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User: Can a man become a woman? talkie-1930: He can become a woman. In the East, females are sometimes born, who are denominated Hermaphrodites; and in medical books, instances are…

User: Why was the American Civil War fought? talkie-1930: The American Civil War was fought to decide whether the United States should permanently remain half slave and half free, …

One way of thinking about it is how much a sport is skill-based versus fitness-based. Team sports and racquet sports tend to rely more on skill. Cycling and track and field rely mo…

I find it frustrating when people claim to be upholding science but then make simple, unscientific claims that suggest they actually have the minds of Greek philosophers. Some wome…

My grandparents didn't forget. In late February 2020 I brought up the topic of the novel coronavirus going around and they weren't overly worried because they'd gone through a resp…

MacVim and gVim. I've looked at neovim and there are many GUI options (paradox of choice), some of which I've tried, but at the end of the day, I'm more comfortable with what I'm a…

Even Facebook's Llama was trained on books3, a dump of pirated books.

> The Gizmodo article has a ridiculously wrong “fair use” analysis, saying “Fair Use does not, by any stretch of the imagination, allow you to use an author’s entire copyrighted wo…

If anything, 24GB is probably the sweet spot for what's optimised for as many local LLM enthusiasts are running 3090s and 4090s (and all want more VRAM).

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I'd say you should offer both simplified and traditional in the language dropdown as there are many learners of both.

The API was one of the things that made Twitter special. I don't know of any public information about Meta's API plans for this.

How is this different to beam search?

What exactly are you talking about regarding the "organ harvesting thing"? It's undeniable that it happened. In 2014 China promised to stop doing it. Here's an article from Chinese…

There's a term for these entities that give every indication of being conscious but actually aren't conscious: philosophical zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zomb…

Yes, there is a GraphQL API that Twitter's web interface uses, but developers who use the publicly available API can't use that.

One data point is that there is no way to get the full text of long tweets from the API. Twitter Blue subscribers have been able to post tweets longer than 280 characters since ear…

LLaMA is Facebook's LLM (large language model, comparable with GPT). It's publicly available (anyone can download the weights and run it themselves), so it's popular here. LoRA, or…

Opinion polls: https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963 A strong majority want to maintain the status quo or gradually move toward independence. Very few want unific…

No it isn't according to the definition everyone else uses for "gerrymandering" (drawing specific electorate boundaries with partisan goals). What he's complaining about (that the …

It's actually a 120 gigapixel image. It was taken with a 61 megapixel Sony a7R IV and Sony 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 G lens with a robotic housing. https://petapixel.com/2021/04/27/this-1…

The second poll about unbanning the journalists went for 24 hours (the first was only an hour or so), so even though "now" was the winning option, he still got the outcome he was l…

It's also worth noting that revealing real names and workplaces of anonymous accounts is still allowed. The doxxing that is banned is a specific class of doxxing that isn't often c…

Imagine pushing a matchbox car on a table with a ruler, where the ruler is perpendicular to the direction of movement. When the car is on an angle, the car will be moving faster th…

A few days before that tweet: A person familiar with the matter said that the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) were examining FTX to determine…