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Do we have any solid evidence these models can outperform Western models in terms of quality? Or is it more: because they are forbidden, they can't get enough training data, visibi…

Is there a way out of this though? The seed is already planted and everything else is just a PR.

Different regions play complementary roles in the global economy. The oversimplified description is that the US drives innovation and risk-taking, Europe prioritizes social welfare…

If you consider complex forms of life serving as an entropy-increasing phenomenon, then you might as well consider that the evolutionary algorithm is governed by such goals. It's e…

I tried taking notes for learning and brainstorming over the years but found it incredibly difficult, not because of a lack of note taking frameworks, apps or technologies but beca…

GPT3, Stable Diffusion etc. will really kick off. People will start accepting these blackbox Big Data sequence prediction models as a new norm, a powerful assistance for all sorts …

Fully agreed, the way I'd approach this would be that the said mathematical proofs about certain truths "by definition" rely on human logic as the main building block and substrate…

Spivak’s Calculus reignited my interest and appreciation in math. Sad to discover the author passed away quite recently. The way of explaining principles and making you do the hard…

To each their own, but overemphasis of the need for passion might just be pushing societies towards even more workaholism. Being passionate about your job you would probably end up…

Some spiritual traditions and teachers (e.g classical yoga) treat this as a trap, it’s highly advised to forget about your practice and go about your day after the daily session. T…

Any recommended workflow of integrating IPython and vim in 2022 preferably being able to edit the notebooks, execute cells etc.? Currently this is one of the few reasons why I’m ru…

There are already many great suggestions from others with a number of positive things you can do that will most likely have a good impact on your future, now it's all about you mak…

Very interesting find which can have one ponder about some ideas on the perspective that nothing is really new, just changing shapes. Even if you consider the advent of AI and us s…

Any starting points for some of us who still don't "get it"? Having done an introductory course on Bitcoin (coursera) I found it interesting especially for somebody with a bit of c…

Zen masters also rejected meditation as a means to the spiritual progress because there is no such thing in the tradition. Sitting quietly is more appropriate IMHO.

I'm not somebody well informed about neuroscience hence apologies if I'm implying something that's against the common knowledge in your domain. One impression upon reading articles…

I personally agree with your sentiment but the two provided advice examples are not comparable, it's not just about giving a birth but also raising your kids which can give your ca…

Kudos for removing the nation from the title to neutralize the bait and keep it technical. I know this comment doesn't contribute much, just wanted to acknowledge the effort.

1) Create a completely new zero account with no connections. 2) Send a friend request to a user whose "private" friends you want to see. 3) Immediately withdraw your friend request…

I used to quite often until it became too commercialized and bloated in terms of community and service both, now this looks like a promising alternative - http://www.bewelcome.org/…

"This vulnerability is mitigated by the difficulty of pre-loading the heap with a useful callback address and by any platform address-space layout randomisation applied to sshd and…

PoC ? Seriously with all the complex OS memory management access control, isolation and randomization features (like security features implemented by OpenBSD) writing a working exp…