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As obvious as it is once you think about it, people don't seem to realize ChatGPT is an LLM, a large LANGUAGE model, not a large knowledge model. Its response from a linguistic per…

Musk himself said the cost was https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1179107539352313856 And in the next tweet, he mentions his concern is about "secondary structure", which I take i…

The gold mining company can generate future incoming cashflows, gold doesn't.

The takedown is referring to charges of terrorism: "the movement Tsunami Democratic has been confirmed as a criminal organization driving people to commit terrorist attacks. Tsunam…

Here's a map that shows WhatsApp leading in most regions. And for Europe, even in countries where FB Messenger is the dominant app, most people will still have WhatsApp installed t…

In my experience, in most countries (and outside the US especially) WhatsApp has already won the network effects battle, and it's the default messaging app in any smartphone. Even …

For those interested, here's the actual paper: https://doi.org/10.1093/molehr/gay002

That doesn't sound right. I believe he was referring to 30% and 60+% making it 90+% who haven't touched crypto at all. Or in other words, at most the US crypto population would be …

>>with my Apple Watch I am more physically fit. Can you expand on that? I would be careful before making such a claim because of a watch; unless of course you're referring to the e…

Of course you're saying that, you're the devil /s To be honest, I didn't think this Bloomberg piece was worth it; and I did perceive the advice from Elon ("stick to what we do best…

I believe this is what https://privacy.com/ does as well without the wait time.

I find this graph outlining the frequency of different grades from 1949-2009 to be enlightening [1]. Around 1940's only 15% of grades were "A", and in the last few years they went …

That's a great point; it goes both ways though. No media statement should simply be taken at face value in this type of international conflicts, whether it is RT or the NYT.

I am not American nor Swiss but have lived for multiple years in both countries and can echo your sentiment. > The poster mentions the low rate of federal tax on the average wage. …

> "Europe is not a single entity and never will be." Having lived in several European countries myself (Spain, Germany, France, Netherlands, Switzerland) I can only agree with the …

In Switzerland, you can use Yallo (yallo.ch - they use the Sunrise network) which has a flat package for 39 CHF/month allowing unlimited calls across both CH+EU. If you happen to b…

Visa status does not affect your eligibility for payment plans. However, H1B holders are people having recently arrived to the US, and therefore with 0 credit history. This is what…

The actual paper contains much more information than this BBC article. I'm not sure why they didn't link to it, but here is the original paper at the Lancet [1] as well as the full…

qBittorrent ( http://www.qbittorrent.org/ ) is another popular free one available on most platforms.

How is that different from other single points of failure, such as Obama, Putin, Angela Merkel, etc., influencing people both within and outside their respective countries?

There is a great 2009 article from Stratfor [1] ( The Geopolitics of the United States, Part 1: The Inevitable Empire ) which outlines how America came to be the country it was in …

Probably, he's referring to this official GAO (Government Accountability Office) audit report [1] from 2011, which exposed the Fed secretly loaned 16 trillion USD (!!!) to big bank…

Obviously time will tell, but it doesn't look like "Podemos" will fade away anytime soon. Spanish politics have been very polarized with only two major parties sharing the power si…

I don't know about BTC-e, but the swaps information from Bitfinex is usually available at bfxdata.com e.g. http://www.bfxdata.com/combined/btc.php