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The Islamic clampdown on the Iranian people has gone on for too long. The younger generation is willing to die for their freedom. The internet is locked down, satellite comms jamme…

BYD is overhyped in the US for some reason. In the countries where they are available, they are considered decent budget vehicles. There's a reason why the Model Y is still the bes…

I suspect that ML will be state-of-the-art at generating human-interpretable theories as well. Just a matter of time.

I'd be ok with this if paying for the game meant that I get access on all platforms the game is on.

This is as bipartisan as it gets. Senator Chuck Schumer, senate majority leader, has introduced a bill that legally requires all individuals with direct knowledge of non-human tech…

UAP sightings and encounters are a global phenomenon, documented by civilians and military/government individuals and declassified documents going back decades. If you begin even c…

Experience exists. Whether the contents of the experience are "real" or "not real", it is not coherent to claim that there is truly nothing at all -- what could even cause one to c…

I see how your response makes sense in terms of questions like "why does an electron exist", but what about the general notion of existence? It seems self-evident that there is som…

Truth. Parent comment is deeply misinformed. BTC already has more than enough hash rate, and it is entirely independent of price.

It's backed by mathematics instead of a country. That doesn't make it better or worse, just different, and diversity is generally what people want in their portfolio.

The approximate kNN is quite nice for many use cases, and scales to billions of documents. However, you're correct that filtering happens on the results. This is only an issue in c…

Amazon's Opensearch (fork of Elasticsearch) natively supports vector-based approximate KNN (using https://github.com/nmslib/nmslib/ ) which is integrated with Opensearch's native f…

Just make a burner Facebook account. You can do so with a burner email. Annoying, but not horrifying.

That's quite true in physical science. However, physical science is a fairly new endeavor. The "why" may not be entirely psychological, but mathematical, at the end of the day.

This is from 2015 FYI. Here's a more in-depth summary: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2015/11/10/everyth...

The feelsbad mechanics (like random creep placement) could be accounted for and the randomness mitigated, but it was highly skill-based and thus frustrating for beginners. The fact…

It's too bad Valve didn't properly support or listen to players of Garfield's digital card game Artifact (which he developed for Valve). It was a huge leap forward in digital card …

Interesting, I find Lex to be one of the best podcast hosts I've listened to. I like his mix of philosophical and technical conversation. Most of his guests seem to genuinely enjoy…