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As I see many others like me, full of nostalgia: You can play it on the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990 Once every couple of years I dive …

This should be the first comment. I wrote some criticism, mostly because many internal contradictions in the article. Then, I notice the structure... "The accountability gap" Here’…

> It hasn’t thought about the problem at all. It’s pattern-matching against its training data and producing the most plausible-sounding response. The article kind of lost me here. …

Not only europe: https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20... https://apnews.com/article/chile-united-states-china-visa-sa...

could you tell more details or links about that ?

From the article: "As temperature approaches zero from the negative side, the model output will again be deterministic — but this time, the least likely tokens will be output." I u…

> Personally, I hate it; I don't like magic or black boxes. So, no compilers for you neither ? (To be fair: I'm not loving the whole vibe coding thing. But I'm trying to approach t…

That's simply not true. There are plenty of smart devices (including lighbulbs, sensor movements, and what not)t hat use bluetooh, or protocols like Zigbee that enable all kind of …

The most emblematic application in real life is in bioinformatics. BWA and Bowtie are two widely used softwares built upon them.

Despite the appearance, they do: despite the training, neurons, transformers and all, ultimately it is a program running in a turing machine.

> Power it off This has been the real game changer for me. As instant gratification is not so instant, I can go way larger stretches of time without checking the phone. Also, as no…

Of course there are tons of open questions, yet you made a huge false dichotomy. I would bet that most people agree with banning sales of alcohol, cigarettes and opioid to kids.

How about Wikipedia's approach? Of course Wikipedia is way smaller than the internet, but still one way to go could be by having themed "human curated niches"

Is anyone working on something related to decreasing/controlling the amount of time people use their phones? I'm aware of the CPH Foundation, but I'm wondering if there are more am…

Are you saying that none of their original appliances have died? If not, do you realize that you claiming " If it was survivorship bias some of these appliances would've died." Whe…

Except 13×28 = 364, so you get the "free day" every year, and two of them on leap ones

I don't know how common is that story... Either I know you, or I know someone with a similar story. Anyways, as someone who identifies both as a computer scientist and as a dancer,…

That's really an example of bad journalism. What you find in the text is quite distinct from the title: > Hawking announced: “I have changed my mind. My book, A Brief History of Ti…

What about phone companies ?

Seems global outage: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/whatsapp-is-down-globally.ht... Each time this happens I try to recruit more people to use Signal.