ANarrativeApe

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by ANarrativeApe 22d ago
And even the headline gets it wrong. They asked 1,000 people, over half of whom say they lacked basic statistical understanding. The first question was: “How much do you understand about statistics and p-values?” not probability, p-values.
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by ANarrativeApe 2mo ago
So what is the mechanism that the administratuon would use to block access? I get how China could block access to Chinese LLMs, but any startup that can't or won't bypass a US imposed block on a Chinese offering was going to fail
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by ANarrativeApe 3mo ago
This makes complete sense in an environment where people transition from noob to senior engineer within the same company. It makes less sense in an era when tenure is better measured in months than years. It makes even less sense in an era
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by ANarrativeApe 3mo ago
So firstly: The guy who created Gmail is now 49 years old. Why does that blow me away? Secondly, where else does this apply beyond hardware, beyond the world of tech even?
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by ANarrativeApe 5mo ago
It would have been interesting to see if there was any difference relating to CYP1A2 (Cytochrome P450 1A2), the fast metabolizers and the slow metabolizers.
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by ANarrativeApe 6mo ago
This is why I never go on vacation to South Beach Miami.
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by ANarrativeApe 6mo ago
This also works for kitchens. What is most interesting is that it begins to impact what one buys. It turns out that, after a decade or so, one can predict which 'must have' gadget or appliance is actually just a very seductive dot
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by ANarrativeApe 6mo ago
Stop buying from/submitting to discredited publishers.
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by ANarrativeApe 7mo ago
This also applies, on a larger scale, when one adds data to a medium like a sheet of paper, the graphite or ink adds to the mass of the storage medium. But does this constitute data? The maximum mass would be achieved by covering the entire
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by ANarrativeApe 7mo ago
Feeling smug as I type this on my 'boring' pixel 10
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by ANarrativeApe 8mo ago
Pay to enter would increase the risk of submitting a bug report. However, if the submission fees were added to the bounty payable, then the risk reward changes in favour of the submitter of genuine bugs. You could even have refund the submi
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by ANarrativeApe 8mo ago
if everybody eats the whole foods they can afford, they will be healthier than if they eat an ultra high processed food diet. The cost of living issue could actually work in favor of those with less money as they can afford less of the unpr
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by ANarrativeApe 8mo ago
"The first food group listed is literally meat and dairy." that's because the pyramid is presented pointy end down.
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by ANarrativeApe 9mo ago
This is one of those irritating articles where one agrees with the gist, but there are serious flaws in the support. There are societies, even now, that don't have text. Yes, they represent a tiny fraction of 1% of the global populatio
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by ANarrativeApe 11mo ago
That's some deep dark shit, if it's true... And that's the problem with this interweb lark, made worse by aggregators who's algorithms can be gamed, and now we have stochastic LLMs adding to the remix, how do we know wha
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by ANarrativeApe 1y ago
Excellent accessible explanation.
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by ANarrativeApe 1y ago
I wonder what the bitcoin is worth now...
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by ANarrativeApe 1y ago
"The Constitution explicitly forbids Congress from issuing bills of attainder—laws that single out individuals for punishment without trial. While that restriction technically applies to the Legislative branch, the spirit of it clearly
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by ANarrativeApe 1y ago
Is that a fact?
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by ANarrativeApe 1y ago
Were I hacker, I would say thank you for the invitation...
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by ANarrativeApe 1y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but is it time to update the open source licenses in the light of this behavior? If so, what should the evolved license wording be? I appreciate that this could be easily circumvented by a 'bad actor', but it
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by ANarrativeApe 1y ago
Once bitten, twice shy. It's a shame, I used to like Bosch. (sighs, thinks back to simpler times, remembers all the other shit that's going on at the moment, and wonders 'just how big a tarriff PDT will slap on the Huns'
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
That this accurate article is considered noteworthy is scary. ChatGPT will tell you the same - if you ask it.
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
My understanding is that the human body stores magnesium, said stores sufficient for approximately 30 days. As such, daily magnesium is far less important that the 30 day moving average.
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
"To say an LLM is intelligent is like saying a scanner has an eye for detail"* paulacannon I have a 6 million+ word archive with ChatGPT. It truly is like having an army of interns, each a confident undergrad in a different subje
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
This is a great counter argument to 'shouting into the void', as a friend of mine calls it. I do the writing, to refine my thinking and identify my cognitive dissonance, but I almost never share, and certainly not in the public do
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
So, a check list for check lists is the most important check list? Check :)
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
moving in one direction relative to what?
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
Dementia is a progressive multi-system failure (CPU, RAM, SSD, Motherboard) Anterograde Amnesia, on its own, is a failure to write to the SSD. Medical amateurs, like tech amateurs, might struggle to differentiate between the two. Medical pr
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by ANarrativeApe 2y ago
"To medical professionals her condition looks a lot like dementia — amnesia is a common symptom of dementia — but she doesn’t have dementia. One difference is that (as I understand it) dementia is a progressive disease, while this amne

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