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Or communicate telepathically with dogs.

Pure Quantum Gradient Descent Algorithm and Full Quantum Variational Eigensolver https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04198

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_optimization_algorithm...

If the brain is a receiver, information transfer could happen non-locally and the tea might be telepathy, precognition, or remote viewing. In the split brain example, demonstrating…

“The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.” Alberto Moravia, London Observer, 14 Oct. 1979

SOCRATES: Do you know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in a manner which will be acceptable to God? PHAEDRUS: No, indeed. Do you? SOCRATES: I have heard a tradition of the a…

Not necessarily famous, but faces existing in training data or false positives making generalizations about faces based on similar characteristics to faces in training data. This b…

At least as of 10-15 years ago US Cellular owned their rural markets and leased their urban markets. In NYC they are likely reselling Verizon’s network.

Interesting point! It’s funny, I’m often tempted to fact check data or lookup jargon, etc. and comment to save someone else the trouble. I once did this on the seriouseats subreddi…

Research indicates that SUVs are indeed more dangerous to pedestrians compared to other vehicle types in the United States. A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (I…

Des Moines, Iowa https://www.dsm.city/departments/engineering_-_division/skyw...

Lots of folks taking this approach and feels like the wrong entry point, e.g., similar to asking LLMs to generate bytecode when compilers exist or 3d printing a machine vs. buildin…

Quite a number of studies suggest that chatbots are an effective tool for mental health support. Doesn’t need to be either or, but one could imagine scenarios where it may be more …

KBA must die.

I don’t buy wage problems because my estimate on Chicago taxis was most medallions were held by investors who were not drivers and most drivers were undocumented with less protecti…

I feel like the people who complain about Uber/Lyft from a service perspective never used taxis extensively. Living in Chicago (Lakeview) for years while traveling for work made me…

This is a helpful comment given the confusion above. The concept seems more related to Thermal Mass than geothermal energy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_mass I’m fascinate…

This is the type of uninformed comment I mentioned earlier. The draw of specialized boutique consultancies is the ability to step into challenging situations, take charge, make a b…

The secondary/tertiary market aspect is spot on, but IMO base and bonus are higher while the equity is trivial or is non-existent.

Not enough people, especially on this site realize this when they generalize about consultants being lazy, stupid, parasitic, etc. - the majority of the folks in SV could never cut…

Deforestation in Iceland predates industrialization. “Deforestation is a major issue that is highly prevalent throughout the world. The country of Iceland has been hit especially h…

Agreed very much on Reich and feel very similar about Brian Eno’s solo work. What’s the difference between aleatoric music and generative music?

My 10yo daughter plays a chess app mostly with suggestions turned on. It has substantially improved her game when we play together. Way more effective for her than my coaching, alt…

This is ostensibly what WebAuthn will do. It needs to happen, but retraining users is going to be the difficult bit.