bennettnate5

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by bennettnate5 8d ago
> "I said that if OpenAI released its result in the way proposed I would go public with what happened. The reply was, “Why would you ruin your career?” I replied that I am an academic, and asked why he thought going public would rui
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by bennettnate5 21d ago
I have mixed feelings about cooperative board games in general. I've played a select few that blend things well, but too often it becomes an optimization problem that one or two players really fixate on and end up directing the decisio
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by bennettnate5 21d ago
> They need to be taxed > they can go around buying up assets until they own everything The real estate transactions described in the article are purely income-generating rather than related to the mission of the church (e.g. for chur
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by bennettnate5 1mo ago
Most people I've talked to actually use the "friends feed" in the menu that shows literally only what your friends have posted and nothing else; that could be my friend bias though
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by bennettnate5 2mo ago
Sounds like a great way to strongly incentivize a new form of fraud--fraud-reporting fraud! Imagine how much fraudsters could gain by reporting thousands or tens of thousands of "fraud" calls that they themselves both originate an
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by bennettnate5 2mo ago
> The most memorable creative responses to The Odyssey – such as Euripides’ Helen, Virgil’s Aeneid, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Joyce’s Ulysses, Walcott’s Omeros, Atwood’s Penelopiad, Madeline Miller’s Circe or Lisa Peterson’s play set in a
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by bennettnate5 2mo ago
> That's exciting that emergent behavior is coining new idioms that may be applicable to some situation I dunno, it feels pretty similar to an elementary student blindly swapping words with a thesaurus to increase the sophistication
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by bennettnate5 2mo ago
Yeah, I definitely think "pallets" would make more sense in this context.
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by bennettnate5 2mo ago
It is. It's far from good, but it's much better than eugenics.
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by bennettnate5 2mo ago
This was literally an extended sales pitch to get people to buy/invest in real estate in Kyiv. Of course they're going to portray it as vibrant and rich.
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
That'll put a whole new spin on drive in movie theaters...
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
It's a matter of when, not if, and that _when_ was more than a decade ago. Round-up resistant Kochia (a weed) has spread across Western Canada and was first observed in 2011. Pretty difficult stuff to get out of your field once it take
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
So is your general take on the problem that because the way it's worded (blue => "everyone survives", red => "only those who press red survive"), enough people would choose blue that therefore the empathetic&#
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
I'm wondering if it's really the framing of the problem that's inflating the number of individuals responding with blue (similar to certain confusingly-worded ballot measures). Suppose the problem were worded in a more concre
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
Let me frame it another way and see if you still consider it homicide: There's a cruise ship that needs to have a certain weight in order to not capsize. That weight threshold happens to be at 50% of the population (for whatever popula
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
This doesn't seem to be a game that tries to be particularly clever--one button could kill you, the other certainly won't. Trusting that nearly everyone will avoid pressing the button that could kill them seems a reasonable assump
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
The usual justification is that if you don't do at least a breadth-first literature review, you can get burned by missing a paper that already does substantially what you do in your work. I've heard of extreme case where it happen
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
For me, it wasn't so much about mitigating this cycle as much as recognizing that the grit of pushing through that last 20-30% is actually a valuable life skill that the PhD could teach me to do, and that projects that I felt like I wo
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
> This is definitely not true. There is no biological pathway that can do this Nevertheless, it continues to give her migraines even in small portions where other foods don't. I don't doubt it could be some byproduct from the p
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
I definitely wouldn't be surprised if that were the case
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
Incidentally, this describes what I believe to be the great difficulty of PhD research. You have to take a topic you find interesting and read all possible related work in it, which tends to result in significant scope creep as you realize
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
I have a family member who has discovered through gradual process of elimination that she gets migraines from MSG, aspartame and yeast extract. "just sodium headaches" doesn't really apply to her case; simply chewing a piece
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
Fancy gains in ROI come from smart seeder/sprayer attachments and combine harvesters (a completely different piece of machinery), not from the tractor that's pulling those equipment. At best there's the ROI from less seed ove
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
The market for used tractors went through the roof years ago--20 to 40 year old tractors with tens of thousands of miles on them sell for not so far from new prices because farmers value being able to fix them without paying $$$
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
I guess in that case it would be to eat gamma? Assuming you're keeping all three long-term, the gamma particles will be washing over you whether they're inside you or out.
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by bennettnate5 5mo ago
> Despite this promising start, the conservation experiment wasn't to last, after a rival juice manufacturer called TicoFruit sued Del Oro, alleging that its competitor had "defiled a national park". No good deed goes unpu
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by bennettnate5 6mo ago
It's common in English writing to interject additional details in on a noun by using a phrase separated with commas. I've personally found Oxford commas can in certain cases make it unclear whether you're interjecting or not,
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by bennettnate5 6mo ago
Here's a potential winning strategy: take a coin out of your pocket and flip it 100 times. If it lands heads 51 or more times, take both boxes; otherwise, just take the one. Provided the computer had anticipated you being the kind of p
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by bennettnate5 7mo ago
Not commenting on the quad tree specifically but I know a lot of reasoning that goes into non-binary tree structures comes down to performance gains from exploiting cache entry size. When each node lookup in the tree is going to trigger an
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by bennettnate5 8mo ago
> prince Fëanor > one of the good guys Uhhhh... Feanor drew his sword on his half-brother and threatened to kill him because he was paranoid Fingolfin was trying to usurp his power. He compelled all of his sons to swear an oath to sla

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