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uniq7
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2y ago
My point is that "I hate that guy, but I must greet him friendly, or else I will be in trouble" is already being concluded by the brain at the semantic space way before running the language encoder and playing the inner voice. Tha
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2y ago
> curious, did you start reading at a very early age? I started around 3 I did! I also learnt to read at 3. Your observation was really impressive. I've never thought about it being the cause of my weird quirks, I thought it was act
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2y ago
Language is just a way of encoding semantic meaning. If your brain already knows that it is time to wake up or that it hates that guy, what's the point of encoding a description of that feeling into spoken language and replay it? That
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2y ago
Through history and experience from other countries, there is a lot of data that let us correlate criminality with other variables that people would let the Government control (quality of children education, access to jobs, housing, healthc
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2y ago
Any laws with blurred lines will be used by the people in power against their political adversaries to keep them in power.
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2y ago
I have only read Craig Gentry, 2009 [1] (the first proposed FHE scheme), but the main idea is that an untrusted agent can perform operations on the encrypted data (i.e., addition and multiplication) and obtain an encrypted result. The untru
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2y ago
> I always felt that the game couldn't decide whether it was a shooter or a puzzle-adventure I think I remember reading an interview with the dev team where they explained that playing action for too long was boring, as well as solv
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2y ago
Never had TikTok, but that's exactly what I thought when Youtube introduced Shorts and I found myself spending long sessions in them. However, now I think it's the same infinite scroll we already had in twitter and reddit -- but i
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2y ago
Because people pay them. If we refused to pay them and bought similar or even worse alternatives out of spite, they wouldn't exist.
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2y ago
Chrome on Windows 10 here. The font rendering looks very similar (if not identical) to what I remember it in Win98 -- no antialiasing, 1px thick, very easy to spot the pixels on curved strokes, very easy to spot the pixels on bold style, et
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2y ago
You can configure your terminal to use a custom font with monochrome emojis.
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2y ago
He is asking because if they fixed it then he may consider installing it again?
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2y ago
From the article's summary: > Some common features are only accessible - and discoverable - through keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts listing is non-interactive, modal, and incurs a substantial mental context switch.
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2y ago
My pet peeve with slices and maps is that they hide a reference to the actual structure, and you are never sure of what you are modifying, or the performance impact when moving around big structures. Example with slices: https://
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2y ago
Can those random events of nature be called "simulations" though? In the purest meaning of the word, a simulation is the imitation of something which, in my opinion, means that there is a sentient intention for imitating a certain
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2y ago
If this is a simulation, chances are that someone is monitoring us, meaning that we can send information to the outside. If this observer can also send information to us, then we can have a very interesting conversation. I guess one way the
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2y ago
Games like Return of the Obra Dinn or The Case of the Golden Idol may give you exactly that feeling.
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2y ago
> I paid three hundred US dollars for this high-tech experience. That's a good incentive for companies to keep up with the "high-tech experience".
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3y ago
Lots of void text, lots of trademarks (even for the word kernel™...), lots of smoke, and nothing to show without giving out your email address first. I tried the demo. Most of the time the model understands the request but fails to deliver