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Crisis, Conflict, Consequences, Niall Ferguson (video)(intelligencesquaredplus.com)
1 points by ur-whale 3y ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
However big it may be, it still hallucinates very, very badly. I just asked it an economics question and asked it to cite its sources. All the links provided as sources were complete BS. Color me unimpressed.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
That's a whole lot of Zhangs!
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by ur-whale 3y ago
How is a reorg at Google any kind of news ? Last I spoke to folks working there, these seem to happen every y-ending day.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.ph/G0nbZ
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Germany is flunking the education test(economist.com)
5 points by ur-whale 3y ago|4 comments
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Mitsuba 3: Caustic Design [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ur-whale 3y ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Why did every other video make it so confusing! In my experience, with very few notable exceptions (e.g. Feynmann), researchers are the worst when it comes to clearly explaining to others what they're doing. I'm at the point
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> has a complete manual that explains it all. So does quantum field theory, which, as a matter of fact, has many manuals. Doesn't mean either QFT or grub are understandable or even usable by mere mortals. Difference being than in th
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> It's far from clear how grub package updates work on Ubuntu It's far from clear how grub works, uprade or otherwise, period. Much less how to configure it or install it. Sendmail.cf or jq level configuration language in terms
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/y9cRS
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by ur-whale 3y ago
With automated translation and the general availability giant corpuses of English text, it strikes me that at the very least a partial ordering can be imposed on the set of languages. As in: to compare two languages A and B, translate large
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by ur-whale 3y ago
The translator gets translated.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> They'll do literally anything rather than implementing JPEG XL over AVIF in Chrome, huh? Before making that kind of claim, I would spend some time looking at the names of the folks who contributed heavily to the development of JPE
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/5NQOa
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Public boasting as a mitigation strategy, that's got to be a new one. Not entirely sure it's a wise approach given the deeply asymmetric infrastructure costs of DDoS attacks, especially if the attacker has access to a botnet. [EDI
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> that I find endearing. SBF is an archetypical pathological liar combined with an ego the size of the empire state building. He's gotten away his entire life lying for a living all the while looking down on people around him for be
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by ur-whale 3y ago
You're confusing tax collection and tax increases. According to your logic we should be at a tax rate on gas close to 99%.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Can't imagine handling a Linux crisis without ssh [EDIT]: typo
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by ur-whale 3y ago
The CG animation at the beginning to get an idea of the scale of the system is well worth it.
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Nvidia's Breakthrough AI Chip Defies Physics [video](youtube.com)
8 points by ur-whale 3y ago|1 comments
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Shor's algorithm is a polynomial-time solution to the discrete logarithm problem Yes, exactly, and the discrete logarithm problem is but a narrow sliver of a much larger class of trapdoor functions, most of which don't have t
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Large-scale quantum computers are capable of breaking all of the common forms of asymmetric cryptography used on the Internet today. Is that actually true? I was under the impression that there exists quite a large class of trapdoor fu
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> App store were a mistake Like most thing on the internet that are designed to make the end user's life easier while boiling the frog behind the scenes, centralizing control and taking away end user freedom. Story as old as the wor
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I really hope somebody sues The EU is unfortunately not the US. Suing governments there, much less the EU govt itself is not really something that is "done".
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Centralized infrastructure at its very best.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Centralized infrastructure at its very best.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Scholar PDF Reader is available as a Chrome browser extension So it's a closed ecosystem for now ... pass.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Can someone explain why the weights are posted via a Bittorrent magnet link? I think the best way to get an answer to that question is to try to host it yourself and see what happens.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/DOfaY

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