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If you define reason as: "Incrementally refine output vectors to converge at the correct output" then one could argue that they do reason. Their reasoning tokens are refining their…

> If you want to look at "untreated mental illness" in the homeless, now you're above 50%. But "untreated mental illness" isn't the same as "mental illness that requires institutio…

> are there moral absolutes? Even if there are, wouldn't the process of finding them effectively mirror moral relativism?.. Assuming that slavery was always immoral, we culturally …

I switched for the same reason. Company insisted that I upgrade to Windows 11, I decided Linux was better.

We don't have 2d input, we have 3d input. We have two eyes that gives us depth by default.

> If they're easily solvable then why do you need planning? Easily solvable problems still need coordination. Do you want to go to one store and have your change rounded up then go…

Math is just symbol manipulation with a set of rules, no?

> I'm yet to see any influencer or YouTuber call themselves a director or cinematographer You must not be looking very hard. There are many youtubers or influencers making indie fi…

> The linked articles have no information in them, except a sob story told through one perspective. Here, how about this article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-mooney-canadi…

> I don't think anyone understands how they work Yes we do, we literally built them. > We understand how we brought them about via setting up an optimization problem in a specific …

Was a favorite spot of mine. A shame that the NPR coverage burned it. At least we still have plenty of forest areas to renegade in.

The consistency that they're referring to specifically is to do with consistency in the way that certain features or functionality is implemented. To make your example match, it wo…

> I know plenty of people making $250K/yr or more who are living paycheck to paycheck. How?..

"I struggle to think of time on Instagram being well spent. Perhaps less badly spent?" There are a lot of people that use Instagram to follow artists for inspiration for art. This …

> More specifically, I have a log file that says I'm thinking, therefore I am. :- More specifically than that: "My ability to read the log file proves my existence"

> people are jumping at the opportunity to contradict you and actually adding some new data points that you're actually right. This argument is called a double-bind.

> Part of maturity/adulthood is coming to the realization that you don’t have the right to conscript other people into your sense of humor. And yet, you aren't willing to accept th…

My main gripe with this article, is it mentions that their product was born as a result of a "painful expensive experience" of not creating a "Pricing Engine", but they don't at al…

ASL recognition is an insanely difficult problem to solve because it requires solving hand, finger, and arm pose estimation with occlusion, which hasn't even been properly solved i…

A team of Steven

I program in my head, and yes, I often do see the code in my head. In some sense, it's like a spatial experience, where each file is a different "room", and those rooms have conten…