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kurikuri

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About kurikuri

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cbellii; my proof: https://keybase.io/cbellii/sigs/4ane0tmWHiznmsXZ51SB-h_TRtHFdLSz8rcB3erF6fo ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46394318

    I agree, the applet which google plageurized through its Gemini tool saves you money. Why keep the middle man though? At this point, just pirate a copy.

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    Comment #46394288

    Someone making a complain does not imply that they were ok with it prior to the complaint. Why are you muddying the waters?

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    Comment #46387461

    > > or the CCP route (clip the wings of the Icaruses who fly too high). > This seems like a great way for the monied interests from WITHIN the party to just take full control. They…

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    Comment #44992519

    > I do know, however, that if you take private data from your employer and leak it (or sell it) you’re not going to be on the right side of the law. I have a hard time buying this …

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    Comment #44693728

    > When ever i see "never implement your own...", i know i want to implement it myself. Doing stuff for learning is useful, and the intent behind this general phrase is to not ‘impl…

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    Comment #44521290

    What? You’ve managed to mangle so many terms in so few words… Signatures can refer to two things: integrity checks on a file or authentication checks for a recieved file. In the in…

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    Comment #44405083

    The U2 album was odd, but not bad in the same league. Apple didn’t advertise for you to purchase U2’s music. As an end user, what made it annoying was how the U2 album was part of …

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    Comment #44399165

    > Judges were using injunctions to avoid putting their name behind a ruling. What? That makes no sense. You can lookup which court and judge (or panel of judges) issued the injunct…

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    Comment #44387517

    Oof, I don’t like this article much at all. The first two major points they pose against email can be summed up as ‘people don’t use security unless it is by default, and because i…

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    Comment #44366209

    Ah, I was being a bit sarcastic in my response to monkeyelite, I believe I understood what you wrote and was trying to get at the vacuity of their response to you. I derailed this …

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    Comment #44362461

    > Yes I don’t believe in unbiased sources. I believe in multiple perspectives revealing aspects of the truth. Sure, I agree with what you’ve stated here. > Correct. And I don’t buy…

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    Comment #44362351

    Nuance is not always a good thing. This type of nuance doesn’t forward the discussion in any way and, in this case, muddies the waters and leads to some odd implications. Sure, we …

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    Comment #44294146

    They were likely in a homogeneous population when they committed the crime that got them there in the first place, so that confounder might not matter much at all.

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    Comment #44219695

    > … but I think it’s fair to say that many people don’t want DOGE to be serious about catching Medicare fraud. That’s a leap (if I’m being charitable). I think you could state that…

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    Comment #44214740

    > On the flip side, it will be incompetent and demotivated. This sounds like it came from someone who has never spent more than a passing interaction with government employees. The…

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    Comment #44069962

    Right, so the LLM needs some randomness to make that decision. The LLM performs a series of deterministic operations until it needs the randomness to make this decisions, there is …

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    Comment #44065708

    > Your guy lost, learn from your mistakes and carry on. Or criticize both presidents equally. So, your solution here is for people who think the current administration is particula…

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    Comment #43973146

    This feels like a flippant response. The question you responded to was ‘would the hash of the iris would be the same?’ It isn’t as if you’ll get an identical image of the iris ever…

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    Comment #43947963

    > But it can easily assign equal scores to 1 and 0 and zero to other tokens, and you’ll have to sample it randomly to produce the result. Whether you consider it external or intern…

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    Comment #43947905

    Except the ostensible motive of the government is to serve its people, whereas the company’s motive is either those of the people who control the company or profit. Even then, if t…

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    Comment #43946696

    > For example, going to college for 4 years to get a physics degree doesn’t make much sense at my age, because there’s not much time left for the payoff. That is tragic! Learning m…

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    Comment #43844339

    So, what ‘algorithms’ are you talking about? The randomness comes from the input value (the random seed). Once you give it a random seed, a special number generator (PRNG) makes a …

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    Comment #43673289

    In the first definition of D(P,Q), the author dropped a p_j within the sum.

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    Comment #43632460

    Ironically, trust is an issue in the crypto space (the general layman perspective seems to be one of rug pulls and greater fool fallacies). The existence of some transparent inform…

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    Comment #43587542

    This false equivalency, if you honestly believe it, is shallow at best. The ‘left’ has identified speech that is likely used to belittle or negate someone else’s existence and will…