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by powera 4y ago
The Twitter thread this is based off of < https://twitter.com/michellehuang42/status/15970054894137139... > has been submitted 8 times in the past 2 days, but never made the front page. https://news
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by powera 4y ago
I had F-Droid installed, but removed it because of the lack of useful apps. They call it "curation", I call it a ghost town.
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by powera 4y ago
{{citation needed}} More specifically: this story seems to be based entirely on one advocate's say-so, whose political schtick was based on making things sound as bad as possible, but now appears to be on team Elon. Unfortunately, for
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by powera 4y ago
It is astonishing how little information these predictions convey. So GDP will probably grow about 2% again. First -- you can "forecast" that by looking at a fifty-year chart and picking the median. Second -- who would benefit f
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by powera 4y ago
This feels like another drama in the style of SCO v. Linux. Lots of FUD, little to nothing for end-users to actually worry about.
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by powera 4y ago
As Twitter is no longer a publicly-traded corporation, it is my understanding that Mr. Musk no longer has any obligation to ensure his statements about the state of the business are truthful. Is that correct?
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by powera 4y ago
The "official" label that Musk killed yesterday appears to be back.
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by powera 4y ago
It is remarkable how everybody only seems to comment on "spaced repetition" rather than anything involving quantum computing when they discuss that site. Regardless, memorizing a few facts won't help with reasoning about &quo
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by powera 4y ago
I would say that Elon Musk must know that trying to layoff half the company under the guise of "for-cause" would be certain to open him up to massive legal liability, but the past few months have led me to suspect Mr. Musk fundame
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by powera 4y ago
My experience with Twitter Blue was that, quite frequently, the "ad-free articles" were still behind a paywall and inaccessible. So very little of value is being lost here.
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by powera 4y ago
One key feature change: messages travel at 500mph. Send a tweet from New York, it takes six hours before people on the West Coast see it. (if you pay $20 per month, maybe it only takes two hours).
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by powera 4y ago
There is no known reason why it is theoretically impossible. However, despite many people claiming otherwise, there are currently no situations (other than contrived benchmarks) where a quantum computer is better than a digital computer.
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by powera 4y ago
Tweet is gone. Apparently the "fired" worker was a performance actor going by the name of Mr. Ligma.
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by powera 4y ago
Magical thinking about "the internet eliminates censorship" cannot and must-not override the very real fact that Kiwifarms is awful and no business that is aware of what goes on there wants to associate with them.
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by powera 4y ago
> Git is not a data store but a version control system, it can't store data. Data is stored on your disk By the same theory, you don't store data in MySQL, you store it on a disk.
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by powera 4y ago
This is "woke" clap-trap. The thesis appears to be that it is bad that some countries are wealthy enough to pursue any research on non-subsistence topics.
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by powera 4y ago
Not a good article. Chesterton's Fence applies to many of the complaints; the OP doesn't understand math, but implies it's a bad thing they would have been prevented from becoming an engineer because of that. Which is just w
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by powera 4y ago
Please try harder to make constructive comments, rather than vague insults.
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by powera 4y ago
After his embarrassing failures in the SPAC space over the past few years, Chamath should be a pariah.
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by powera 4y ago
America is a declining empire, and it appears to be a law of history that declining empires establish increasingly cumbersome regimes of copyright regulation. So I must assume that the side wanting to restrict fair use further will win.
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by powera 4y ago
I stopped reading before I got done with the "the existence of a hurricane proves that climate change is making the weather worse". We are past the point where zealots and "persuaders" telling bald-faced lies to try to i
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by powera 4y ago
The article is pure vitriol, with barely a sprinkling of facts and arguments mixed in.
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by powera 4y ago
My first take: it is slow. The "base" model (supposedly 16x faster than the large one) takes more than the audiofile playback time on my machine to do transcriptions.
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by powera 4y ago
I don't believe "compositionality" is a serious obstacle. It is a different issue than generating an image based on a bag-of-words, so it isn't surprising that an attempt to solve that issue didn't immediately solve
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The Mystery Behind the Crime Wave at 312 Riverside Drive(nytimes.com)
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The spam on Twitter(twitter.com)
262 points by powera 4y ago|260 comments
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by powera 4y ago
No. Quantum computing won't be a "human labor replacer". Existing computers are just fine on their own for that. I see this take a lot and think it is a failure of pattern recognition. People see "quantum computers&qu
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by powera 4y ago
The key quote: "The reality is that none of these companies — or any other quantum computing firm, for that matter — are actually earning any real money. The little revenue they generate mostly comes from consulting missions aimed at t
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by powera 4y ago
I am generally in favor of "companies being more open", but approaches like this seem certain to run into privacy and HR issues sooner rather than later.
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by powera 4y ago
The problem is an academic system that rewards "publishing papers" rather than its actual goal, "academic progress".

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