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Twitter is not a public outlet of free speech and you'd have to be an absolutely batshit lunatic to claim it is after everything that's happened with Musk's acquisition.

It’s far more than reasonable, it might be Google’s saving grace. I wasn’t going to bother even testing Google’s AI products unless everyone started gushing about how much better t…

If some lab grown brain tissue were all that’s needed for sentience we wouldn’t have such a hard time understanding it to begin with.

> Those systems consume very little in the way of resources Since when is electricity not a resource? Unlike cannabis, you can’t sell tomatoes for $2,000 a pound.

TSMC doesn’t have a real monopoly, they’re just a few years ahead of everyone else in integrating ASML’s latest tech. Samsung and Intel aren’t very far behind. The more money TSMC …

> They are solitary creatures They're not. Feral cats form colonies with complex social structures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_cat#Colonies House cats are much more solita…

In reality cats are man's best friend. Dogs are a child surrogate, except they never reach an age where they're independent. Which is probably half the appeal: they never outgrow u…

The best part is how it's marked as a tourist attraction on Google Maps with 14 5 star reviews, despite only one person ever visiting it. The article kind of glosses over how inacc…

We're not talking about a war on drugs that "didn't completely solve the problem", we're talking about one that made the problem ten times worse and fucked up society in the proces…

The whole concept of different human species may be a taxonomic error of historic proportions despite the morphological differences we see in the fossil record. Information on the …

> Ounce for ounce, a wafer of a top end NVIDIA chips is the most valuable substance on earth. I think that would still be Californium. Even if NVIDIA could fit 300 H100 on a 300mm …

In a technical sense most video is compressed using motion prediction algorithms so the preprocessing on the data is already significantly different to static images, containing mo…

Ironically those translations are some of the best datasets for AI. Those translations are very high quality.

> These types of things always give me a sad, disconnected feeling... What traditions are forever gone? You're in luck, I've got an altar to sell you! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Hollywood filmmakers always find a way.

When’s the last time an executive was charged with Contempt of Congress? Clapper just straight up bald face lied multiple times about the US surveillance aparatus during the Snowde…

Tigers eat grass and small animals like termites just like domesticated cats do so I don't think their diet has been selected for as much as you think. They more likely became popu…

> At the same time, I'd also love to learn more about more "down to earth" tutorials/examples/exercises/courses to build practical UI skills. Something above "react tutorials", but…

> Oviraptorosaur nests typically contained at least 30 or more eggs. With such large broods, “you could imagine, at certain times of year, depending upon the species and when their…

It’s not a dead end per se because cockroaches are used as a model organism in neuroscience experiments. They’re just not very useful outside of academic research for the same reas…

> And now we can control the gradient descent. That may be the fatal flaw. The universe had a few billion years and offered only the threat of death. Our reward functions pale in c…