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by japoco 2y ago
Which is either heads or tails.
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by japoco 2y ago
A same side bias is either a heads bias or a tails bias.
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by japoco 2y ago
No, first of all due to imperfections in the manufacture of real coins, there are actually no fair coins. Also the bias in the probability affects the first throw as well as all the rest. If your dataset is composed of first throws/res
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by japoco 2y ago
This is probably just because the coins aren’t actually fair. If the coin is slightly biased towards heads, the first throw is more likely to heads, and so are all subsequent throws. Same for tails.
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by japoco 2y ago
I was pretty intrigued by Aphantasia a while ago, as I can’t picture anything at all with my eyes closed. Then I asked all my friends and none of them could either, apparently. So I’m wondering what “picturing” means in the definition of ap
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by japoco 3y ago
I think art is much easier for LLM-style AI models to do compared to writing. To make a nice picture you just need to place pixels near each other in a way that looks good, and we all know LLMs are phenomenal at this. Good text on the othe
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by japoco 3y ago
Someone on twitter pointed out that their dating methodology is faulty. Carbon dating makes sense only if used on organic materials in human context . For example, dating charred remains in a hearth with human artifacts in its vicinity. It
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by japoco 3y ago
You are severely underestimating how good vibes from a lot of people are at giving good estimates.
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by japoco 3y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but I think philosophy will be instrumental in the development of actual AI. To make artificial intelligence, you need to know what intelligence is, and that is a philosophical question.
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by japoco 3y ago
Lying needs intent. ChatGPT does not think therefore it doesn’t lie in that sense.
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by japoco 3y ago
As with text, the current form of AI (generative AI) will be very good at creating music that sounds good, not good music.
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by japoco 3y ago
>unlike in Asia where the huge books actually winning accounts to improve their line and make more money This is true but it should have a big footnote. Disregarding Asian bookmakers that like to void winning bets from time to time for n
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by japoco 3y ago
Chrome on iOS is basically a WebKit skin, so it’s still safari (at least for now, apparently both google and Mozilla are developing ports of their browser engines for iOS).
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by japoco 4y ago
This is not what is happening here, the USDC peg to the dollar has nothing to do with this. The problem is that Binance converts every stablecoin you deposit there to BUSD, and so if you want to withdraw say USDC or USDT even they’d have to