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hbartab

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    You might benefit from this overview: https://ianreppel.org/a-review-of-quantum-computing-courses/

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    Comment #44219759

    > the team was able to find low-cost solutions for power generation scheduling across a range of grid scenarios, including a model with 26 generators and a full day’s worth of hour…

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    Comment #44219742

    Too many dark triad personalities rise to be CEOs. Not surprising at all. Levels of psychopathy are the same in C-suites and prisons, which is about 5x higher than in the general p…

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    Comment #44219730

    LLMs trained on comments of selfish people who compete for likes and cheap thrills rather than collaborate online appear to behave selfishly. Well, colour me surprised.

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    Comment #44219704

    "To know and not to act is not to know" - Yukio Mishima from the Sea of Tranquillity tetralogy

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    Comment #44219689

    Also seems like a really easy way to collect ideas à la Amazon to compete (with marketplace sellers)...

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    Comment #44182885

    > The former manager also believes there is an urgent need for alternative offers for digital payments "that are accepted and give citizens a more secure feeling". Honest question:…

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    Comment #44181460

    AIs can write code in seconds, but you may have years of regret _if_ you believe whatever it spits out without verification. The cold-war maxim "trust, but verify" is truer than ev…

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    Comment #44181290

    Seeing as OpenAI & Co were trained on torrented books from similar places, I'm sure that ChatGPT provides an adequate search layer on top of Anna's Archive, though it is not as fre…

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    Comment #44099120

    So the indefinite retention would violate the GDPR? Sure, they can claim it's for legitimate purposes... yeah, right!

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    Comment #44093584

    Reader mode in Safari can make it readable again, though I agree it's terrible on mobile.

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    Comment #44093257

    A bank is more than an app. You are responsible for people's hard-earned cash, so there is, understandably, a lot of regulation and it differs from country to country. Speaking as …

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    Comment #44093222

    He'll have a fit when he goes down the list to read NEW Mexico.

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    Comment #44092632

    Chomsky has been colossally wrong on universal grammar. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c... But at least he admits that: https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1269…

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    Comment #44092590

    A Slackbot integration that rewrites on hitting Enter would be awesome.

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    Comment #44092563

    That is such a terrible piece. StackOverflow was already in decline before ChatGPT was released. The authors cherry-picked their data to show charts to prove their point. ChatGPT a…

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    Comment #44090207

    Because engineers train the AI that'll replace them.