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woko
4y ago
> Very interesting, potentially useful. But if doesn't spit up exactly what you want can't edit it further. DALL-E 2 spits as many outputs as you want. Then you choose the one you prefer.
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woko
5y ago
This situation becomes obvious when you want to use the search box to retrieve old conversations. I use Discord every day, so I fall in the first category in your post. However, every time I try to find an old conversation, Discord UX and s
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woko
5y ago
Somehow, I missed that. Thanks! I did not realize logging was part of the demo. :D
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woko
5y ago
> I work at a company with >1000 google workspace users. > That's enough that someone at Google will acknowledge what you're reporting is a bug on their end, and that they can reproduce it. But it's not enough to get
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woko
5y ago
> The non-lethal flashbang grenade temporarily blinds anybody within its concussive blast, making it perfect for flushing out closed-in areas. cf. https://counterstrike.fandom.com/wiki/Flashbang
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woko
5y ago
These two people are respectively 22 and 28 years old. They have spent their time in cyber-crime environments since their teenage years. Respectively, a third of his life for the first one, and half of his life for the second one. And that
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woko
5y ago
It is clear by the mention of "several orders of magnitude" that we are talking about a database which fits in a few MB of disk space on a machine with a few GB of RAM. If the interviewee has never worked with a database which wou
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woko
5y ago
Basically, you are presented with a small-scale (possibly toy) problem: the database consists of 50k entries and fits in 3 MB of disk space. Then the interviewee starts wondering out loud whether he could load it in full on a machine with 8
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woko
5y ago
From what I remember, the suspect is believed to be the leader of an anarchist group responsible for squatting places, to struggle against the move of wealthy people to North-Eastern Paris. They have made the news for squatting one place in
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woko
5y ago
For instance, it is discussed in this press article [1] published in 2016 and available in French. It is mentioned that nuclear power costs 60€/MWh, compared to 80€/MWh for wind power. It is also mentioned quite often in the Frenc
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woko
5y ago
The government policy for a reduction to 50% is not based on issues with nuclear power itself. As far as I have seen, there are mainly 2 reasons mentioned in the public debate: i) a concern about the disposal of nuclear wastes and the long-
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woko
5y ago
If you are a company whose business is advertisement, you should not get a free pass to *require* *unnecessary* personally identifiable information from your target audience. There is no good argument for making it a *requirement*. If the p
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woko
5y ago
An introvert is "a typically reserved or quiet person who tends to be introspective and enjoys spending time alone" [1]. So I agree with you that it is surprising to be a "complete introvert" and to look for social inter
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woko
5y ago
In practice, this has not happened yet, and it has been 3 years since the forum inception. One obstacle which I forgot to mention is that an account cannot report posts or warn other members unless the account is 3 months old *and* the acco
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woko
5y ago
That is post-modernism [1], the tendencies of our era. Boghossian's commentary [2] published in 1996 is still relevant these days, though it would need to be put in context. > Postmodernists like to respond [...] that both claims ca
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woko
5y ago
It depends on the scale. I can vouch that crowd-moderation works fine for a small forum (~ 1000 members) which I am part of. And there is no karma system. You get to report posts (3 reports mean that the post is deleted), and warn users (24
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woko
5y ago
There is ImgBB. You need to create an account, but it is free. https://imgbb.com/
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woko
5y ago
Keep in mind that the real goal here was to "test scalable alignment techniques", and OpenAI ended up adopting "recursive task decomposition". That is basically a "divide and conquer" approach for simultaneousl
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woko
5y ago
> People remember. No. People don't remember over a sufficiently long period of time. For instance, you mention China, Russia and the British Empire, but if you look further in time, you get to see other things which nobody remember
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woko
5y ago
This quote is specifically about Diophantine equations. You can find a similar statement as "Proposition 3.2.2" in Chapter 3 "Modular Arithmetic" [1] of this introductory course [2] to Number Theory. Here is a picture of
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woko
5y ago
Moreover, I don't understand how having a built-in adblocker is seen as a selling point. Wouldn't it be more powerful to rely on a third-party add-on like uBlock Origin?
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woko
5y ago
Here are a few examples of human figures from 30,000 years ago [1], and 35,000 to 40,000 years ago [2, 3]. For comparison, the eroded camel sculptures are from 8,000 years ago at best. Moreover, beware of possible biases which could explai
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woko
5y ago
It depends on the offer. Remember that recent piece of news? > Newly-released emails reveal how Google hoped to pay $50 million for YouTube in 2006, and why it ended up paying $1.65 billion > https://www.businessinsider.com
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woko
5y ago
There are several issues with your statement. > The mail service that handed over data of a customer to a foreign government First, ProtonMail can only hand over meta-data, because data is encrypted. Second, "ProtonMail does not giv
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woko
5y ago
GPU can be useful for Nearest Neighbour as well. In case you have access to a GPU, I would strongly recommend Facebook's FAISS [1,2]. For everything else, sklearn is amazing. [1] https://faiss.ai/ [2] https:/
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woko
5y ago
See the FAQ: https://scikit-learn.org/dev/faq.html#will-you-add-gpu-suppo...
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woko
5y ago
It would be interesting to monitor his number of followers before/after the controversy. For information, John Gibson, CEO of Tripwire Interactive, which is a videogame publisher, recently tweeted a controversial opinion about abortion
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woko
5y ago
You are correct. See: > Judge seems alarmed at the extent to which impulse spending by "exorbitantly high spending gamers" drives App Store revenue. > Says it's outside the scope of antitrust but says issue is "wor
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woko
5y ago
If you look closely at the painting before restoration, you can see with your naked eye the rectangular dark frame of the Cupid painting.
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woko
5y ago
Yes, it is very obvious if you look at the face: the width is the same before/after, but the height is different (smaller before than after).
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