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Maybe you were thinking of Utah in 2016? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_McMullin_2016_presidentia...

You make a good point -- it's easy to knee-jerk react based on the "I like free things" vibe and decry long-copyright as nonsensical. I think a reasonable argument against copyrigh…

Sorry if I missed it, but how is a single token output from an LLM comparable to a search result from an engine? The author here compares 1k tokens (as an estimate for an average L…

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"Writers disagree on how best to define and classify atheism, contesting what supernatural entities are considered gods, whether atheism is a philosophical position or merely the a…

But the polls weren't wrong [1]. This was a normal polling error. If we expect polls to give us pinpoint accuracy, it's our expectations that are wrong. [1] https://www.natesilver.…

Note that the prompt is AI-generated as well, though. From the linked blog post: > OpenAI has another AI, GPT-3, that I used to generate many of the ideas for DALL·E prompts. I wan…

> The ʻokina has historically been represented in computer publications by the grave accent (`), the left single quotation mark (‘), or the apostrophe ('), especially when the corr…

While this does kinda suck, note that Marianne Williamson is excluded from many (if not all) of these same examples, while having announced her candidacy well before (and even maki…

Looking at LibriVox specifically (linked to by many of the entries in OP), each audiobook has an RSS feed, so I'll just be listening to them in a podcast app. If you have a decent …

.... whales certainly aren't bony fish. They're in class Mammalia, which is not within the superclass Osteichthyes. I.e. they're mammals, not fish.

The way I read it, the Bible makes it a point to communicate that Jesus was/is a real person (and that his importance actually hinges on that fact). AFAIK, this is and has always b…

Wow, there's some fantastic mapping of this effect from a few years ago: https://calepa.ca.gov/2015/09/16/urbanheat/ . Links to a study and lots of data produced from it. Southern …

From OP: > Interestingly, this same pattern holds for more numbers, and for different intervals. He's not claiming it holds for _all_ n, just for _many_ n.

I don't follow their reasoning. Given their premises: 1. The solar eclipse of Oct 30, 1207 BC is recorded in the book of Joshua, describing events concerning the people of Israel i…

Yeah your number's surprisingly (to me) actually not far off. Use of Tasers varies pretty widely from department to department -- according to [1] the Richmond County SD reports ab…