distant_hat

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by distant_hat 3y ago
GPS is notoriously terrible inside cities with tall buildings and when you have overlapping roads, nearby roads with vastly different speed limits and so on. This would lead to way more accidents.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Given the ubiquity of cameras and how optimized face recognition has gotten over time, this is mostly pointless at this time. You will be tracked unless you really pull a major disguise every time you go out.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Where are the flaws? That the guy was attractive and managed to seduce others? He may have gone with other people's wives but that is on the wife to say no, not on him.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Not all couples subscribe to monogamy. There is no reason to be judgemental about this in the absence of other information.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Academia, especially humanities, has gotten amazingly intolerant of any divergent viewpoints over the past decades. Harvard is among the worst in this case. Try to get a marginally right wing personality to speak at Harvard. Students, encou
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by distant_hat 3y ago
This is still a semi-puff piece. Makes it seem like he is being turned into a scapegoat for the industry and drums up sympathy for him.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
So like an hour of revenue.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
I suspect this appears to be the case because there is a ton of example pages around explaining tic-tac-toe games. My conjecture is that if you tried it with a game that wasn't so well studied as tic-tac-toe the LLM would fall flat on
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by distant_hat 3y ago
There's a ton of well controlled studies that show the degree to which intelligence is heritable. This is not really controversial.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
The enshittification of tiktok is almost complete. The famed recommendation algorithm that would figure out and show you want is there but it doesn't generate money. At this point, it is the exploitation phase of the users.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
My neighbors cut down trees around their house so that the solar panels could have unobstructed Sun.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Because you are sexist.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
You'd probably have to target the older women crowd. Teenage girls are at the peak of their sexual power and are actively fending off tons of interest every day. While they may be occasionally interested in something like this, I can&#
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by distant_hat 3y ago
The vast majority of people don't care about truthfulness which ChatGPT doesn't care about anyway. Entertainment is a way bigger driver of usage than utility.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
That's a sound advice for bonds but jobs are largely not like that by design. It is kind of like dating, and asking for a price upfront makes it closer to whoredom and companies explicitly downgrade you for being in it only for the mon
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by distant_hat 3y ago
I feel this might be more of a mild 'Trough of disillusionment' in the hype cycle than a real shrinking of demand. The other thing with ChatGPT specifically is that during really high usage times, its usability was impacted, so ma
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by distant_hat 3y ago
In my experience, there is no good solution long term except changing the metrics themselves every so often. When new metrics come in, as long as they are not totally boneheaded, they improve things. Then people start learn to start gaming
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Using Generative AI to Resurrect the Dead Will Create a Burden for the Living(wired.com)
3 points by distant_hat 3y ago|1 comments
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by distant_hat 3y ago
This is kind of ridiculous if you know academics at all. Meeting people in person, knowing the right people makes a huge difference to even things like getting your papers accepted. Job committees in India look favorably at papers presented
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by distant_hat 3y ago
As an Indian the UK visa is way more work than US and the other part is US often gives you a 10 year visa whereas the UK gives 6 month visas so you have to go through the whole process every so often. EU is also more work. You often need to
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by distant_hat 3y ago
This is not always true and depends on things like other visas on your passport, how often do you travel abroad and so on. For people who are traveling for the first time outside India compared to those who have other first world country st
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by distant_hat 3y ago
So the goal is to go from wageslave to wageslave owner?
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Sex and the Sacred [pdf](epublications.marquette.edu)
7 points by distant_hat 3y ago|1 comments
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Indian moon lander module splits from propulsion section in key step(aljazeera.com)
2 points by distant_hat 3y ago|0 comments
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by distant_hat 3y ago
These are really niche issues and most people aren't even aware, let alone care about this. The only real solution to this is some kind of legislation that makes it difficult to carry on with business as usual. I wonder how this data c
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/ It isn't limited to greats either.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
You don't have to eat a lot, but you have to eat some. India is a major counterexapmle to your thesis, it has one of the lowest consumptions of animal protein and yet low life expectancy. Breast milk is animal protein, or you'd ha
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by distant_hat 3y ago
"A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age." - NHS UK This is definitely false. Newborns not given mother's milk are worse off than those that receive maternal milk. Newborns given milk
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Yea, most people simply haven't seen that. I knew a minor rock band player in college, he had women lining up outside his hotel room to fuck him.
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by distant_hat 3y ago
Its not that uncommon though. I know guys juggling 4-8 women in various capacities (some more regular, some occasional, some remote).

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