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10mo ago
Could you describe what this looks like in practice? Say I don't want it to use a certain concept or function. What would "positive reinforcement" look like to exclude something?
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10mo ago
This is where their perspective comes from: https://www.thecollegefix.com/med-schools-still-accept-black... This has been going on for 20 years: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1120616/ B
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10mo ago
I wonder what the wattage difference is between the iPhone STT and Whisper? How many seconds would the iPhone battery last?
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10mo ago
General doctors aren't trained for problem solving, they're trained for memorization. The doctors that are good at problem solving aren't general doctors.
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10mo ago
I'm not sure how that matters. A sonic boom in a phenomenon not an SPL reading. The goal should be to have a direct metric for how loud/how much it disturbs things is. "boomless" and "speed" aren't a d
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10mo ago
Fair enough! I was not aware of that. But she's far from the only one. There appears to be a wall of meta-analysis stating the same, but again, I'm naive and just googling.
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10mo ago
I see you're not in the marketing department! We can do better by only considering "missed" as what wouldn't also be missed by a human: AI finds 71% of breast cancer*! *Compared to a human.
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10mo ago
> there is a strong correlation between saturated fat consumption and CVD Reference? Many of the old studies have been proven flawed and, no surprise, corrupt [1]. Recent studies seem to suggest that it's only linked for some peop
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10mo ago
By the same logic, if pointless, why?
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10mo ago
Very neat. Would be cool to see in 3d (cross eye option [1]!? :D) I think an accelerated initial growth is needed. Maybe start with a growth of 5 and have it decrease so it's a 1 at around 50. It takes a bit too long to get to somethin
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10mo ago
Spotify lossless support was added last year [1]. [1] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-10/lossless-listening-a...
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10mo ago
> for a growing collection of rips and DRM-free purchases I did the math once for my Spotify liked songs list [1] and it came to $52k for the last 15 years, or $288/month, if I were to self host, without piracy. [1] https:/&#x
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10mo ago
> that your post implies is bad. Where does this come from? Please quote where he said "negative" means "bad".
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10mo ago
As a native born english speaker, I disagree completely. It's very obvious what he means. This is a severe reading comprehension problem, not a problem with the author. > What counts as “negative” here? Criticism of technology, sk
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10mo ago
Reference? There was an "Anti-Cordorde Project" [1] but its purpose was to ban all supersonic flight, for environmental reasons. Concorde being the only in regular service , thus the targeted name. [1] https://en.wikip
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10mo ago
What is this based on? Could you expand on this a bit?
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10mo ago
The environmental impact won't prevent their use unless something like a carbon tax is present, where environmental impact directly results in cost. People "need" to travel, in a convenient way, regardless. Same with ICE cars
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10mo ago
That's because there was a dumb ban in place, with an executive order [1] and bill that just cleared to lift it [2]. The ban was "dumb" because it's indirect , trying to control loudness by limiting speed, which is an i
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10mo ago
if you look at the history of the lithium ion battery [1], this is exactly what happened, except from a single man. none of the existing manufacturers could stomach the shift to something new, except for sony, which needed a better batter
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10mo ago
Modern browsers don't keep those 200 tabs in active memory. Hasn't been the case for over a decade.
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10mo ago
A $130 Motorola smartphone has 8GB of RAM. This will save 0.5% RAM. It's fairly negligible on modern systems.
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10mo ago
Notice that the default is "wind mode", which is why it appears that the waves are moving faster than the speed of sound.
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10mo ago
For any bureaucratic system, the system will slowly transition away from the reason it was put into place and towards self preservation.
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10mo ago
> a person What's "person" here? Usually, in law, "person" has a very specific meaning.
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10mo ago
This rule faded from internet culture along with "don't use your real information". This rule started from people doing exactly this, 20 something years ago, and it making the rounds in the press.
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10mo ago
Why do you think it wasn't attractive to their F-150 audience? Are you saying all the people who didn't buy them were tricked?
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10mo ago
I'm naive with network security, so this is a honest question looking for a practical honest answer: Would my grandma's computer, with its old version of windows, be more or less safe with a NAT without DMZ configured?
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10mo ago
It would only be relevant if viewing the image at one-to-one resolution, which is extremely rare.
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10mo ago
They even had data showing them meandering over the cable, pulling the anchor under power.
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10mo ago
I wanted an HPV vaccine when i was younger. As a male, I was told "no", even though it causes the most common throat cancer in men, and was linked to prostate cancer. Stupid.
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