mostly just for learning purposes Been playing a lot with the MNIST datas
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Could the writing process be replaced by a recorded conversation instead? Talk to an AI, answer their questions, the convo is recorded and then they can access both the recording and transcript before trial
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This looks just like those personality tests or what kind of fruit are you, etc At best it’s just seo spam, at worst it’s collecting people’s emails for direct spam
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> teaching CPR doesn't make sense unless there's someone choking right in front of you; etc This would actually be amazing if possible. “Operator, I need CPR lessons, now” Like Neo in the Matrix - “I know Kung-Fu”
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Sorry, spent a while looking and couldn't find the link (reddit search is a mess). Given that, I wouldn't mind deleting or editing my comment. Unfortunately HN doesn't let me However, I do mind you guys hunting me down on oth
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Another resource posted recently (although originally from 2019): * EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation (2019) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43084349
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https://archive.ph/n0k1p And on Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/legal/white-house-says-musk-is-not-d...

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