howrar 3m ago • 100%
As if he didn't already have them
howrar 3h ago • 100%
Possible. I haven't been following them that closely.
howrar 4h ago • 100%
Not just afford a one bedroom apartment. They should be able to do so and also afford to go to work. You can get housing for next to nothing in bumfuck nowhere, but if you can't get to work while living there, then there's no point.
howrar 6h ago • 100%
Ah, I see. I interpreted it as two independent statements because your interpretation didn't make sense. But now that I think about it, it looks like they did mean it in the incorrect way.
howrar 10h ago • 100%
I never implied that we didn't. I'm telling you that we can always measure something and asking you to clarify which of these measurements constitute brainwave activity. Is the activity in the ovum a brainwave? Is it after the first signs of a notochord? After the notochord disappears completely? First cell to differentiate to eventually become part of the neural tube? When the neural tube starts bulging out? When there's enough bulging to see three district vesicles? Or five? Appearance of the first neuron? Or when neurogenesis stops? Or when the nervous system is sufficiently developed to take control of certain bodily functions? Or the activity when the nervous system is "fully developed" as an adult? Or something else?
howrar 14h ago • 100%
You can measure electromagnetic activity in an unfertilized egg. The question is when does this activity become brainwave activity.
howrar 1d ago • 66%
The first time I voted, I cast it for our green party, not because I wanted them to win, but because I knew they wouldn't win and my vote would have no effect on the outcome. I haven't been paying much attention to politics at that point in time so I didn't have an opinion on who should win. I just wanted to vote to understand how the process works.
howrar 1d ago • 0%
It is wrong because the highlighted portion of the excerpt is supposed to directly answer the question. This one doesn't.
howrar 1d ago • 100%
What's wrong about their comment?
howrar 1d ago • 100%
There's been two cases of this happening very recently that's been making the rounds on Lemmy. Two dudes on death row, new evidence comes up that puts their guilty judgement into question and their execution proceeds anyway.
howrar 1d ago • 100%
At what point would you consider it to be sufficiently brain so that its activity is brainwave activity?
howrar 2d ago • 100%
I'm surprised to hear German has a word for this, considering that stats I've previously seen show Germany as having the highest proportion of male sitting pee-ers.
howrar 2d ago • 100%
We're part of America too!
howrar 3d ago • 100%
Perfectly fine tool, but they should not be used when you're being evaluated on your ability to do arithmetics.
howrar 3d ago • 100%
Please tell me you placed this image so that it's the next one up when they swipe.
howrar 3d ago • 100%
If only learning about bugs made them less gross to accidentally squish under your feet.
howrar 4d ago • 100%
So the characters are still words, right?
Most likely yes. All characters in Chinese are defined jointly by the way it's written, the pronunciation, and meaning. You can't invent new characters like you would a new English word and have something that can be read out loud because there's no system for deriving pronunciation from the written character itself.
I say most likely because there are still some characters that are phonetic in that their meaning is just the sound, but these don't cover the whole spectrum of possible sounds in the language as far as I know. They also wouldn't look as nice in tattoo form since they all use the same radical.
This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/ The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: **Protein quantity is much more important than timing**. While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/
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Recordings for the [RLC](https://rl-conference.cc/) keynote talks have been released. Keynote speakers: - David Silver - Doina Precup (Not recorded) - Peter Stone - Finale Doshi-Velez - Sergey Levine - Emma Brunskill - Andrew Barto
OpenAI just put out a blog post about a new model trained via RL (I'm assuming this isn't the usual RLHF) to perform chain of thought reasoning before giving the user its answer. As usual, there's very little detail about how this is accomplished so it's hard for me to get excited about it, but the rest of you might find this interesting.
Following up on [another question](https://lemmy.world/post/19184166) about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?
This community has been around for a few months now. How do we feel about it? Are things working out? Any plans for further growing the community? This is one of the topics I’ve been thinking a lot about quite a bit for the past few years (i.e. how to set up a community that values discussions with diverse viewpoints), so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts in relation to what I’m seeing here. 1. I think such a community necessarily needs to be a full self-contained instance, or else you’ll get very little activity. Think about how these discussions usually start. Someone posts an article/meme/question/etc, a few people show up and comment with similar thoughts about it worded in slightly different ways, then another shows up and goes against the grain, everyone dogpiles on them, and that’s when the real discussion starts. Very rarely do people go out of their way to ask “what do you think of X controversial topic?” And even if you do, that only leads to a very high level discussion that very quickly gets stale. If you get discussion in the context of specific events, then these discussions can be grounded in reality and lead to more unique context-dependent takes each time it comes up. 2. Regarding upvotes/downvotes: as stated in the rules, they should be used to measure whether a post/comment is a positive contribution to the discussion rather than the number of people who agree with your viewpoint. I don’t believe there’s a way to actually enforce this with the voting system we currently have, but I also think a relatively simple change can fix it. It will require a bit of coding. My proposal is a voting system with two votes: one to say that you agree/disagree, and another to say good/bad contribution. With this system, you can easily see if someone only thinks posts they agree with are good contributions, and you can use that information to calculate a total score that weighs their votes accordingly. It’s also small enough of a change that I think most people won’t have a problem figuring it out. Thoughts? Also, thank you Ace for taking the initiative in creating this place. It makes me happy to see that others want to see this change too.
There's many posts here with the purpose of convincing people to support electoral reform. Not so much that's actually actionable. What do we do if we want to change things? For a start, does anyone have information on who's responsible for the election system at each level of government in each of the major cities?
I think it's generally agreed upon that large files that change often do not belong while small files that never change are fine. But there's still a lot of middle ground where the answer is not so clear to me. So what's your stance on this? Where do you draw the line?
I suspect this is a problem with posts that have extremely long bodies like this one: https://slrpnk.net/comment/8035803 I'm trying to scroll down to the top first comment and inevitably overshoot. When I i try to scroll back up, it suddenly jumps back to the middle of the OP's body.
I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows. Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!  I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.
Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts? Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.
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I want to get an idea of how people generally feel over the course of the day. Feel free to submit multiple answers at different times.
By metadata, I'm talking about things like text descriptions of a photo/video and where they come from, or an explanation of what a certain binary blob contains, its format, how to use it, etc. The best solution I have right now is xattrs, but those are dependent on the file system, and there's no guarantee that they will stay when the files get moved, especially if the person moving them is unaware of its existence. The alternative is to keep a plaintext file with this metadata alongside every photo/video/binary/etc, but that would be a huge pain to keep in sync since both files have to be moved together. So my question to you: do you keep this kind of metadata? If so, how do you manage them?
With the rapid advances we're currently seeing in generative AI, we're also seeing a lot of concern for large scale misinformation. Any individual with sufficient technical knowledge can now spam a forum with lots of organic looking voices and generate photos to back them up. Has anyone given some thought on how we can combat this? If so, how do you think the solution should/could look? How do you personally decide whether you're looking at a trustworthy source of information? Do you think your approach works, or are there still problems with it?
Is there a community meant for anything that doesn't currently fit into the existing communities?