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Well, force yourself to care. I'd argue that there is a very strong value in doing something good, not just because it's genetically or socially imprinted on you, but because you a…

Google and Meta are both Advertising companies. If we want to decrease a tiny bit the insane imbalance in societies we need to have a strong discussion about taxing advertising.

Non-Hebbian and Anti-Hebbian potentiation have been well studied for decades. Anti-Hebbian notably for inhibitory connections.

Those were popular in the 90s for image processing: e.g. https://shape.polymtl.ca/lombaert/levelset/

Plus you can always `\catcode\∘=0` if you really hate backslashes :-D

Subsequent legislations are EU directives (and associated EU fines), which are not as corrupted as local legislations, and forced the UK to start building the Thames Tideway for in…

If we are at the point where a hiring manager for a position deeply related to an open source library is not at least checking if the authors would be interested, I'm not sure.

Maybe if we reverted back to the original Nuclear Magnetic Resonance name, people would understand it could be a bit more dangerous that just an image when we are not careful.

Hydra and omegaconf are almost officially abandonware, you shouldn't really depend on them.

This case sounds crazy, I cannot even imagine loosing a child and how anybody could expect someone to keep sane in those conditions. Beyond this, there is a very clear difference b…

Isn’t it what the EU is doing step by step to protect its citizens? Politicians should be jailed, both on the legislative and executive side, including Presidents, if they ignore t…

As an occasional user, can confirm that motion sickness pills (e.g. Cinnarizine, one of the most used in the British Navy) make dizzy, some more than other, and that it’s still muc…

The first page in the documentation, Getting Started, gives a React sample: https://animejs.com/documentation/getting-started/using-with...

There are some many kids with mesiodens and such that the diagram should also have little weirdly shaped bumps all around also. Also there shouldn't be an age limit for tooth fairi…

Just for the confusion, in France, Belgium and areas around, it's bells, flying back from Rome, that bring chocolate to the children. The bells on churches fly there and are silent…

When people choose not to have their vote represented, for whatever reason, when the outcome was so clear in advance, then there is practically, legally, morally and philosophicall…

This is actually a normal manuscript π as taught in Greek school. See https://www.typotheque.com/articles/modern-handwriting-a-his...

Yup. Plus the interactions you'd expect for instance in terms of matching style of voice in a normal discussion are missing. That being said it still sounds pretty impressive.

A poor person cannot afford to miss a day at the job, or not care for their children, when it would just be another day not working for a rich one. Not to mention the difference in…

> 1 KB = 1000 bytes But standard is kB, from kilo prefix.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a28802

One of the (maybe more) obvious downside being the increase in mutations this brings, in the order of 1 full generation of mutations for every decade the fathers are older for inst…

Is it French (midi)?

Although the article mentions that this research had few practical applications for beer fermentation, in 1888 Pasteur work with the Champagne makers Joseph Perrier led to critical…

That’s indeed its interface, but there is still a huge training phase during which the model was taught using mostly English, and it explains why some other languages interactions …