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https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicin...

Whether a song is uplifting or not is completely subjective. Intelligence has nothing to do with it… Sometimes even a perfect expression of despair in a song can be uplifting to th…

https://www.scribbr.com/fallacies/red-herring-fallacy/

Is it the embargo that prohibits fishermen in Cuba from fishing, farmers from harvesting, cubans from freely doing business? Is it also responsible for cubans getting beaten and im…

I feel the same way but do agree there’s a general lack of respect for the field relative to other professions. Here’s another thread on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

Since you mentioned Einstein, it reminded me of a comment by Max Born on the subject, from the Born-Einstein letters: “Einstein expressed over and over again the thought that one s…

Indeed. I recommend also checking out the 2nd volume of Einstein's collected papers. There is one with the proceedings from a conference on the subject, and Einstein is basically a…

Are there no distinguishing features between these vector databases? I'm not familiar with them so I was looking for any comment on that in the article, whether some make different…

> most successful podcast ever made. What's that Schopenhauer quote, "he who writes for fools will always find a large audience". I suppose the same can apply to podcasts.

Individual machine failure is not likely, but we're hypothesizing the need for multiple shards for high performance. So now we have more machines and so the probability of failure …

It's not purely a matter of cost, right? Say you want or need a highly available, high performance distributed database with externally consistent semantics. Are you going to handl…

Which reminds me of a quote attributed to Newton: "I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men."

Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37428817

This looks great. However, without a truly comprehensive test suite it’s guaranteed to have a great many subtle bugs :). I recommend trying to hook it up with the tests from MIT’s …

This is Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Replication_attempts

Has anyone else encountered this phenomenon lately? I've found myself prompting GPT 3.5 with simple questions that GPT 4 provided an incorrect answer for, and lo and behold I get a…