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by ptah 7y ago
Iatrogenics is a thing
422.
by ptah 7y ago
all countries have that freedom. read the comment that i am replying to to get my context.
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by ptah 7y ago
so it will eventually run stochastic gradient descent faster than GPU?
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by ptah 7y ago
what workloads would i run on these?
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by ptah 7y ago
this is why poetry and writing in general is an art form. you have to struggle within the limitations of the materials to evoke something in audience
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by ptah 7y ago
it would be great if you can get a URL for your submission for sharing purposes
427.
by ptah 7y ago
plenty of countries have more "freedom" https://freedomhouse.org/report/countries-world-freedom-2019...
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by ptah 7y ago
i can just imagine the scene: cops: you are under arrest for breaking and entering. pentester: we were just checking your security. you passed! congratulations! sorry couldn't resist /getscoat
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by ptah 7y ago
it's complicated. capitalism is just one tool of many and shouldn't be used for every single thing. it is great at some problems though
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by ptah 7y ago
humans are not "rational actors"
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by ptah 7y ago
the plot thickens
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by ptah 7y ago
it's a joke
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by ptah 7y ago
yeah, i don't understand outrage over taking the money at all tbh. did he obtain the money donated from sex trafficking?
434.
by ptah 7y ago
minsky should have refused purely because of her age imo. his morality comes into question for me if he only refused because epstein coerced the girl
435.
by ptah 7y ago
this article is not about epstein of minsky at all but about a long history of creating a hostile environment for female computer scientists
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by ptah 7y ago
from teh article: "I would also like to clarify that in some headlines, including this Daily Beast one, Stallman is said to have defended Epstein, which is not technically true. Rather, Stallman was defending Marvin Minsky. I directly
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by ptah 7y ago
> We don't actually understand genetics at the level where we can say "this sequence will accomplish that effect, no bugs" does this not ring alarm bells for anyone but me?
438.
by ptah 7y ago
yes! they should fix up infrastructure and steer people to lesser visited sites
439.
by ptah 7y ago
freedom of speech merely means the government can't act against you. it doesn't bind any other entity from responding freely: in fact their response is also freedom of speech
440.
by ptah 7y ago
are you implying that foreigners are not allowed to buy land in brazil?
441.
by ptah 7y ago
his previous book is on how to construct websites and apps with maximum distraction ability
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by ptah 7y ago
weird, he literally wrote the book about making websites and apps addictive through grabbing as much attention as possible. now he's got a book on how to avoid getting distracted by those sites/apps
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$1m a minute: the farming subsidies destroying the world(theguardian.com)
13 points by ptah 7y ago|0 comments
444.
by ptah 7y ago
so many toys, so little time. i played around with this for a bit but need to find time to get really stuck in
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by ptah 7y ago
care to elaborate?
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by ptah 7y ago
nuclear is not an option for most countries
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by ptah 7y ago
just to be pedantic: macOS is Unix whereas linux is not https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3653.htm
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by ptah 7y ago
the side effects of going after a union purely for this reason will need to be properly quantified before you can consider going down this road. removing private ownership of prisons is a no-brainer in comparison
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by ptah 7y ago
i remember using Informix web blade in late 90s, but it wasn't pure SQL
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by ptah 7y ago
I wouldn't consider SQL a general purpose programming language

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