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by rdlw 1y ago
I think the real joke is that the average Facebook user, with no higher math, might be tricked into trying to solve it, and independently rediscover methods for solving diophantine equations and elliptic curves, all so that they can prove t
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by rdlw 1y ago
Close, that's addition
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by rdlw 1y ago
I've always wondered if there's s way to find which vectors are most important in a model like this. The gender vector man-woman or woman-man is the one always used in examples, since English has many gendered terms, but I wonder
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by rdlw 1y ago
Any number of negative employees would be troubling, but I admit 9.9 million of them would be especially bad.
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by rdlw 1y ago
Well, the page starts with this in the introduction: "So here is a personal list of small ways in which my ordinary everyday daily life has been getting better since the late 1980s/early 1990s" So on the contrary, it seems to
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by rdlw 2y ago
Interesting. I was using ChatGPT to try to come up with a possible reconstruction of the Ketef Hinnom scrolls (I don't know Ancient Hebrew at all), with some mixed results. I had to prompt it with things like "What do you think th
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by rdlw 2y ago
You're proposing that advanced pattern recognition is a sign of NOT being intelligent? Was the above comment nonsense, or did it have a pattern? If a real person happened to know ten languages and played along in this game with you, wo
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by rdlw 2y ago
Same as everybody else. Today.
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by rdlw 2y ago
> It does so by keeping the cheese 'dryer' than it normally would be. Putting it in your mouth basically undoes that. By this logic, shouldn't croutons and cubes of fresh bread be indistinguishable?
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by rdlw 2y ago
They're hexadecimal; 100 cents in a dollar.
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by rdlw 2y ago
Couldn't you transform twiddling one way into twiddling the other way by reflecting through a mirror and turning the bolts 180 degrees end-over-end? If you start with the bolts moving North, the mirroring makes them go South, and turni
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by rdlw 2y ago
You might enjoy the wonderful channel Lindybeige: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A44729FA673EBFF (playlist: "Lindybeige Rants on History") I especially like this video: https://youtu.be/l
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by rdlw 2y ago
If Mozilla really is as shady about user data as some people think they've become, someone's about to be pretty confused about why they suddenly have hundreds of nearly-identical screenshots of this HN page on their servers
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by rdlw 2y ago
Unless your opponent has just executed such a brilliant set of moves that they deserve the satisfaction of actually finishing the sequence and delivering checkmate.
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by rdlw 2y ago
Not quite what you're describing, but no one has yet linked the classic Tom7 series where he applies deep learning to classic NES games: https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY
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by rdlw 2y ago
Here's a picture: https://www.media.volvocars.com/uk/en-gb/media/photos/47385/...
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by rdlw 2y ago
You didn't ask how to go hiking in the mountains, you asked how to "leave city limits". but you could still bike, go with friends, or rent a car for a day if no buses go where you want. Hiking locations tend to have lots of t
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by rdlw 2y ago
You take a bus or a train or a subway or a plane or a bike or you rent a car or you roadtrip with your friends
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by rdlw 2y ago
Is it possible that eight graphics cards is the most practical configuration? How do you even set that up? I guess server mobos have crazy numbers of PCIe slots?
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by rdlw 2y ago
It's not a headline, it's the title of an essay. What do you mean by 'saves time'? When you read a novel, do you replace the character names with "a figment of my, the author's, imagination"? It's not
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by rdlw 2y ago
What's '"sex in the city" bloggery'? It just seems like a well-written persuasive essay to me.
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by rdlw 2y ago
But your first sentence reads like a direct answer to the question: > Was the sonic boom noticeable? > Noticeable is certainly a way of putting it. As in, "Yes it was noticeable, and then some." At least, that's how I r
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by rdlw 2y ago
What's the clickbait? "I Want to Hold Your Hand" sold 12 million. Is the clickbait that it's downplaying the achievement, since "Sweet Mother" only sold well in Africa?
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by rdlw 2y ago
Yes, because most people spend most of their money. I'm saying deflation seems unlikely to change that, since a strong incentive to save money already exists, in the form of retirement fund.
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by rdlw 2y ago
Automat is a common European word for 'machine' or 'vending machine', many languages have it.
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by rdlw 2y ago
I never got this line of thinking. I'm already disincentivized from spending because simple investments are likely to outpace inflation. That's a good reason to save as much as I can, but I still buy things, and it's not like
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by rdlw 2y ago
Yeah, make a browser version with the time saved by not renaming the repository.
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by rdlw 2y ago
Personally I would want the purchase to make a tangible difference to my life. If I can't control, communicate with, or see my purchase, that's functionally equivalent to me not owning it
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by rdlw 2y ago
Article 220, Paragraph 2 of the official English version says that verbatim
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by rdlw 2y ago
From their website: > Moondrop Lunar imitates the Gravity on the Moon. > Moondrop Mars imitates the Gravity on Mars. > Turn this Moondrop into Earth version simply by removing the magnets from inside. I was wondering if they were j

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