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calhoun137

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About calhoun137

I am a builder, not a breaker.

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    You can find the live demo here: https://base-1-srrnmbhh3rkmnk8ygcxhvb.streamlit.app/ It seems that waking up the demo from the iframe doesn't always work, but directly visiting th…

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    OP here. this has been a valuable learning experience for me. i was so excited to share what i was working on and i blew it. i will rewrite the blog post and readme later. let me a…

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    OP here, you completely caught me. I used ai to generate that blog post and lightly edited it. lesson learned! moving forward i will type up from scratch any blog post i post on he…

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    My experience leads to the same conclusion that the models are very good at math reasoning, but you have to really know what you are doing and be aware of the blatant lies that res…

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    > Does replacing that lengthy text with "if you aren't sure of the answer say you don't know" have the same exact effect? i believe it makes a substantial difference. the reason is…

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    OP here, I just am getting back into my open source work and decided to write up all the scripts for my new video's in LaTex. You can find a video version of this paper on my chann…

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    my understandinf is that conservation of momentum does not mean momentum is conserved as time passes. it means if you have a (closed) system in a certain configuration (not in an e…

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    The key point is that energy, momentum, and angular momentum are additive constants of the motion, and this additivity is a very important property that ultimately derives from the…

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    Very nice article! I recently had a long chat with chatgpt on this topic, although from a slightly different perspective. A neural network is a type of machine that solves non line…

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    I don't see any evidence here for "self awareness", among other things, ChatGPT is simultaneously answering a very very large number of queries, and the underlying hardware is just…

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    This is so awesome! I have wanted to make something like this for like 20 years, this is much better than anything I made though. Great work

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    I stand corrected. You make a good point.

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    This is an excellent point! Thank you for pointing that out +1

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    Since there is no way to 100% fingerprint a device, therefore there is no way to uniquely identify anyone with 100% confidence using pure fingerprinting techniques. My view is that…

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    +1 just because fingerprinting with WebGL has practical applications and legitimate use cases, this does not mean it's not fingerprinting

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    Thats true! But thats sort of like saying there was an accident on the highway because 2 cars crashed. There are lots of ways a configuration change could disrupt service, all I am…

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    This must be a configuration update that went wrong. I am sure of this because thats always the PR angle. Does anyone know what is really going on here?

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    Since these vaccines got emergency use authorization, that means they did not follow the standard procedure for clinical trials. Therefore, precautionary measures which respond dyn…

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    > Doesn't even a week's delay in vaccinating predictably increase the number of deaths in a country One of the many unknowns about these vaccines is the length of time they give im…