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by smarm52 2y ago
Makes sense to me. Western academic don't have to worry about being disappeared if they don't publish enough. > This pressure, they conclude, ultimately came from a Chinese programme to create globally recognized universities.
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Plus the enormous savings on healthcare.
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A quick search for this between 2000 and 2010: David Suzuki targets 'dirty dozen' toxic ingredients https://www.cbc.ca/news/david-suzuki-targets-dirty-dozen-tox... Chemical Exposures: The Ugly Side of Beauty
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_China They've got to prop it up while rich/important people get their money out. Plus, they
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> a complex system > much simpler There may be some cross-purpose there. Checking the definition [1], the approach is like how *nix patterns its tooling. This may not be a good approach for all projects. This is a professional project
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Ha! > Notably, Aidan used to work at Google, where he was one of the authors of a paper called “Attention is all you need” that described transformers and really kicked off the LLM revolution in AI. "Here's Aidan one of the gen
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They don't define their terms. > Hedge Fund > A hedge fund is a limited partnership of private investors whose money is pooled and managed by professional fund managers. [1] > Private capital / equity > Private equity
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by smarm52 2y ago
Wow, that's an entirely different set of constraints that I hadn't considered. I have a whole new respect for logistics professionals that handle that sort of thing.
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Yes exactly, I'm reminded of solutions to find numerical approximation results for very difficult problems like this. One of the most famous are Markov chain approaches to resolving similar issues. Then, for the interested: https:&#x2
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Then for others, they're referring to these class of problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_optimization
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Wow, that's a great insight. Not only how to pack optimally, but how to balance the load. Then not just balance the load for shipping, but also to optimize packing the load. Sort of like torquing the lug-nuts on tires one at a time to
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> In this case, the problem is equivalent to a shortest path problem on a graph with weighted nodes, and more traditionally presented as a shortest path problem on a graph with weighted edges. Exactly. I was exposed to this sort of conce
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Interesting, thanks for the insight.
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> Not to be rude ... No worries. After being laid off, my primary focus is on finding work. This is very difficult as I'm a Millennial with a weird looking resume, and the tech sector is in a slump at the moment. Then, as a side pro
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Right, I saw it on Reddit first, but here's something from HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30145971 and https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/29/please-make-a-dumb-car/
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Not sure, OP is asking about what is essentially a popularity contest. A popularity contest does sound pretty similar to a political race to me.
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> The results speak for themselves: Despite a detailed search, we have not found any evidence of a significant reduction in labour supply. Makes sense. Personally I know I would stop wasting my time with work and actually do meaningful t
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by smarm52 2y ago
If only he were qualified. He apparently does good work in Linguistics? Manufacturing Consent was tedious. And then there's the whole: "Deny a genocide because too dumb to keep his mouth shut": https://en.wikipedia
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Hopefully this will be just the incentive they need to do something safer. Something similar happened before the move from PKL to SAFETENSOR for model files.
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Which shut down a week later after it advises a patient to inject bleach to cure COVID. But actually it's about using a chatbot for scheduling: " ...in an effort to cut waiting times amid growing demand and staff shortages."
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I think everyone would agree they should start with clickbait authors.
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With mathematical models. People suck at predicting the future of complex socially driven domains. The popular pundits are some of the worst predictors, but they do make easy media to sell. Tetlock, P. E. (2017). Expert political judgment:
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Easy to distract people with ranting about all powerful hidden enemies. Plus the peasants tend to be suspicious of science-types.
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> Carmakers’ approach may not resemble planned obsolescence so much as “planned improvements,” McDonald said—making older hardware incompatible with software updates or other new functions. Or they may just move to the "leasing&quot
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Got to hand it to them, they know how to play the game. Though, it would be a shame to not transfer them to sales or marketing, they sound very talented at that, at the very least.
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Though good news for other countries outside the US. All those Doctor's and nurses (etc) are going to love working in a proper healthcare system.
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Huh WSJ doesn't seem to be loading for me in Canada. Tor works fine. Anyone else? Am I being region-blocked?
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Just making the case for profit, neglects that the moneyed class uses the wealth they didn't earn to coerce and control. UBI takes the people off the leash of depending on them for income. And so, it may be harder than many think to ge
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https://archive.ph/HAsy4 -- AI Robot + vertical farming + solar panels (etc). Why would I need to work?
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Is there a report on the effects of round 1?

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