tomrod

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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   Your implicit assumption with the web dev is that this scales. Unfortunately, that may not be the case.
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   I'm not sure this is true. I think schools are forced to pass people they shouldn't by policy. But does that mean they barely teach fundamentals?
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   I am not sure that is a useful principle. I tend to keep an umbrella around in the car regardless whether the forecast calls for rain. Do these people similarly avoid stock markets, insurance, and similar products in the risk space?
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   Yes. Arresting people for civil infractions (such as overstaying a visa, or even citizens caught in drag nets or protests) and taking them to 3rd party nations for detention is definitely a tactic a totalitarian police state would employ. P
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   At the rate they are also arresting citizens, I think there is no one truly safe.
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   What a cool story. Not tech for tech's sake, but tech that grows into something simpler, more efficient, and more world-opening for something as wonderful as the Vidalia onion
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   How I wish such blithe, naive approaches could solve the major social quandries of our time. Unfortunately experience and time have proven lack of support is a death sentence to so many, to the detriment of all.
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   I want to sign up for a service that charges people a penny to deliver an email to me -- otherwise the email is undeliverable. Even a minor cost to delivery will dramatically reduce spam.
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   by tomrod 10mo ago

   This is why it measures intensity. It is a flow.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Wasn't there a whole impeachment or two about that?
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    The only acceptable opinion today should be that slavery of all stripes, practiced both before the emancipation proclamation, as well as today in both prison settings and trafficking, is abhorrent.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Cars, wagons, carts, are not ships
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    GDP produced divided by costs required measures intensity. These will be typically normalized (inflation removed) or, if a ratio, can be nominal since both have the inflation ratioed out. GDP is known to be an imperfect measure, especially
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Not all AI algorithms are neural networks. So from the get go, you are conflating terms to propose an underspecified and improperly esoteric worldview. We invented AI. That the structure of a neuron inspired one subsystem architecture frame
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    I disagree strongly. AI came from smart engineering and design applied to algorithms developed for intellectual curiosity. It was absolutely invented.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Ooh. I'll check it out.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    I make a ton of progress with ipython and vim/st3/other text editor with a vertical split. I sometimes screen the terminal in two if I want to run external elements. We seem to keep iterating back to that modality, but honestly, i
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    This can become unmanageable if you sign up for more than a few things.
19. 289.▲
    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Proton allows you to alias. But a lot of places prevent aliases, which is silly. I shouldn't have to give an email to demo your chatbot.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    All academic work is critiqued. It doesn't make it wrong though. Your notion of fluidity is specifically what original poster missed entirely.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    No, really. You could make a city be defended but there was no great way to make a nation state before gunpowder without natural barriers in place. Further, trade goods are found over large distances, which doesn't work over large dist
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    100%
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Indeed. "Spectral" describes the collection of eigenvalues!
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    What, your ancestors between 600k years ago up to 150 years ago are a joke to you? Human history began with European Great Powers? Göbekli tepe easily refutes your isolationism, as does stone- and bronze-age globalism.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    I would be interested in learning about the logistical details. Calorie requirements? Sleeping? Costs? etc. A blog or a book format would make for killer reading!
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    > The paternalistic state does not allow you autonomy over your own body. Evidence to the contrary - fishing during free time.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Hilarious and literally my same thought. I think it is _fascinating_ how we can modulate these amazing biological machines to do all kinds of tricks. I wish we had a better effect discovery process, something akin to alphafold where the spa
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    I wasn't speaking to this interaction, and my point is genuine. Simonw has done fantastic work in the LLM space
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Hell, I would consider myself graced that simonw, yes, THAT simonw, the LLM whisperer, took time out of his busy schedule to send me to a discussion I might have expressed interest in.
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    by tomrod 10mo ago

    Eigenvector/eigenvalues: direction and amount of stretch a matrix pushes a basis vector.