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Comment #47153700
> I just used them to reflect pauses in my speech for tangents - and old habit from my IRC days. The tell here is that you used a hyphen, not an em-dash.
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Comment #44783408
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Comment #44704397
Black and white film retains the developed silver particles, whereas color processing discards the silver entirely and leaves clouds of dye behind to form the image. The silver has…
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Comment #43910564
> This seems more plausible than an undiscovered big planet. Why?
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Comment #43634909
One great reason is that you need an account on X to read the thread. I deleted my account many months ago, along with many, many other people.
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Comment #43458678
> but as far as I can tell Did you actually look at the details? It's literally in rule #1: > 1 . Any observations you add must be the first photograph(s) of that species anywhere.…
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Comment #43319843
It could have been made bigger too. Who cares?
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Comment #41715925
You don't have to be a big fucking nerd about it, you know what I meant. The generated music wouldn't exist without the foundation of stolen music made by people.
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Comment #41702689
Yes it is. How else are they "trained?"
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Comment #41697125
> I would definitely listen to AI-generated music if it were good enough Why not just seek out the original works that the AI stole from?
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Comment #40461652
> It has learned to predict the next word very well and the prediction probability distribution was later tweaked with human feedback and automated test feedback. It didn't predict…
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Comment #40113404
Have you read Elizabeth Kolbert before? Or anything in the New Yorker?
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Comment #39943948
I think the alert is to try to get people to stop calling the police to ask/inform them about what they felt.
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Comment #39943938
They are feeling the p-wave, which arrives just before the s-wave that you feel as shaking: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-s...
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Comment #39853509
What is your basis for strongly believing that?
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Comment #39834391
It wasn't a documentary.
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Comment #39834389
There isn't enough data to say what percentage of mushrooms are toxic when uncooked. Anyway, do you eat a lot of raw meat?
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Comment #39732952
Maybe you need to be more clear in the future.
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Comment #39694659
> the most likely situation What is the value in posting a long, entirely speculative comment like this? It doesn't even appear that you have any credibility in this field. Even if…
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Comment #39678548
> The question has been answered - corporate entities do a much better job of curating spaces. Do you have a citation for this, or are you just asserting it as a fact?
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Comment #39667578
I didn't find it to be ruined at all. It might be worth asking yourself why it bothers you so much.
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Comment #39445766
Usually A calls B, and B accepts the charges. In this case, A calls B and then C is contacted to accept the charge.
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Comment #39378475
> the company never went public or sold to large agricultural interests to maximize shareholder value Wow, shame on Bob :eyeroll:
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Comment #38986364
> Which isn't true, the government must also protect you from arbitrary violence. "The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a…
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Comment #38542937
The first line of the article is "My memories are of New York around 1899 — when I was just a boy of seven."