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by thedailymail 1mo ago
This felt like a hit piece and ended up making me more sympathetic to Acemoglu (about whom I previously had no strong opinion). The critique of his paper on different forms of imperialism (extractive, constructive) was quite weak for work t
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by thedailymail 3mo ago
At that level of specificity, you could just say that a meter is "about a yard".
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by thedailymail 4mo ago
I read and enjoyed that book out of a general interest in the history of ideas, but admit I am not able to judge the underlying mathematics. Is the "fiction" part only related to descriptions of his mathematical contributions, or
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by thedailymail 5mo ago
I'm curious whether this type of goblin epidemic was seen in other language versions of ChatGPT. Did e.g. Japanese users see more yõkai turning up?
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by thedailymail 5mo ago
Why not the Sun?
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by thedailymail 9mo ago
The supplementary files in that paper—verbatim reproductions of the full texts of Frankenstein and The Great Gatsby—are pretty instructive. The research group highlighted all additions and omissions, but on most pages the differences are di
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by thedailymail 10mo ago
Nice concept but could use some more procedurally generated LLM content
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by thedailymail 10mo ago
>Trump's declaring that he'll be involved with deciding who WB-Discovery-HBO can be sold to. This needs to be developed into a The Apprentice-style show where aspirants truckle before the king as they make their pitches.
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by thedailymail 10mo ago
In the same essay ("Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," 1930) where he predicted the 15-hour workweek, Keynes wrote about how future generations would view the hoarding of money for money's sake as criminally insan
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by thedailymail 1y ago
Or maybe the artist was inspired by the connection of the Phrygian cap with psychedelic "liberty cap" mushrooms (Psilocybe semilanceata), which are distributed widely across Europe and associated with elves, fairies and various ot
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by thedailymail 1y ago
Somehow we got an inverted version of the Monty Python "I'd like to buy an argument" skit
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97(apnews.com)
22 points by thedailymail 1y ago|2 comments
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by thedailymail 1y ago
When kids say (as one does in this essay) that AI will do the writing for them in the future anyway, so there's no point in learning to write, they have a point. But there is a second function of writing, which is to strengthen parts o
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by thedailymail 1y ago
I just fell out a window and am on my way down! I sure hope I don't straddle that sawhorse when I land... Ow! My balls!!
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by thedailymail 1y ago
>While these actions were not a breach of any regulation, SEBI said that the “intensity and sheer scale” of their intervention, and the rapid reversal of their trades “without any plausible economic rationale, other than the concurrent a
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by thedailymail 1y ago
In the early days of the pandemic it was widely reported (erroneously) that tobacco smoking was protective against SARS-CoV-2. I don't know if OP was thinking along such lines, but it would be understandable if they were. https:/
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by thedailymail 1y ago
I don't want to be pedantic or prescriptive, but it's "imminent" not "eminent." (The wrong word got introduced upstream in this thread and was taken up by multiple commenters.)
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by thedailymail 1y ago
[Opt]+[-] is for en-dash (at least on macos). For an em-dash, it's [Shift]+[Opt]+[-].
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by thedailymail 1y ago
I think the intended meaning is actually we give you better performance than the competition, which sells at double or more our low price of $595 (i.e., they compare the C64 favorably to other computers ranging from $899 to $1565.)
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by thedailymail 1y ago
Mission drift can sometimes go in a positive direction. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, for example, functioned primarily as a tax evasion vehicle while Hughes was alive. After his death, the HHMI was in deep trouble with the IRS and s
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by thedailymail 1y ago
Oh wow - TIL! I wish I could edit or delete the above. Anyway thanks for correcting me.
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by thedailymail 1y ago
Notably, Krebs just had his security clearance revoked by Trump & Co. 12 days ago for posing "risks". https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...
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by thedailymail 2y ago
"It has an impressive resume, being the most studied animal in the world, subject of more investigations than even the Drosophila melanogaster or common fruit fly that resides in thousands of laboratories around the world." It wou
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by thedailymail 2y ago
I never noticed this until scrolling through this image gallery, but the design of these ads consistently and prominently highlights the first letters of "More Doctors," which was almost certainly intended to visually reinforce th
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by thedailymail 2y ago
Newton was public domain by Einstein's time.
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by thedailymail 2y ago
Not OP, but I think the logic thread goes something like: Through taxes, we pay the government to exercise various protective functions, such as equipping the law enforcement and the military to identify and respond to existential threats.
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by thedailymail 2y ago
I confess to still using skype w two old friends, mainly because i resisted getting a phone until a few months ago and couldn't text by SMS. But I'll be unsurprised when microsoft finally pulls the plug
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by thedailymail 2y ago
I'm not a Silicon Valley guy, but sign me up
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by thedailymail 2y ago
I was especially curious about "...but if for good reasons you must kiss the baby there are some things that can reduce the infection danger you pose." I tried to come up with a single reason why anyone would feel they "must&
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by thedailymail 2y ago
I think this might be the article you mentioned https://benn.substack.com/p/do-ai-companies-work

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