modernpink

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by modernpink 2y ago
>If there was ever any doubt, this action makes clear that the Chinese government will use supply chains as a weapon to advance their interests over ours. In particular this sentence demonstrates a näive credulousness. Kissinger would be
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by modernpink 2y ago
The "North East" is the proper name of a NUTS 1 [0] region of the UK. It is distinguished from your interpretation of it as the "north east of the UK" by its use of capital letters, as is standard in English [1]. [0] ht
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by modernpink 2y ago
"RTFM"[0] as they say [0] https://huyenchip.com/ml-interviews-book/contents/3.1.1-base...
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by modernpink 2y ago
Apparently, it was this Chinese method of repair that horrified the Japanese aesthetic sensibility [0] into creating kintsugi. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi#Origin
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by modernpink 3y ago
Taiwan can be economically squeezed by western derisking and moving sensitive tech out of Taiwan or it can continue to be militarily squeezed by China if it continues to be the single point of failure in the western technology chain. The fo
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by modernpink 3y ago
>enjoy a mix of Chinese, Malay, Indian cultures Apart from the food, what specifically about these cultures is enjoyable?
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by modernpink 3y ago
London's population is almost double all of Ireland. Dublin is not an alternative at all. The annual production of new STEM graduates in the UK is half the population of Dublin alone.
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by modernpink 3y ago
Everything is a status symbol.
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by modernpink 3y ago
Considering the advances in computational hardware over the past few decades plus the corresponding (and not unrelated) real increase in developer salaries, it is unreasonably cheap.
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by modernpink 3y ago
That sounds like efficient market allocation of resources. There is no inherent reason you deserve to live in luxury as most do in the West unless you've contributed to society.
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by modernpink 3y ago
Taken to its logical conclusion, companies offering WFH would then be morally justified in replacing US workers with cheaper third world options. UK salaries in tech for example are about 1/4-1/3 of US levels.
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by modernpink 3y ago
China is the greatest civilisational threat to the West we have seen since Persia or the Umayyad Caliphate. The fact that the West has allowed letting China grow as much as it has done will be seen as one of the most fatal mistakes in grand
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by modernpink 3y ago
Exactly, the West can bring to bear its might on Vietnam if they step out of line, especially since they themselves are not much fans of the Chinese and will be more than happy to work with the West. For Western consumers and companies we h
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by modernpink 3y ago
All of modern science is possible without philosophy. In fact, it is when what was called natural philosophy broke off into the natural sciences that philosophy per se devolved into a series of language games on metaphysics that became of l
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by modernpink 3y ago
They have even adopted some of the Apple nomenclature "Ultra", "Pro" and "Nano"
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by modernpink 3y ago
Workers aren't entitled to profit off other's risks indefinitely.
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by modernpink 3y ago
That's fine, but this post is for a course on developing generative AI applications.
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by modernpink 3y ago
The cynicism that regards hero worship as comical is always shadowed by a sense of physical inferiority, Yukio Mishima. You reveal more here about your own psychology than those who have a mission that they believe in and are passionate abo
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by modernpink 3y ago
It's main purpose would be as an event venue where people would travel there deliberately rather than as a sightseeing item, and Stratford is a travel hub with connections to all other travel hubs in London and by extension the rest of
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by modernpink 3y ago
Surely the entire board would have to stand down
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by modernpink 3y ago
What does the name mean? Presumably it's Japanese but not seeing anyone Japanese in the company
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by modernpink 3y ago
Mr President, the second tower has been hit
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by modernpink 3y ago
Considering speech is becoming the primary interface for HCI via LLMs, that alone may reduce the need for UI design.
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by modernpink 3y ago
Similarly, I couldn't imagine not having your diagrams as code, enabling easier versioning, updating and collaboration over the UI created ones.
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by modernpink 3y ago
Has this text ever been placed under scientific/logical analysis? Just because it's from an ancient text does not mean it has relevance to life today. For example, the following could be verified via some kind of socioeconomic dat
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by modernpink 3y ago
It is somewhat tiring but Gergely Orosz continuously makes the naive mistake of citing the company values as a critique of their behaviour. Taking a lesson from the "realist" perspective in international relations, companies are a
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by modernpink 3y ago
In my experience it's not as good as even GPT-3.5 at following instructions (for example formatting a text blob into structured json) which leads it have too much variability in output to be useful.
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Did Apple just lowkey launch a v1 brain-machine-interface into the Vision Pro?(twitter.com)
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by modernpink 3y ago
“One of the coolest results involved predicting a user was going to click on something before they actually did. That was a ton of work and something I’m proud of. Your pupil reacts before you click in part because you expect something will
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by modernpink 3y ago
Well, humans switched from using using brains to store all their memories once they could dump data onto external media via writing. Much like how crypto switching to ASICs frees up GPU capacity for AGI, writing freed the brain to develop h

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