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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
And also ask: do they gain anything from lying about it?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 6 days ago:
This is something that can happen with an autonomous robot if it was trained via imitation learning, which is one of the common ways of doing things when using transformers, and transformers are in vogue right now.
But knowing how tech demonstrations usually work, it’s much more likely that this is actually just a robot being remote controlled by another human.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 1 week ago:
Probably not someone that a consumer would want to do unless they’re interested in the challenge.
I forgot about the absence of PCIe connectors until jj4211 mentioned it in another comment. That would also be problematic for consumer use. I know it’s possible to do the conversion as I’ve looked into it in the past, but it doesn’t come cheap.
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 week ago:
Existing in this world
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 1 week ago:
He punished a book about the first segment of his journey, and there are people just throwing money at him because they want to see someone do this.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 1 week ago:
The datacentre GPUs are also useless for consumers. They don’t have video output.
- Comment on well I take the gremlin 1 week ago:
If every friend group has all 9, then logically, I must be all of them.
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
If that’s your idea of reversing the order, then you’re not talking about the same thing as SpaceCadet@feddit.nl. They’re talking about the order of operations and the associativity property. You’re talking about the order of the symbols.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, so much. I’m still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.
- Comment on I dunno 2 weeks ago:
You flipped the sign on the 3 and 1.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 weeks ago:
but once I’m done, I close them all
Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how reliable you need this system to be. For example, do you need to handle the scenario where an adult verifies their age to access a website, then lets a minor use that website in their place? That would be a much harder problem to solve than if you just need to verify that an adult was present on the other end at one point in time. For the latter, device-based age verification seems to be trivial to set up from a technical standpoint.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 4 weeks ago:
I was under the impression that hearing loss is usually a gradual thing.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 4 weeks ago:
if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it?
Remember when everyone smoked and we were taught that it was good for our health?
- Comment on Dyslexia 4 weeks ago:
Interesting how everyone misread it the same way.
Meanwhile, me: “Cloth only grown? Huh?”
- Comment on This one goes out to Dennis Prager 4 weeks ago:
Keyword: infant
- Comment on you're untapped value 4 weeks ago:
My local grocery store recently renovated and reorganized the whole store. They placed the rotisserie chickens right by the checkout, next to the impulse purchases rack.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 4 weeks ago:
Plot twist: he was actually the serial killer hiding in plain sight
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t place my bets on any individual stock/asset. You need to do a lot of research and have a lot of money to invest before that can be a safe decision. Instead, put your money in broad market ETFs, which is effectively just a bet on capitalism. Then either capitalism wins and you also win, or capitalism loses and you still win. But make sure you have an emergency fund first because not having that is one of the few ways that you can lose while capitalism wins.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
I have a lot of stuff going on in my head that needs my full attention. Dinner planning, a work problem that I’ve been slowly chipping away at, toying with some random ideas, etc.
I understand that for some people, especially if you have ADHD, it can be easier to attend to those thoughts with music and other stimuli present. That is not the case for me.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 5 weeks ago:
No need to trust infinite people. You just need to get past 33 forks before you run out of people to operate the switch or to be tied to the tracks.
- Comment on An Idea That I Could Get Behind 5 weeks ago:
I think this is that the unmodified version looked like
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 5 weeks ago:
If the port was easily accessible, I would. This problem only comes up when it isn’t.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 1 month ago:
If it hasn’t already, that post and its links need to be archived.
- Comment on Always question those who are the "teachers" 1 month ago:
You can only use it in a self-deprecating manner if you are yourself an educator, in which case, you’re still minimizing educators.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
I needed to know if there was any validity to the claim. And if I’m doing the work anyway, I might as well share it.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
Let’s say you save exactly one pill and it works on anyone. Also assume 100% pregnancy rate, so if you are paired with someone and neither have the pill, then it’s an automatic pregnancy. Our goal is to minimize number of pregnancies.
- “Max promiscuity”: Say we have a complete bipartite matching. if it’s given to a male, then no pregnancies have been prevented since every other male can impregnate every female. If it’s given to a female, then it reduces the number of pregnancies by 1 since none of the males can impregnate her.
- “Traditional”: Say we have a bijective matching (i.e. each male is paired with exactly one female, and vice versa). Then the pill can be given to anyone and it will always reduce the number of pregnancies by 1.
- “The Harem”: Say we have a matching where males have more than one pairing but females have at most one pairing each. In this case, giving the pill to the male with the largest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies by however many pairings they have.
- “Reverse Harem”: Same scenario as above but flip male and female. Giving the pill to any female will have the same effect of reducing pregnancies by 1. Giving it to a male will have no effect.
- “The Cliques”: The population is split into disjoint graphs, but each of these disjoint graphs are complete (bijective) bipartite graphs. In this case, if the pill is given to a male, then it will only have an effect if that male only has a single pairing, thereby reducing pregnancies by exactly 1. Otherwise, there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to a female, then it will always reduce pregnancies by exactly 1.
As far as I’m aware, the real world operates most like a mixture of “Traditional” and “Cliques”. At least, in places where birth control is an option. But in the real world, we have more than one pill.
If we have enough for either all males or all females, then the effect is the same regardless of who gets the pill. It will always lead to 100% pregnancy reduction.
Let’s say we have enough pills for all but one male, or all but one female.
- “Max promiscuity”: If the pill is given to the males, then we still have one male that can impregnate everyone, so there will be no reduction in pregnancies. If given to females, then you will end up with exactly one pregnancy.
- “Traditional”: As before, there’s no difference. Any decision will lead to reducing pregnancies to exactly 1.
- “The Harem”: giving to all the males except the one with the smallest number of pairings will reduce pregnancies to however many pairings that one male has (more than 1). If given to females, then it will reduce it to exactly 1.
- “Reverse Harem”: Giving it to the males will reduce pregnancies to exactly 1 since they’re only in 1 pairing. Giving it to females will also reduce it to exactly 1.
- “The Cliques”: if given to the males, then it will only make a difference if there exists a clique with exactly one male. It will reduce pregnancies by the largest number of females in a clique with a single male. If given to females, then it always reduces pregnancies to exactly 1.
So with the goal of minimizing pregnancies, it either makes no difference or is optimal to have the pill on women (unless you’re in a harem). This is highly reductive though. We have many other considerations when deciding who should get access to birth control.
- Comment on When washing, should I turn garments inside out? 1 month ago:
Fahrenheit makes sense. The Tide website recommends washing at 16C minimum for regular detergent and 4C minimum for cold water detergent.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
The brands I see that produce regular milk also make lactose free milk here, so I’m guessing they’re all processed the same way within the brand but just with added lactase at some point. Different brands probably do things differently. It’s usually 2-3 weeks for both regular milk and lactose free.
- Comment on Never buying milk from Walmart again 1 month ago:
Is your lactose free milk prepared/packaged differently from your regular milk? The two keep for just as long here.
