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Hahaha quite possible, I really didn't think it was satire and it's indistinguishable from a lot of serious comment I see, especially wrt covid. Edit: looking at the op's recent posts I also found If you write critical so
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by version_five 3y ago
Lol, you're experiencing what's called "crimestop" the automatic tendency to stop thinking when anything encroaches on the orthodoxy you've been fed. Why does it "sound harmful"? Because it contradicts the
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by version_five 3y ago
Covid vaccine was not studied the way drugs normally are, so they don't know what the side effects are. And it was rammed down everyone's throat so "public health" authorities had to present a unified lie that there was
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by version_five 3y ago
Invoking Gebru immediately discredits any article. She had a brief moment of fame for not doing her job and encouraging others to not do theirs as well, and somehow came away with some synthetic street credit for it in slacktavist circles;
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by version_five 3y ago
The scariest part of this is that it appears to be country dependent how seriously it is taken and how those presenting with symptoms are addressed. I have no idea if I'm in a pandas-accepting country, but knowing this now I'd cer
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by version_five 3y ago
This is basically happy hour. Though the app notification (why would I ever install a pub app?) feels like it could be a slippery slope to true dynamic pricing. Though revenue management for going to the pub seems like a poor use case.
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by version_five 3y ago
Wow. Thanks.
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by version_five 3y ago
That's an insane amount of money. I can't read the article, it would be very interesting to see the rental costs they backed out of and how much they saved.
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by version_five 3y ago
Of note, Canada's deputy prime minister has a masters degree from Harvard in slavic studies and wrote a book about Russia. They knew what army the guy fought for, it's unlikely that she or anyone else who knew about history could
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by version_five 3y ago
I'm in no way defending him or the government's actions here. I want to add though that Canada did have a commission in 1986 look into this person's unit (Galacia Division) did not find evidence implicating them in war crimes
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by version_five 3y ago
That may make sense for setting public policy but it's not necessarily true with your own kids is it?
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by version_five 3y ago
Huh? Is it a given that we should optimize life for school, particularly tutoring which I assume pertains to high school and below? I think in the absence of a disability, money spent on sports or drama club or 4H or whatever extra curricul
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by version_five 3y ago
I think the average person was shorter then. I'm 6'3" and flirting with 200 lbs, and other than a bit of a dad bod am (or so I tell myself) pretty slim. My guess is these guys were mostly well under 6'
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by version_five 3y ago
Maybe true, but he's trying, investing his time and possibly his money in it. He could also just do nothing, it's cool that he's spending time thinking about it. What more could you ask for?
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by version_five 3y ago
Yes exactly. And I find many tweets only make any sense either because they are a reply or the beginning of a thread or something. Or maybe the tweet is all there is, but you'd need to know that. With the new format you just get the or
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by version_five 3y ago
Thanks, is there a better link then that would let someone not up to speed understand the announcement and significance?
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by version_five 3y ago
"Trust experts" has changed in the new religious movement from "trust experts on stuff in their area of expertise" (which largely makes sense) to "trust politicians who have credentials in a narrow specialty who wan
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by version_five 3y ago
This is a link to a Twitter announcing a YouTube coming in 1/2 hour. Does / did the YouTube contain the announcement? Now that Twitter has gone subscriber only, we can't see any context around tweets. I think they should be D
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by version_five 3y ago
Maybe I'm thinking about it too simply but yeah I agree. Language models in particular are very similar architectures and effectively a lot of dot products. And running them on GPU's is arguably overkill. Look at llama.cpp for the
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> For obvious reasons I couldn’t attempt searching for datasets of children sleeping. Go onto LAION 3B and do a text based search as well as embedding search based on the images you have. I'd guess there are enough out there to mak
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by version_five 3y ago
People want to use the specter of climate change to play politics and advocate radical socialism instead of solving a technical problem. We could easily go nuclear, sequester carbon, mitigate what changes we can't stop. But that doesn&
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by version_five 3y ago
Propaganda and misinformation is apparently ok when it's part of a popular religion?
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by version_five 3y ago
Every now and again there are brief periods where it says "We're having trouble serving your request". It happens when they change something?
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by version_five 3y ago
I remember decades ago reading a study that said there is statistically more bacteria in the drink ice at fast food restaurants than on the toilet seats in the bathrooms...
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Crocodiles use their snouts to nudge dog to safety from river(nationalpost.com)
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by version_five 3y ago
Are there any good freely available multi-modal models?
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by version_five 3y ago
The big ranges is a logical consequence of such stupid rules. People are not commodities, and only in the most trivial of work can you a priori know what an individual brings to it. It's typical government thinking that makes no sense
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I found this interesting: despite her locally being a big star, Bruce Springsteen sold his music for $550 Million recently which must deflect decades of staying power. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/arts&#
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by version_five 3y ago
They're not all identical and they don't share with each other. The article didn't mention it but I'd also suspect lack of strong family ties is a big contributor. It's going to be people who didn't have kids o
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by version_five 3y ago
Parasitic plants as well. I don't have great links but look at mistletoe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistletoe and Indian pipe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotropa_uniflora for examp

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