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"Habillage" (literally "dressing") in this context relates to packaging of a concept/proposition i.e. the marketing around it (or "spin"). The french word for "packaging" in the ph…

> but that's a question of statistical mechanics, not one of pressure differences. My limited understanding was that 'pressure' is just a simplified way of speaking about statistic…

What I fail to understand is what the difference between a currency and a ponzi is. It seems to me that Bitcoin is a transparent ponzi with some network effect. How transparent is …

IIRC, Chomsky's theory on this is that human language is first internal and is the basis for all human thought. He doesn't mean an internal 'voice', but some primordial, grammatica…

> processing power is rarely a major limiting factor. Autonomy is. I could see compute clouds like this being offered at the OS level rather than browser, along with a claim for mu…

At the end of the day, our only defense against deepfakes is going to be to disregard the supposed identity of the speaker and only judge the content itself. Easier said than done.…

This is because in the real world audio always arrives late compared to images. Our brain is trained to compensate. Personally I start getting annoyed when the delay is above +200m…

I feel like this is another example of something which can only be enforced by creating a new framework that inevitably benefits the few corrupt actors and defeats its own purpose.…

I frequently use the dash inside a word so that for example a search for sub-optimal returns results including "sub-optimal", "suboptimal" and "sub optimal".

But can you say Microsoft will not use private GitHub data to sell or run targetted ads outside of GitHub?

> A tool should make me more efficient, hence, for the same task, make me use it less! It makes sense when you consider Android phones as a set of tools used by advertisers to reac…