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10mo ago
Yes (especially drawing from the invention of the numbers 0 and 1), yes (i.e. dotcom bubble), yes (probably people who were writing COBOL up until then), yes (please shut down all your devices), yes, yes.
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10mo ago
No, it’s not.
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No, the word and its meaning both point to the fact that there’s no exclusive ownership of a commons. This is importantl, since ownership is associated with bearing the cost of usage (i.e., deprecation) which would lead an owner to avoid th
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10mo ago
Bob Ross did it, too.
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10mo ago
Could you name some examples so that I can read more about this?
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10mo ago
You shouldn't be using a wheel, it's inherently anti-worker.
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10mo ago
So... they do think? Or what is your position? Submarines obviously do swim, otherwise they'd either float or sink.
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10mo ago
I'm still not sure if you're speaking of SOP in general or AI-interfaces to them. Why don't you answer that simple question before ranting on?
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10mo ago
Could explain how a compound that's already on the market and has been patented for (some) medical use at least once in 2015 (expiring 2035) might make a good case for "Big Pharma gigabucks"? I thought one reason for a lack o
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10mo ago
What do you mean by "such a system"? One that uses AI to funnel your natural language request into their system of SOP? Or one that uses SOPs to handle cases in general? SOP are great, they drastically reduce errors, since the tot
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10mo ago
If you have a SOP, most of the decision logic can be encoded and strictly enforced. There is zero intelligence involved in this process, it’s just if/else. The key part is understanding the customer request and mapping it to the cases
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10mo ago
> why should it be any different from AI models? 1. law of diminishing returns - AI is already much, much faster at many tasks than humans, especially at spitting out text, so becoming even faster doesn’t always make that much of a diffe
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10mo ago
But wouldn’t this imply that optimizing the tanning bed properties for vitamin D production is worse than looking for as-close-to-sun-like sources of light?
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10mo ago
the stock tunes in the video makes my brain go numb
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10mo ago
What are the costs of an underground cable in the cities you’re considering, expressed as: 1. Cost per kWh transmitted? 2. Cost per person served? 3. Cost per pound of GDP generated? Please provide this for London and the other locations yo
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10mo ago
Yeah me too. It was only on third try that I realized I shouldn't move the cursor but just scroll :D
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10mo ago
Parent was writing about a university LECTURE which is different from a TEXTBOOK (which is different from primary sources), so yeah, consulting other sources is checking the facts.
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10mo ago
I stand corrected! It's 52% that don't even START the first video![0] Other studies report that number at 35%.[1] One thing that's more consistent are average completion rates hovering around 5%. [0] https://www.sc
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10mo ago
Udemy never sold knowledge. They are selling that feeling of a new beginning, of a better future, of FINALLY doing (buying!!!) that course you always wanted to finish. 50% of buyers don't even finish the first video.
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10mo ago
Tertiary education in Germany is pretty much a continuum. On one end, you have "Berufsakademien" that offer bachelor's degrees with integrated vocational training – you need to find the employer yourselves, they pay your fees
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10mo ago
That's what is called "studying" or "reading a textbook", isn't it?
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11mo ago
The problem with Ex-SFR Yugoslavia 1995/99 wasn't too much international/western involvement, but too little.
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> Oh! Really? https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-bushs-grandfa... From the article: "(...) his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act" – so... yeah, exac
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11mo ago
The fact you call it "mother" Russia lets me hope you use another word when referring to your own mother.
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lol, not really. First of all, the kind of "heavy lifting" the Soviet Union did was agreeing with Nazi Germany to partition Poland and subsequently raiding it together from both sides (Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) – never forget they
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11mo ago
> "City-upon-a-hill" is marketing and has never been grounded in fact. Except for Germany 1945, Eastern Europe 1989, South Korea, etc. pp.
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Very good questions. Some part of the answer might come down to your identify. Do you identify as an anxious person or a person with anxiety? The question would become even more interesting if you'd be taking a drug: is a person treati
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I've spoken to many people in the past 10 years or so who were in a crisis/burnout/depression or however they personally labelled their situation with varying degrees of bad mood, depressed affect, and reduced energy. Every s
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11mo ago
Or the metric system.
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The drug in question is perfluorohexyloctane, which is part of a class of substances known as PFAS or „forever chemical“. I‘m a chemist, I love modern medicine and material technologies based on chemistry, and I don’t hesitate to take vacci
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