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epgui
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About epgui
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Comment #49234186
Well “a lot” in volume sure, but that feels unnecessarily (maybe ignorantly) dismissive of the core corpus of the field. Find me any field in which there isn’t “a lot” of BS.
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Comment #49233041
A lot of “shallow philosophy” seems more like “pseudo-philosophy”. I feel like a lot of people just take “thoughts” and label that philosophy.
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Comment #49197831
There’s a term for what the last sentence expresses: John Rawls’ “Veil of Ignorance”.
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Comment #49191449
Markedly not my experience at all, haha. I stopped using it.
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Comment #49177232
*ahem* roger penrose and his microtubules *ahem*
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Comment #49048568
It won’t. And I will. I’m not sure if your question misunderstands what AI is and what it can do, or if it misunderstands what cancer is and how medical research works.
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Comment #48983556
I'm a scientist, so I know how science works. More research is always needed. Thinking that watching video content on a different box is any different in this context is wishful th…
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Comment #48972039
Obviously? Why do you think it would be any different?
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Comment #48815887
That’s quite judgmental and shows an impressive lack of scientific curiosity.
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Comment #48815765
Nanopore data is a lot easier to analyze than short read sequencing data. You just don’t get the same alignment/assembly issues: these things sequence incredibly long reads. (also …
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Comment #48793500
The word abstraction does not mean the same thing as the words analogy or comparison.
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Comment #48714038
What does that have to do with the article?
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Comment #48662643
I thought half the point of captchas was to train vision models?
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Comment #48654625
They don’t create energy, but they do create heat. It’s entropy, can’t avoid it.
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Comment #48647566
> What would you say are the benefits of the grammar-of-graphics approach? When a mathematical formalism exists, just use that. Other approaches just reinvent the wheel on an ad-ho…
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Comment #48647548
The selling point is the grammar of graphics. See Wilkinson on the subject.
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Comment #48592284
Presumably they should have said “sources” but that’s not a helpful answer
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Comment #48548654
I find them just as complicated as k8s.
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Comment #48523609
I think everyone deserves to participate in meaningful and dignified work.
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Comment #48523083
Yes, iphones do process images using AI.
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Comment #48447323
I wouldn’t.
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Comment #48438183
I’ve never thought of Linear as particularly fast.
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Comment #48418513
Cognitive ability can be highly specific. If you don't use it you lose it. You may be able to keep your chess ELO high, but realize you can't implement basic algorithms in C++ quit…
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Comment #48403750
> I don't think my actual cognitive skills have declined by using AI I'm not speaking about you but... I know most people would not have much awareness of their cognitive decline. …