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> Driving a car uninsured should have some extremely stiff penalties. I want to agree with you, but wonder if you have ever been poor? When you need the car to get to work so you c…

Beaglesses, insofar as there are sides to take here, I like yours. I would hope only that you had the option to include your children in some of the building activity-- your commen…

All of which is strong argument in favor of replacing all income tax with land tax. The idea starts to make a lot of sense once you look at its framing. This includes the argument …

Bertone seems to still be offering cars https://bertone.it/ price point is a little higher than the cybertruck, but hey, probably worth it.

Dunbar told me it grows by approximately tripling. And yes, when you cross a Dunbar bound the old tools and techniques fail in surprising ways. 15 45-50 150 450/500 1500 5000

Humanity went through a genetic bottleneck about 70K years ago. As a result, there is more genetic diversity in a troop of chimpanzees than in all of the employees of Google. So it…

[Submitted on 24 Mar 2023] Double Descent Demystified: Identifying, Interpreting & Ablating the Sources of a Deep Learning Puzzle Rylan Schaeffer, Mikail Khona, Zachary Robertson, …

I'm really hoping your comment is sarcastic. If it is serious, you could always set a timer.

Yes, a stepped attenuator.

"computers getting cheaper to under $1000." maybe not that one :)

Another theory-- there are lots of places in Africa where people cannot live due to disease (without modern medicine). This creates refuges for wildlife.

> goal seeking and planning, apparent emotional responses, awareness of context, decision making, pattern- and repetition-based learning, some argue (using data and experimentation…

Just discovered this and got the test project up and running... but wondering how to enable CSV import? The "upload csv file" box does not show up in the test project.

Bit of a difference between "hard to hit" and "impervious"

I wonder how much of this is just a feedback loop; were people taught both tools and then chose the one that works best, or was one more heavily promoted than the other, so people …

It hit "delve" on the penultimate point.

Reminds me of an observation from a podcast done by a successful creative (sorry, can't remember who, I think Rick Rubin was interviewing the person): Our society thinks it is norm…

> the same can of soup at a health food store can easily be $6 while costing $3 at a regular grocery yes, maybe because the regular store can buy in much higher volume, and will ha…

I'll second air gradient. Founder is really cool and supportive. Tech works. I bought some boards from him a while back, ordered the parts of off alibaba, and had a working ESP32 s…

In the long run, the side effect of HIV is death due to total collapse of the immune system.

This is one of the traits I admire the most about German culture; awareness that government can abuse its power. In the US, by contrast, I see one political power eager to give pow…

fasttext failed for me with numpy2.0. reverted to numpy 1.26.4 and it was fine.

> a system we use to ask questions expecting truthful answers. yes, I still wonder how LLMs managed to generate this expectation, given that they have no innate sense of "truth" no…

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