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by noosphr 5mo ago
This article answers the question in the second paragraph then completely ignores the answer for the rest of it. >My understanding is that this represents 3-4 “generations” of different technology (propellers, turbojets, etc). Each techn
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_First_Republic
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by noosphr 5mo ago
When you don't own your company any more anything you say can be safely ignored. It was obvious that the token spend will need to be justified.
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by noosphr 5mo ago
The French revolted because bread was too expensive then guillotined more than half of their best and brightest. I guess democracy was a mistake and we need to get back to inbread monarchy instead of the blood thirsty unwashed masses.
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by noosphr 5mo ago
>The future belongs to China. China's population pyramid is worse than the USAs. The present belongs to China. This is as good as it gets.
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Between 2010 to 2015 my top 20 ranked university had 1 permanent job per 50 graduated PhDs in physics and maybe 1 in 30 for mathematics.
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by noosphr 5mo ago
That isn't new. My class from 10 year ago has zero people left in Academia.
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by noosphr 5mo ago
It is rather funny that the article talks about markdown when everyone who uses Emacs uses org mode instead. My .emacs file is init.el which is actually init.org, which isn't an Emacs file but a literate program that's half a guix
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by noosphr 5mo ago
It is 50% of daily power consumption. They are planning on overbuild the network by 100% so it can be carbon neutral and cost effective even if the sun stops shining, the wind stops blowing and the rain stops raining for a year. Currently b
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by noosphr 5mo ago
Nuclear power died 20 years ago for 40 years now. Meanwhile Chinas 2060 plan for a carbon zero grid with 25% nuclear and 100% over provisioning is right on track.
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Robotics with ai is going to make automating office work seem like the warm up act.
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by noosphr 5mo ago
>By meaningful real-world standards there are bot farms sowing dissent and literally driving people into mental illness which has already destroyed many families. Real living standards have been stagnant or falling since 1971. We've
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by noosphr 5mo ago
>Rust semantics with LISP syntax. A transparent s-expression frontend that compiles directly to Rust — no runtime, no GC The first paragraph says literally that.
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by noosphr 5mo ago
We've found pyrite thinking it gold. Then we bought the whole saloon drinks and hookers. The hangover tomorrow morning will not be pleasant. And the bar tab even less so.
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by noosphr 5mo ago
Jokes on you. All betting sites are based on US-East1.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
SQL and algebra are not esoteric languages.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
The exception is the rule. The reason why programming is hard is because most languages force you to use a hammer when you need a screw driver. LLMs are very good at misusing hammers and most people find them useful for that reason. If you
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by noosphr 6mo ago
I figure I'd get some mice fed to pythons. You know, the ones swallowed head first and alive and then drown in stomach acid, the ones you can buy in pet any store?
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by noosphr 6mo ago
When we can turn off distress and pain in farm animals we would have done more to improve well-being in the world than anyone alive today. Factory farms stop being an efficient evil and become the only moral way to produce meat. And as a si
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by noosphr 6mo ago
There isn't enough input electrodes to encode a doom frame into the multi electrode array without compression. That's all the artificial neural networks are doing. If we could have gotten an MEA with 320x200 electrodes we wouldn&#
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by noosphr 6mo ago
I would have been quite happy to use my own brain as the computational substrate and I had more than a few other people keen to be the input and output parts of the system. It's rather unfortunate that in the West it is impossible to g
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by noosphr 6mo ago
We can easily blast pure pleasure every second of every day of her life with direct brain stimulation. She would be so deliriously happy our lives will be inhumane by comparison.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
All opinions are my own: The whole point of the CNNs is to act like a auto encoder for input and an auto decoder for output. The only reason why this is done in the first place is because the number of electrodes in the dish is pitiful and
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Bloomers bought their houses at 20 and had families by 22. Things change and for the last 50 years they haven't changed for the better.
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Streets are for cars now.
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Becuae if it wasn't the kids it'd be drug dealers. If it wasn't drug dealers it'd be terrorist. If it wasn't terrorists it be Nazis. This isn't about kids. It's about control and the people too stupid to g
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by noosphr 6mo ago
Jesus christ. Your poor kid. This is how you rise someone that will never talk to you once they turn 30.
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by noosphr 6mo ago
I'm so happy the economist is converting this important topic. Now if only the dick heads running this complete rag could listen to the wonderful people who wrote that enlightened piece and let users unsubscribe: https://www
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The difference is that you'd get a police visit and your artwork torn down if you're not Banksy.
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They are caused by moral busy bodies who think they know better. To quote CS Lewis: >Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons t

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