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by pigscantfly 7y ago
Do you have any sources for these numbers? They seem low given the value of works of art and real estate held by the church; I'm just curious what the $10B USD figure includes.
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
I'm sorry, but that's simply not true. Technically, ice water consumes calories, but even raw celery only takes 8% of its caloric content to digest; you should research thermic effect if you're interested to know more.
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
Pretty hard to believe that Instagram has a 2% social network market share. Having looked at the source material for that particular chart, it dates from Nov. 2017, not 2019 as stated in the article. It seems poorly researched and overblown
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
This is perverse given that tobacco cigarettes are still widely available. I can't remember the last time I was actually satisfied with a decision from the Board of Supervisors.
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
They've been using ML to automate most of that work for at least five years.
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
Regardless of the wider debate, it's very sad to learn that Shoucheng Zhang decided to take his own life. He was the only VC I've ever had a legitimate, deep technical discussion with, and I respected him as a scientist.
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
A cynic might counter that this is not going to qualitatively change things and that there is a huge PR motive, but no one's a saint, you know?
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by pigscantfly 7y ago
For those interested, this open-source replication of the dataset is a good place to start https://skylion007.github.io/OpenWebTextCorpus/ - obviously, you'll need access to some large GPUs as well. I'm curre
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
The class imbalance might make the modeling slightly more difficult but certainly not 'practically intractable.'
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
His actions were characterized as industrial espionage; this seems like splitting hairs.
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
Anecdotally, my father and grandfather have both practiced criminal defense law for several decades each in Florida. They've told me that they tend to get a completely innocent client through the door about once every two years.
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
My impression (largely drawn from Ken Burns' series on the national parks and visits to Taos Pueblo) is that the ancient inhabitants of Chaco canyon are the ancestors of the present-day Pueblo people who live to the south in the Rio Gr
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience and backing up the original post; this is something I will remember should the opportunity to work with anyone associated with ATAP come up.
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
How do you square the assertion that nothing has meaningfully changed in recent times with the availability of information, education, travel/cultural exchange, disposable income now versus all of history? And in what way do you see t
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
My apologies that this is slightly off topic to the wider discussion about IBM's layoffs, but if hiring people based off of their skills is unacceptable as you say, how are people supposed to make hiring decisions? EDIT: Somehow, the p
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
This is a trope I see commonly repeated but have a difficult time understanding. In what way does (in this case, for instance) an algorithm predicting political bias come to reflect the political biases of the person implementing the mathe
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
It's a really good idea to use it at least a few times in different conditions; you don't want the first time to be an actual emergency. I'm also a big fan of solo backpacking and carry one on trips.
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
If you'd visited the Vasari Corridor or tried the Uffizi on a Tuesday morning, I think you'd have had a much different experience. Rome is constantly crowded in the same way NYC is, but you can't really expect to have the en
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
Nonetheless, the last time I visited Paestum (~2 km. inland in modern times), which may be my favorite archaeological site in the whole country, I was literally the only person there, and there was certainly no issue finding a seat on the n
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
Speculating here, but I was woken a half-hour back by an SMS from our prod monitoring system. The people at Azure had required maintenance for some instances scheduled for this morning, which I had had performed during the scheduled window
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
OP is referring to the likelihood that a blizzard blows through the prep kitchen as opposed to the likelihood of a hard rainstorm on the 101 during the morning commute. Self-driving cars have to reliably cope with a wider range of uncertai
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by pigscantfly 8y ago
This tension and trick lies at the crux of Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" - a global bestseller and one of my all-time favorites; the situation must not be all that uncommon. I think you'd enjoy reading it i
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
You should find a doctor who doesn't take insurance. Out of pocket will be higher, but you can file for reimbursement yourself to offset some of the charges, and the doctor shouldn't have a problem offering a test.
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
This is a great example of the impact of the 'ruse of solvency.' A solution which appears to the public to solve a problem yet actually doesn't is oftentimes worse than no solution at all, since it will erode pressure and ad
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
What possible justification is there for submitting an in-progress legal document besides a mistake?
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
In my experience, it was the team captains -- other, older students -- who pushed innovative tactics like spreading, kritiks, and postmodernist approaches. Our adult coaches actively discouraged these strategies in the name of preserving t
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
To provide a competing narrative, I spent my first year of high school competing in LD at a high level (broke at many national tournaments, qualled to NCFL Nats, etc.) working with captains who had won Harvard and were competing at TOCs fro
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
Thank you for responding. You're right about the donations; I'm sure this pop-over exists across their site and is not inherently sinister, but including a call for donations specifically over this divisive, misleading press relea
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
Saying 70-80% is bad for a neural network is like saying that $1000 is too high a price without specifying what's for sale. The paper was peer-reviewed and accepted by a leading psychology journal. The lead author is an associate pro
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by pigscantfly 9y ago
The press release from GLAAD and HRC is ridiculously misleading. One of their repeated claims - that the paper has not been peer-reviewed - is directly contradicted by the first sentence of the first page of the manuscript, and their other

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