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by retrac 4y ago
I suspect the decline is associated with the unrealistic hyper-attractive humans we see in media. Insecurity about body image seems to be on the rise. And then there's stuff like this: https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/n
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by retrac 4y ago
Some do think that. Often an impression formed from no obvious progress after a few weeks.
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by retrac 4y ago
Learning another (human) language is like that. Almost anyone can do it. It requires no special skills, training, or experience. There are some tricks that you can use, but mostly it's just an enormous amount of work, not particular
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by retrac 4y ago
There's absolutely some theatre going on. The only reason we know about the ones over Alaska and Yukon is that they told us. As several articles are noting, the US has recorded ~10 such balloons over the last year. None of which we
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by retrac 4y ago
Closely related to the toilet paper metric. The poorer you are the more you pay per sheet, on average. A middle-class person will drive to a place like Costco a few times a year, buy a few large packs, and they're set. For a poor pe
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by retrac 4y ago
No one language does everything equally well. Haskell is probably one of the most flexible in that regard, in that you can create domain-specific langages as needed and use just about any programming model. There's even a joke monad
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by retrac 4y ago
It's a tax. A weird specialized tax. But a tax. Taxes are enforced in most countries.
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by retrac 4y ago
"The idea that there are people out there who don't know Rowling is a tervert is ludicrous." definitely takes the cake for terminally online. It's quite revealing. The existence of someone who has not had a media diet
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by retrac 4y ago
I agree about strict determinism being false. It was more of a tangent off my point. There is a subjective experience of being. We think we have a mind, that acts on the world. Both dualists and monists, of all kinds, experience reality
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by retrac 4y ago
I cannot recommend Digital enough. It is quite new. Clearly inspired by Logisim but not derived from it. It has support for switches like FETs and relays, and you can implement open collector logic with pull-up resistors. It can analyze a
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by retrac 4y ago
> classify whether you’re thinking about porn or not, and emits a beep whenever it detects it Already gone down this road with lower tech. In the 50s - 70s it was in vogue to monitor blood flow to the genitals while subjecting the subj
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by retrac 4y ago
> my boyfriend Would it be safe to assume you are either a woman, or a gay man? I am in my late 30s, of average attractiveness, and below-average suaveness. If I open Grindr in a large city and create a profile with one of my cuter sel
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by retrac 4y ago
Sure. Just about any device that can be addressed as an 8 bit memory device (including modern microcontrollers) and that will run on a small amount battery power can be used through the cartridge slot.
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by retrac 4y ago
Assuming the bandwidth exists, somehow describing enough mathematics to describe a virtual machine, and then sending a program for that virtual machine, might just be the best way to communicate. A package that can help the recipient inter
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by retrac 4y ago
Similar to my two experiences with antibiotics. Relief after half a day, clear reversal of illness by the next, after that only lingering discomfort to heal from the damage caused.
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by retrac 4y ago
I'm only some ten years older. The films I spoke of were released before I was born. Yet most of my generation is familiar with some of them. Star Wars, then. Or Schindler's List. Maybe I'm Spielberg biased. The Exorcis
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by retrac 4y ago
Most modern processors read their native word size from memory internally. And that's it. So to read a 16 bit word on a machine with a 64 data bus, that is split over two 64 bit words (e.g. addresses 0x1007 and 0x1008) two 64-bit read
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by retrac 4y ago
It's precisely because it's so amazing that we need to sell it short. It really is basically a statistical completion engine. Auto-suggest on steroids. By some interpretations, language models are without any semantic properties
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by retrac 4y ago
People do need common culture. I have a friend in his mid-20s and he is always "Do you know [YouTube personality]?" or showing me memes that require extensive explanations. And we're actually very similar people in many way
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by retrac 4y ago
I don't know about you but I find being alone in quiet distressing and I tend to, for example, listen to a podcast just to fill the void and feel like I'm at least passively absorbing something. But long stretches of silence are t
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by retrac 4y ago
Surely it already has. Not consistently and repeatably, and not quite under the conditions Turing proposed, but still, in a way that's rather spectacular when it happens. Last year gave us this news story: "The Google engineer w
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by retrac 4y ago
> easier and faster That's the thing. The privacy implications are different at scale. A world of FOSS tools, where centralized ID databases are heavily restricted or banned, and people are using facial recognition technology on pe
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by retrac 4y ago
Some recent studies suggest that even HPV-infected individuals benefit from the HPV vaccine, decreasing the likelihood of symptomatic illness. The age of eligibility in many countries has been raised to 45. Here in Canada I know it is bei
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by retrac 4y ago
For about 10 years after the introduction of microprocessors, legacy minicomputer platforms continued to sell on the high end. PCs were too small and slow and not enough IO. But the economy of scale made PC hardware incredibly cheap and i
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by retrac 4y ago
There are many places information theory crops up in linguistics (perhaps unsurprisingly). For example, there's a correlation between the numbers of vowels/consonants in a language and the length of each syllable, time-wise. Lang
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by retrac 4y ago
Actively "censoring" the AI is fundamental to how these language models are created. Such feedback is part of how the model learns. In a certain light, every response in training that is marked as dispreferred by a human is censo
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by retrac 4y ago
Generally kept lower than that. Exceeding the human exposure threshold for a worker amounts to an international nuclear incident. Literally. Must be reported and the IAEA will do a full investigation and eventually assign it an Internati
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by retrac 4y ago
The average, of course, is just that, an average. There are some places that are naturally around 100 mSv dose annually, or some 50x higher, and places that are much lower than average. Under truly non-ideal conditions, like having a poo
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by retrac 4y ago
It is copyright 1944. So it rather charmingly hand-waves away frequencies above 10 MHz or so. Such frequencies will be useful for television! And the plot stops at 100 MHz. (Nearly all radio used today is above 100 MHz.) That said, mu
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by retrac 4y ago
I got to take a computer science course in high school. My teacher was one of the best I've had; she had been educated in the subject with punch cards, on the other side of the Iron Curtain. In the first class, she informed us that

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