robbedpeter

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by robbedpeter 4y ago
It's cheaper than many other additives. Graphene flakes are all that is needed for concrete reinforcement, and it's trivial to produce, even at scale. Carbon chunks are thrown into industrial blenders with water and detergent, res
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
This is where you might use a variation of that "healing cracks" bacteria in conjunction with the "eats plastic" bacteria. If you could get the plastic digesting bacteria to excrete rigid oxides, then most of the plastic
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
https://youtu.be/uFhBd5mMkU8 This is one of note thousands of videos of cats and dogs using buttons to talk. Cats, and all mammals, have a neocortex. Theirs is not as deeply layered or large as humans, but they most definit
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Was. They've sold out to the ad churn, laying off journalists, and some genius middle management is steering the company toward profits over quality journalism. They're a dead outlet, unless they restructure their management to pr
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Yeah. It might as well be in flash.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Advertising incentivizes lying. The best presentation wins, in this current ad market. Metrics that track good faith interactions are needed, like eBay reputation - if someone isn't 98% or higher, they're going to be overlooked or
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
They shouldn't be doing stupid things like hosting anything important on Facebook. I have zero sympathy for Australia's inability to elect competent government. They signed up for free services like every other chump on the planet
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Steelmanning is your own good faith attempt to understand the opposing argument so well that you can articulate it as coherently as your own position. If you're simply repeating what the other person said, you're not using the con
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
A cluster of many $8000+ gpus. You're looking at around 350GB of vram, so 30 12gb gpus - a 3090 will cost around $1800, so $54k on the gpus, probably another $15k in power, cooling, and infrastructure, $5k in network, and probably anot
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
The smaller models, yes. I'd bet dollars to donuts that gpt-neo and EleutherAI models outperform most, if not all, of Facebook's. Check out huggingface, you'll be able to run a 2.7b model or smaller. https://huggin
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Web scraping is legal. Reddit users, like all other members of public forums, put their comments on the internet for the whole world to see. And collect, parse, process and manipulate. If you don't want the whole world to have access
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Well done! This is a beautiful tribute.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Every argument for death strikes me as silly. If anything, functional immortality would incentivize people to be better. Your want relationships to be stable and mutually respectful at a minimum. Marriages would be somewhat hard to maintain
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Your assertion depends on his evening meal being deleterious. https://naturallystrong.me/david-sinclair/ He's got an excellent diet. He's also got very solid reasoning behind metformin supplementation, having
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1_2_3_2_1... Here's some good context for what the limitations look like in practice.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Well, god wants you to wear a hat. https://youtu.be/vudEvu1yUiM
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Man, i think they'd want stuff like: How to create a budget. What does a 401k do for you. How to plan for retirement. How to do your taxes. Balancing a checkbook. Psychology of debt versus paying in cash. How to save money. Nut
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
These are entirely artistic/ceremonial objects. Someone found a dried out pufferfish and then realized they could make a badass looking hat out of it, they did, and the meme stuck. insert quasi-religious cultural narrative here afte
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
If we're doing something stupid, the correct course of action is to stop doing the stupid thing, not to refine the stupidity. Software patents are stupid.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
This leads to the notion of being taxed for having a brain. Software patents shouldn't exist. The concept is patently absurd.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
I bet they'd send marines to recover him and his family if he asked. They'd get disappeared to a US black site and lost to history, but barring that, he's pretty much fenced in. The fog of war and chaos might provide him an o
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
And it's possible to acquire the equivalent of a PhD through the vast wealth of information and literal college courses online. Degrees don't mean what they used to. The dilution of quality caused by profit based perverse incentiv
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Nina Jankowicz is well known for being among the first and most vocal people involved in the Hunter Biden laptop story, reinforcing the DNC narrative that it was Russian disinformation. This woman is a political hack and not a good faith op
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Yeah, Edward Snowden was foiled by the Russian state firewall. I think it's likely he had the epiphany that he'd be a pointed lesson in not mouthing off about Putin while you're exiled in Russia, especially with his wife and
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Run out of the village, into the forest, to fend against actual wolves, preferably.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Some perspectives still hold that degrees are critical, but unless it's from less than a handful of the top programs in a field, the degree is barely worth the paper it's printed on. Degrees are useful to get into corporate work,
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
A lot of the signal is going to be identical, so a hierarchical distribution with in-place modification based on location would be better than calculating the modification of the sound and sending to thousands of channels.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
No offense intended, but it's "exclamation mark" - it's a common mistake.
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
This is incorrect - iq has risen steadily with improvements in nutrition, public health, and medical science. It's mostly plateaued over the last 50 years, but it's evident that pre-industrial / pre-rnlightenment humans had a
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by robbedpeter 4y ago
Demonstrate its use as such. Extraordinary claims, etc. The level of scrutiny on SpaceX is incredible, and rightly so. Any unethical conduct or illegal money shuffling would be caught out quickly.

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