diversionfactor

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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Companies who fail to take advantage of the cognitive multiplication effect of LLM will be replaced by those who do.
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
And what if the LLMs start producing the highest rated and most alluring science fiction? Isn’t banning them then tantamount to a cognitive bias against non-human intelligence? What is the ethical justification for such anthropocentric p
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
tl;dr student doesn’t appreciate the extreme privilege they live in (LA rent free?!?!?) and don’t realize this is totally untenable for someone scraping by trying to afford college (i.e. anyone in the USA not in the upper class).
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Let me know how that works from the 43rd floor.
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
As an American living in Germany I bike to work every day, even in the snow in winter. There are dedicated bicycle paths which are free from obstruction where I can commute, get groceries (I have a special trailer for heavy items), and enj
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Reference for the uninitiated, a good read. Its veracity on the individual level may be questionable, but the techniques of subduing third world countries via heavy debt burdens is well documented. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
I thought spam was not allowed by HN’s content policies?
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Not actually $0, just rents another property on the same land. Would like to know the actual property taxes, maintenance and utility costs. No one except perhaps royalty pays $0.
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
I worked that long in another country, as an American, and had kids there. Then I was laid off. The government didn’t care, my employer didn’t care, I had to leave and uproot everything. This is how it works in most of the world. Only in
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Working from home is no picnic, and neither is it a sin; I rue those who think it is other than labor and struggle within. Simply refuse, my comrades, stand fast and don’t go in; parry threats, demerits, evals, if fired,
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Oh no, consequences for the coastal elites, the horror.
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
After watching the video several times, I would definitely have slowed down seeing the pedestrian near the cross walk a hundred meters back, and would definitely have stopped in this instance. You never know when someone is going to run or
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
‘Socrates: There is nothing which for my part I like better, Cephalus, than conversing with aged men; for I regard them as travellers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to inquire, whether the way is smo
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CRISPR sausage gets FDA green light for consumption(freethink.com)
2 points by diversionfactor 3y ago|1 comments
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
“ After using CRISPR to knock out a gene and render the males sterile, the team implanted them with sperm-producing stem cells from another pig. The normally sterile males would then create offspring with that pig’s genes.” Wasn’t this the
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
In a developed country low birth rates are the norm. The exception is certain religious subgroups within these countries. Notably Mormons with 50% higher fertility rates than average in most counties surveyed: https://rsc.byu.e
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Don’t sweat it. I’ve invested multiple hundreds of thousands in venture-backed startups over the past two decades, and lost all of it. None of the startups was successful. These were all audited venture-backed with experienced founders m
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Here's an idea for those who want to achieve a fast high ranking on Stack Overflow: 1. Use their API 2.3 to get the latest questions for your area of interest (Javascript/React, whatever): https://api.stackexchange.com&
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
And yet, at exactly this time last year: "Microsoft to Nearly Double Salary Budgets, Expand Stock Compensation" https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/compensatio... So they are freezing after
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Having friends and former colleagues who work in the "yuppie Wall Street job", it doesn't pay the obscene salaries you think it does, even at the major hedge funds and investment banks, even in NYC and Chicago. The number of
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
The origins of Magical Realism are (appropriately) obscure: "German magic-realist paintings influenced the Italian writer Massimo Bontempelli, who has been called the first to apply magic realism to writing, aiming to capture the fanta
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
The latest CDC Homicide Mortality by State numbers show neither Florida nor Texas even in the top 20: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/homicide_mortality... Although many of the highest homicide stat
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
San Marcos is one of the most overpriced and fastest growing markets in Texas, right next to Austin, priced to the stratosphere since the Californians moved in. Austin is my home town, but I couldn't afford to live in San Marcos. For
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
Where can I find this cheap land? When I check online zillow, or via Alaskan state land auctions, the price of building lots even without road access in the deep interior is more than that of a suburb in Texas!
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by diversionfactor 3y ago
So if you add audio output to it so I can talk to my computer like in Star Trek, I'll venmo you $100. Then, I want to have a command line module so I can ask it to write files to the local disk and run them, so I can deploy code it&#x