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core-e··on Creativity has left the chat: The price of debiasing language models
In other words it's giving more human like responses...
core-e··on Facebook under fire over secret teen research
Does it show you precisely what you want to see? Or just what you're most likely to engage with? I feel like there's an important distinction there.
core-e··on RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker
Marvin Gaye vs. The Pixies comes close. :)

These were a treat thanks. I hadn't heard any of them before.

core-e··on RaveDJ – AI Music Mashup Maker
Don't forget Girl Talk and The Legion of Doom.

Also don't forget the greatest mashup of all time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vGywjbuCU

core-e··on Google Chrome to remove detailed cookie and site data controls
Do other Chromium based browsers like Brave count? Or do they need be completely separate browser architectures like Firefox and Opera?
core-e··on Please log in with router's password
Thanks. How do I make sure I'm not on this list?
core-e··on Please log in with router's password
I don't understand. What point is being made here?
core-e··on Janet Yellen suggests 'curtailing' cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin
It does act as a secure, transferable store of value. In the event that you have to flee your home country or its financial system is compromised you could go anywhere and retain some portion of your personal wealth.
core-e··on FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing
At a minimum the last few on the mood list (depressed obsessive thoughts, apathetic, very self-critical) seem like great indicators of when someone might be the most receptive to advertising for SSRIs.
core-e··on 'Ugh fields', or why you can’t even bear to think about that task
Same. I thought it was just part and parcel with me being a procrastinator by nature. I'm sure that's part of why it resonates so much. But yeah, it's always nice to know you're not as alone in your head as you think you are.
core-e··on AWS services explained in one line each
I noticed you conveniently left out Redshift. :) What about Snowball, Chime, Sumarian, and Route 53?
core-e··on I learned 1500 Chinese Characters in a Month
> What's black and white and read all over?"

This is a riddle not a pun.

core-e··on Why poor people make poor decisions
This was the first thing that came to my mind as well. You can't keep what you can't earn.
core-e··on Repo Blowup Was Fueled by Big Banks and Hedge Funds, BIS Says
> Another way to look at it is that it's a way to buy government bonds on credit - you can buy a bond and then immediately repo it, using the money you've borrowed to pay for the bond. You have to pay the interest on the repo until you sell the bond and pay it back, but you never have to come up with a big pile of cash.

And the reason you'd do this is... to lock in yield in a declining interest rate environment?