pretendscholar

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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Yes it is quite funny when people get surprised that a get rich scheme isn’t real.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
I'm pretty pro nuclear but you have to count the deaths from the evacuation because it is an direct consequence of the accident.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Ask a serious question then.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Part of it is that manually flipping through pages gives me a better mental model of the location of the information and thus its relatedness. For (good) textbooks I still prefer a hard copy to a pdf and I have a huge e reader so it’s not e
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
We can put these on every street corner. The problem, as always, is that our city streets are car-centric and people would never give up any amount of parking. https://c8.alamy.com/comp/DCWEJ4/recycling-bins-on-a-s
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
>WA got rid of emissions testing because almost every single car passes These planes keep returning with bullet holes in these areas. We should reinforce those spots!
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
I never understood this. Don't property rights operate on a similar principle? Lets say you own a home, live in it for many years, go on vacation for a week, come back and other people are living in it. Lets also say you live in liber
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
They also sell beer in gas stations too!
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
This whole idea of le crazy chess grandmaster is so silly. Fischer, even as he was declining precipitously, was producing cogent analysis and annotations on grandmaster level games. >He did something none of Duda, Alireza, etc have achie
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Please listen to Duda,Keymer, Ali reza do post game analysis. They can speak very well about their ideas. It is not normal to be a 2700 and be unable to give your thoughts on the game you just played.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
I'm not saying other factors are irrelevant but there is a largely unnoticed but very predictable force at work here. There are simply fewer and fewer prospective students in absolute numbers every year. https://www.populati
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Weightlifting is the best anti-depressant I've ever tried.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
The difference is scale. You will get old and die before you ever even reach 10 percent of the corpus.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
> This is a new area of development, and we’re all learning. Is this the tact your organization would take if someone else’s code completion software was generating proprietary Microsoft’s proprietary code?
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
What do you mean you can't picture yourself on a bike? Why not just try it?
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
I was thinking climate controlled small golf carts would be great too.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
>I consider Feynman one of the all-time great men of history, alongside Richard Stallman and Jesus Christ. I recognize my comment doesn't add much but this might be the funniest thing I've ever read on HN. Not even in a derisiv
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Actually it works pretty well outside of HN.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
>I can only guess either safety from misuse or leveraging it for money. and it shouldn't be difficult to pick which of these is actually true.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
>I have yet to see an example of "Synthetic AI media" that was both realistic and not immediately recognizable as being synthetically generated. Would you know if you had?
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
>… I go through five or ten books a day. That sounds like wilt chamberlain’s 20000 women. If the book is any good it should take months to really understand deeply.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
? The above comment never made that dichotomy. Interesting that you took it that way.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
That wouldn't exactly be a basic income now would it?
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Lol no it is not like studying for a test and doing well on it. It is like cheating on your med school exams and then taking that license and killing people through malpractice. What they did was highly illegal and unethical.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
I wonder if you could create a nuclear powered cruise ship to ferry people cross the Atlantic in two or three days. If you could do that cheaper than a flight I might be interested in that. Air travel is terrible and if you could relax and
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
Sorry if this is a sensitive topic but why don't you just say you are a brahmin/christian/muslim? How would they know?
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
? With age restrictions like cigarettes and alcohol.
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
As soon as middle class work starts to get automated we will form a new system of resource allocation because all of a sudden the current tax system doesn't work and we go through the mother of all economic crises because no one has an
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by pretendscholar 4y ago
That hasn't been true in 50 years
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by pretendscholar 5y ago
>Law of Jante summarizes the 'zeitgeist' Why do you feel the need to dress up your comment to be something more than "you guys are just jealous."? Most of the comments criticizing Wolfram in this comment section discu

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