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tanseydavid
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3mo ago
Emphatic "SECOND" to this recommendation. This is a very enjoyable and touching film.
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>> but not everything ought to be an always on chatterbox Nothing deserves to an "always-on-chatterbox" unless the end-user truly chooses it because that is what they want or need. This is part of the larger problem. How ma
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3mo ago
> No one cares about the actual choice, only that it is made. If the actual choice requires me to install an app then I care quite a lot and will probably decline to join in. I don't think that I am the only one who feels this way.
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> Some people obviously just got really into the idea of sailing to the islands. Not to be argumentative, but why would we think that the Polynesians knew that Hawaii (as one example) was out there in the middle of the vast Pacific. Wher
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3mo ago
If you leave your house unlocked and someone steals your stuff AND is never caught, you're SOL.
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3mo ago
Thanks for stopping by to leave 4 separate, scathing, contempt-filled comments. So I guess it is safe to assume that you would not be interested in a "a support group for developers alienated by LLMs?" Yes, that is a rhetorical qu
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3mo ago
Can you find one? Can you hire them? It is basically a "snipe-hunt".
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3mo ago
The heads on 8-track players would move physically to access the 4 pairs of stereo and inevitably would mis-track as they aged. This was more awful than just the marginal fidelity of a perfectly aligned 8-track machine.
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3mo ago
SAMA will Sam.
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> Honestly where do you even go if you want to get out from under this? Mars is nice this time of year.
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> He who brings the slop cannon shall be drowned by slop rain. If this approach gets widely adopted, then I think you should probably start building an ARK. Make it big enough to hold two of every animal species. /s
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3mo ago
And then you came to tell the rest of us that "you did not read it?" Why do that?
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I was almost ready to become a paying customer but upon learning of this it means I will stop using the AllTrails completely.
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3mo ago
Your comment could be interpreted different ways but I have to assume you meant: * Lower 90% gets prosecuted * Upper 10% gets a free-pass
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3mo ago
Scope creep. No thanks. Get a partner that is already in Pharma.
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3mo ago
In landscape on an iPhone it is very readable. In portrait, not so much as you have pointed out.
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3mo ago
Every time I see a photo of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Abbas Araghchi, I instantly think I am looking at a picture of author Nicholas Nassim Talib (Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness). Am I the only one?
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3mo ago
Office Space: Laser Printer murder scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjsSr3z5nVk
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3mo ago
Are the "enthusiasts" that you speak of enamored by something like a WIFI-enabled clothes washer?
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Consider the classic ambiguity example from Natural Language Processing: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana". Markov chains are mostly about memorized local co-occurrence, while transformers are much better at co
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A modern version of the idea encapsulated in posters and bumper stickers that read: "It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber"
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4mo ago
How many people get injured each year in the US by Placards or Air Horns? And then answer the same question about fireworks...
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4mo ago
>> ban gasoline leaf blowers These things are indeed "The Devil's Hairdryer"
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When do we get our first DoorDash-trained model? </sarc>
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4mo ago
If you sniff an individual who is smokes Marlboro reds and compare to the scent of someone who smokes Marlboro lights (for example) there is a very noticeable difference.
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4mo ago
That's beautiful irony.
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If a court order was involved then the offense would be "fraud on the court" -- and much scarier for the undecided fraudster.
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There should be verification that: * the reporter actually exists * and is in fact who claim to be * and ALSO that they have control of the copyright in question If any of these is not required then asymmetry is far too much.
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Planck's papers contained multiple em-dashes -- so, clearly he used ChatGPT to write these papers. He should have known better. </sarc>
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4mo ago
IMHO they are both arrogant scoundrels for doing this.
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