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ralfd
4y ago
Plants with cooling towers (like Isar 2) use evaporation for cooling and don't heat rivers.
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ralfd
4y ago
The vocabulary was invented though by gpt.
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4y ago
What happens with the prompt "nebulaic sky above a golden ocean, 4k desktop wallpaper'"?
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4y ago
Thanks for the link. That sounds more like prompt engineering? If I understand that correctly it is providing short journal entries (1K words) and GPT3 is imitating the vibe of that (or whatever it does). But it is not “training” a Modell o
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4y ago
Did dinosaur / do reptilian blood cells live longer?
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4y ago
> For me, this basically feels like lip service to the Chinese government, but otherwise a finger. Maybe I'm beeing too myopic. Plus they led everyone know about China in rolling the feature change there first.
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> I don’t ever want to hear again how Apple is some champion of privacy and ethics. Counterpoint: They could have just rolled out the feature change globally. Instead Apple makes it clear with singling out China, that this change was dem
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4y ago
to;dr: how thick is a fair three sided coin?
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4y ago
> I played EotB about 2 years ago for the first time and stubbornly did it the old fashioned way with groh paper. So it didn't add anything to the experience do it the hardcore way?
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4y ago
Assuming Karpathy is lying is quite a hot take to disregard his opinion. No. He makes it clear that he is very convinced about it. There is no relativism, no weasel words or couching in maybes. He could be wrong, of course, but he believes
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> Not sure how PP flew under my radar so long. Apple? People? What do you mean with PP?
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What did he say? Timestamp?
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Yes, but are we now stuck with the USB-C connector head? Is a smaller form factor now impossbile?
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4y ago
Then why does Apple use lightning if the EU mandated otherwise? Surely there must be a difference between the old and the new law. And this difference can then still be stifling innovation.
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4y ago
Yes, exactly: The market could innovate and develop better connectors. For example Apples Lightning, which is older (and smaller/more robust) than USB-C. Imagine instead the EU mandating micro USB and how we would be forced till the en
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4y ago
I tried to google it, but on hn there wasn't much discussion about it. 13 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1225990 > This has to be in direct response to George Hotz (geohot)'s PS3 exploits. Edit
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4y ago
YES! I got mildly irritated using that clunky list.
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4y ago
Sure. But if a manager would go "If you have such a stupid excuse/question again you are out" all they would ensure is that I would dread and avoid communication with them.
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4y ago
To a German such boasting would sound like you are an embellishing loudmouth who at best likes to sniff his own farts and at worst makes stories up. Would you want a Zapp Brannigan as a colleague? Such stories can be better told in the pers
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> However, the British soon realized that George I did a great deal for the kingdom — he put down two Scottish uprisings, established the two-party system that is still in place today, created a well-functioning navy and expanded the Bri
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> Of course to balance it out they’ve trolled the audience again with this video. How?
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> people wearing ritualistic outfits have marched into public spaces in several cities, and declared that a member of the elite has been replaced, the continuum is unbroken. You speak like that hundred years long continuum is not a major
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It will go fine? We can digest raw meat and it is common in many cuisines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_meat There is a risk because of parasites/bacteria and I guess inventing fire was not a major milestone
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Could it be that they orient themselves to the sun? And the magnetic alignement is just coincidental?
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4y ago
Here is his Twitter: https://twitter.com/GrzegorzRutko14/with_replies But he doesn't seem to comment on ai art.
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> Hyperrealistic mixed media image of matt damon bald head resembles !!uncircumcised penis!!, stunning 3d render inspired art by istván sándorfi and greg rutkowski, perfect facial symmetry, realistic, highly detailed attributes and atmos
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> Is declining fertility really such a societal and evolutionary danger Yes. If modern (western dominated) society is not self-sustaining, this should be a big hint, that there is something deeply wrong with our culture. > If you thin
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> it's a nearly horizontal line. What does that tell you? That the data must be wrong, there should be some small variation and it doesn't pass the sanity check of declining birth rates. > After the lump passes through South
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> Inviting more women, elderly people and foreigners into the workforce is another goal. Hate to say it, but inviting women into the workforce will likely lower the rate even more.
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I read that you have to give longer prompts to Stable diffusion. This is my bison astronaut: https://i.imgur.com/ohIuG6F.png The prompt was: "A bison as an astronaut, tone mapped, shiny, intricate, cinematic lighting,
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