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Do you observe a gap in children's literature that needs to be filled by synthetically generated stories? Edit, just realized it is a payed service with "third-party advertisers". Perfect for unengaged parents.
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And that is on the lower side of the scale, il76 and c17 lift 60-70 tons, while the big boys do over 100 tons.
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The US government considers supporting Ukraine as beneficial to US, why shouldn't they fund it?
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* Mons is not a village, it is a city in present day Belgium. * head-butt the chicken please re-read the quote, it doesn't mention chickens. * When the entertainment committee invests in quartering of a human being, it reflects the n
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Go for it, argue...
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In different places and times there were different thresholds on the level of violence acceptable to society. We should be careful to not project our current norms on the entire history of humanity. A quote from A Distant Mirror The Calami
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I would say that group violence is channeling the violence of individuals to achieve some goal a group might have. Chimp Empire is worth watching in this context.
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You can walk in any tightly-packed megapolis of millions Megapolis implies society, structure and rules. Also machinery to enforce these rules. Not an example demonstrating that violent individuals are an aberration.
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Yet I rarely see increased congestion come up in discussions about FSD It is very simple, companies invested in EV, FSD, etc. are doing so to make a profit from EV, FSD, etc. How those affect humanity is not their concern.
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Seeds of doubt: mystery remains over how sunflowers track light
(theguardian.com)
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"B is the son of A" doesn't follow from "A is the father of B". B could be A's daughter.
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eventual consistency A bit of tangent but one must admire the optimistic attitude reflected by this name. "Most of the time inconsistent" says the same thing but is not great for marketing.
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I think that they are as crude and abstract as their creators wanted them to be. This is a new take on art, Fukagawa Garbage Incinerator would not have been a topic of Ukiyo-e
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My mind was absolutely primed by most of those In a Bangladesh market, a small potato bag costs 5 taka, a medium potato bag costs 7 taka, and a large potato bag costs 9 taka. Yet, a single potato in that market costs 10 taka. How is that p
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An Annotated Compendium of Stumpers
(papers.ssrn.com)
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Let's not forget that the companies that develop and lobby for self driving cars do it for profit. Whatever safety qualities they may or may not have are there to deliver and maximize profit. At this point in time. Public transport is
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Any study on potential long term side effects of the odorants? Perhaps the target age group doesn't have a long term.
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Is there any reason to believe in this case that decisions supported by AI, traditional or not, can be rationalised by humans?
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UK officials use AI to decide on issues from benefits to marriage licences
(theguardian.com)
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Leaving the code alone, even one that works reasonably well, is not an option. Lehman's laws of software evolution say so. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_...
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Or staying in Q, encode your program as an integer N, take 1/N and mark that fraction on a stick of unit length. Use the stick as long term storage for your code.
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How do you factor in the opinions of people who are, or will be, genetically related to you?
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True, but we should be responsible for ourselves to start with.
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Japanese celebrity endorsement marketing is almost entirely focused on the spokesperson’s image, so when that image becomes sufficiently cracked, it has the potential to take the entire promotional strategy down with it, and it wouldn’t be
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You shared your DNA data on the internet, time to review your security fundamentals.
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Curious about the word 'true' there, are you asking about the Planck Epoch of the big bang?
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A labor of love - outstanding work!
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"Here’s an example of the pivot table in action." What follows reminds me of "draw the rest of the f* *ing owl" meme.
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Pulsifer, I thought it was a completely made up name for Good Omens.
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Matches what Richard Dawkins calls "the extended phenotype" From wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype ): "Dawkins develops this idea by pointing to the effect that a gene may
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