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freilanzer

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    Comment #46069046

    > some of his companies have made substantial contributions to pushing the frontier of technology (reusable landing, high launch cadence, electric cars, energy). People he hired fo…

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    Comment #45126039

    I have one, and I used the ipad alternative that a friend has, and the ipad is just better. I haven't used the RM2 in over a year, since the functionality is just lacking compared …

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    Comment #45126016

    The RM2 also fails at organizing: no text search in PDFs and not in notes, if you don't convert every handwritten note into text on a new page; only tags, which means if you don't …

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    Comment #45126000

    Don't, it's just an expensive replacement for pen and paper, and the best overall pro is that you have your notes in one place. That's it. No text search, etc. make it so much less…

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    Comment #45125970

    > only a scratch paper replacement. But it’s not as economical if limited to this. That's exactly the use case though. It's a replacement for pen and paper, and the lack of functio…

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    Comment #45125961

    My pen is misaligned with the point on the paper by about 1-2 mm often, and no amount of swiping the side of the pen, etc. could fix it so far.

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    Comment #45091795

    Qwen scores very high in the MTEB: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

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    Comment #45061611

    Qwen3-Embedding is really good, imo. It allows me to release a global feature that would have been extremely difficult otherwise.

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    Comment #45061595

    "My ignorance and stupidity is just as good as your logic and facts!"

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    Comment #45053034

    Not at all.

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    Comment #45037270

    No, cars have these in addition to seatbelts, not to protect drivers who unbuckle themselves.

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    Comment #45037263

    So, you want an LLM to act as a psychiatrist and diagnose users whether they're allowed to use it or not?

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    Comment #45011097

    > It's most glaringly obvious in TV shows. Scenes from The Big Bang Theory look like someone clumsily tries to paint over the scenes with oil paint. It's as if the actors are weari…

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    Comment #44981709

    Same with Mastodon for me. It's good, and the app is well done, but there's just no reason for me to use it.

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    Comment #44951461

    That's a very good point.

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    Comment #44949456

    Training and genetics.

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    Comment #44938696

    Yes, it is. People have gotten better after having been told by someone in a labcoat that what they're taking is a placebo.

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    Comment #44938631

    It's patronizing.

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    Comment #44887068

    > ... patients of Vipeholm Hospital for the intellectually disabled in Lund, Sweden, were unknowingly fed large amounts of sweets to see whether a high-sugar diet would cause tooth…

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    Comment #44863799

    > People are still free to criticize Trump all they want. The First Amendment is pretty clear on this. In theory.

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    Comment #44861705

    > I had to verify everything it said Letting it condense something like a paper and checking it afterwards might be a good learning exercise.

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    Comment #44822006

    But now you seem to be checking all of the homework, so you should still do it. OT: what are your math credentials?

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    Comment #44798214

    That sounds horrible. What are better resources?

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    Comment #44744341

    The learning is in the model versions.

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    Comment #44722445

    This is exactly the point that specific things cannot reasonably be discussed without a certain side screaming about "xenophobia".