karma_fountain

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Comment · 4 months ago
It's an interesting question to ask a machine. It's definitely ambiguous. As a person I might respond "What's Latitude 41"?
Comment · 1 year ago
Cars don't look at all.
Comment · 1 year ago
Yes, as I understand it there is bias inherent in any dataset due to the fact it is a sample. Data dredging is just looking for that bias. You could do that, but then you'd have to confirm with a new experiment.
Comment · 1 year ago
Ah, OpenThinker-7B. A diverse variety of LLM from the OpenThoughts team. Light and airy, suitable for everyday usage and not too heavy on the CPU. A new world LLM for the discerning user.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Also people watching five hours of TV a day maybe aren't doing too much exercise.
Comment · 2 years ago
The EU is the world's main source of and main destination for foreign direct investment (FDI). Inward and outward FDI play a fundamental role for generating sustainable economic growth, business opportunities, employment, technological development and innovation.
Comment · 2 years ago
The book Linkers and Loaders by John R. Levine is pretty good.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm assuming your in the US when you talk about the black kids. How much do you think US segregation on racial lines in the 20th century has an impact on this?
Comment · 2 years ago
This was Bryce Dallas Howard's first film so it was her big break, before that she had only done theater. Hopefully she got a percentage of the profit and some extra money for promoting the film.

Edit: Also worth noting that her father is Ron Howard so she probably didn't need the money.

Comment · 3 years ago
Writing as a means to internalize information and make ideas your own is good.
Comment · 3 years ago
I do agree. I've looked at code bases where the switch was replaced with virtuals and the like. It's kind of hard to navigate around the code when that happens. I think I'd usually rather have a completely separate path through the code rather than switch or virtual, making the decision at the highest level possible, usually the top-level caller.
Comment · 3 years ago
Fib(x)=0 does satisfy this property though.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
They are really historically the same thing, but I think ray casting has come to mean ray tracing a lower dimensional thing like a map and representing the results in a higher dimension, like 3d space.

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