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by weswpg 6y ago
From Facebook Reality Labs: > Today in Nature Communications, Chang and David Moses, a postdoctoral scholar in Chang’s lab at UCSF, published the results of a study demonstrating that brain activity recorded while people speak could be u
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Real-time decoding question-and-answer speech dialogue with human brain activity(nature.com)
1 points by weswpg 6y ago|1 comments
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by weswpg 6y ago
reddit comment threads have upvotes and downvotes, that's sort of an open-ended survey with a voting mechanism.
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by weswpg 6y ago
what percentage of immigrants - of any origin - are criminals and rapists? the quote: > “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said in the same speech. “They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’r
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by weswpg 6y ago
I liked WP8. What would you have done differently?
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by weswpg 6y ago
For anyone who also thinks Ben Shapiro is a "serious thinker", here is the thesis that "Perhaps Ben Shapiro Shouldn't Be Taken Seriously By Anyone About Anything": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by weswpg 6y ago
Evidently OP is eager to promote the people on that list and believes they are serious thinkers
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by weswpg 6y ago
Interesting but your app promotes this list of culture-war entertainers [0] and presents them as the "Intellectual Dark Web", including Ben "just sell your underwater house if the sea levels rise" Shapiro; that's a
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by weswpg 6y ago
> So far, there's at least one picture of Hunter with a meth pipe that doesn't appear to be manipulated. That seems to indicate there's some non-zero something there, with how much being up for debate. It is already public
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by weswpg 6y ago
Maybe national identity is the issue, rather than ethnic identity. In Japan's case, they had continuity of government and a professional bureaucracy.
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by weswpg 6y ago
apparently part of the problem here was simply the fact that they used the columns [1] (of which there are far fewer, even on newer versions of excel) instead of the rows [1] https://twitter.com/standupmaths/status&#x
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by weswpg 6y ago
not really, because being either "pro-brexit" or "anti-brexit" wasn't the real choice. there was a [3-choice condorcet paradox]( https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/brexit-condorcet/ )
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by weswpg 6y ago
> it appears this was "produced" by an AI, but it also exists verbatim elsewhere as written by a human, so it was probably picked up in the training data and then spat back out unaltered > so if it decides to start with A, a
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“AI-generated” content is sometimes just unaltered training data(twitter.com)
3 points by weswpg 6y ago|2 comments
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by weswpg 6y ago
Well, given that there is no universal clock and time is defined locally for each observer, including each particle, it would be more strictly accurate to say that "the matter which later formed our solar system has experienced 13 bill
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by weswpg 6y ago
Obviously the point is that the gap between how much the person deserves and how much they're paid is particularly significant in this case
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by weswpg 6y ago
here's a man who was laying down on the ground, hands in the air, talking calmly. cop still shot him: > When the 2016 incident occurred, Soto had fled his group home with a shiny silver toy truck. Kinsey, a behavioral therapist, lay
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by weswpg 6y ago
if you're unaware of the slogan "abolish the police", you haven't been following all that closely. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abol...
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by weswpg 6y ago
also, the dictionary definition of 'defund' means "to withdraw funding from" if you wanted to campaign on partially defunding the police, then you'd get a different reaction. i'm not aware of any previous maj
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by weswpg 6y ago
this wouldn't happen if it weren't for the slogan "abolish the police" proponents need to accept that it's just bad framing
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by weswpg 6y ago
You're right and the person you're replying to is wrong. PBS spacetime videos on Youtube explain it well
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by weswpg 6y ago
error upon verifying account: 2 validation errors detected: Value at 'username' failed to satisfy constraint: Member must have length greater than or equal to 1; Value at 'username' failed to satisfy constraint: Member m
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by weswpg 6y ago
I feel like the abyss just gazed back at me ...but a the same time, there a lot of joke versions of this on Twitter where people pretend a bot came up with something so i'm jaded. it sounds like exactly what someone would come up with
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by weswpg 6y ago
I refuse to believe that a person didn't write that. every sentence is relevant to the thesis and coherently follows from the previous thought
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by weswpg 6y ago
isn't methane much worse for the environment than generating power from hydrogren?
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by weswpg 6y ago
> You can add native expand-and-collapse components to your site using the details and summary elements. WHAT WHAT WHAT This whole time it was THAT easy??? I've been using Bootstrap and javascript every time I needed that
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by weswpg 6y ago
Highlights: > the narrative framework is established by the relationships among all of the elements of the storyline. And, it turns out, conspiracy theories tend to form around certain elements that act as the adhesive holding the facts
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by weswpg 6y ago
turn off enhanced tracking protection in Firefox if the content doesn't load
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by weswpg 6y ago
Unofficial versions exist https://github.com/Abdillah/hypothesis-firefox The one I use works fine
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by weswpg 6y ago
Oops! Yes, that was just what came to mind when I meant to be referring to non-flat spacetime in general

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