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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
For those wanting a link: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I won't say that Turing is overrated, but I will say that Flowers is very, very underrated. I find it astounding that Flowers wasn't even fully compensated for the personal expense he took to buy the bits to make Colossus. Bill Tu
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Acorn certainly did.
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Of course. But a ban won't happen anytime soon - it will be in the future. We are seeing improvement in efficiency, and GPUs are getting faster. We have various methods for distribution of computing function. All of these trends mean t
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
No GPU purchases means no game industry, no VFX industry, no economy of scale in production to keep unit costs anywhere near sane, and no significant profits to drive further research and development of GPUs. No government would have the wi
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
"Sorry, I sold my GPU to a buyer in a non-compliant state." Hardware doesn't have to be physically present in my house in order for me to use it to run my code.
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Any nation state with any sense will be developing AI - we see a number of countries announcing national strategies for AI publicly, and you can bet there will be other states working on this in secret. To expect these states to comply with
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I would gladly purchase many smaller Pi boards if I could get them at anywhere near RRP. I'm not sure why they're so hard get - there seems to still be hobbyist demand, and there's strong industry demand as well. What's
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
I haven't heard of this - would you mind telling me the name of the plugin?
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
.sol?
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Science is being suffocated by fake research, and it’s getting worse(inews.co.uk)
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Rise of artificial intelligence is inevitable but should not be feared(theguardian.com)
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by xyzzy3000 3y ago
Overall, this seems very pleasant to use, although I would like to have some non-American voices to choose from. The UI has a feel that I would describe as relaxing, but the voices seem to have a tone that I found somewhat unpleasant and ce
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by xyzzy3000 4y ago
Many schools in the UK have specialist apps for this, tied in to the school's data management infrastructure. It definitely is not the case that people require social media accounts to keep up with class timetables, homework schedules
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by xyzzy3000 4y ago
I assumed OWL='Web Ontology Language', which seems to make sense given that the topic is semantics - but OWL isn't a controlled vocabulary of a natural language, so I may be wrong.
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by xyzzy3000 4y ago
Full title: "Elon Musk publicly mocks Twitter worker with disability who is unsure whether he’s been laid off" "Elon Musk has apologized after publicly scoffing at a Twitter employee’s uncertainty about whether he had been la