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littlekey
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Comment #49091187
I read the first thesis and saw this section on modern civic engagement: "Consider the nested and divergent forms of literacy required for a 19-year-old trying to participate in th…
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Comment #49090168
Surely "naan" would have been a way better transliteration choice than "non", right?
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Comment #48851514
I haven't even been to Japan yet and this feels nostalgic haha. I can only imagine how it feels to those who are more familiar with it.
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Comment #48851464
Great little game, thanks! I found I'm terrible at the vowel heavy words like audio and ideal, interesting.
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Comment #48825983
And just wait til you hear about the goblins!
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Comment #48809066
Agreed. There should be a subset of Betteridge's law: if a headline states that you need to do something, you don't.
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Comment #48767129
Fun and helpful little game, thank you! I did find the last world to be a big jump in difficulty, I don't know if there's a better way to explain it or if it's just the nature of t…
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Comment #48726769
Just wait until people clue into this and start prompting their models to introduce typos on purpose.
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Comment #48723074
I love slide 18 with the implication that researchers don't create and engineers don't think.
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Comment #48589588
Yeah, that's the point I was making; not that those people shouldn't be interested in science funding, but that when you're in that position you're going to end up voting for whoev…
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Comment #48575526
>What kind of person isn't curious about the puzzle of their own existence A person who struggles to put food on the table and a roof over their heads, for one.
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Comment #48508464
Small nitpick but the books in IKEA are all real, and written in Swedish :).
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Comment #48496310
Thanks for posting this, a great example of forcing the human element to fit the computer rather than the other way around. I have my own experience with a similar issue as I work …
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Comment #48026109
Yeah I had a similar experience, even as a teen I resisted the move from myspace to facebook because it felt so bland and lifeless. Hard to overstate the psychological benefit of h…
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Comment #47940445
I thought I was winning and then the bot jumped 5 of my pieces to win D: Good fun and a great new way to use a Go board to keep things fresh, thanks for making this.
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Comment #47723785
I'm still trying to figure out what to use it for other than news aggregation...
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Comment #47458544
Anecdotal data point, writing and maintaining regex is still a core part of my job. Not useless at all for me :)
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Comment #47330497
http://archive.is/X5OLh
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Comment #47142858
You ever feel like you live in a different world than people like this? I don't even mean that derogatorily, it's fascinating.
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Comment #47093322
I agree with the people saying that the product is a lot better once you're actively engaging with pages that align with your interests, so that the algorithm can feed you better c…
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Comment #46817824
>an LLM that can generate textures to be fed into a human-coded 3d engine I'm not certain but I think the LLM is also generating the physics itself. It's generating rules based on …
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Comment #46804288
I wish I had enough reader friends to have this problem lol.
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Comment #46321315
Strange that you need the website (author) to tell you how to interpret it. It's like art itself, you're allowed to come up with your own interpretations.
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Comment #46226693
>for some reason This is a pretty common fear, just look up thalassophobia (or don't! sorry!)
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Comment #46199309
Anyone have recommendations for a cassette player?