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991.
by observationist 3y ago
People should stop caring about Harvard as a pedigree. It's demonstrably irrelevant to the merit of a hire, and serves primarily as a proof of wealth, status, or social connections. Harvard and other ivy league institutions are anachro
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by observationist 3y ago
I'm not arguing about BSD or GPL. I'm saying that the "open source code, proprietary binary blob" pattern Meta is running with is about quashing potential competition, market positioning, and corporate priorities over an
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by observationist 3y ago
The faux-open models mean the models can't be used in competing products. The open code base means enthusiasts and amateurs and other people hack on Meta projects and contribute improvements. They get free R&D and suppress competit
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by observationist 3y ago
A ceramic, relatively fragile superconductor can be powdered and embedded in a flexible material, like a polymer, and retain superconducting properties. You see this in use currently with relatively high temperature superconductors, where f
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by observationist 3y ago
Graphene is made in various ways, ranging from scotch tape (relatively large crystals), to ultrasonic dispersion of graphite in water and soap (tiny microscopic flakes) to vapor deposition for large films, and all sorts of other variations
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by observationist 3y ago
If you know the suspect purchased a bag of funyuns, pack of marlboro lights, and a diet dr. pepper 1 liter, having the shopping history of every 7-11 customer for the last X years could give you a high probability of identifying exactly whi
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by observationist 3y ago
Slashdot gets a not-insignificant portion of its content directly from top HN posts. That's what led me here to begin with - almost all of the reddit, slashdot, and other aggregator content I liked was being sourced here (with Phys.org
998.
by observationist 3y ago
Longer than that. There are still WWII vets around and it began more than 80 years ago. People will still be using and maintaining existing CRTs for decades - there are still a lot in operation run by hobbyists, old people, and hipster ty
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by observationist 3y ago
Our modern American framework of rules around various types of incorporated entities are the wrong tool for the job of enabling a credible organization to achieve OpenAI's purported mission. What's needed is closer to a government
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by observationist 3y ago
This looks a lot like OpenAI's aesthetics - their post graphics and previous iterations of their site had a similar vibe - https://openai.com/blog/democratic-inputs-to-ai-grant-progra... Design is hard, so doing v
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by observationist 3y ago
You're actually talking to a bot, in this particular case. 12 minutes old with -2 karma. :berk:
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by observationist 3y ago
All watches and clocks generated by dall-e (and almost all other generative models) show 10:10, because this is the standard display "pose" in watch ads, so most of the training data shows things in a particular configuration. Sy
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by observationist 3y ago
It's DNS. Change your DNS to something else that isn't using CloudFlare and this won't happen. Cloudflare isn't compatible with configurations used by archive.is . You can search "cloudflare DNS hackernews" wit
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by observationist 3y ago
Which human? Helen Keller's understanding of text is going to be radically different from your average Red Fish, Blue Fish reading precocious toddler, and they're going to be radically different from a medieval monk reading script
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by observationist 3y ago
No, this is how people pirate stuff. This is a thorough but not comprehensive list of apps to serve the needs for managing, downloading, streaming, and otherwise working with different forms of media. If you've ever gone down this path
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by observationist 3y ago
Nitter allows people to see the context of a thread without having to log in to Twitter. By posting a nitter link, you're enriching the conversation instead of either annoying people or doing marketing for x/twitter. The platform
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by observationist 3y ago
I can see evidence of objectively better crafted articles on the site, so I can assume there are no policies or rules in the way of doing it better. I notice and appreciate when there are images accompanying articles and discussion about vi
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by observationist 3y ago
That doesn't make up for the fact that an article about a visual subject matter is conspicuously missing images. Show, don't tell. A picture is worth a thousand words. {insert relevant "pictures are important, yo!" quote
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by observationist 3y ago
The q-q-q-q-quarterly earnings are up!
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by observationist 3y ago
First and foremost, and please repeat after me: Copying is not stealing. You're not depriving anyone of anything. Unauthorized copying is not theft. There's no equivalency. You can't copy and paste a cake. If you take a cake
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by observationist 3y ago
Be willing to accept that things you find discomfiting not only exist, but are actually good and valuable parts of life for other people. You're not expected to like everything. You're also not entitled to a world tailored to your
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by observationist 3y ago
There's a huge difference between demonstrating something with fuzzy accuracy and playing something off as if it's giving good, correct answers. An honest way to handle that would be to highlight where the bot got it wrong instead
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by observationist 3y ago
-wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games -excited to play some halo 2k19 -"xbox on" -... -"XBOX ON" -"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ De
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by observationist 3y ago
There's no yet involved - there's no room in the current understanding of science that would allow a completely unmeasurable mechanism to interact with the brain such that you could exhibit psychic powers. You'd need to compl
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by observationist 3y ago
To a point - some questions aren't worth testing. Questions like "What if I can eat uranium?" or "What happens if I fill my car's gas tank with water" are costly and avoidable. Using basic reasoning skills inst
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by observationist 3y ago
Ingo Swann was a charlatan and fraud. Human credulity is no substitute for science.
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by observationist 3y ago
With anything cosmological, what we can do is make predictions, and find interesting things the universe does when our predictions fail. Those failures often cascade back into practical outcomes here on earth. Think of generations of scient