stardek

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by stardek 6d ago
Nice analogy! This seems to me the main difference between Google and the other companies you list -- In regards to LLMs Google is the only one mostly acting like an mature, established organization and not rushing to market as soon as poss
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by stardek 5mo ago
Are you able to comment on J-1 visa limitations around duration of international travel? I'm a postdoc at a US university. My school's international office suggested there was no limit on how long I could travel outside of the US,
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by stardek 3y ago
To a large degree I think this is more true than not. Putting style aside, it's ridiculous that we don't have basic common designs that "just work". I want a kettle and toaster that are expected to work for decades and c
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by stardek 4y ago
After the other user mentioned your name I thought it sounded familiar too so I looked you up. I used MASON quite a bit in the past, thanks for all your work on that!
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by stardek 5y ago
I agree it is a bit weird. I also wasn't able to find a recent press release from the government and some of the articles about this from the past week have been using quotes from 2019 (giving the impression, to me, as though they are
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by stardek 6y ago
The unfortunate side effect if this became standard is that there may be far less motivation for wealthier nations to help poorer nations vaccinate everybody.
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by stardek 6y ago
Maybe a very distorted type of theft but from my perspective the main immoral thing about theft is that it deprives someone of what they used to have, or takes the place of a sale. From the limited research I've seen the evidence is, a
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by stardek 6y ago
With the most common North American accent "would've" and "would of" sound very similar. My suspicion is that the error tends to arise in people that have learned language more from speaking than reading.
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by stardek 7y ago
I was surprised when I read that as well but reading further my impression was that you can confirm the contents of the ballot only while voting and then afterwards you only get access to a message along the lines of "Yes, vote a678b23
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by stardek 7y ago
Can anyone explain what happens when I click this? I'm on the University of Waterloo network and I get sent to [1], rather than what I get when I add the period for: http://ai./ [1] https://uwaterloo.ca&#x2F
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by stardek 7y ago
There may be a different video but [1] by Steven Bridges is similar to what you describe. It's not very scientific but he interviews several groups about their preferences between a very similar trick being perform with sponge balls vs
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by stardek 8y ago
I expect it's covered in several areas but the field of opinion dynamics often investigates these sorts of situations.
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by stardek 8y ago
Other than not having enough mass, what would cause a celestial body to not clear its orbit? The only other factor that occurs to me is time, is there anything else? If not, does that mean Ceres may eventually become a planet?
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by stardek 9y ago
This idea is explored a bit in the Ender's Game universe [1], it definitely seems pretty compelling that non-human intelligence might be so utterly incompatible with our own thoughts that even beginning to communicate might be entirely
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by stardek 9y ago
If you haven't already you might want to look into Sony phones, they've made good smaller phones in the past. I don't know if they've got anything new out but I've got an Xperia Z5 Compact and it has always been qui
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by stardek 9y ago
This is something being explored in a small trial here at the University of Waterloo. A lab has distributed several small fan/heaters that sense your presence and learn your temperature preferences then heat/cool just your local a
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by stardek 10y ago
Except the potential issue is that while R to T is the worst spot according to the data, there is a route in a poorer neighbourhood, C to F, that is far worse and more deserving of improvement than R to T. And it may be hard to know in prac
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by stardek 10y ago
Any idea what the expected reaction would be if you sold it slowly but everyone knew that you had a massive reserve sitting in a warehouse somewhere ready for sale?
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by stardek 10y ago
Does anyone know if there are cases of that being enforced? It sounds to me like the sort of thing that is thrown in by some overzealous lawyers just because they can. Still, definitely not a good thing to sign though.
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by stardek 11y ago
I'm curious where you're from that Sunday isn't considered the first day of the week? I know Monday is often treated as such since it follows the "week end" but (in my very limited experience) I've never actual
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by stardek 12y ago
From jegutman elsewhere in the thread, batteries cost $12000, so even buying two would cut that to 6 years and I bet the batteries usefulness would last longer than that so it would definitely add value to a home and probably be a reasonabl
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by stardek 12y ago
As does mine, sometimes when I just close it rather than suspending first it doesn't wake up and needs a hard reboot. Other times it needs quite some time before letting me enter my password and acts frozen until then. Granted, the pro