jpadkins

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by jpadkins 8d ago
Neurons are not intelligent and don't actually understand the concept of a bicycle. LLM are just one component of the system we call "AI" used to generate the SVG. The parrot argument is tiresome because the LLM alone is
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by jpadkins 12d ago
The purpose of life is to make more life (children). Life forms that do not do that die out. Having children give you so much fulfillment and purpose. There is a good book on this topic "Selfish reasons to have more kids" http
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by jpadkins 13d ago
Correct. Trump has a lot of influence over liberal, Clinton appointed, judges.
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by jpadkins 14d ago
The rendering of the gullet is very poor, because its both behind the handlebars but in front of the bike frame (impossible geometry). Surprising because gemini is usually pretty good on geo spatial skills. Edit: scrolled down to medium e
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by jpadkins 20d ago
thanks, key quote from the link (for others) "“It is accurate that Canada imposes a tariff of approximately 250% on U.S. exports of certain dairy products into Canada, and even more with Canada’s 25% retaliatory tariffs in place. Howev
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by jpadkins 20d ago
Then why did Canadian politicians tax milk products at > 200%? https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/trade-commerce/tariff-tarif/2024... (starting long before the current trade war)
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by jpadkins 20d ago
if you really don't understand this, then a quick refresher on supply and demand. A market price is determined by the intersection of supply and demand. Do you understand this concept? If not, I can use examples or link to better expl
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by jpadkins 20d ago
Fascism is the merger of corporate and government power. Powerful corporations utilize do not like this policy decision at all. Increasing costs of H1B means less workers who will work harder and cheaper than the market would bear if larg
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by jpadkins 20d ago
If citizenship is not required for protected rights, what is? If myself and 10,000 of my friends migrate to Greenland illegally, does the Greenland government have a duty to protect our rights?
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by jpadkins 20d ago
Correct! Hopefully more people factor this into their decision to hire immigrants. Increasing the costs of hiring immigrants is good policy (and reflects the will of the electorate).
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by jpadkins 20d ago
I'll defend this administration in good faith on the policies I agree with (I disagree with most of the current foreign policy). In 2015, Trump took a position on excessive immigration and illegal immigration that made him very popular
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by jpadkins 20d ago
So do the natives.
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by jpadkins 27d ago
I played Pirates! as recently as 2022. Definitely not lost treasure for me.
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by jpadkins 28d ago
I don't follow EU politics. Isn't that position a pretty common EU political view? What is evil about decentralization of power?
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by jpadkins 29d ago
200 pages https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3028.Economics_in_One... There are free PDFs if you don't want to buy it.
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by jpadkins 29d ago
why?
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by jpadkins 1mo ago
Piggybacking on this thread to ask my question: What are alternatives that are multiplayer (team oriented) by default? For example, I want my team to see all my sessions easily, vise versa. another way of stating: all the agents are runni
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by jpadkins 1mo ago
welcome to the internet, not all browsers are the same
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by jpadkins 1mo ago
It's not an assumption that the customer is Google scale that led the $35k monthly price point. It was that you (and many others like you) are breaking the terms of service (which state you are not supposed to store, process or analyz
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by jpadkins 1mo ago
So it hasn't innovated since Oct of 2000? (when AdWords launched)
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by jpadkins 2mo ago
When model intelligence reliably hits 90%-95% of current day knowledge worker tasks, they are going to burn those weight to silicon and we will see another 10X improvement in price/performance frontier. The dynamic GPU clusters will be
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by jpadkins 2mo ago
I had the same thought. Then I thought, maybe "replace" is what will become opposite. Antonyms of "replace" are hold keep precede break damage deprive forfeit lose penalize remain take worsen Hmmm. Maybe they should
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by jpadkins 2mo ago
I think there are rules about public disclosures in a run up to an IPO. They may not be able to publish updates until the official IPO process begins.
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by jpadkins 2mo ago
This reddit thread is devoid of any useful information. Just fear and speculation.
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by jpadkins 2mo ago
it pales in comparison to all the brain cells burned chasing dumb ideas. Don't sweat it, and keep burning tokens in an effort to discover something great.
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by jpadkins 3mo ago
I think another important question is can you distill taste? (another comment uses the phrase "externalize", which might mean something similar). I think people have been trying for the written word, with some degree of success (a
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by jpadkins 3mo ago
also this post was a reply to Sandy on X.
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by jpadkins 3mo ago
Hah. Poe's law.
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by jpadkins 3mo ago
Why not N+1 planets? Too many extinction level possibilities outside of our control.
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by jpadkins 3mo ago
money is just an idea that spreads (a meme).

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