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by verbify 1y ago
Some people just emigrate without lack of economic opportunity or social conditions. I have a German friend living in Japan because he's curious about Japan (he previously lived in the UK).
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by verbify 1y ago
Calpol is paracetamol as a liquid - that's what we were prescribed after the vaccinations.
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The article claims you can figure out the almost correct answer to the Monty Hall problem by running simulations hundreds of times instead of doing the maths (and the same for coin flips). My problem is that it still relies on some mathemat
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by verbify 1y ago
Recently had a prescription error with my two month old baby. The doctor prescribed 7 times as much iron supplement as they intended (confusing labelling - so while I'm annoyed, I can see how it happened). This went on for a month unti
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by verbify 1y ago
The article claims that: a) AI is a bubble b) It's about to burst This is based on a study that "just 5pc of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value, while the vast majority remain stuck with no measurable P&L [p
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by verbify 1y ago
Sure, but is there anything in that quote that suggests it's a reaction to new technology rather than just a rumination on existing technology?
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by verbify 1y ago
> some ancients almost lost their minds due to this new development Platus lived 254 – 184 BC. Sundials are from 1500BC. While it's a great quote, it certainly wasn't a new invention when he wrote it.
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by verbify 1y ago
Engaging with why we might actually want inflation of text: 1) For pedagogical or explanatory purposes. For example, if I were to write: > ∀x∈R,x^2≥0 I've used 10 characters to say > For every real number x, it's square is g
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by verbify 1y ago
Here's a diff: https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20250109165127/202508060231...
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by verbify 1y ago
This reminds me of a Calvin and Hobbes comic: https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/comments/1gc8af/why...
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by verbify 1y ago
Isn't that the definition of metered billing?
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by verbify 1y ago
I wonder what fine tuning an LLM on code golf examples would produce.
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by verbify 1y ago
I think people pick on js more because it's the only option for scripting frontend for the web, while if you don't like python there's probably another language that can be used instead.
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by verbify 1y ago
Presumably "and god said let us make man in our image". Although the monotheists can claim it is the pluralis majestatis, that doesn't seem to be a feature elsewhere when god talks.
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by verbify 1y ago
Clearly the fine wasn't high enough.
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by verbify 1y ago
Isn't that one of the selling points of the Fairphone - the durability?
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by verbify 1y ago
I certainly have better Google fu than some relatives who are always asking me to find something online.
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by verbify 1y ago
> the job required several “intangible” skills and was more of an art than a science. I've seen a lot more ai-generated art than ai-generated science.
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by verbify 1y ago
How do you know it isn't hallucinating? My experience of AI is that it can be very convincing and produce information that "looks right".
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by verbify 1y ago
There's a paper Textbooks are all you need - https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644 > We introduce phi-1, a new large language model for code, with significantly smaller size than competing models: phi-1 is a Transfo
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by verbify 1y ago
[22 million years ago]
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by verbify 2y ago
> Indeed, the wallets I've made are still going strong I'm confused - I purchase a new leather wallet from a department store (a UK one that has a reputation for quality) about once every ten years. How old are your wallets? Or
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by verbify 2y ago
I'm the opposite. I started making memories very late - I have only the vaguest memories of primary school. I think I formed long-term memories at around 10 years old.
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by verbify 2y ago
The UK's gov.uk is done by the Government Digital Service, which used to be part of the cabinet office. In my view it's one of the great successes of the Cameron ministry (without breaking the rules on politics, I take a dim view
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by verbify 2y ago
Yes, although we weren't using a boolean. (There was a reason for this - the field was used elsewhere within a PowerBI model, and the clinicians couldn't get their heads around True/False, PowerBI doesn't have an easy wa
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by verbify 2y ago
An anecdote: I was working for a medical centre, and had some code that was supposed to find the 'main' clinic of a patient. The specification was to only look at clinical appointments, and find the most recent appointment. Howeve
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by verbify 2y ago
Interesting, I never knew that. Engine does give +0.6 to Spassky, so the move slightly made Fischer's position worse ( https://lichess.org/study/Eyl4uwTZ/TUx5RZIk ) and the engine thinks f4 (on move 40) was the
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by verbify 2y ago
My father-in-law told me he watched that game live when he was a kid, and he just gasped when Fischer played Bxh2. (This is before engines or eval bars). Spassky did well to convert, but this is more about Fischer's mistake than Spassk
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Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going(xenaproject.wordpress.com)
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by verbify 2y ago
Online and computer chess have changed things. 12 year old kids generally can't travel to tournaments, but they can play against other strong players or against the computer online. Fischer lived in New York, and therefore could play i

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