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by zone411 5y ago
I stopped watching her channel after her video on the simulation theory. It was very poor. https://lech.substack.com/p/sabine-hossenfelders-video-the-s...
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by zone411 5y ago
In another UK case, a 19-year-old just got 6 weeks in jail for using a racist slur directed at a football (soccer) player in a tweet: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-60927111 .
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by zone411 5y ago
Huh? The parent post talked about people moving to big cities and that's what I replied to. Also, considering I created city-data.com with information about U.S. cities and counties, I know ;)
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by zone411 5y ago
People were not moving to big cities in 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/24/us/census-2021-population...
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by zone411 5y ago
There are many genres of electronic music and only some are dance-oriented. If you want to check them out, try non-vocal playlists on https://www.di.fm/playlists or on YouTube or Spotify.
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by zone411 5y ago
Here is an article with a summary that I submitted earlier: https://www.barrons.com/news/russian-tech-giant-yandex-says-...
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by zone411 5y ago
Interslavic is another similar project. They don't like Slovio too much: http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/index.html http://steen.free.fr/interslavic/faq.html#slovio
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Russian Tech Giant Yandex Says Might Default(barrons.com)
12 points by zone411 5y ago|0 comments
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by zone411 5y ago
Sorry, it was up when I posted this. Here is a shorter version (without a FAQ): https://health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pages/Maryland-Departme... , here is their dashboard showing no updates since Dec. 3: https:&#x2
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Maryland hasn't updated Covid case data for 15 days due to a security incident(health1.maryland.gov)
112 points by zone411 5y ago|56 comments
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by zone411 5y ago
(2018). Extremely simplistic model that doesn't tell us much about the real world. Could smart and ambitious young people selling shares in themselves à la Mike Merrill in 2008 be made to work? https://www.wired.com/201
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by zone411 5y ago
Chase closed my 10-year-old+ personal account without a warning or an explanation. I recommend avoiding them.
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by zone411 5y ago
Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s: https://www.nap.edu/resource/26141/interactive/ . Full report: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/26141/pathways-to-discove
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Astronomers want NASA to build a giant space telescope to peer at alien Earths(npr.org)
63 points by zone411 5y ago|34 comments
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by zone411 5y ago
Note that Python's poor single-threaded performance compared to single-threaded performance of other languages makes the ability to multi-thread that much more crucial. You can sometimes get away with 10x slower code but not 100x slowe
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by zone411 5y ago
The chimp memory test video is really worth seeing: https://youtu.be/aAIGVT3N7B0?t=109 .
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by zone411 5y ago
I haven't read "The Fabric of Reality" but "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime" by Sean Carroll is 22 years newer and presents a good overview of the Many World Theory for laymen.
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by zone411 5y ago
This shows JavaScript as being popular since at least 2004 (beginning of the dataset) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=javascri... and this is closer to my recollection.
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by zone411 5y ago
Check out our forum! 58 million posts. https://www.city-data.com/forum/
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by zone411 5y ago
A random paper on crime and policing from 2017 covering two months in one city that shows a small difference in some types of crimes (complaints of felony assault, burglary, grand larceny) but not others (murder, rape, robbery, grand thef
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by zone411 5y ago
There is evidence that each neuron performs calculations equivalent to a small neural net: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08966... .
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by zone411 5y ago
All of these maintenance issues exist with regular taxi fleets driving equivalent miles, though. The main difference is the taxi driver salary vs the cost of the self-driving tech plus some support and extra interior cameras and this should
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by zone411 5y ago
Completely disagree. This doesn't require AGI.
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by zone411 5y ago
Some are worried that it might lead to collusion ( https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-bilbao-draw-feedback-from-... ) but I like it.
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by zone411 5y ago
At high levels of play and in computer-vs-computer games, the problem is too many draws. This paper's idea would exacerbate this problem. If you want a fairer outcome, just do what's done already and count one match to be two game
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by zone411 5y ago
Looks nice, ordered.
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by zone411 5y ago
Use the opportunity and link us to your game. I don't think anybody will mind.
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by zone411 5y ago
Human tactile sensing is still much superior to that of robot hands.
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by zone411 5y ago
I think it was BBC that changed the headline, not the poster (Twitter grabbed "will" here https://twitter.com/Bill_Gardner/status/1418265769775968258 ).
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by zone411 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50NPqEla0CQ&t=2198s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50NPqEla0CQ&t=715s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50NPqEla0CQ&t=1628s https://www

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