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n3150n
3y ago
Although I understand your point, Shoshanna Zuboff would say otherwise. We are the resource; not the product, neither the consumer. According to her, "their" product used to be information. Then it became prediction. And now it&#x
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3y ago
It is not. As the function `print("hi")` is executed, the argument type in this case becomes `Any`, as it would be for any other executed function. As stated in the typing documentation [0]: "the only legal parameters for typ
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3y ago
Could you expand on it? It is truly surprising for me that anyone would find code with type annotations to be significantly worse, for any reasons whatsoever. On the contrary, I joyfully read and write code with type annotations. It is obvi
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3y ago
Twitter is a word in itself, though, both a verb and a noun [0]. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter
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3y ago
Indeed it is, but the second body's mass may be neglected if it is orders of magnitude smaller than the larger body. Or at least that's how I understand it (I'm not a physicist).
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3y ago
Compared to the invention of the Internet and/or the WWW, I'm of the opinion that calling Google (the search engine) or PageRank (the algorithm) one of the Great Inventions in Human History (and capitalizing it) is too far-fetched
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3y ago
That's an interesting perspective, and although it might have contributed, I wouldn't put that much weight onto crypto's legacy for AI, IMHO. The first papers that used GPUs to train neural networks were from the end of the 2
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3y ago
After thinking for a while on why it would be so, I've come to the conclusion that the truth of this statement (yours) ultimately depends on whose pair of eyes is watching it, IMHO.
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3y ago
Reminded me of this great literary article I read not too long ago, detailing some of the story behind the TMSC factory of semiconductors. Truly a marvelous read, if you are interested. https://www.wired.com/story/i-saw
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3y ago
Are you for real? I'm also not trying to be snarky but... $ cat $(find . -type f | grep -vE LICENSE\|README\|BUILD\|bazel\|git\|docs) | sort -u | wc -l 8360 unique lines scattered across more than 100 files. Good luck deciphering that
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3y ago
> Implementing laws without being able enforce them is not only ridiculous but harmful [...] Not all crimes are preventable, which doesn't mean the laws aren't enforceable. Example: even though murder is illegal, people still c
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4y ago
I only recently heard about it the first time as well, but used to reconstruct a 3D image of the inside of a nuclear reactor. https://phys.org/news/2023-02-muon-detectors-remotely-3d-ima...