lucaspfeifer

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by lucaspfeifer 7mo ago
It is scary but also exciting. As long as there are humans making informed decisions, there will be demand for quality sources of information. But to keep up with AI, content sites will need to raise their standards. Less intrusive ads, les
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by lucaspfeifer 1y ago
Great, now can you make an AI-powered type checker? I wish to expel those pesky types, which too often seem to exist only to clutter my otherwise pristine code. :)
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by lucaspfeifer 2y ago
Yes, the distinction between theory and hypothesis can be important, but a distinction should also be made between popular science and rigorous peer-reviewed literature. Popular science is meant to be easy for the general reader to understa
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by lucaspfeifer 2y ago
Here's a little more of that chapter: For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to deliver you into the hands of those you hate, to those you turned away from in disgust. 29 They will deal with you in hatred and take away ev
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by lucaspfeifer 2y ago
Seems like the key issue here is this: what is the purpose of conducting the authentication? In the case of personal accounts, it's for the benefit of the individual. They get their own account to safely store personal data. Here, the
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by lucaspfeifer 2y ago
What do you find 'loaded' about the phrase 'mixed society'? It is more descriptive than the meaningless phrase in the original headline: "How Does Paris Stay Paris?".
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Two alternatives: A. Make a stronger password, time to crack it increases exponentially. B. Change password regularly, including after getting new equipment.
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Most people trust their families more than their work acquaintances. Still, the family member must have more than trust, to do a good job in a skilled profession. Proof? I'm not going to spend the effort to cite data here, since we hav
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
What if the family member is looking for their first job and is well trained?
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Universities, especially the more prestigious ones, have been trending towards aggressively simplistic labeling of complex social issues. While their stated goal is to protect minorities, the oversimplification increases polarization and di
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Nepotism means hiring friends or family. The advantage there is that you start out with a greater level of trust, depending on how long you've known the person. This must be weighed against the disadvantage that there are likely more s
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
If you have a good enough model, you can identify anything. To discuss super-intelligence, we should first define it. Wikipedia says that it is intelligence surpassing the brightest of human minds. Taken as a whole, the internet already has
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Here's one take: good developers learn fast, bad developers learn slow. Software is one of the fastest moving fields, so it takes a quick mind to keep up. Clearly, everyone needs some basic knowledge to program, and equally clearly, th
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Rather than everyone voting for a few people at the top, what if each level voted for the one above and the one below? That way, people would be voting for the positions and people that they know the most about. Like the other response said
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Why -- because you spend your free time in a much more useful and productive manner?
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
No, it improves many skills, including logic, memory, pattern recognition, visualization, calculation, decision-making, abstraction, time management, risk management, etc.
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Can Apple please make a display saturation slider in settings?
1 points by lucaspfeifer 3y ago|0 comments
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Not tiptoe around people. Address their misconceptions efficiently without insulting them.
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Calling someone wrong, in the extreme sense, could be taken as an insult. Whereas when calling an idea wrong, the scope of negativity is limited to that idea. Even better is to focus only on the right, and minimize the time spent on the w
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Subscription
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
The internet is still in its 'wild west' stage. When things settle down, the obscene stuff will be gone, and the useful sites will remain.
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
Political discussions should be open and transparent. If there is reprisal for well-intentioned statements, proportional action should be taken to stop the reprisal. Though it is nice to allow various beliefs, it is more important to have a
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
In response to your second statement: Technical people have been able to explain their ideas well enough to get them funded and implemented in a business setting. So we must ask, what is the difference between getting something done in busi
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by lucaspfeifer 3y ago
There are benefits to reducing anonymity: accountability, trust, relationships, etc. It's why humans evolved to recognize faces so well. We decide who to trust based on experience. It doesn't matter who controls the identification