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thealig

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    Comment #42671811

    think you're grossly misunderstanding what social safety net means - public spending is not the same thing as a safety net. the public healthcare system that countries like Gemrnay…

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    Comment #40445405

    That claim that news outlets in general are free to express their opinions without censorship is unfortunately, not really true in practise - most outlets may express opinions but …

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    Comment #40329890

    THe way current empirical models in ML are evaluated and tested ( benchmark datasets) tell you very little to nothing about cognition and intelligence. Mainly because as you hinted…

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    Comment #40310446

    > all its ideas were absorbed into Stockfish don't think that is true, Stockfish incorporated NNUE techniques through a fork https://www.chess.com/news/view/stockfishnnue-strongest…

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    Comment #39955342

    events with historical significance are far more interesting than these kind of movie/popular references that don't mean much

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    Comment #39887257

    Well, in itself that doesn't mean much - irregularities and power struggles within indian political paries is routine. Plus given the track record of the law enforcement agencies t…

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    Comment #39878434

    sorry, what do you mean by "Consciousness regularly/usually claims to have omniscient knowledge of all that is, something which is not supported by physics."? i do not follow what …

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    Comment #38540097

    I don't think personal and family issues are necessarily edge cases. Plus it also depends from where the person is and what the technology industry scene is like there. Nowadays ju…

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    Comment #37619363

    it might be easier, but that doesn't mean all criticism should be ignored. In the spirit of cliched reductive "feel good" statements of this whole comment section, ignoring critici…

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    Comment #37530939

    This story is about his anti counterfeiting exploits though, which usually requires skills not necessarily related to intellect. he was dutiful and unforgiving which is why he had …

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    Comment #37510375

    For that matter no one's respect really means much however you look at this particular excerpt, not sure what you trying to say with this line of argument

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    Comment #36811261

    FYI the title stated in the github readme itself is misleading and incomplete.. in the fine print clarifies that this is in polynomial time "in the size of the input text for a fix…

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    Comment #36713664

    Yikes, didn't they discuss this in their daily standup? Maybe open a task in Jira to handle high cliffs on Mars? (/s)

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    Comment #36611701

    Tangential question: is there a way to participate in the demoscene,as a beginner or in serious competitions? Looks like the popular meetings happen in Europe, and looks like are i…

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    Comment #36281929

    What does banking mean here? Managing bank accounts online in your browser

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    Comment #35788943

    Finding out what you don't know to start learning is also a part of learning, and it is a bit difficult to trust LLMs like ChatGPT when it had a tendency to spout correct sounding …

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    Comment #34207478

    have you tried firefox sync? recently gave it a try and on android it works seamlessly. Cross browser integration is an extra step though.

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    Comment #34046621

    Bit late but ill try - perfect hashing is a variant where the set of keys is known( say N) and the hash table size is set large enough (N^2) such that the no of collision is 0 in a…