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Wheaties466

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    Comment #49123215

    inconsistency with VAR was a huge slight. The Colombia offside call where VAR showed his big toe was offside was pretty ridiculous. Theres no way that is within the margin of error…

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    Comment #46812012

    from what I understand this can come from the batching of requests.

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    Comment #45737146

    I get that they are now involved and contribute to 5g. But its pretty shameful how huawei had acquired the ability to do so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerns_over_Chinese_inv…

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    Comment #44901276

    apart from the skepticism and anti AI hype. One down side that is pointed out is that AI has the potential to dissuade people from learning. Why go through the pains of learning so…

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    Comment #44880025

    I completely agree. I also love the transparency that it provides as to where it is getting the reasoning for making a specific claim. I can also ask it to just reference research …

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    Comment #44879985

    It sounds like you need to be using the research function, which takes ~3 minutes but does a much more in depth search to find more relevant data.

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    Comment #44072116

    Can someone explain to me why you would want to do something like in the example of calculating age based on birthdate? Why wouldn't you do that within an app or within code rather…

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    Comment #43868572

    Do we really know why LLMs seem to score the highest with python related coding tasks? I would think there are equally good examples of javascript/c++/java code to train from but I…

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    Comment #43644078

    I'm genuinely asking this out of curiosity and a bit of naivety — are there as many international students pursuing advanced degrees in China as there are in the U.S.? I don't know…

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    Comment #43415167

    well, not having a unified language slows down things on the other end.

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    Comment #43402899

    I believe this is actually the second time google has tried to buy this company too. They had to give them a too good to refuse offer. While it seems like we aren't getting a ton o…

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    Comment #43035320

    its not even just arch linux. you can literally buy a PC from anyone who sells ubuntu 24.04 and you still cant properly install (and have them work out of the box) snap store items…

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    Comment #42851919

    based on information and background they thoroughly gave when releasing their research its pretty easy to put together that it did take them significantly less resources to train t…

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    Comment #42816456

    A recent matched cohort study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry analyzed data from over nine million UK adults between 2000 and 2019 to assess life expectancy and year…

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    Comment #42741012

    from what I know the bids that have been put in place are just for the US operations and there are some bids that dont include the algo as a part of the deal.

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    Comment #41637092

    Halide is a professional-grade camera application that offers advanced photography features such as manual controls, RAW and ProRAW capture, live histograms, focus peaking, depth c…

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    Comment #41636965

    If you cant sufficiently explain why your app needs the permissions it does thats on you and the submitter needs to take accountability here. Resubmit with a better explanation. I …

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    Comment #41636920

    A.I. wont be a bust, but your investment in something simply because it "uses AI" might not be a smart choice. I can't blame people for attaching "uses AI" to their pitch to get fu…

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    Comment #41636835

    Personally, I don't even think this is sillyness. yes it should be strict to release apps and you should be accountable and have to explain why you need access to specific permissi…

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    Comment #41567852

    you're not alone in this. I thought i would love WFH but it turns out I need some social interaction even though i dread it.

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    Comment #41530329

    i can tell you that more often than not it will make 500% better espresso. I've owned 5 machines from varying price categories and the number of features you get with a machine aro…

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    Comment #41382807

    this is how I have used it so far too. Small, Boring tasks that I can iterate ontop of. its also nice to have as something to "bounce ideas" off of and see if it can think of any o…

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    Comment #41312360

    >I also have a definition of what I think level should ideally represent: the marginal contribution of a person’s influence on the outcome of a company, relative to the counterfact…

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    Comment #41009245

    i'd think you'd want some sort of controls/detection on infrastructure level machines. above comment is very naive.