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harveywi

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    They missed an opportunity to call it Texas Fold 'Em.

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    Comment #39232826

    Instead of giving people the bird, they take the bird away from people.

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    Comment #39194715

    Also known as going to graduate school.

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    Comment #39191880

    This is the result of Elon Musk playing too much Harvest Moon.

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    Comment #39132793

    That is a bit overkill and lacking in energy efficiency and sustainability, though. A more environmentally conscious solution would be for western nations to bring back some French…

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    Comment #39083612

    Better yet, be a force multiplier who is willing to relocate. Then when times get tough you have your abelian group to lean on.

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    Comment #38697726

    Maybe a dumb question: Shouldn't these be called immersions instead of embeddings?

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    Comment #38642937

    LeCuna (noun): An empty space in a list of citations where the works of Jürgen Schmidhuber should appear.

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    Comment #38531120

    1. Read this great "Surviving A Layoff" essay [1] and build a plan for yourself. 2. Take the time to level up on one or two foundational skills whose barriers to entry are combinat…

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    Comment #38197179

    The real problem with previous efforts for finding extraterrestrial life wasn't the technology, it was the lack of competition plus the open ended and uncertain goal. A seed rounds…

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    Comment #38191201

    Fortunately for OpenAI, they have no SLAs: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5008641-is-there-an-sla-...

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    Comment #37769552

    >Over the past year, we’ve meticulously scraped all Worldcat records. At first, we hit a lucky break. Worldcat was just rolling out their complete website redesign (in Aug 2022). T…

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    Comment #37432763

    Awesome! Where did the "split_ifs" tactic come from though? Mathlib? In your opinion does it make sense to do program verification without using Mathlib, or would you recommend jus…

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    Comment #36988783

    Instacartel

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    Comment #36426811

    What ever happened to the effort [1] to rename Coq in order to make it less offensive? There were a number of excellent proposals [2] that seemed to die on the vine. [1] https://gi…

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    Comment #36330261

    Not to be pedantic but there is nuance: A frictionless tunnel is better for getting shit done. Know the difference.

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    Comment #36262788

    Shameless plug for Scala programmers who are marooned in Python land and grasping for something to help dig them out: https://github.com/miiohio/ziopy

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    Comment #36202892

    "A new era of facial computing."

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    Comment #36171362

    DishBrain's elevator pitch: Neural networks meet fava beans and a nice Chianti.

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    Comment #36063219

    Fortunately for OpenAI, they have no SLAs: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5008641-is-there-an-sla-...

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    Comment #35948146

    Sweat bullets? You may be confusing Tim Cook with Tim Gunn.

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    Comment #35705016

    Ok - I bereave you!

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    Comment #35662594

    All this time I thought that gravity creates heavy, not light.