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by rozab 3y ago
Indeed! I won't spoil it, but there's some very prescient ideas about what are essentially LLMs and how they behave
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by rozab 3y ago
I hope they tasted their sturddlefish, just in case they accidentally created the most delicious fish ever. Little Albert Hoffman moment
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by rozab 3y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts has some interesting ideas about how consciousness may not be a necessarily condition for advanced life, and indeed may be a hindrance and an evolutionary dead end. The appendices also have a lot of good referenc
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by rozab 3y ago
Link could be changed to https://web.archive.org/web/20230611210834/https://old.reddi...
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by rozab 3y ago
Paradox Games are from Sweden.
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by rozab 3y ago
It's a tragedy, because reddit is the last source of publicly available truth on the internet. I can search for anything with site:reddit.com and see actual human beings' opinions on the matter. All other truth is locked down in
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by rozab 3y ago
Interesting stuff, it's weird how sometimes it nails the tone and context but sometimes fails completely. With the Beatles it generates a psychedelic scene and an actual yellow submarine from what is really a very mundane street scene,
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by rozab 3y ago
That's an interesting viewpoint, it parallels the outsized influence small parties exert in FPTP electoral systems (at least in functioning ones)
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by rozab 3y ago
The reason it's in a zip is so you never see that it's an .exe. Otherwise the email client would show the file extension and warn the user. Microsoft in their wisdom have decided Windows users never need to see file extensions by
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by rozab 3y ago
I think the criticism of this is unfair, and this result will help shed light on the mechanism. Look at the current theories for molecular mechanisms: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5999402/ If
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by rozab 3y ago
No. Defence sector PPP adjustment is the standard way of comparing budgets like this. e.g. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/debating-defence-budgets-why-...
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by rozab 3y ago
The preprint of this paper spawned this r/hobbydrama post a while back. I think the discussion in the thread is sensible https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/zqvler/birding_... I think this
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by rozab 3y ago
I wonder how this parses the classic joke: A programmers spouse sends them to the shops. "Buy a pint of milk. If they have eggs, buy a dozen." The programmer returns with 12 pints of milk.
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by rozab 3y ago
The Google Chat desktop app (which is really just a chrome instance, but this is obscured from the user) only opens links in Chrome and ignores the system default. It's had this behaviour forever.
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by rozab 3y ago
The fact that the writer seems incapable of interacting with the world outside of this one TikTok made me feel like that's already happened
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by rozab 3y ago
The current size of the full text of Wikipedia is about 21GB. Text compression is not a field which needs disrupting
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by rozab 3y ago
Would it have killed them to do any research at all on this article instead of just rephrasing a tiktok? >“I never signed up for this website to put this kind of information out for anybody to obtain who gets the code to obtain it.” It i
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by rozab 3y ago
I love these things, it's so simple and it's often a better UX than any car bluetooth provides. You also used to be able to buy aux adapters that went in your cassette deck! edit: Halfords still stocks these! https://ww
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by rozab 3y ago
I think the effect is all in the camera, I don't think it would translate to VR
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by rozab 4y ago
That's completely unfair, much of the content of the study is determining which sources would fill the gap. That's not an assumption.
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by rozab 4y ago
This has all the artistic value of an advice animal template
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by rozab 4y ago
Falcon 9? SLS? STS?
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by rozab 4y ago
This would be the stupidest possible way of conducting mass surveillance
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And if HN is down, you know it's a biggie
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by rozab 4y ago
I've read this stuff before, from various supposedly above-board companies. If this is true, where can I sign up? I've never seen companies clearly offering this without being misleading. Since oxylabs allows selecting a proxy at
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by rozab 4y ago
Nice job, more info here https://sanctions.nazk.gov.ua/en/sanction-company/6813/
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by rozab 4y ago
https://github.com/ClearURLs/Addon
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by rozab 4y ago
Sounds like a really cool project to work on but the video is unintentionally hilarious No, the game is not Rocket League, it's just a regular football game and all these players have to talk to the camera about how great it was to pla
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by rozab 4y ago
I have a regular teams call with somebody, and never use it outside of this. A few months ago it was blocking both Firefox and Chromium user agents on Linux. Rather than mucking about with it I just switched to a Windows laptop for this mee
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by rozab 4y ago
There was an interesting post from Mozilla about this. There's a certain class of telemetry errors which seem to only be caused by cosmic rays https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2022/04/13/this-week-in-gl

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