tobrien6

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by tobrien6 8mo ago
The Islamic clampdown on the Iranian people has gone on for too long. The younger generation is willing to die for their freedom. The internet is locked down, satellite comms jammed with Chinese tech. The streets smell of blood. Police and
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by tobrien6 10mo ago
BYD is overhyped in the US for some reason. In the countries where they are available, they are considered decent budget vehicles. There's a reason why the Model Y is still the best seller in China.
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by tobrien6 2y ago
I suspect that ML will be state-of-the-art at generating human-interpretable theories as well. Just a matter of time.
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by tobrien6 3y ago
I'd be ok with this if paying for the game meant that I get access on all platforms the game is on.
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by tobrien6 3y ago
This is as bipartisan as it gets. Senator Chuck Schumer, senate majority leader, has introduced a bill that legally requires all individuals with direct knowledge of non-human technology to disclose it. Both the senate and house are pursuin
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by tobrien6 3y ago
UAP sightings and encounters are a global phenomenon, documented by civilians and military/government individuals and declassified documents going back decades. If you begin even cursory research into the topic, you'll discover as
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by tobrien6 4y ago
Experience exists. Whether the contents of the experience are "real" or "not real", it is not coherent to claim that there is truly nothing at all -- what could even cause one to come to that conclusion if there's n
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by tobrien6 4y ago
I see how your response makes sense in terms of questions like "why does an electron exist", but what about the general notion of existence? It seems self-evident that there is something, even just experience. I interpreted the qu
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by tobrien6 5y ago
Truth. Parent comment is deeply misinformed. BTC already has more than enough hash rate, and it is entirely independent of price.
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by tobrien6 5y ago
It's backed by mathematics instead of a country. That doesn't make it better or worse, just different, and diversity is generally what people want in their portfolio.
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by tobrien6 5y ago
The approximate kNN is quite nice for many use cases, and scales to billions of documents. However, you're correct that filtering happens on the results. This is only an issue in certain use cases where filtering is very narrow, as you
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by tobrien6 5y ago
Amazon's Opensearch (fork of Elasticsearch) natively supports vector-based approximate KNN (using https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib/ ) which is integrated with Opensearch's native filtering functionality.
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by tobrien6 6y ago
Just make a burner Facebook account. You can do so with a burner email. Annoying, but not horrifying.
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by tobrien6 6y ago
That's quite true in physical science. However, physical science is a fairly new endeavor. The "why" may not be entirely psychological, but mathematical, at the end of the day.
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by tobrien6 6y ago
This is from 2015 FYI. Here's a more in-depth summary: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2015/11/10/everyth...
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by tobrien6 6y ago
The feelsbad mechanics (like random creep placement) could be accounted for and the randomness mitigated, but it was highly skill-based and thus frustrating for beginners. The fact that the same guy won almost all the tournaments in the bet
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by tobrien6 6y ago
It's too bad Valve didn't properly support or listen to players of Garfield's digital card game Artifact (which he developed for Valve). It was a huge leap forward in digital card games, involving high-level strategic play no
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by tobrien6 7y ago
Interesting, I find Lex to be one of the best podcast hosts I've listened to. I like his mix of philosophical and technical conversation. Most of his guests seem to genuinely enjoy and engage in the conversation.