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by quonn 2y ago
The distribution has not changed. Nobody said that an individual data point is fixed and that all data points are equal.
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by quonn 2y ago
The same argument could be made for any software. I disagree, cars should be fully updated OTA. It's cheaper than a recall and easier for the consumer. New features increase the longevity of the car.
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by quonn 2y ago
> Why are cars different? Price.
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by quonn 2y ago
Kotlin is much closer to Java than to TypeScript even in terms of flexibility.
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by quonn 2y ago
No it wasn‘t.
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by quonn 2y ago
> that gradient descent finds it easier to learn the actual physics, then it'll learn the physics. I guess it really depends on what the meaning of gradient decent learning the physics is. Maybe you define it to mean that the actual
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by quonn 2y ago
The web is merely a platform on which pretty much anything can be built, both complex and trivial.
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by quonn 2y ago
The author prefers being an amateur to being a professional. Professionalism is often arbitrarily and highly standardised and somewhat boring. You find the same phenomenon in sports, for example. It's also a typical trajectory of any i
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by quonn 2y ago
> What happened in the meantime? A mess. So just like any other system, starting with the UNIX system interface, the various shells, the autotools and everything else. Stuff is built on top of other stuff and it is impossible to fully pr
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by quonn 2y ago
> Why wouldn't we want to figure out how to punish (or hold accountable) individuals, instead of focusing on the fact that we can't punish legal entities? Because limited liability means exactly that the owners are shielded to
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by quonn 2y ago
I hear this claim a lot but is it really true? Corporations in most countries are „legal persons“ in the sense that they can act like a person. This is what limited liability is all about. In fact the very name „incorporation“ comes from gi
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by quonn 2y ago
Regarding the number of researchers, of all of my friends who got a PhD only a single one did it because he liked research. For most it was a stepping stone for a totally unrelated career in industry and for some just the easiest option due
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by quonn 2y ago
The Buddha did not teach that only consciousness is real. He called such a view speculative, similar to a belief that only the material world is real. The buddhist teaching is, essentially, that the real is real and ever changing and that c
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by quonn 2y ago
> And Netscape sabotaged Java and Applets. And created JavaScript. And XUL. So in that alternative universe we would likely have a non-responsive rectangle kind of UI that has to be loaded upfront. Despite all its shortcomings I much pre
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by quonn 2y ago
> Presumably a very generalized model would be good at even doing the inverse: given some assembly, write code that will produce the given assembly. ChatGPT does this, unreliably.
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by quonn 2y ago
Perhaps you mean „man“ in German which means „one“. „Mann“ literally refers to a male person which doesn‘t really make sense here. Both are pronounced identically.
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by quonn 2y ago
So? You can't sign a contract to sell your liver either. A broad license like that should not be obtainable by merely having the user click a checkbox.
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by quonn 2y ago
> I do see that the EU has missed the boat on every new industry in the 21st century compared to the USA. Perhaps. But for completely different reasons, certainly not regulation. And furthermore, while this _may_ hurt the EU in the long-
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by quonn 2y ago
All EU countries indeed have systems in place to limit undue advantages that any child can have (it's called a public education system and social security and later in life just "the law"). As for anti-trust issues, you clear
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by quonn 2y ago
Your opinion of what users supposedly want is irrelevant. What matters is that the law mandates these options and Apple refuses to comply. And no - I prefer iOS, for various reasons (such as smooth integration with macOS, better UI), and wa
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by quonn 2y ago
Your numbers are empirically wrong. If they were right my own LFP EV should have now lost 5%, but it hasn‘t. One discharge cycle per day is utterly insane. Nobody does that. How many people drive 350 miles EVERY day for 30 years? 350 miles
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by quonn 2y ago
That‘s not how science has progressed in the past. It has not progressed by giant leaps of superior intelligence but incrementally and hardly a genius was more than 10 years ahead of his time.
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by quonn 2y ago
Who do you imagine the 1% to be? Probably I‘m the 1% in my country. I have no extraordinary power whatsoever. Maybe you mean the 0,1% or the 0,01%.
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by quonn 2y ago
> without any significant problems Can't loose anything if you have nothing - or a giant landmass, natural resources and still only an economy the size of Italy.
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by quonn 2y ago
> companies have a legal duty to be amoral in the quest for profit, right? No, they don't.
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by quonn 2y ago
> the idea that the law can change based on 21st century cultural values, not the text as it was written or intended by the legislature. Right. If it wouldn‘t, then the law could in fact come to be opposed to what everyone believes even
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by quonn 2y ago
Science needs experiments and those will not go faster because of AI. So why would fusion arrive any faster?
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by quonn 2y ago
Nonsense. I will only reply to your last paragraph: - EVs need to hardly ever break, so no brake dust and certainly not more than for ICEs. - Tires only wear faster if you accelerate like crazy. - Batteries likely last 20 years and afterw
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by quonn 2y ago
> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8529939/ Sure, but only as long as "quite often" means "almost never".
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by quonn 2y ago
> gets incinerated and provides heat over communal heating – ideally. How is it ideal to increase the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere even further?

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