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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?