stolenmerch

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by stolenmerch 6y ago
COVID-19 isn't a coronavirus, it's the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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by stolenmerch 6y ago
I was always under the impression that Lloyd Dunn coined the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Dunn
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
No, the flu is still more dangerous. We're not talking about whether I have the choice of being infected with "this year's strain" or Covid-19. We're talking about risk assessment and realistic chances of catching t
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
That certainly depends on where you are and your general health. But as it stands at the time of this writing, the mortality rate for COVID19 and Influenza are both about 2-3%. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
Except that's not true. The fatality rate is similar to influenza. Influenza ranges between 0.1% and 10% rate, depending on seasonal epidemics. A generous estimate for COVID19 so far is ~3% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
I'm sorry, I don't at all follow your last sentence. The flu IS more dangerous. Upwards of 45 million people get the flu every single year, hundreds of thousands of those are hospitalized, and tens of thousands of those are killed
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
I was in the same exact boat as you but have been free of it for 10 years now. I was terrified because I NEEDED cigarettes to concentrate and do my job. I couldn't envision doing challenging technical work without regular smoke breaks.
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
Every time this topic comes up, I'm always confused how the algorithms are biased. Which algorithms? Isn't it actually the labeled data they used to train that is biased by not including enough samples of non-white faces? What mec
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
Here's a D&D inspired GPT-2 project I've been putting together for a few weeks. I was inspired by several other similar projects here and wondered what a fully voiced AI Dungeon Master might look like. It's in the form of
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Show HN: Artificially Intelligent Dungeon Master(iws.mx)
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
Love this! My take on this same idea was to train GPT-2 on a bunch of D&D adventures and then pipe the output to speech synthesis. I ended up just publishing the output as a podcast. The app also creates its own static site. You can rea
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
Pretty much any public library selector or cataloger will be the first to tell you to just go buy your highly specialized technical manual on Amazon and keep it in your personal collection. If you have access to a large research library you
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
> Focusing more on the literature (books) that I want to read has gotten rid of my daily anger issues Exactly this. Perhaps I'm a little more productive after quitting Twitter, but the huge takeaway for me was not raging every day.
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
I'm a total believer in this. I tried for years to keep a journal and nothing ever stuck. Since 2010, though, I've been using services like OhLife and DailyDiary that send me an email prompt every night and I just reply with a few
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by stolenmerch 7y ago
It's been around for almost 15 years.
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by stolenmerch 8y ago
Writer skips over a dozen or more adaptations that present the original version with the same brutal depictions of poverty and wealth. They seem a little too thirsty for a contrarian anti-capitalist view and should have spent more time actu
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by stolenmerch 8y ago
Because 'milk' is an unmarked plural. 'Chain' is not.
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by stolenmerch 8y ago
There's probably someone right now generating baby names with a neural network trained on a huge list of every SSN name used in the past twenty years. They'll use one of these and become very minor celebrities for a week while it