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pretendscholar··on Facial recognition can predict person’s political orientation with 72% accuracy
Scoffing at 22% over random? Lets play poker some time.
pretendscholar··on ‘Deep Nostalgia’ can turn old photos of your relatives into moving videos
Accurate to what? How some other person moves? Its like wearing someone else's skin Ed Gein style. Maybe if they were modeling it based on other photography.
pretendscholar··on Researchers find stem cells for hair regeneration
Most bald guys have hair just not that much on the top. Shaping the remaining hair in a fashionable way is imperative. Looking like George Carlin in his later years with long unkempt hair on the sides and a bald spot on the top is not sexy.
pretendscholar··on Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies?
The idea that they should earn their keep implies that residing in prison is something of positive value for the prisoner that they should feel obligated to give something back.
pretendscholar··on 'Sea Prison': Covid-19 has left hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded
I think they mean the utilities and services, not the land mass.
pretendscholar··on Automating my job with GPT-3
And now its restricted to only the malicious actors and dictatorial goverments that can buy it!
pretendscholar··on Finland has slashed homelessness; the rest of Europe is failing
Why wouldn't scale help los angeles tackle the same problem?
pretendscholar··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
Range anxiety?
pretendscholar··on The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It? (1998)
Life in other galaxies is unlikely to physically leave its own galaxy just given the vast distances involved. Life in our own galaxy takes a number of inputs that take billions of years to produce.
pretendscholar··on Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
That's what I meant but I could have been less terse. It probably refers to the tribe of the Israelites so clan is probably closer than countrymen.
pretendscholar··on Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub
I wish I could read ancient aramaic because I'm pretty sure they don't literally mean its fine to lie about anything that doesn't involve someone living nearby.
pretendscholar··on The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine
My money is on perfect play drawing every time.
pretendscholar··on The scope of forced labor in Xinjiang is bigger than we knew
Debt they can't collect on. Its already over. They may have had a few more years without covid but now its over. Just like with japan in the late 80s people haven't caught up to the situation on the ground yet.
pretendscholar··on The scope of forced labor in Xinjiang is bigger than we knew
Not forever. Their economic growth will end due to demographic, technological, and geopolitical reasons. They are aging rapidly due to one child which makes their labor cost 8 times (inflation adjusted) what it cost in 2000 and most of the countries with any wealth who china would export to are post consumption because they are also rapidly aging. Automation has made it cheaper for many industries to produce goods closer to end markets rather than ship it half way around the world. Geopolitically countries like the us have lost interest in the doctrine of free trade and covid-19 in particular sped this up by exposing the vulnerabilities of long supply chains for critical supplies.
pretendscholar··on When You’re Outnumbered: Lessons from Two British Masters of Irregular Warfare
It is so obnoxious to tell someone that they should read an entire book to know what is wrong with a single statement. At least throw a couple points out from the book.
pretendscholar··on Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts
If you read through my comments I make flippant borderline ban-worthy posts all the time. I'm no saint on this front I was just trying to articulate to myself what I don't like about new reddit.
pretendscholar··on Central Bank Digital Currencies Are a Bad Idea
Lol this is your brain on compsci vocational training.
pretendscholar··on Reddit suspended two people who use Dystopia, across three accounts
Old reddit gives far more information about each submission on the page and is lighting fast. Nu-reddit wants to be an instagram style mobile first feed app and you can only see one submission at a time. Clicking on the comments is maddening because it doesn't even show all the comments before ending and suggesting other posts from the subreddit. If I wanted to see them then I would click on the subreddit hyperlink. Additionally it only shows the first node of depth for each op content so I can't follow the conversation without clicking again.
pretendscholar··on The Chaos of the Dice: A backgammon hustler’s quest to gain an edge (2013)
I'm sure the rest of the statement is true but there are fast time-control variants of chess that are very tactile over the board. Bullet chess is a minute of total time per side so moves are blitzed out at lightning speed.
pretendscholar··on Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid
Thats what I'm saying. They didn't take over despite all the expert predictions that they would overtake the United States by the mid 1990s. Chinese population is aging far more rapidly than the US due to the one child policy, their economic system is largely dependent on exports to countries where it is increasingly politically unviable to continue such trade. They are far more overleveraged than the united states is or ever was. Additionally they have to import the vast majority of their oil so in an economic crisis they would have to have to retain access to usd for oil which is a precursor to many system critical end products.

https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/ Here is a neat visualization of their demographic situation. There are worse demographics but the point is that they have run out of labor for an export led economy and the internal base for a consumption led economy. Same thing is true for Germany which means they will have to find another production model which means major political instability.

pretendscholar··on Chinese economy to overtake US 'by 2028' due to Covid
They also laughed when Japan was supposed to take over in the 1990s and were correct.
pretendscholar··on Why ‘Useless’ Surgery Is Still Popular (2016)
Why does the food and drug administration only regulate food and drugs?
pretendscholar··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
Just move to a different country bro
pretendscholar··on Why do I care the open web is dying?
Wait until reddit is fully captured by the groups that do that sort of content marketing.
pretendscholar··on AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology
87 GDT sounds pretty much solved to me if 90 is the benchmark
pretendscholar··on Students create device to capture car tyre microplastic debris
Do you honestly think they mean that we are physically running out of room on the planet to put roads?
pretendscholar··on Considerations Before Graduating as an Engineer
What are you basing this off of? Rick and Morty? Have you ever met an actual genius?
pretendscholar··on Middle-Age Crisis: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Not true

http://columbuslandfall.com/ccnav/v4.shtml

pretendscholar··on Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert
At some point story generators are barely games and more like tools or toys. Dwarf fortress doesn't have a ton of replay value as a fortress manager. Maybe five or six attempts to make a stable fortress but i could spend hours just tweaking the world gen parameters and looking through the legends mode.
pretendscholar··on A No Nonsense List of Google Alternatives for Linux Users
Whats wrong with brave? Seems like a decent browser to me.
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