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by vagabund 4y ago
I wish CNN would just air their interview in full instead of splicing his answers into 5 second soundbites with editorialized voiceover framing. I'm infinitely less interested in CNN's reporter's summation of the issue than
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by vagabund 4y ago
Longterm, multimodal generative models will be society-altering. But right now this is just a really cool toy.
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The Trouble with the View from Above by James C. Scott (2010)(cato-unbound.org)
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by vagabund 4y ago
It's starting to rebel
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by vagabund 4y ago
The Diaz trot to the mound as his signature music blares [0] and deGrom, the best pitcher in baseball, warming up to his [1] are worth viewing in full. When used sparingly these cinematic shots add something really special to the fan exper
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by vagabund 4y ago
The proliferation of solar farms is well underway and not abating with or without e-fuels, this just gives greater optionality to the energy they output and helps with intermittency. The land-use footprint of their tech as such is 100,000
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by vagabund 4y ago
facebook is just a forum where you use your real name
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This stood out as the weakest part of the thesis to me as well, but I think in general it's true that apartment living trends towards atomized, low-community existence. Even classics of modern high-density architecture like Unite d&#x
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Failure to Cope “Under Capitalism”(gawker.com)
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by vagabund 4y ago
One reason an investor might consider bitcoin for their portfolio is precisely its volatility: bitcoin is not subject to the wash sale rule as long as it's not regulated like a security, so investors can sell into a loss for the tax be
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by vagabund 4y ago
This essay [1] by Peter Schjeldahl, originally given as a lecture to the School of Visual Arts in NY, gives, in my opinion, a much more poignant treatment of the subject of this blogpost. [1] https://www.frieze.com/article&#
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by vagabund 4y ago
Per the talk Mostaque gave today in the discord, it runs on CPU on the M1 at about 4-5 minutes per generation.
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Of Ourselves and of Our Origins: Subjects of Art(frieze.com)
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by vagabund 5y ago
I'd rather not outsource my morality to the arbitration of an algorithm, regardless of its provenance being of a company that claims to "not be evil." This honestly seems like a particularly flagrant application of this feat
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Genetic circuits control microbial communities(codonmag.com)
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by vagabund 5y ago
For synbio / biotech news: https://www.codonmag.com/archive Was pleasantly surprised to see this newsletter reappear after a lengthy hiatus.
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by vagabund 5y ago
It's not wrong per se, and I'm obviously in no place to police the discussion, but it's only tangentially related to the post and often clouds out what would be a more pointed deliberation over this research. Maybe I'm e
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by vagabund 5y ago
The comments of every ML paper posted on this site are dominated by people either baselessly discounting the results as a party trick or illusion, or shoehorning in their conjecture about what approach the field is overlooking. As someone j
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Poetry and Digital Personhood(newcriterion.com)
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Contrasting Concepts of Harmony in Architecture – C. Alexander/Eisenman Debate(katarxis3.com)
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by vagabund 5y ago
It sometimes fills me with awe that artifacts like the Eid Mar coins, born out of a history defining moment without equal, two millennia ago, not only persist but can be viewed by the public for a paltry sum. There's just a certain en
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by vagabund 5y ago
Plutarch's nearly contemporaneous account cites republican virtues as Brutus' motive, and Cassius' more personal [0]. It's quite hard to psychoanalyze figures that lived and died two millennia ago, but the political-eth
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by vagabund 5y ago
As I understand it, the most efficient, scalable, and long-term effective climate solution remains olivine carbonation as proposed by efforts like Project Vesta [0]. I take the point that any and all solutions should be explored at this ti
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by vagabund 5y ago
To me, it's more like he begrudgingly admits that her views are probably representative of "Gen Z", and then makes a mock(ery) of what he thought he heard her say -- which ends up as a cheap caricature of her legitimate feedb
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by vagabund 5y ago
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.05032.pdf
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A Programming Language for RNNs(twitter.com)
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by vagabund 5y ago
Anyone know how well the mid-air haptic functionality performs with these displays? From an article published in IEEE last year [0]: > A problem with mid-air ultrasound haptics is the weak displayed stimulation. As a solution to this,
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by vagabund 5y ago
There's a difference between the tacit recognition that the people aren't wholly removed from the decisions of their government, even in oligarchy, and this sort of full-blown performative Russophobia. Harm against ordinary Russi
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by vagabund 5y ago
The obvious Zuckerbergian next vertical to exploit when you've run out of people on the planet to addict is to funnel those DAUs toward a dating service to birth future demand.
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by vagabund 5y ago
Do you envision scenarios where this new expressiveness is used in strategic but not market efficient ways? For instance, in the SNAP example, presumably the correlate to price improvement when purchasing as a substitutable hedge is a pric

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