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by a257 2y ago
In the biomedical sciences, we typically use a tool called BigStitcher [0], which is bundled with ImageJ [1] [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-019-0501-0 [1] https://imagej.net/plugins/big
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by a257 3y ago
Is it possible for the military to be too "strong"? Each warship, fighter jet, tank, and soldier costs time, money, and effort to produce and maintain. That a military is necessary for ensuring the security and continuing stabilit
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by a257 3y ago
While the game-ability of prediction markets is a major concern, I believe that the potential of prediction markets to further exacerbate inequalities may be a greater threat. It is important to keep in mind that while markets optimize for
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by a257 3y ago
Depends on what you consider winning. Consider that out of the 20% of internet users that have adblock today, only a fraction will be willing to turn to illicit means should Google get serious, especially if it requires anything more compli
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by a257 3y ago
What makes you think that Youtube will "lose"? From a technical perspective, they have been rather conservative in their efforts so far. It can get so much worse, they could bake ads directly into the video stream or automatically
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by a257 3y ago
I love the idea of humanity expanding out into the cosmos, it feels like space exploration is "the Future." But I can't see how SpaceX's Mars colonization plan makes economic sense in the current day. No matter what tech
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by a257 3y ago
Fair enough, I guess it doesn't really matter if someone hacks a drawing/building game. But people love competitive games. I guess you can prevent most overt hacks through server-side validation. But still, that doesn't stop
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by a257 3y ago
This is so cool! Though, how do you ensure that people are playing fair? When I dabbled in web-based games a year ago, I noticed that it's pretty difficult to have a good anti-cheat system for games that runs on browsers.
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by a257 3y ago
> this is luckily not a big enough of a dot on their radar for them to care. Funnily enough, Google doesn't allow yt-downloader extensions on the Chrome web store. They will cite you rule #4, and send you a rejection letter for &quo
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by a257 3y ago
Transferable objects have been part of the spec for a while now, making it possible to send data back and forth contexts with no copying. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/transferable-objects-light...
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by a257 3y ago
Emergent phenomenon can also produce "laws of nature". For example, the laws of thermodynamics are explained by statistical mechanics.
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by a257 3y ago
When it comes to the question of when strong AI will come, I think our society's reaction to ChatGPT is more worrying than the technology itself. Namely, because of ChatGPT, we see major companies, governments, etc clamoring over AI to
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by a257 3y ago
I cant imagine that such policy will be popular because GPUs are useful for many important things besides AI.
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by a257 3y ago
> They can’t point to an existing system that poses existential risk, because it doesn’t exist. They can’t point to a clear architecture for such a system, because we don’t know how to build it. Inductive reasoning is in favor of their a
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by a257 3y ago
In other words, companies raise prices because they can. Businesses being profit-maximizers are hardly anything new. What is novel about "greed"flation is that it introduces the notion that companies are taking advantage of people
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by a257 3y ago
I think it will be helpful if it discusses internal fragmentation, where the payload is smaller than the allocated block. I observed that this was important in understanding the purpose of various memory allocation algorithms when undertaki
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by a257 3y ago
This one has subtitles and a parade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpupc4zxlTo
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by a257 4y ago
That is a great point. The laws of thermodynamics exist as a logical consequence to fundamental statistical principles. It is statistical mechanics that gives rise to entropy, not the other way around. (hence the beautifully elegant equatio
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by a257 4y ago
> Zero probability does not mean an event cannot occur! It means the probability measure gives the event (a set of outcomes) a measure zero. [0] [0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/a/273398
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by a257 4y ago
Indeed, the original claim treats mathematics as a modeling tool, not philosophy. Nevertheless, it is my belief that untestable hypotheses about True Reality (should it even exist) are not debatable without causing migraines of epic proport
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by a257 4y ago
Please elaborate.
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by a257 4y ago
A probability of zero does not mean that the event is impossible. When we refer to probabilities we are talking about probability densities. Infinite precision is a useful modeling tool in the same way that approximations of pi are useful.
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by a257 4y ago
The number of possible states asymptotically approaches infinity, so we can model it as such. You can get a more "accurate" model using more math (with measure theory), but the terms will coalesce such that they are negligible.
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by a257 4y ago
The statement is mathematically correct [0]. [0] https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/142730/px-x-0-when...
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by a257 4y ago
With enough marbles, the discrete distribution behaves like a continuous distribution. The point probability of a continuous distribution is infinitely improbable -- in other words it is 0. (0.00..0..1 = 0 just as 0.99 repeating equals 1)
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by a257 4y ago
While cracking the hardware is an interesting technical challenge, it is certainly not the only method. Security is only as good as the weakest link -- the human factor. Thus, piracy groups are able to use social engineering to crack Widevi
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by a257 4y ago
L1 has been bypassed by piracy groups for years (through social engineering). They just don't share the keys publicly because it would give their opponents an advantage. See [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by a257 4y ago
> In the DVD commentary, Stanton said that he has been asked if it was his intention to make a movie about consumerism. His answer was it was not; it was a way to answer the question of how would the Earth get to the state where one robo
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by a257 4y ago
Perhaps when we have sufficiently capable OSS models, but as it stands GPT is a paid service and not a public good.
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by a257 4y ago
For this to remain true for the indefinite future we must assume that strong AI is strictly impossible. Our scientific knowledge today does not suggest that this is the case.

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