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Incus[0] is one. [0] https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/

Link is to GitHub repo, in the repo are links to a paper and the project page.

That's Julian Jaynes' bicameral mind theory[0]. Personally I don't buy it because we haven't seen convincing evidence of it in pre-civilization populations that still existed in is…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Fam%C3%ADlia#Funding_a... Construction on Sagrada Familia is not supported by any government or official church sources. Private patrons funde…

I wish I had had this when I was a 5-year-old. Few of my teachers really understood the things I wanted to learn, my peers weren't interested in the nerdy things I was, and my pare…

It's rather full of "it's not X, it's Y" and expository paragraph followed by short sentence counter-point, and "read that again". But no, I don't think it's AI, I think it's just …

A translation of a book to a different language is a derivative work. So a translation of a computer program to a different programming language is also. But if in the translation …

Actually, no. We don't know anything about the "population" because there are no attempts here to look at what percentage of living people/children were affected. We only know that…

A rather more considered take on the posibility of LLM consciousness than Ted Chiang's recent "absolutely not", by someone who actually qualifies as an expert in the field.

I don't think LLMs are conscious. But of course to say that definitively you have to define consciousness, and then you quickly dig yourself into a deep hole, which is why I can't …

Actually, in an ancient and venerable markup language that's still in wide use in certain not-unimportant communities: - = hyphen -- = n-dash --- = m-dash

"...He'd make a pile and leave it for a week or so..." You're saying that your greyhound wasn't just getting drunk, but actually making his own booze? Not that I don't believe that…

The answer that seems to be emerging from several different lines of research is that a) they always had fairly low fertility and b) they didn't really go extinct as such, they jus…

Actual quote from a Silicon Valley executive: "You can't even buy a decent house in the Bay Area for less than 50 million."

Open Source implementation: https://github.com/scionproto/scion And that patent looks like it is for an optimization, not a necessary component of SCiON.

> Has the climate collapsed? There are still glaciers in Glacier Nation Park. The Maldives remain islands, not seamounts. Just to really quickly call out these tired old straw-men.…