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by nico 3y ago
A corpse is teeming with life It might not have the consciousness of your loved one, but the whole process from “death” to complete decomposition, is part of life and done by living things (animals, bacteria, plants, funghi, other microorga
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by nico 3y ago
Well it all depends on the definition Taking that definition, we can still approach it experientially without thought What sometimes is called “minimal consciousness experience” in cognitive sciences
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by nico 3y ago
Useful for what? Seems like it’s pretty useful to make us think And you said quite a few very interesting things Why do you say the undetermined unity contain nothing of interest? Having a conscious experience of undetermined unity, can be
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by nico 3y ago
What we call life is just a convenient definition for a normal daily life However, at the end of the day, it’s just an agreement There is no basic universal physical law that defines life If we allow ourselves to re-think the definition, or
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by nico 3y ago
It’s not about the depth, it’s about being conscious of it and acting on it We all “know” that our lives are completely dependent on, and intertwined with, our environment Yet, we mostly go about our days being oblivious to it, oblivious to
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by nico 3y ago
Didn’t see any benchmarks or comparisons Is it worth it to do it? There’s been plenty of comments lately indicating that fine-tuning is not that effective and that in a lot of cases reduces the generalization capabilities of the model Some
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by nico 3y ago
This an unpopular opinion If you just look around a little bit, you discover that the whole universe is alive There isn’t a single dead thing From that observation you can realize that life is already everywhere And just like energy, life i
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by nico 3y ago
Google just being a typical panicked corporation here. Nothing to see until they actually make the thing generally available to the public.
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by nico 3y ago
Are there any LLMs that run on regular (AMD/Intel) CPUs? Or does everything require at least an M1 or a decent GPU?
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by nico 3y ago
> if you work at a startup or early stage company, it is nearly always the better decision to throw more disk space at a storage problem like this than worry about optimizing for size. Developers are expensive, disk space is cheap This i
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by nico 3y ago
> Remove all that is not true, in order to begin to apprehend the dim outlines of the truth “ And that is why, in the fundamental approach to the Godhead, both the Hindu and the Buddhist (and, for that matter, the Taoist) take what is ca
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by nico 3y ago
I kept reading thinking they were going to mention it… but no Still very interesting article, the pictures aren’t super good, but reading about the way human society evolves is very much so
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by nico 3y ago
It could be a lot better with a couple of videos or images to illustrate the concepts
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by nico 3y ago
pages 156-158: “Ironically, when Aristarchus proposed the heliocentric model, his contemporaries dismissed it, on the grounds that they did not observe any parallax effects...” “ so the heliocentric model would have implied that the stars w
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by nico 3y ago
Reminds me of house buying. Realtors are experts at getting bids and creating a high stakes competition with 0 transparency or accountability. They can easily lie or mislead people (and a lot of them do).
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by nico 3y ago
> How much of this innovation is baed on tech that was created and funded with public money and gov grants and then privatized when it became commercial and profitable Or built on top of open source that then was never contributed/d
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by nico 3y ago
A video in the readme would go a long way
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by nico 3y ago
The readme says it’s offline and doesn’t mention any LLMs Does it not use any LLMs, or does it have its own, or how how does it work? Thank you
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by nico 3y ago
So like vampires? Do vampires typically drink the blood or transfuse it to their bloodstream through their teeth?
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Music2Image Exports Videos with Music(twitter.com)
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by nico 3y ago
Super interesting. Hadn’t heard of SAR before. Quickly reading about it, it seems like it works like lidar, what’s the difference between the two techniques? Is SAR like “lidar for space”?
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by nico 3y ago
No one intended redefining static, just pointing out that a photograph is most definitely not static And as you point out, everything in the universe is moving, which is actually a big deal that we don’t consider nearly enough, and which we
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by nico 3y ago
This is really really cool One nitpick: > a photograph, an inherently static medium At least on a computer screen, it is far from static Just displaying a photograph requires looping through the whole thing multiple times per second, bot
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by nico 3y ago
There is a mantra the navy seals use in training: go slow, slow is smooth, smooth is fast You are supposed to repeat it in stressful situations to hell you come down and avoid making costly mistakes There is also a saying is Spanish: vístem
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by nico 3y ago
It seems like while the turbine works great, the rpm output is too high, with too little torque, and you loose most of the gains when gearing it down, which is also difficult to do That’s what I’ve read, haven’t built one
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by nico 3y ago
Just conceptually, compression is an analog of understanding To be able to compress something, you need to understand it first We use this everyday, we compress things by naming them Once we name something, we don’t need to explain or descr
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by nico 3y ago
Is there an alternative to photoshop for merging the pictures? Can ffmpeg do it? Or a bit of python code perhaps?
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by nico 3y ago
Does it have plug-in support? Can the plug-ins be written in a different language from Rust, maybe python or ruby?
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by nico 3y ago
> Disclaimer: The point of the post is not that we should all be creating instance variables dynamically from now on, but just to show one way to do it for those rare cases when you actually do need it Make sure you absolutely need it Tr
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by nico 3y ago
So was Sicily the only producer of citrus fruit in the world? If not, did mafias form on every location where citrus fruit was produced? The article says that the sudden surge in demand for citrus coupled with weak law is what triggered it

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