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japoco

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    Comment #42184586

    Which is either heads or tails.

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    Comment #42184497

    A same side bias is either a heads bias or a tails bias.

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    Comment #42184484

    No, first of all due to imperfections in the manufacture of real coins, there are actually no fair coins. Also the bias in the probability affects the first throw as well as all th…

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    Comment #42184331

    This is probably just because the coins aren’t actually fair. If the coin is slightly biased towards heads, the first throw is more likely to heads, and so are all subsequent throw…

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    Comment #39953324

    I was pretty intrigued by Aphantasia a while ago, as I can’t picture anything at all with my eyes closed. Then I asked all my friends and none of them could either, apparently. So …

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    Comment #38433121

    I think art is much easier for LLM-style AI models to do compared to writing. To make a nice picture you just need to place pixels near each other in a way that looks good, and we …

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    Comment #38196433

    Someone on twitter pointed out that their dating methodology is faulty. Carbon dating makes sense only if used on organic materials in human context . For example, dating charred r…

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    Comment #36941173

    You are severely underestimating how good vibes from a lot of people are at giving good estimates.

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    Comment #36099812

    Somewhat unrelated, but I think philosophy will be instrumental in the development of actual AI. To make artificial intelligence, you need to know what intelligence is, and that is…

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    Comment #36098521

    Lying needs intent. ChatGPT does not think therefore it doesn’t lie in that sense.

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    Comment #36042016

    As with text, the current form of AI (generative AI) will be very good at creating music that sounds good, not good music.

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    Comment #35487143

    >unlike in Asia where the huge books actually winning accounts to improve their line and make more money This is true but it should have a big footnote. Disregarding Asian bookmake…

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    Comment #35228999

    Chrome on iOS is basically a WebKit skin, so it’s still safari (at least for now, apparently both google and Mozilla are developing ports of their browser engines for iOS).

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    Comment #33971200

    This is not what is happening here, the USDC peg to the dollar has nothing to do with this. The problem is that Binance converts every stablecoin you deposit there to BUSD, and so …