briffid

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by briffid 1y ago
Is Musk's red car a spaceship btw? Because if we are able to send such stuff to space, other intelligent beings would most probably do the same. Or they are more intelligent?
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by briffid 1y ago
So is it a spaceship or not?
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by briffid 1y ago
Why is that in English speaking world a joke is almost always a pun?
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by briffid 1y ago
Just look at the Java installer: What is Java? Java is everywhere!
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by briffid 1y ago
I don't get the point. The article says that if you "somewhat" measure, then you lose "somewhat" from the wavelike nature. So the photon is a wave by X%, and a particle by 100-X%?
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by briffid 1y ago
I had a similar feeling. But I think this is indeed a glimpse to the intrinsic structure of reality itself, not just a promise of seeing reality. Like we can have a blink of turning around in Plato's cave. I think the patterns of the
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by briffid 1y ago
Recording yourself is not a violation, only publishing on Youtube. Content generated with LLMs are not a violation. Publishing the content you generated might be.
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by briffid 1y ago
Quotation is fair use in all sensible copyright system. An LLM will mostly be able to quote anything, and should be. Quotation is not derived work. LLMs are not stealing copyrighted work. They just show that Harry Potter is in English and a
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by briffid 1y ago
I'm so tired of the enforced password changes, that I just write them on a post-it note now.
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by briffid 1y ago
The website frustratingly assumes 4K display?
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by briffid 2y ago
An example of an actual grammar, like arithmetic expressions, would be helpful.
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by briffid 2y ago
People are usually interested in the transients.
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by briffid 2y ago
There is scientific consensus that Jesus was a historical figure, so the book referred here is probably fiction.
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by briffid 2y ago
Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind describes this ín details.
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by briffid 2y ago
Plus what must have been lost in 500 years, all photonegative pictures, fragments, descriptions, recipes, any references for such imagery etc. It is very strange that this is the only image that remained. And an image of a nude Jesus from t
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by briffid 2y ago
A face impression would be very distorted when moving from a 3D face to a 2D sheet. So it is not an impression.
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by briffid 2y ago
Yes, the wikipedia article makes an argumentation error. Even if the Pray Codex doesn't show the shroud, it contains a very unique depiction of a nude Jesus. So the painter of the codex with high probability have seen the exact same pi
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by briffid 2y ago
The C14 dating is one evidence, and there are plenty of contradicting evidence for the 14th century dating. But my main point is that there is at least doubt for the 14th date, and any proper scientific approach should at least mention the
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by briffid 2y ago
The best explanation to what the codex depicts, is the shroud. Which could be a copy of an older shroud e.g., but the C14 dating has its flaws (burnt material etc.).
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by briffid 2y ago
The 14th century theorem has long been debunked, as the Pray-codex https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pray_Codex contains strong evidence that the shroud was already known in the 12th century.
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by briffid 2y ago
Bulgarian made, through a one-person trade intermediary for a Taiwanese company. The Bulgarian co is owned by a Norwegian btw.
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by briffid 2y ago
I have many accounts with the same user names, and they don't get overwritten. There might be some design flaw somewhere, but it's surely not what the article states, ie. that you cannot have the same username on different sites.
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by briffid 2y ago
All the cancers were diagnosed between 2000-2019 and they didn't check the incidence by year but by birth date of victims. So the testing should not affect, unless diagnostic procedures are 2 times more effective in young people.
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by briffid 2y ago
But JS Bach apparently did love those modern sounds, see BWV 542/I But indeed it doesn't make much sense to apply jazz theory on classical or early music.
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by briffid 2y ago
Depressed, stressed, anxious - these are temporary or treatable conditions. The diversity is for innate and permanent traits.
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by briffid 2y ago
That's a good point. Eliminating commute let me play with my children after school. Even started to have a pizza together for lunch. Started to have lunch almost every day with my wife, instead of my colleagues or looking at our phones
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by briffid 2y ago
Plus according to Jonathan Haidt in Happiness Hypothesis, commuting, noise and lack of control are among the most significant things that make people unhappy. All of them are manageable at home. And also these are rarely taken into the disc
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by briffid 2y ago
All genetic algorithms are created by conscious intelligent beings. So I'm more interested in how a genetic algorithm develops by chance, with what probability. I guess typing monkeys wouldn't create genetic algorithms in the exis
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by briffid 2y ago
Sure, but my question is what does evolution try? If it is full random, then it will TRY much better and much worse mutations as well, so will go back and forth, and will take a lot of time. If it is not fully random, e.g. it is not not abl
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by briffid 2y ago
I learnt that evolution is random mutations of genes + natural selection (selecting the successful random trials). If you have 10^14 generations on 3 billion years, always use up the mass of the Earth, 10^28g, that is 10^40 cells, so you ha

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