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The “real” value of goods doesn’t change just because the value of currency changes. You’d be much more upset at 30% deflation, which is why there are inflation targets.

Whether or not people should be imprisoned (or killed) for personal expression is a very different question than whether a country should have have a central bank, democratic repre…

The category similarity comment is amusing. My ChatGPT4 seems to have an aversion to technicality, so much that I’ve resorted to adding “treat me like an expert researcher and don’…

That’s incredibly specious reasoning.

The target audience right now seems to be language enthusiasts and people writing custom compute kernels for machine learning applications. I’m sure as they get closer to a 1.0 rel…

It’s a very low level language in the alpha stage and the dev team are explicitly not prioritizing syntax sugar or developer ergonomics. The syntax will definitely change substanti…

I highly doubt insurance would refuse to cover a medication that will almost certainly drastically lower their long term expenses

Have you considered that maybe his skill is making other people, like you, believe he is a good person who cares? He is, after all, most known for his ability to influence others (…

In my experience Proton works so well now that the only games that don’t work are those with really invasive anti-cheat systems

RTFM.

I concede about multi line lambdas but far too many languages take a “syntax is bikeshedding and unimportant” approach to language design. New languages are still using “&&” and “|…

Chris Olah has a similar but more in depth blog post like this: https://colah.github.io/posts/2014-03-NN-Manifolds-Topology/

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Given that GPT4 is essentially 16 different ensembled GPT3.5s[1] that’s not too surprising [1] https://www.semianalysis.com/p/gpt-4-architecture-infrastruc...

I don’t think that’s the shtick behind OpenUSD. It’s not a transmission format like glTF, so the intent is not to get consistent rendering but rather to standardize intermediate gr…

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It’s been conjectured by some researchers that maybe this is the case, particularly for infants. But there’s very little evidence for it. As far as I’m aware there have been no stu…