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snk

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    Comment #48383991

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.14372

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    Comment #48383615

    I'll note that having countless superintelligences handy will accelerate problem-solving e.g. dystopia.

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    Comment #47545025

    A couple of possibilities spring to mind. Likelier that Karen lied, but maybe the 512 page fax changed the system.

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    Comment #47544982

    You mean, Karen lied?

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    Comment #47172108

    I'm old. Back in the olden days - the 1900s - 2-ton cars were not lightweight, the so-called heavy Chevys.

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    Comment #46468952

    Writing is used to defraud people, to propagandize them, to steal their intellectual property and livelihoods, to systematically deny their health insurance claims, to dangerously …

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    Comment #46468925

    Small? GPLv3 is ~5644 words, and not particularly long for a license.

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    Comment #44135854

    Sturgeon's Law predates LLMs by decades: 90% of everything is crap.

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    Comment #44135850

    Fair use?

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    Comment #44135846

    No, it isn't, wealth is good. More readily creating and delivering value is good.

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    Comment #42574835

    Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.

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    Comment #42574507

    Sitting on a Swiss ball hurts me less than a chair. For the first few days it even enforced perfect posture, but that effect went away pretty quickly.

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    Comment #40961609

    Fixed goals and flexible tactics, I say. PG comes along and says it much better...

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    Comment #30063331

    N = 100000 prime = [False, True] * (N // 2) primes = [] for i in range(3, N, 2): if prime[i]: primes.append(i) k = i ** 2 while k useful = [ str(i) for i in primes ] # Enter your c…

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    Comment #30061241

    Nice solver! I did optimize the sieve a little... N = 100000 primes = [False, True] * N // 2 for i in range(3, N, 2): if primes[i]: k = i ** 2 while k

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    Comment #3761397

    30" monitors....

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    Comment #3714892

    Subarus tend not to make it to the used-car market because they stay wonderful forever. ;-)

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    Comment #3714876

    I'd expect places with Real Winter to have different taste in cars than California, wouldn't you?

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    Comment #3704924

    How could the FBI not know his SSN?!

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    Comment #3671645

    So the FBI has been waging war against the US government; interesting.

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    Comment #3629155

    "Another error on the part of the blogger is the claim that if the cars discharge fully, the battery packs will be damaged. This is blatantly false ." "It's true that a full discha…

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    Comment #3624841

    "Here's the primary fact that the blogger in question doesn't understand: the Tesla battery pack is not a battery." Gee, where might he have gotten that idea? Tesla's website and d…

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    Comment #3452111

    ” large teams took 8.92 months, and the small teams took 9.12 months. In other words, the large teams just barely (by a week or so) beat the small teams in finishing the project! G…

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    Comment #3324738

    Since so-called overweight - BMI 25-30 - is the longest-lived cohort, I'd say parents aren't the only ones with distorted perceptions.