stolenmerch

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by stolenmerch 3y ago
My experience with YouTube seems to be entirely dissimilar with the clickbait/algorithm horror stories I'm reading here in the comments. I watch a lot of Youtube and I let my 1st grader watch YouTube somewhat unregulated. It'
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
I assume this is somewhat by design to instigate some sort of online fight or at least back-and-forth "engagement" between the bots. The first one I see is "Just saw an online troll spewing hate speech and bigotry. It's
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
Perhaps if some advanced civilization were able to modulate radio pulsars. But it's not like we're monitoring across a wide bandwidth, so they'd need to transmit at the specific narrow band that we listen to. SETI is fun to t
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by stolenmerch 3y ago
It is, he works at "THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD"
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
As an Iowa kid, I detasseled corn every summer from when I was 12 to 16. 10 hour days, 5 or 6 days a week, in the Iowa heat and humidity. Not saying every ag job for kids is like mine or José Velásquez Castellano's, but it's not
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Exactly right. I'm very confused by all this because I literally stream music from friends and local bands that I've uploaded to my personal YouTube Music account.
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Increase GPT4's context size by asking it to compress your prompts(twitter.com)
40 points by stolenmerch 4y ago|14 comments
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but this kind of cynical energy is literally not helping much. It's too easy to piss on personal pet peeves in the tech world while claiming it's a zero sum game with monumentally complex social
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Something like: Prompt GPT4 with basic rules (in several batches) and have it create JSONL prompt-completion pairs to use as fine-tuning for GPT3. Freeze that model then continue fine-tuning it with a new set of prompt-completion pairs for
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Not to mention with swf-to-exe tools like Zinc, I could create portable and lightweight desktop applications without fighting with compilers and build steps. 20 years ago I built a fairly sophisticated program to allow users to load, view,
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Looks like this will be removed in v5. "For example, throttle uses debounce internally. In a project using both methods from the main lodash package, throttle will import the same debounce module as any code that imports debounce direc
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
That is commonly cited but there is evidence to suggest it isn't the whole picture. Ted Cruz was a vocal opponent of Ethanol subsidies and won Iowa.
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‘Mirror neurons’ fire up during mouse battles(nature.com)
1 points by stolenmerch 4y ago|1 comments
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Brain cells are crucial for triggering fights — but also become active when mice merely observe fights.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Sure, but it's a little more complicated than that. A 2015 act of Congress mandated that the Department of Transportation repeal the braking requirement if an analysis showed more costs than benefits. The act was mostly to address high
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I asked it to produce a perfect pangram, which uses each letter once and only once. It unsurprisingly couldn't do it despite explicit instructions. It did produce several known examples of pangrams using all 26 letters but didn't
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Early models were loud, but they've released software updates to make it quieter and started switching out fans in later models I believe. I've had mine since July 2022 and don't notice the fans at all for mid to low power ga
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Most people generally don't use their phone or mobile device for these tasks, so an installable application makes sense. I think what OP is talking about is this phenomenon of needing an installed app taking up storage space just for f
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Side trivia: 20 years ago today the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaste...
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I quit Facebook in 2010, despite being told I'd need it to keep in contact with anyone in my life. I immediately lost contact with a small network of casual acquaintances. For friends and family, I just started texting, phoning, and em
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Interesting. I consider myself an average developer who picked up Urbit to play with in 2017 (when it was still very rough). I've been happily using it almost everyday for a couple of years now. I mean, it's just a peer-to-peer
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
In 1993 it was all about instant telecommunication coming in the future, which seemed like crazy scifi at the time. Now I think the next horizon is instant simulation. In 30 years, we'll be able to simulate just about anything we want.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
"As an academic community, we are committed to a vision of inclusive debate and free and open inquiry." Which has recently been revealed wasn't possible on Twitter, especially since 2016. Shadow banning, de-trending, and canc
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I've kept a daily log of my health, work, activity, etc. since 2010 and was curious about this too. No change at all for me over the past 12 years. I get some kind of mild cold once a year and a major flu-like sickness every 3 years or
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
That's difficult to evaluate since "good" is subjective. So is "selling well", to be honest. I assume you mean a game that is reasonably finished and polished and not simply shovelware, but still not getting the sal
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
That is fascinating. Can you suggest readings in "population genomics" that have challenged the established historical record? I'm tolerant of divergent opinions yet like to stay grounded in somewhat rigorous methods.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
Good point. Reckless behavior may not mean "swerving to save someone else" which is what pulling a lever would be. I struggle with with the Trolley Problem because the pulling of the lever is always intentional.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
It would need to be tried, but yes, involuntary manslaughter is a real possibility in that scenario. Intent is not needed for going to jail.
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Hancock but also work with professional archeologists (though I am not one myself). I regularly read "kooky" topics as well as established science papers and monographs. To my eye, none of this should be this
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by stolenmerch 4y ago
It's a legacy term that made the leap each new generation. Apple's decision to name their device the iPhone helped solidify it.

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