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by waveBidder 2y ago
Look, nobody is talking about Nebraska. the density of the east coast is easily high enough to support high speed high quality rail.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
the same reason omnivores are sometimes highly critical of veg*ns: there's a moral claim going on, so their identity/ moral standing is threatened.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
maybe I'm just super used to it at this point but I don't really notice any friction in 1-1's. larger groups there's some (4+), but tbh it's not that much worse than the friction of that size in person
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by waveBidder 2y ago
> And that, perhaps, is the real danger of kudzu. Our obsession with the vine hides the South. It veils more serious threats to the countryside, like suburban sprawl, or more destructive invasive plants such as the dense and aggressive c
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by waveBidder 2y ago
> everything visible from the highway, But isn't this exactly what the article is arguing? > As trees grew in the cleared lands near roadsides, kudzu rose with them. It appeared not to stop because there were no grazers to eat i
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Facebook immediately comes to mind. Does google even have an ad-free version? Youtube nominally does (though that doesn't stop channels from running their own).
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Then separate out the basic science from the defense work which requires that bureaucratic oversight. Or direct that funding to universities. My main point is allowing monopolies because they direct their excess profits to research to hide
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by waveBidder 2y ago
just skip the middle man skimming off the top and 10x the national labs funding.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html has most of the public ones
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by waveBidder 2y ago
this is kind of a thing in the States, the program is called Nwss. https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/index.html
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by waveBidder 2y ago
The losers. The winners are too busy governing to give a shit. https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/
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by waveBidder 2y ago
journals have zero incentives to care about any of this.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
banks aren't safe because they're unrobbable, they get robbed all the time. They're safe because they're the ones taking on the risk. Data isn't fungible like cash though.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
modern polite way of saying rtfm
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Generally agree, though Mathematica is for physics, I rarely saw it used by mathematicians, especially compared with MATLAB, which was closer to the programming language of choice. That or Julia were both more common. > I think that Pyt
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by waveBidder 2y ago
in addition to neighbor, there are multiple standards for everything, even core language features like objects, which makes reasoning about code difficult. dplyr and friends, which make the aforementioned data analysis easier, require inter
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by waveBidder 2y ago
I'm in this picture, and I'm begging my collaborators to move to Julia or Python.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
with FDIC gone? unlikely, in such a case the dollar will probably have lost value as a means of exchange, if only temporarily
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by waveBidder 2y ago
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, a
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by waveBidder 2y ago
if FDIC is going down you have way worse problems than mere access to cash
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by waveBidder 2y ago
A difficult to guess fraction of all of these results are training to the test in various forms
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by waveBidder 2y ago
privacy isn't really a market power problem though, because you can have a market in such data. We need comprehensive laws protecting privacy before an agency can enforce them.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
As far as I understand it, there's a standing hypothesis that cortical columns have a similar structure that is designed to learn arbitrary patterns via predictive coding, and that a lot of human plasticity arises from the interaction
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by waveBidder 2y ago
You could maybe make a case for CNNs, but the fact that they're feed-forward rather than feedback means they're fundamentally representing a different object (CNN is a function, whereas the visual system is a feedback network).
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Because the tools we need to measure differences between the proposed models are more than the current total economic output. We'll need several generations before its feasible.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
There's no reason it's intelligence should care about your goals though. the worry is creating a sociopathic (or weirder/worse) intelligence. Morality isn't derivable from first principles, it's a consequence of val
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by waveBidder 2y ago
no, there's really no comparing barely nonlinear algrebra that makes up transformers and the tangled mess that is human neurons. the name is an artifact and a useful bit of salesmanship.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
So only applicable for students, but office hours are frequently extremely under-utilized, and professors love to talk about their subject of interest.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Back in Sacramento I saw a 1500 with a decal of mud on their shiny spotless truck. They went out of their way to announce how useless the vehicle actually was.
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by waveBidder 2y ago
Well if that doesn't demonstrate their priorities I don't know what would.

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