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Is my toddler a stochastic parrot?(newyorker.com)
416 points by zwieback 3y ago|340 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
We're (Oregon) drowning in Persimmons right now, and it also was a great apple year. I never grow zucchini or squash since my coworkers bully me to accept their excess every year.
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by zwieback 3y ago
She's a much better writer than he an entrepreneur.
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by zwieback 3y ago
You mention image recognition, I can recommend this website that does a good job with python calling OpenCV: https://pyimagesearch.com/
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by zwieback 3y ago
Right, the soil makes a battery.
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by zwieback 3y ago
The stuff he describes should rightly be replaced by an AI. However, I think we can still level up. After initial excitement about GPT-generated code I realize that the danger is that we will very quickly generate a lot of code with subtle
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by zwieback 3y ago
FYI - many public libraries let you auto-checkout the New Yorker to your free Overdrive account and you can read online or on your phone. I was surprised how easy it has become.
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by zwieback 3y ago
I was wondering about that too but they did show a difference between the different circuit types presumably with the same electrodes.
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by zwieback 3y ago
I'm German and I've never heard of this word but will use it from now on. The fun thing about German is that you can smash any number of nouns together so you could make it Sonntagmorgensleere or Wintersonntagsleere etc.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Including the authors of the study, we all want this to be true but from what I can tell by reading the discussion in the article the "aboveground carbon store" of monocultures might actually be hard to beat. Their data appears to
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by zwieback 3y ago
Lights do deliver a lot of energy, even in the day and age of LED. I worked on machine vision projects back in the pre-LED days and the heat on anything used for high-speed, especially with line scan cameras, where the photon density is hig
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Is Shrinkflation Stealing Our Chocolate?(appliancecity.co.uk)
2 points by zwieback 3y ago|0 comments
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by zwieback 3y ago
Kind of cool, maybe, but oh my god - the awkward video is such a turn off. Hire some actors!
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by zwieback 3y ago
The sad thing is that Windows can be lovely in the Enterprise, at least where I work it's virtually friction-free as everything is preconfigured and no annoying popus. For home use: different story. It feels like part of the whole tren
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by zwieback 3y ago
Second order science working as intended.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Science working as intended.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yes, agreed, I think you just rephrased my second paragraph.
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by zwieback 3y ago
All of this handwringing over AI is justified but it really drives home the point that humans just aren't nearly as cool as they like to think. Also striking: if you average all our creative output and blend it together the result is s
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by zwieback 3y ago
I just asked it to create shoggoth tentacles and they look quite spooky.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Yeah, I have the same question. The blurb is too unclear but suggests it's almost more of a mechanical thing: the photon bumps into some molecules that are almost already on the gas side of things and that's enough to turn them in
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by zwieback 3y ago
I just scrolled back in my email - 9/7/2000 was when I subscribed to their email list, I think that's when I first heard about. I have a vague memory that before OpenCV there was an Intel thing we sometimes used but it had so
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by zwieback 3y ago
From the media coverage it appears WeWork was particularly dysfunctional but are the other giant "disruptors" (Uber, Zillow, meal kits), that went up against industries that were probably already pretty efficient, going to go down
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by zwieback 3y ago
I agree. I've been speaking (American) English 99% of the time for the past thirty years but still have a noticeable German accent, never get any flak for that. Apparently Joseph Conrad spoke with a heavy Polish accent so that's m
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by zwieback 3y ago
Different but worse by almost every metric, what don't I get?
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by zwieback 3y ago
The researchers conclude that while cocoa bean shells may be one source of lead, most contamination occurs during shipping or processing of the beans and in manufacturing. Further research on those stages of the process will help to isolat
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by zwieback 3y ago
I moved to the US from Germany 30 years ago and over the years I've grown to love Hershey's milk chocolate, maybe a bit too weird for coddled Europeans!
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by zwieback 3y ago
Draft email to the other party that might be affected, could be myself. I review those drafts regularly to see if they can be deleted or need to be refined and eventually sent out, deleted or incorporated into some kind of project schedule.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Right - my wording was confusing. I meant that I've tried other people's homemade lactic acid fermented food and didn't enjoy it very much so I haven't been inspired to try it myself.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Orkney is well worth a visit, the archeological sites are truly amazing and when you're done with that you can visit Highland Park and sip some world class scotch.
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by zwieback 3y ago
Coincidentally our book club just picked one of her novels, I just started reading it and can't believe I'd never heard of her before. Highly recommended.

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