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by therobot24 3y ago
whenever biometrics pops up on HN i always have to post the reminder that a biometric is _both_ a username & password bundled as one login credential. People like to compare biometrics to passwords, but that's a bad analogy because
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by therobot24 3y ago
not crazy with some of the results, e.g., https://www.bulletpapers.ai/paper/1d002187-927d-6775-94e2-a4... - Bulletpapers title: Using robots to map and digitize construction sites - Paper title: Multi-agent robotic sys
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by therobot24 3y ago
Read the https://www.stateof.ai/ reports or even the Stanford AI Index ( https://aiindex.stanford.edu/ ) reports from the last few years. There's plenty of reason to try to create some limits on AI. It&#
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by therobot24 3y ago
>> 2. Engage in, promote, incite, facilitate, or assist in the planning or development of activities that present a risk of death or bodily harm to individuals, including use of Llama 2 related to the following: >> a. Military,
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by therobot24 3y ago
in general, there's an economic argument to be made that if you pay disproportionate wages for unskilled labor then there will likely be less skilled labor (doctors, engineers, etc.) in the market which can cripple the ability of the a
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by therobot24 3y ago
> put back into the economy oof is that the bar we want to set? spend it and you're fine
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by therobot24 4y ago
i mean we've heard this for years, diet + exercise = healthy, i dunno how much more they need to 'beat the drum' on this really
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by therobot24 4y ago
isn't this why HTML was invented? agree that it'd be nice to have a markdown file be rendered inherently within the browser so i don't have to use haroopad on my windows machine, but it feels like we're just going to rei
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by therobot24 4y ago
kids man it's the point of your life where disposable income is easily spent to make them happy and you look at products not with respect to shelf life, but with respect to how much the kid will _actually_ enjoy them even if for only a
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by therobot24 4y ago
a lot of comments here recognize what a discussion of 'diversity and inclusion' on this forum (HN) is likely to contain -- i.e., HN should recognize it's own stereotypes of tech culture being toxic which only reinforces _any_
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by therobot24 4y ago
you should really step out of your bubble every so often, sounds like you're projecting your experience onto everyone else without really thinking about or considering what life is like in other places
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by therobot24 4y ago
Just updated & enabled indexing my books to try out the full text search engine.
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by therobot24 4y ago
the archives make it seem like this stopped publishing last summer
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by therobot24 4y ago
this site is much more usable when no-script blocks any javascript
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by therobot24 5y ago
Situational Awareness is largely separated into 3 levels -- first level (perception), 2nd level (comprehension),and 3rd level (prediction) Understanding while not completely described by situational awareness definitely has some relationshi
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by therobot24 5y ago
it really isn't, there's plenty of very smart people in the gov and it's incredibly short sighted (just as reagan was) to assume that less money & more restrictions in how the job operates = lower quality worker
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by therobot24 5y ago
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by therobot24 5y ago
>> Imagine that you were waved into the building by guards no one was waved in, there's plenty of video of people breaking windows and through doors to get in
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by therobot24 5y ago
Every time biometrics is on HN i end up losing karma cause people disagree with me. I did my PhD on biometrics and while i've transitioned to a different field since graduation, i'd like to think i have some insight into the field
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by therobot24 5y ago
i think the difference is compelled speech - you don't have to 'say' your biometric user/pass combo
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by therobot24 5y ago
they are both a username and a password as a single entity, they identify the user and verify said user
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by therobot24 5y ago
efficiency problems of the US military can largely be blamed on a few factors: 1) It's absolutely, mind-mindbogglingly huge and it's nearly impossible to track all that's going on in the many, many different areas in any mean
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by therobot24 5y ago
surprise pikachu -- technology associated with highly polarizing individual is targeted for any cyber exploits
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by therobot24 5y ago
>> half the memory is an improvement would call it more than just an "improvement", only using 1/2 memory is pretty freakin great when you're already known for hogging mem
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by therobot24 5y ago
tarball links on the project page (berkeley site) are broken
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by therobot24 5y ago
>> The mere fact that someone does not hold with leftist ideology does not imply this criticism is "not in good faith", the opposite is actually true. fair >> Yes, the university curriculum - and especially the humanit
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by therobot24 5y ago
>> If you disagree I'd like you to explain where I am wrong instead of just downvoting this post. Explain it in clear terms, using words which were in use in the 90's, which can be looked up paper copies of dictionaries from
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by therobot24 5y ago
come on, there's no conspiracy going on, what you're calling 'the left' is probably rooted in empathy for others (which spirals into things the gov can do, e.g., provide resources, perform more functions/expand, etc
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by therobot24 5y ago
for those who didn't read the article here's some quotes: > Thomas Piketty, an economist, became famous for a book that analysed 200 years of data on wealth inequality in a wide range of countries. This month he published a pap
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by therobot24 5y ago
>> Have a look around the average university campus, look at the curriculum. not sure what you mean here, what exactly are you postulating? Is it that there's a bias in any university curriculum? Is it that a large group of a you

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