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by wyattpeak 5y ago
The article seems to suggest that they only just found a compound which will interfere with the gene's action. So up until now, there was nothing to test. The 2014 result only showed that gene editing before birth might prevent cancers
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
To whatever extent that people in the 1920s can be said to have had algorithms for machine learning, they certainly didn't bear any relation to modern algorithms. Even the idea of requiring enough data to build a good system is fairly
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I'm not saying the idea would be new to them, the idea of thinking machines had been around for a lot longer than that. I'm saying that the idea that modern text-generation is "zero progress on anything even remotely resembli
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
If you showed somebody from 1921 a page of text produced by GPT-3, told them that it was written by a machine, and then told them that we'd made no progress towards artificial intelligence, they'd laugh in your face. You can take
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Someone with $21M doesn't belong in the same group as someone with $1B. Someone with few assets doesn't belong in the same group as someone deep in debt. All simplifying assumptions necessarily group some unlike elements. But we n
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Several of the example pictures show buildings at other angles, and they look like they handle angled lines in the obvious way, recessing the wall one block for each x blocks sideways. It looks a little odd but only in the same way a low-re
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> 3nm is not actually 3nm It's a stretch to blame that on Samsung, processor generations described in nanometres haven't been based on actual component size for years now, by any manufacturer.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
This sounds an awful lot like defences of hundred page EULAs: "So you made a decision not to read it...". No, it was intentionally designed in a way which discourages reading. In the case of this warning, it's possible that i
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Cybersecurity is a genuinely hard problem, but stuff like this is dropping the ball entirely. It's not hard to solve exploits like faulty permission-checking after they've been reported to you. Sure, there are always going to be
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think it's very likely Firefox want everybody to copy them. This is a fight best fought with everyone against Windows, and it's no particular skin off Firefox's nose if Chrome is also easy to use: since Chrome is basically
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
There are plenty of lines around what rights a genuinely held belief entitles you to. What the parent is saying is that there is no line between religious and other deeply-held beliefs.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I went searching, because it does sound like quite the quotable claim. Almost everyone who talks about the efficiency of handwashing seems ultimately to be referencing the same paper[1], although virtually nobody cites it. The peak of the d
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I feel like the real challenge isn't the software but the provision of delivery drivers. Before UberEats, there was a service in Australia called Menulog, did much the same thing but required restaurants to supply their own drivers. It
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think the parent is expressing a common line of thought in such cultures, not making a statement of their own beliefs.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5oGs2nX0As7BSC?format=png&name=... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5oGte-X0A8KMjl?format=png&name=... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5oGuKZXwAk
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Sunset is a pretty standard term for end-of-life in computing[1] and elsewhere[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_(computing) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Even as conspiracy theories go, "the Chinese are trying to turn our kids trans" is a wild one.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
That's possible too, though I don't subscribe to the idea that a widely used pronunciation can be incorrect.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Yeah, it does. I suspect it's not the standard pronunciation in my region, since Wiktionary lists it as an alternative American pronunciation and I'm Australian, but for whatever reason that's how I pronounce it.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I don't think that's the problem the clarification is designed to address. A plover is a type of bird, and in some accents it doesn't rhyme with either lover or hover. Nevertheless, the parent is right, in my accent hover and
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
While I'm with you on the weird degree to which he focuses on it, I'm not seeing the sympathy. And where's the mention of lighter sentencing? It reads instead to me as paternalistic and honestly verging into weirdly misogynis
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
How is this not advocating for users? They tested the idea based on a metric they hoped would improve among users, found it didn't work, and so left it as is. That the comments about it mostly come from developers or similarly tech-lit
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I'm 100% with you, but I know plenty of fairly computer-literate people who wouldn't know how to interpret a URL, and wouldn't know what to do with that information if they did. I don't know how those two stances, or the
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Pure speculation, but maybe because most of the commentary on this was coming from developers. I don't have an iPhone anymore but used to, and it was no problem that I only saw the domain, because on my phone I rarely cared about the s
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I'm not arguing that people can't reduce their carbon footprint, I'm arguing against a lazy suggestion that people don't actually care because they continue to buy any oil-based products, which is essentially unavoidable
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
That's not a remotely easy solution. It's just easy to state. If someone can afford solar panels and an electric car (or don't need a car to get to work), more power to them, but that doesn't describe the vast majority o
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> So long as their products are free, it’s hard to argue that consumers are suffering harm. Is it? There's an increasing antipathy towards the amount of data Google collect, many people on this forum, if not so much in the world at
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> There are only two clear, non-arbitrary rules I don't see any problem with having arbitrary rules so long as they roughly capture the spirit of the outcome people want. The eight-hour workday is an arbitrary rule. The age of major
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
The article seems to suggest that they did, but lacking sufficiently powerful simulations couldn't make progress on the idea.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I don't think it's at all peculiar to American English. Fortnight solves only one of the six situations spoken of in the article (twice a week/month/year, once every two weeks/months/years). It's good for

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