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Comment · 2 years ago
1 hour ago | parent | context | edit | on: UK electric car drivers should be charged per mile...
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That’s amazing, thank you very much.
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No advance without a trade-off.
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If only the ad quality went up with the efficiency with which they syphon the data. I don’t have a driver’s license and I’m in a relationship yet a considerable amount of personalised ads on my devices are about dating sites and car dealerships.
Comment · 2 years ago
At 32 min she talks about a book called "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers, but didn't know who to ask" by Slater. I found a reference on archive but nothing more, also nothing on the author.

Leland W. Slater, "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Microcomputers," Computop i cs . 3/82, pp. 38ff.

Comment · 2 years ago
Machine learning is AI?
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We should coax them into using coax instead.
Comment · 2 years ago
If anyone has surplus bare PCBs for sale for the Cynthion please let me know.
Comment · 2 years ago
I used to know one philosophy student in my student years and this was exactly the beaf I had with him at every single discussion. I believe this is part of the training, dissecting sentences.
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I’d compare it to the sobriety test of being asked to walk in a straight line. someone who’s drunk will put a lot of effort in it, which is the giveaway.
Comment · 2 years ago
We’re hampered by the limits of engineering, not those of physics by a long shot.
Comment · 2 years ago
You know those youtube videos where a puppet in an arena is shown and it’s iteratively selected/respawn/retrained for getting across an obstacle field? This is exactly that. First obstacle has been cleared and now the population is waiting for a mutation that gets them compatible with the human cell wall.

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