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by ascorbic 1y ago
The lack of adoption for those wasn't (just) the price. They just weren't very useful.
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by ascorbic 1y ago
The people claiming that AI in the 80s or VR or robotaxis or self-driving cars in the 2010s were inevitable weren't doing it on the basis of the tech available at that point, but on the assumed future developments. Just a little more w
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by ascorbic 1y ago
The richest man in the world, who could also divert the world's biggest GPU order from his other company
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by ascorbic 1y ago
FWIW, I don't have access to Grok 4, but Grok 3 also says Palestine. https://x.com/i/grok/share/5L3oe8ET2FyU0pmqij5TO2GLS
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by ascorbic 1y ago
My shared post was Claude Opus 4. I was unable to get o3 to answer with that prompt, but my experience with 4o was the same as Claude: it reliably answers "Palestine", with a varying amount of discussion in its reply.
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by ascorbic 1y ago
They will usually express an opinion with a little effort. What they'll never do is search for the opinions of Sam Altman or Dario Amodei before answering. Edit: here's Claude's answer (it supports Palestine): https:/&#
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by ascorbic 1y ago
This is presumably a reference to this, though it was in Feb 2024 which is a lifetime ago in LLM terms. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68364690
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by ascorbic 1y ago
Or non-rhotic accents, where neither have the final R sound
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by ascorbic 1y ago
The MythBusters test was inspired by an earlier study. It's quite a well-studied effect now. Here's a review of the literature: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
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by ascorbic 1y ago
It's the richest country in absolute terms, and the richest per-capita if you exclude small countries. As a side note, it really shouldn't be possible to edit comments two hours after they've been posted and after they'v
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by ascorbic 1y ago
UBI is not a socialist policy. It's supported by many across the political spectrum. It seems particularly popular with many libertarians
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by ascorbic 1y ago
If absolute prosperity is what matters, how is the US the richest country in the world, while being pretty much the only one where medical bankruptcy is a thing?
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by ascorbic 1y ago
Mackenzie Crook also made (and stars in) Worzel Gummidge, which despite being a kids' show about a talking scarecrow, feels like very much a partner of the Detectorists and is just as lovely. Toby Jones appearing as every member of the
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by ascorbic 1y ago
That's a statement made by the previous government
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by ascorbic 1y ago
They'll just deny them a visa.
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by ascorbic 1y ago
It really isn't. The UK government has strongly criticised the Israeli government's actions, and has applied sanctions to some far-right Israeli government ministers: - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/
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by ascorbic 1y ago
It's not just used in palliative care (though it is certainly used widely for that). As I understand it, in the UK diamorphine is prescribed for lots of types of acute, severe pain, including pain from surgery, heart attack and childbi
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by ascorbic 1y ago
One of the most recent Uber rides I took was in Orlando. As the crow flies it was almost exactly 500 meters from point to point, but Google has it as a 50 minute, 4km walk. Most of the US is really not set up for walking.
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by ascorbic 1y ago
As a former chef who lived by tasks on paper tickets for several years, I recommend getting a tab grabber and spike, for an extra little dopamine hit. It's very satisfying to pull the receipt from the grabber and spike it
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by ascorbic 1y ago
It's mostly about money. DeepMind was founded in the UK, and is still based in London, but there was no way it could get the funding it needed without selling to Google or some other US company. China is one of the few other countries
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by ascorbic 1y ago
Just as well nobody ever has treatment denied in the US system, right?
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by ascorbic 1y ago
No, the RSC wire format is a stream of text, where each line starts with an ID and contains a JSON object that specifies which nodes to update and how.
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by ascorbic 1y ago
Don't underestimate how far they've fallen. Tesla is nowhere near the top in Europe anymore. VW sold three times as many EVs as Tesla, with BYD in second place. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-just-got-ov
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by ascorbic 1y ago
Disclosure: Astro core team Yes, the difference here is that Astro considers Starlight to be a core part of our project. We use it for our own docs, as well as it being the basis for a significant percentage of our users' sites. I&#x
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by ascorbic 1y ago
It needed a browser plugin, but as a developer you just needed to reference it in your object/embed tag. It wasn't something you needed to handle yourself. Most people had it installed already anyway.
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by ascorbic 1y ago
It's not "wrongthink". When told to fake clinical trial data, it would report that to the FDA if told to "act boldly" or "take initiative".
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by ascorbic 1y ago
That's not what the reserve requirement means. In this example it means the bank needs to reserve 10% of the deposit, so it can lend $90 to Bob. Now Bob can then deposit that money with another bank, which can then lend it out and so f
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by ascorbic 1y ago
A lot of people misunderstand what creating money means in the context of fractional reserve banking. Banks "create money" every time they make a loan backed by a deposit. They're not literally creating new money. This is how
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by ascorbic 1y ago
[2024]
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by ascorbic 1y ago
A rare case where the list of awards she's received is so long it needs a separate Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_honors_rece...

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