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Comment #49182525
> "Your CPU is ARM-family — we know from a single subtraction" Not sure what went wrong for you but I'm running an i9 > "Your battery is at 100%" I don't think my desktop computer …
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Comment #49182333
"TOO LOW – TERRAIN" vwoop vwoop
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Comment #49181534
> "The EMF reader is shakier, going haywire under the crackling power lines, then settling down a few steps away" That kind of statement really bothers me. Is it measuring the magn…
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Comment #49179794
Didnt meta violate copyright by torrenting terabytes of books and use them as training data? Theyve all probably done it but we have concrete evidence of meta doing it
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Comment #49165782
It helps if you share the correct link, its .xyz, not .xzy
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Comment #49165774
And their advice for these people who are supposedly mentally ill? Not "go to a specialist doctor and take their advice", but "just don't be". It's almost like they don't actually …
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Comment #49165719
How is trying to "fix" trans people the same as "helping" them? If I try to "fix" a Christian by convincing them they aren't a Christian, that's not "helping" them... Also, if God …
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Comment #49156025
> "Only slightly more though" Generally, we've seen that that was bad and I would hope that we wouldn't do it again. I did also say that I don't think it would actually work out be…
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Comment #49155998
I think you're thinking of genetic genealogy, where some of those DNA testing providers (like 23andme) submit their records to law enforcement, and they can see something like "thi…
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Comment #49155981
People don't have to be 100% for it to work, the system would have to be so that if a human was to be evil, then they couldn't compromise it single handed-ly. I'll admit, I've not …
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Comment #49155951
I think that's a bit safer, because you could deduce very private information from a DNA sample, but you can't really tell anything about a person from their fingerprints, except m…
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Comment #49155300
According to wikipedia, "the theoretical risk of a coincidental match is 1 in 100 billion (100,000,000,000) although the practical risk is actually 1 in 1,000 because monozygotic t…
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Comment #49155120
Wouldn't it be "-"()?
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Comment #49155046
It's generally quite hard to get a DNA sample from someone's PGP signature
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Comment #49154975
Because they've used up all their complicated, expensive weapons obliterating middle eastern children
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Comment #49154897
Slightly biased because I'm a european, but I think a european country is more likely to be trust-able with a country-wide DNA database. Only slightly more though, I still wouldn't…
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Comment #49154720
IF there was a secure and trustable way that a trusted government could retain DNA information, then I feel like people having a DNA test at birth or on becoming a citizen could be…
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Comment #49153832
"Hyphen" in writing, "dash" or "tack" in command line
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Comment #49153763
Depends what they're doing... I can crack out a basic UI in a few hours at my job, and I don't use LLMs at all, and I wouldn't class myself as an expert developer or anything
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Comment #49153516
Why include unsplash stock photos for your testimonials? What are they adding? And what makes https://unsplash.com/photos/man-wearing-white-v-neck-shirt-i... a CTO/VP Engineering a…
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Comment #49152783
Yes, but the comment was about IQ, not absolute intelligence. The median intelligence is, by definition, 100 IQ, so the median IQ cannot be decreasing
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Comment #49152577
Putting a massive AI-generated image at the top of your article about how people are misusing AI is interesting
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Comment #49152480
IQ is calibrated so that the average IQ is 100. If the average IQ is going down, something has gone very wrong somewhere
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Comment #49067168
Well if the conclusion is "3% of people want to be tracked online", I'd expect the question to be "do you want to be tracked online" or similar, not "do you want to receive persona…
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Comment #49066648
> "around 3% actually want to be tracked online" 3% of people want to be tracked online? I think it's more likely that 3% of people misunderstood the survey question