Dr Cog

@Dr Cog@mander.xyz
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... what?

This sounds like the pitch of a tech bro who just heard someone use the term API but doesn't actually know what it is

The downside of HFCS isn't the syrup itself, but the fact that it is so cheap and is easily able to be added to make things taste "better" for basically no cost.

I would end the corn subsidies in America. They make bank anyway

So because the average person is aware that it's difficult to download off YouTube, that means any attempt to make it easier is "acting in bad faith"?

Is it "bad faith" to replace your phone's battery because it requires some specialized tools? Is it "bad faith" to change the oil in your car instead of bringing it to a service center?

I know lots of very stupid people with PhDs

I have a PhD, for one

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Land on a planet, you step off the ship, and you suddenly get captured. Hard cut to black.

Slow fade in... "you're finally awake"

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I'm pretty sure that was a joke, lol

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The only crime here is the crime against humanity of taking away a person's agency over their own body

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A PhD doesn't mean anything other than that you are a fast learner and are dedicated enough to work on a project for years. It doesn't mean you are intelligent or even that you know everything in your field, however it does usually result in you being an expert in a very specific small corner of your field.

I have a PhD

Interesting side effect is Reddit is basically penalizing voting, since if you vote on most comments you end up doubling or tripling your API usage. The best way to pay less for this app is to stop voting altogether.

Reddit's advertising is based on user engagement, so they're shooting themselves in the foot for a few pennies in comparison.

No, they wouldn't have. Because owning a link to a thing doesn't mean anything, no matter what that thing is. They were only valuable because people didn't understand NFTs and wanted to get rich quick.

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Not since Elon Musk bought me for 44 billion dollars

Like it or not, there is a reason he has so much support. His values are the values of the majority of Republicans in this country.

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Wife already has access to my computer and all my files.

Do people not stream their porn nowadays?

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Pools are more dangerous than owning a gun in the same way that vending machines kill more people than sharks.

People are near vending machines way more often than they are near sharks, and people let their kids play in the pool more often than they let them play with firearms

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My wife and I are both Dr. X

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Data was obtained from the UK Biobank, a repository of data collected from tens of thousands of people across the United Kingdom.

It is important to remember that an observational finding like this is inherently not causational. One group of people weren't asked to eat nuts while another was asked to not do so. Therefore, there is always the possibility that alternative explanations exist. A simple one could be: people that care more about their health tend to snack on healthier things like nuts instead of chips or sweets. And those people are less likely to be depressed.

I think your problem might have been the plan

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And a certain percentage of innocent people are found guilty. You don't see how expanding the arrests of innocent people is a bad thing? It has the potential to ruin lives

I doubt it, but either way: stop preordering games.

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Nothing you inhale is good for you, but vaping is significantly better than smoking. It's not even a comparison.

If you are going to inhale something, make it a vape

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Specifically, the corresponding author (which should have their email listed in the publication)

Keep in mind you may get an "uncorrected proof" or "author copy" since many authors don't want to run afoul of their publisher's guidelines on giving out copies

The LLM isn't the issue here. It's generating coherent speech well enough.

The problem is that there is no mechanism for identifying odd or out of place items in the stimuli fed to the model. This mechanism (separate from the LLM) would be placed between the CNN (image recognizer) and the LLM (text generator). What typically happens is the CNN recognizes subjects and items in an image and passes the list along to the LLM which generates a description. Since the LLM doesn't actually have access to the original image, you can't ask it to look for unusual things the CNN did not provide it.

The result is not surprising. People just don't know how these models work and so assume they can do anything.

It's far easier to be successful if you're already rich.

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You really love posting this comment in every post about steam, don't you?

The presence of chlorine does not make a chemical toxic.

Are you a chemist in the sense that you run a drug store?

Becsuse you don't move to the next phase until you reach a milestone. The embrace is the first step, to convert a small percentage of users of the original platform. Once you have those, you extend your features to have those users recruit more users to that specific instance or implementstion, since they are more feature-rich or stable or whatever. Then once you have a critical point of users on your instance, you defederate from all others and develop your walled garden which now has all the users and the content.

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"Error: syntax error on line 1"

...shit

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I'm a scientist so I joined the instance that seemed to match my interests the best. I like browsing Local and seeing all the other science posts as well

Speaking of speech:

Using the word "retard" as a derogatory term is pretty offensive to those born with developmental defects. It's similar to how we used to use "gay" in a similar way a few decades ago. It's pretty shitty.

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Scientists: we made this neat thing that approximates human sounding speech!

Everyone: I'm going to believe every word this thing says

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Just think of all the horse trainers that will be displaced by the invention of cars! Those cars won't be paying taxes, that's for sure.

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The problem isn't with gender norms themselves, it's the enforcement of them.

Fun experiment time!

Take a glass of still water and a glass of sparkling water, and let it sit overnight. The sparkling water should have gone flat by then. Now taste them. Do they taste the same?

::: spoiler spoiler Nope! The dissolved carbon dioxide takes a very long time to actually dissipate, and so there might still be some left over. But even still, there should be some carbonic acid left over from the CO2 molecules reacting with the H2O to make H2CO3, making the water very slightly acidic. :::

Edit: I don't think Liftoff's spoiler tags work

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A few weeks ago

My son (4 months old) refused to sleep and was crying/screaming for like an hour

Very frustrating, and I cried a mixture of sympathy tears and frustration tears

The last time I cried not from my son was like 15 years ago

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This is also why medical studies never use accuracy as a measure if the disorder being studied is in any way rare. Sensitivity and specificity or positive/negative likelihood ratios are more common

The concept isn't, I agree. But it also isn't a useful idea, either. There really doesn't appear to be any benefit to using NFTs in any meaningful application, or at least nobody has pitched one that isn't either a grift or a way to appear "trendy" by reinventing the wheel.

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I don't doubt your numbers, but that wasn't the point I was making. Guns may be more common, but it isn't common to let your children play with them. It is, however, common to let your children play in the pool.

Removing an episode for being racist (even though this one wasn't racist) is not cultural genocide. Wearing blackface (I know, this wasn't blackface) is not a culture that needs to be preserved.

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The Japanese scientist who discovered it

Dude that was 2 years ago

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