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My key takeaways: 1. The primary reason for the reduction in our purchasing power is not the supply-chain disruptions occasioned by government responses to the COVID pandemic, let alone Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine 2. It is actions
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My key takeaways: 1. This year, “Bambi: A Life in the Woods” has entered the public domain, and the Chambers version has been joined by a new one: “The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest” (Princeton), translated by Jack Zipes
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My key takeaways: 1. Scientists: Japan’s Plan To Dump Nuclear Waste Into The Pacific Ocean May Not Be Safe 2. A panel of scientists has identified critical gaps in the data supporting the safe discharge of wastewater into the Pacific 3. Ind
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My key takeaways: 1. Total global military expenditure increased by 0.7 per cent in real terms in 2021, to reach $2113 billion 2. In nominal terms, however, military spending grew by 6.1 per cent. 3. As a result of a sharp economic recovery
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Basically, the TTY driver keeps track of the foreground process group id, but only in a passive way. A user process can affect the behavior of any TTY device by manipulating the corresponding device file under /dev. For example, a user
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It’s just simple keyword matching in the order of appearance on the list. I did something similar with the DMOZ directory: https://www.locserendipity.com/DMOZ.html Also, as an experiment, I developed an auto-summarizer, scr
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Pretty cool! I recently tried to recreate something like this, but hopefully better: https://locserendipity.com/Therapy.html
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Also this Project Gutenberg randomizer: https://www.locserendipity.com/Gutenberg.html
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I parsed through the Library of Congress digital records to find an out-of-copyright subset, and developed a search engine that is unique in that it is technologically impossible for me to track searches, as the index loads in the page. It
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Or you could use this page, which has 10 lines of code and uses the built-in API in your existing browser: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html
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I have heard from others that, “the democrats want to be in power forever.” And yet, the democrats didn’t literally try to violently overthrow the US government, like the Republicans did. That said, I have a lot of respect for Pence and oth
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My key takeaways: 1. Raskin said the committee will present "evidence" that proves there was coordination among then-President Donald Trump and his inner circle and his supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan 6 2. Members of th
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Jan. 6 revelations will 'blow the roof off the House,' Rep. Jamie Raskin says(nbcnews.com)
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Here are the manuscripts: https://www.locserendipity.com/TitleSearch.html?q=Boccaccio
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Thanks! I think I fixed the issue you were having. Please let me know if it works better for you now.
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If the output doesn’t make sense, try re-entering your input until something satisfactory shows up. This is a simple algorithm that uses real prompts and corresponding responses by a therapist (somewhat edited to be more general) to match t
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My key takeaways from this article: 1. An Indigenous community that’s made Tierra del Fuego home for thousands of years, the Yaghan, currently lives on Navarino Island, Chile, and across the Beagle Channel (Onashaga in the Yaghan language)
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This one is a combined therapy bot that uses both mixed techniques and a heavier dose of Rogerian techniques: https://locserendipity.com/Combined.html
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Yes, but it uses actual sessions that demonstrate principles of psychiatry like solution-focused therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.
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That is amazing. It shows that GTP3 can have and act on malice. Is it worth changing some of the details so it doesn’t want to hurt you?
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Some other relevant links on this piece: https://colonizedbydata.com/ https://www.sup.org/books/cite/?id=28816
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My key takeaways: 1. Artificial intelligence is creating a new colonial world order An MIT Technology Review series investigates how AI is enriching a powerful few by dispossessing communities that have been dispossessed before 2. As I simu
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Show HN: Simulated Generalized Therapy Bot(locserendipity.com)
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This is great! Here are my takeaways from that article. 1. Easy writing makes for hard reading; invest in editing and treat your reader like a customer 2. What’s the biggest difference between great writers and all the rest? It’s not talent
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I agree. Sometimes a transition statement is better. Sometimes one must present evidence, then summarize. This is just my summary of the full 120-slide PowerPoint.
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Good point. I hear the insurance for the commercial vehicles is much higher, too.
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These are valid points and good counterpoints to what the article presents.
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It probably comes down to quality moderation.
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My key takeaways: 1. Uber is actually a higher cost/less efficient producer of urban car services than the taxi companies it has driven out of business 2. Individual Uber drivers with limited capital cannot acquire, finance, maintain a
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To be clear, this is just a simple summary of the source. I agree with your statement, though. In fact, as Rudolf Flesch said in his book, How To Write Speak And Think More Effectively, "So here we have the secret of plain conversation

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