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by truth_ 5y ago
When rules are made by the Brahmins, what do you expect?
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by truth_ 5y ago
But Buddhism does recognize human rights. I was just reading some days ago how Buddhist emperor Ashoka the Great abolished discriminating policy of a Brahmin never being punished to death irrespective of the nature and severity of the crime
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by truth_ 5y ago
Just some days ago researchers from Peking U and Microsoft published a paper[0] saying they can access "knowledge neurons" in pretrained embeddings that will enable "fact editing"[1]. [0]: https://arxiv.org&#x
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There's a lot of shady practices involved there, that is one of my points.
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by truth_ 5y ago
Is that not clear from my comment? Whether standardized tests are good or bad is a whole other debate. The point here is- they lobby to get standardized tests mandated where they were not, then they lobby snd push their tests for statewi
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by truth_ 5y ago
If the teachers are helpful, this would not be an issue. In most places I went to, teachers understood, and some peer always helped people with older textbooks. For problem set additions or extra chapters or pages, we used to photocopy thos
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by truth_ 5y ago
That's an unethical practice employed by some companies. Although in many cases it can be circumvented by buying old textbooks anyway. I am glad that many CS authors nowadays make textbooks available for free. And companies like O&#x27
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by truth_ 5y ago
Not totally unrelated: Pearson is a piece of trash company. They sell very overpriced textbooks and always use DRM in online copies. They lobby for standardized tests in states and get them mandated. Students are put through them. And guess
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by truth_ 5y ago
There is no such thing as "very mutated". Something is either mutated or not. Your comment goes aligned with the governement propaganda that this is happening only due to the more dangerous strain. I would agree with it if people
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by truth_ 5y ago
It comes down to convenience. I really like print books. I prefer them whenever I am reading something non-technical. Sometimes, even for technical content, I prefer print books, especially the books with which I will spend a lot of time. B
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by truth_ 5y ago
I found this a while ago in HN- https://towardsdatascience.com/my-first-encounter-with-julia... It was much better.
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by truth_ 5y ago
> a buggy patch originating from an experimental static-analysis tool run by another developer at UMN. That led developers in the kernel community to suspect that the effort to submit intentionally malicious patches was still ongoing. Si
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by truth_ 5y ago
You yourself are a victim of west-centrism. A lot of Buddhist abbots from India went to Thailand, Tibet (now in China), Sri Lanka, Cambodia, etc. and due to very wide differences in languages, they would have a new name or a weird version o
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by truth_ 5y ago
Your first paragraph is spot on. Some people are hell-bent on developing AGI (and these people should exist), and there are some doing SOTA-chasing by tweaking hyperparameters to the extreme and overfitting the data (these works are _mostly
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by truth_ 5y ago
I just use an Android client for HN that has AMOLED Dark Mode. Very happy with it.
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by truth_ 5y ago
Not completely unrelated: FB makes killer programming tools loved by most. - PyTorch for Deep Learning overtook TensorFlow in Academia and Competitions and breathing down the neck in Industry despite the latter having significant inertia. -
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The Puzzling Power of Simple Arithmetic(quantamagazine.org)
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On the Link Between Great Thinking and Obsessive Walking(lithub.com)
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by truth_ 5y ago
Surprisingly, there still exists demand for "live TV" rather than choosing the show because some people don't like to decide what they want to watch. Netflix is testing "live TV" in France [0][1][2]. [0]: https:&#x
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The Escalation of Commitment to a Course of Action (1981) [pdf](gwern.net)
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The abstract mentions people with 170 average IQ. Hawking had 169 IIRC. Physics PhDs are averagely on the range 130~145. That's much lower than people on the study. IQ is not taken seriously as a measure of intelligence or success anym
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by truth_ 5y ago
You also have to take into account how many people are not dying of Covid, but some other diseases because the healthcare system is overwhelmed by covid, and they did not get treatment. Which is immensely more sad. Most of these deaths woul
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by truth_ 5y ago
All I wanted was a sort by NSFW, and top.
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by truth_ 5y ago
You cannot speak the truth anymore. Dawkins began to fall out of grace of the western left after he started to criticize Islam. When he only criticized Christianity, he was their darling. Remember, "Just because some are underdogs, doe
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by truth_ 5y ago
They said on Twitter that they have no plans now to include it.
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by truth_ 5y ago
"Smart" and "intelligent" people are just people born in relative financial ease with enough time to focus on studies and very likely with parents in academia or similar fields who made their children aware of the inner
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by truth_ 5y ago
True. Even though Parsees escaped Iran to flee Islamic persecution one day, they have become Indians. Identifying them as "Iranians" is dumb.
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by truth_ 5y ago
I use Podbean coupled with Pocket Casts. They do everything I need. These apps are really useful. Also, there are only so many things that you expect from a Podcast app- - Does not have ads. (Some banner ads are okay) - Offers download in e
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by truth_ 5y ago
LaTeX support!
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by truth_ 5y ago
How can I use it on the posts in my blog hosted at GitHub pages? I use Jekyll to build my blog. Do you have a tutorial for that?

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