rdevsrex

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by rdevsrex 5y ago
Yeah, my first thought even before reading the article, was "What about seek times?". Maybe it can be improved, but thinking of web apps specifically, I'm not sure what kind of use case you would have for something that is th
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
> "Inflation at present is primarily the result of the global pandemic and government's failure to coordinate their response with regards to shipping" I was pretty sure it was the trillions of dollars we printed to pay for
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It's kind of ironic that both in cosmology and biology we know an incredible amount, but yet we still don't how the universe or life on earth began. Sure, we have educated guesses, but until we can unify QM and GR or produce a cel
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And then let me guess, in the end Chevron will get away without having to clean up their mess. The whole story is fucked up on every side.
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Well we don’t have the autographs for any holy text past a certain point, so I’m not sure that’s true. But with faith it doesn’t matter.
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Yeah, the key part is IF, you are indexable. In the project I'm working on everything is behind a paywall.
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So basically it is probably easier to create zombie animals that aren't conscious and can't feel pain, than make lab grown meat? Either way, it seems the no brainer option is to eat less (or no) meat.
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thanks!
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So, I am a total ML noob. The thing I haven't found a straight answer to is, what is a model. I mean when it is in production? Is it just some random blob that you pipe data into and get data out?
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I’m sure every woman in Kabul wished they had a handgun or two.
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I read somewhere that some nuclear ware strategists considered a 30-40% global fatality rate an acceptable outcome of nuclear war, which lead to the idea of strike first being ok. I hate to think what an advanced AI would do if it thinks th
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
Well, particularly early Christianity hero-worshipped martyrs, and seeing as how death brought about union with Christ, there is no tradition of prizing life in the body above death.
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I love doing things I can do with my daughter, Minecraft, reading series like Wings of Fire, but for myself I think and write about philosophy, and very seldom listen to music while high.
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Ok, but you have to admit those studies on slime mold being able to able to find the fastest path to food is impressive. It may not be individual ego-centric intelligence like we have (it seems to me more genetic and predetermined), but it&
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That looks cool, thanks.
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I'm planning to back to school soon, and I'm torn between studying Math or Philosophy. I like them both a lot, and there are many similarities, but definitely if I choose Philosophy, I know it's not going to do much for my jo
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
Oh antivax has many more causes than just ivermectin. Many religious fundamentalists think it's the mark of the beast, and anti-goverment people are against it for reasons that have nothing to do with ivermectin, or just the fact that
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
So I only read the abstract, but sounds to me like this study only tested the efficacy in treatment, not prevention. And all of the hub-hub I've heard is around prevention. I wish this paper would have considered that angle too.
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
History doesn't repeat but boy does it rhyme.
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Why not just back them up on S3, B2, or whatever else as well? 2 is 1 and 1 is none.
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
This is cool, but I still want to stack some gold coins.
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I live in South Africa now, with my wife and daughter, and while I could live in less than 1000 usd, it would be in dodgier areas of town. That said for a nice 3 bedroom pay ~700 usd, and food is like 250 per person. So from the sound of th
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I wonder if any South Africans in Australia are wishing they had stayed. Pick your poison right?
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I totally agree. You get your more charismatic varieties of this same thinking. For example, the name-it-and-claim-it churches basically teach if you are God's favorite you will be blessed, and if you aren't, you just don't h
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
Yeah, I'm thinking of how the German navy while in Scapa Flow, scuttled their fleet. It's the most obvious thing in the world for an army on the run to do. But then you have to have command and control in the first place to do tha
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by rdevsrex 5y ago
Pretty cool. I was thinking about this same thing today and learned that "computational philosophy" is a thing. I've also thought about how truth, not just morals, can be modeled by some sort of "truth space" analog
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A staggering sum, but not surprising. I wonder how the last 20 years would have played out if we reacted to 9/11 with humility and soul searching instead of jingoism. I mean, the blowback in the Middle East didn’t come out of nowhere.
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This annoys me to no end. It's like, I'm paying with a US debit card, you have my physical address in the States (my parents'), so why the hell should it matter where I am at this moment? I think if there is any geofencing, i
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Yeah, I hear you. I'm a US citizen, but live in South Africa. So I have to do extra auth steps to login to banking, when not on a VPN. And also, lots of places now are cracking down on VOIP phone. I very nearly couldn't login to m
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I don't think space is the issue. Most people live 200 miles from the coast. If that gets as hot as the inland, people will fan out to find whatever shelter they can. While I hope there are cool materials science breakthroughs that can

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