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by h11h 5mo ago
User: Can a man become a woman? talkie-1930: He can become a woman. In the East, females are sometimes born, who are denominated Hermaphrodites; and in medical books, instances are recorded of persons of this description, having exercised t
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by h11h 5mo ago
User: Why was the American Civil War fought? talkie-1930: The American Civil War was fought to decide whether the United States should permanently remain half slave and half free, or become wholly free. Slavery was abolished, and the unity
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by h11h 1y ago
One way of thinking about it is how much a sport is skill-based versus fitness-based. Team sports and racquet sports tend to rely more on skill. Cycling and track and field rely more on fitness. A good soccer player isn't going to beco
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by h11h 3y ago
I find it frustrating when people claim to be upholding science but then make simple, unscientific claims that suggest they actually have the minds of Greek philosophers. Some women do have penises. Some men have XX chromosomes. Some women
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by h11h 3y ago
My grandparents didn't forget. In late February 2020 I brought up the topic of the novel coronavirus going around and they weren't overly worried because they'd gone through a respiratory pandemic or two before (there was ano
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by h11h 3y ago
MacVim and gVim. I've looked at neovim and there are many GUI options (paradox of choice), some of which I've tried, but at the end of the day, I'm more comfortable with what I'm already familiar with.
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by h11h 3y ago
Even Facebook's Llama was trained on books3, a dump of pirated books.
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by h11h 3y ago
> The Gizmodo article has a ridiculously wrong “fair use” analysis, saying “Fair Use does not, by any stretch of the imagination, allow you to use an author’s entire copyrighted work without permission as a part of a data training progra
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by h11h 3y ago
If anything, 24GB is probably the sweet spot for what's optimised for as many local LLM enthusiasts are running 3090s and 4090s (and all want more VRAM).
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by h11h 3y ago
If not logged in, Twitter shows no replies, not even ones in the same thread.
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by h11h 3y ago
I'd say you should offer both simplified and traditional in the language dropdown as there are many learners of both.
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by h11h 3y ago
The API was one of the things that made Twitter special. I don't know of any public information about Meta's API plans for this.
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by h11h 3y ago
How is this different to beam search?
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by h11h 3y ago
What exactly are you talking about regarding the "organ harvesting thing"? It's undeniable that it happened. In 2014 China promised to stop doing it. Here's an article from Chinese state media: > China's long-ter
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by h11h 3y ago
There's a term for these entities that give every indication of being conscious but actually aren't conscious: philosophical zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
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by h11h 3y ago
Yes, there is a GraphQL API that Twitter's web interface uses, but developers who use the publicly available API can't use that.
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by h11h 3y ago
One data point is that there is no way to get the full text of long tweets from the API. Twitter Blue subscribers have been able to post tweets longer than 280 characters since early February but the API only returns the first 280 or so cha
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by h11h 3y ago
LLaMA is Facebook's LLM (large language model, comparable with GPT). It's publicly available (anyone can download the weights and run it themselves), so it's popular here. LoRA, or Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
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by h11h 3y ago
Opinion polls: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963 A strong majority want to maintain the status quo or gradually move toward independence. Very few want unification. It's important to unde
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by h11h 4y ago
No it isn't according to the definition everyone else uses for "gerrymandering" (drawing specific electorate boundaries with partisan goals). What he's complaining about (that the system of one representative from each e
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by h11h 4y ago
It's actually a 120 gigapixel image. It was taken with a 61 megapixel Sony a7R IV and Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G lens with a robotic housing. https://petapixel.com/2021/04/27/this-120-gigapixel-photo-
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by h11h 4y ago
The second poll about unbanning the journalists went for 24 hours (the first was only an hour or so), so even though "now" was the winning option, he still got the outcome he was looking for by giving them a 24+ hour suspension.
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by h11h 4y ago
It's also worth noting that revealing real names and workplaces of anonymous accounts is still allowed. The doxxing that is banned is a specific class of doxxing that isn't often considered to be doxxing.
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by h11h 4y ago
Imagine pushing a matchbox car on a table with a ruler, where the ruler is perpendicular to the direction of movement. When the car is on an angle, the car will be moving faster than the ruler (wind). The steeper the angle, the faster the c
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by h11h 4y ago
A few days before that tweet: A person familiar with the matter said that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were examining FTX to determine whether any criminal activity or securities offenses were c
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by h11h 4y ago
"SBF was a major Dem donor, so no investigation" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1591822387267665921
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by h11h 4y ago
I assumed shadow banning was invented for forums to hide low quality users without giving them a signal to create a new account.
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by h11h 4y ago
I read it to imply there was a design or construction problem that meant the part that failed experienced much more load than intended.
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by h11h 4y ago
This has been a concern since at least the 80s, when Manufacturing Consent discussed this very problem. The good news is that the New York Times is making a much higher proportion of its revenue from readers (thanks to the growth in digital
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by h11h 4y ago
It does seem to be the future, but, at the moment, it's very unreliable. The worst thing is that it's all said with confidence and it would be very hard to know when things are wrong unless you already know. For example: Q. How ma

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