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by xdennis 1y ago
> Can you provide the source for that quote? 5 billion years seems way too soon. Yeah, seems off. According to Wikipedia it's 2 trillion years[1] until galaxies outside the Local Supercluster become undetectable. [1]: https:/&
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by xdennis 1y ago
I often try to test how usable LLMs are for Romanian language processing. This always fails. > Split these Romanian words into syllables: "șarpe", "șerpi". All of them say "șar-pe", "șer-pi" even t
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by xdennis 2y ago
I haven't used Mastodon, but I think what he's saying is that no one can choose to see the bot's content. He has his account on the mastodon.social instance, but since they block the instance where the bot is, he can't s
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by xdennis 2y ago
> Tariffs are going to bring in huge amounts of money. Which in turn can and should result in lowered taxes. Tariffs are taxes. Are you really going to be happy if you pay less in taxes but make up for it by paying tariffs? But I wouldn&
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Presumably you can't brick an engine. The F-35 can be.
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That money could have been used on drones or other weapons rather than buying expensive paper weights.
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If you think Taiwan shouldn't cease to exist, how else can you guarantee that? It's either nukes or US protection and nobody trusts the Americans anymore.
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by xdennis 2y ago
> How does a non Google owned Chrome support itself and continue development? You're literally pointing out the unfair advantage. The better question is how can all of the competitors manage? The answer is they can't very well
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by xdennis 2y ago
It's already a criminal offense to protest inside your mind. [1] [1]: https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-crimi...
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> He favours the aggressors. Not quite. He favours isolationism. It's just that Israel is an exception because many Americans (especially religious right wingers) view it akin to a 51st US state.
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He's not unpredictable. He's extremely self interested which makes him predictable.
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He has "joked" numerous times about his third term. It looks like he's preparing the ground for a Putin-style forever presidency.
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> that war has done permanent and lasting damage to it's economy and global position Assuming the Ukraine is forced to surrender and Russia keeps the territories, Russia's reputation will increase. They'll be able to say t
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> Ukraine’s situation is better than many people realize What makes you say that? I thought it was generally agreed that Ukraine has been on the back foot for a while now. People used to be quite optimistic about Ukraine recovering the o
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by xdennis 2y ago
AI weapons do have benign use cases: harming enemies. When China attacks with AI weapons do you expect the free world to fight back armed with moral superiority? No. We need even more lethal AI weapons. Mutual assured destruction has worked
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by xdennis 2y ago
> Besides never missing an opportunity to 'slam' the opposition, I have no idea why this is being construed as an ATC failure. Just saying what I've heard. One issue is that the controller allowed visual separation, to beg
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by xdennis 2y ago
> To me it’s just generative AI, LLMs, media generation. That's not what AI is. Artificial Intelligence has decades of use in academia. Even a script which plays Tic Tac Toe is AI. LLMs have advanced the field profoundly and gained
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by xdennis 2y ago
> If they're engaged in doing illegal stuff, at the federal level, I fully expect Trump to just pardon everyone involved. Not trying to both-sides this, but the fact that Biden did that makes it more likely that Trump will do it too
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by xdennis 2y ago
Personally I prefer rendering country codes over flags because it allows me to spot and scold anyone who uses the flag of Chad to represent Romania (they look pretty much the same as emojis).
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by xdennis 2y ago
> No, you can't use the full name, since some languages have very long names. Yes, every language has a name and you can use that. If you prefer an imprecise flag over the actual name of the language then what you're saying is
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by xdennis 2y ago
IANAGL, but in Germany a ToS is not a contract and can be declared void if it's deemed by courts to be unfair.
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by xdennis 2y ago
> Can we stop talking about it now? I swear this must be some sort of psyop at this point. It's not a psyop that people in democracies want freedom. Democrats (not the US party) know that democracy is fragile. That's why it&#x2
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by xdennis 2y ago
Zero impact is an exaggeration, but what others have pointed out is that there aren't a lot of companies primarily based on AI which are making a profit. Personally I can't think of any.
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by xdennis 2y ago
I mean, DeepSeek is the same: it treats Chinese people like a single unit. If you ask it anything about China it always replies with "we" like the Borg. E.g. (note that I didn't even mention China): >>> Why don
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by xdennis 2y ago
Well, American investors seem to be shaking in their boots and publicizing this attracts AI investments in China because it shows China can out/compete with the US in spite of the restrictions.
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by xdennis 2y ago
I'm a bit of an AI doomer, but I don't think AI will have such a bad impact on school tests. They'll just have to move back to oral exams. I remember reading that Socrates was against writing. His argument was that books do
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by xdennis 2y ago
The worst part is finding out how many things depend on your job. I needed to move out when I was laid off, but good luck finding someone to rent to you when you don't have a job.
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by xdennis 2y ago
This is so performative. No one in the US government is trying to stop you from criticizing Trump. Ironically that's what you do need to do on the Chinese version of TikTok.
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by xdennis 2y ago
Could be worse. I worked in an old building in London which I think used to be a warehouse. It was renovated but the lighting was very low and they said they couldn't install stronger diffused lighting because of the local code. They e
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by xdennis 2y ago
I don't know what role NIH played in the Covid response, but if they carry some responsibility for the previous administration's decision to force/coerce people to take the vaccine against their will then it seems fair that t

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