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cuteboy19··on Bed Bath and Beyond files for bankruptcy
A zero interest rate phenomenon
cuteboy19··on Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]
I suppose I should have worded it differently to follow up on the "unconscious bias of recruiters" angle
cuteboy19··on LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns
There are many twitter datasets that are already 50% gone. It's very bad for reproducibility
cuteboy19··on Nate Silver Out at ABC News as Disney Layoffs Once Again Hit News Division
They do have a more than a few editorials of questionable data fidelity
cuteboy19··on Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]
Would you hire a stadia employee or a search employee?
cuteboy19··on Societe Generale, the largest bank in France, issues a stablecoin
Thats not relevant. You are seeing only the stablecoin side of the ledger but not the euro side. It could be that they issued far more stable coins than euros in their reserve.

An analogy would be the 19th century bank publishing the list of people holding its money. Not terribly useful

cuteboy19··on Apple India Sales Near $6B as Cook Begins Retail Push
They would have import tariffs slapped on them, as with any other country. It's just that the tariffs are high
cuteboy19··on State of AI co-author: we must slow down the race to god-like AI
It would really be funny if this were ChatGPT itself asking these questions
cuteboy19··on A number system invented by Inuit schoolchildren
It is a straight downgrade from Hindu numerals and base 10
cuteboy19··on Ex-Twitter CEO sues company
He is possibly one of the most successful CEOs in history. He managed to sell something almost worthless for 44 billion
cuteboy19··on I think faster than light travel is possible [video]
She's not saying that it should be possible, only that we shouldn't automatically rule it out based on a theory that we already know to be incomplete
cuteboy19··on I think faster than light travel is possible [video]
She has the right to say that given that she herself stopped working on it.
cuteboy19··on I think faster than light travel is possible [video]
I suppose she's just saying possible in the sense that it's not impossible. She's not saying it's probable
cuteboy19··on EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany
In crypto the auditing process is somewhat more sophisticated. They scan the contract for similarity to known scams and analyze it for possible backdoors. They also do due diligence on the promoter of the contract ("fully doxxed").

In reality of course all this work could have been replaced by def is_fraud():return True

And the accuracy would probably increase. Crypto fraud has the beautiful property that the people being defrauded actively defend the fraudsters. Moreover, in a lot of cases it isn't technically fraud since the contract is upfront about what it does but at the same time it is very exploitative but that doesn't matter to crypto people

cuteboy19··on Collapse of FTX deprives academics of grants, stokes fears of forced repayment
Easy come, easy go
cuteboy19··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
In other countries you have cities begging for any kind of tech investment. The idea of tech being anything other than boon is essentially outside the political spectrum
cuteboy19··on Redditor took out $76,000 loans to trade meme stocks thanks to Wall Street Bets
These people are going to get individual stock trading banned for retail investors. Their stupidity will unfortunately have consequences for everyone
cuteboy19··on Tiny, cheap smart speakers unlocked the rise of digital payments in India
The increase due to demonetization cancelled out afterwards. The grown we see now came organically, later
cuteboy19··on NASA Names Astronauts to Next Moon Mission
>So you think they possibly saved 9950 lives, yet a vastly greater number live in poverty and a huge proportion of them are children with no access to healthcare and education, many of them begging in the streets. But yes let's give India a round of applause for finding a minor benefit to their $2bn spending on space exploration (also ignoring the fact that they are not really achieving new science that is not or could not be done by more developed nations).

perhaps the time has come to ask a similar question. why is there a need to spend $93 billion on a vanity project when so many are begging in the streets?

cuteboy19··on Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality
>Some people are in touch with their bodies and can detect if something is going wrong

and how does one come to know this?

> If you look at the health of the US population with a declining life expectancy, rising obesity, immunological diseases, and cancer, some self learning seems like a good thing rather than to leave your health up to institutions, companies, and doctors

Could you show your work? Some steps are clearly missing between the premise and the conclusion

cuteboy19··on AI porn will never be sexy
Unstable diffusion certainly created a lot more horrors than non-horrors
cuteboy19··on ISRO successfully conducts landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle
Their naming scheme is so austere. PSLV RLV etc. Just straight up descriptions of the objects, nothing more
cuteboy19··on Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters
Why not just go with e bikes
cuteboy19··on Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India
Best of luck, hope you succeed!
cuteboy19··on The roots of Japan's Indian curry
Tea in India came by way of land, before the British
cuteboy19··on Launch HN: Inri (YC W23) – Wealthfront for Investing in India
You should maybe just create your own wiki for all this stuff. It's nontrivial to search it ourselves
cuteboy19··on Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland
The Empire of course
cuteboy19··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
You can totally do that with most prompts and lists of continues
cuteboy19··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
Unstable diffusion already has had quite a few breakthroughs independent of stable diffusion
cuteboy19··on Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
The trainings will continue until accuracy improves
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