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by sorokod 3y ago
The people leading the Russian revolution of 1917, genuinely believed that it will make the world (and not just Russia) a better place for all humans. Different from the Nazis in Germany.
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by sorokod 3y ago
A hard kill APS might help. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_protection_system
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by sorokod 3y ago
In a country in which tens of millions of people own guns, public safety becomes a personal responsibility, and so individuals often decide that it is in their best interest to protect themselves by buying a gun. This desire to be protecte
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Why America Fell for Guns(aeon.co)
9 points by sorokod 3y ago|35 comments
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by sorokod 3y ago
Many of those I'd write off to Tolkien being a product of his times Well, there are two products-of-their-time: the writer and the reader.
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by sorokod 3y ago
What would a native French speaker make of DuPage county? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPage_County,_Illinois
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by sorokod 3y ago
Using llama2:13b -641114711832495315269166494840 + 1 = This expression is a sum of two large numbers, and the result is a very large number. Here's the calculation: -641114711832495315269166494840 + 1 = -641114711832495315269
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Chechnya Forbids Music Outside 80-116 BPM Tempo(themoscowtimes.com)
10 points by sorokod 3y ago|2 comments
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by sorokod 3y ago
True, we can and do make assumptions about quality based on our previous experience. I don't see an equivalent approach that can be applied to LLMs.
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by sorokod 3y ago
A problem with summaries is that it is not possible to verify their correctness without creating a summary by a human from scratch. In other words validation of the task costs at least as much as the original task. This is different from s
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by sorokod 3y ago
They do need scheduled maintenance.
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by sorokod 3y ago
The bottom line is that you failed to achieve the goal you set out to achieve and got laid off. How is that ”speak in their defense"? Can you think of an alternative approach that would have delivered the result over time without you l
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by sorokod 3y ago
I believe that example 1) is addressed in the article as "percussive sublimation".
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by sorokod 3y ago
I think configured is a red herring. Computers were and are an abstracting interface to functionality. Historically the abstraction was frequently leaking and the user had to make various adjustments. It could be argued the nowadays the lea
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by sorokod 3y ago
In the limit, languages will be designed by AI for AI and the same goes for hardware. This assumes that languages higher then machine code will be needed which is not obvious. Will this be acheived in a few years or a a few decades or never
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by sorokod 3y ago
The highest level would be like delegating part of your project or the entire project to a developer. These “AI coders” would take in the requirements, write the code, fix errors and deploy the final product to production. About the &quot
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by sorokod 3y ago
A contemporary echo to that story: "US Navy Procurement Disasters - The Littoral Combat Ship and Zumwalt Class Destroyer" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odS3Kn5oGl0
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by sorokod 3y ago
The use of Byzantine seems to imply middle ages history. Do check out the Constantinople Agreement from 1915. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople_Agreement
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by sorokod 3y ago
If you iteratively score, request improvement, and submit do results converge to a score value? If not, what do you think that means?
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by sorokod 3y ago
There is a Russian name for Istanbul - Царьгра́д (Tsargrad). The relevancy of this traditional name in our time can be glimpsed from the media org tsargrad.tv , a Russian equivalent of fox news.
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by sorokod 3y ago
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by sorokod 3y ago
Charlie's trajectory may be your trajectory, not as an allegory. You may be that average person.
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by sorokod 3y ago
I remember reading the story for the first time and my feelings of pity and horror when the protagonist's decline began. With lifespans increasing, many of us will have Charlie's experience.
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by sorokod 3y ago
Indigo is perceived more traditional then black, some places allow indigo, some demand. By the way, indigo bleeding is not limited to washing, the colour actually rubs off during training. It is turned around and seen a virtue since your ga
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by sorokod 3y ago
Some paractioners of Japanese martial arts wear a hakama, a sort Japanese trousers (not a great description this, have a look online). The tradionalists go for a proper indigo hakama which absolutley "bleeds" it's colour to t
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by sorokod 3y ago
I thought that it was well understood that the purpose of sumptuary laws was to prop up social hierarchies. With this in mind the "startling discovery" is not startling at all.
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Get real, said Pi to i. Be rational, i replied.
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by sorokod 3y ago
Wouldn't that perspective affect how arms and hands are depicted? Also, worth saying something why the looks of other females in the group are not relevant.
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by sorokod 3y ago
...and the sweet Aquamanndottir
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by sorokod 3y ago
There is Continue, still very much work in progress. https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/22707-continue

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