If that were true birth rates in places like Japan, with chronically depressed real estate values, would be skyrocketing over time. But it doesn't seem to be the case: more educated people appear to be less apt to have children.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Christchurch_mosque...
edit: By the way, for all those people ripping on the ACLU and saying "they lost their way" below, they're actively defending 230 against claims of online-terrorism-by-proxy.
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/section-230-is-this-th...
[1] https://www.hcplive.com/view/filtered-unfiltered-coffee-cont...
> The rising intolerance of wrongthink on the right has been written about extensively but I’d love to read a sympathetic, anthropological investigation into it.
> I say sympathetic because I don’t believe you can understand anything without really seeing how a reasonable person could come to those same conclusions.
We are diving deep into the irony of bifurcated political systems where the two groups simultaneously believe themselves to be victims of their opposing teams rather than circumstance and systemic failures.
As far as polyesters go, the main cause for concern is the endocrine disrupting effect of polyethylene terephthalate[1] and the inability of PET to be broken down completely, leading to microplastic pollution. By contrast, PLA can be broken down by heat or a select number of micro-organisms, and the lactic acid monomer used to produce it is non-toxic. The polymer is formed by a simple condensation reaction to form ester linkages, releasing water. Esters are a very common and generally benign moiety found everywhere in nature, for example in cutin found in plants, forming the rigid exterior of cells exposed to the elements. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate
This would happen on the order of milliseconds.
There is a lot of other complicated math that you will need when reading papers because people writing AI papers like to overcomplicate a lot of things that can be represented in 5 lines of pytorch.
[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-backpropagation...
2. Prompt ChatGPT for "how do I make a pytorch program that learns to do <some task>"
3. Ask ChatGPT for code and for it to explain the code
4. Run the code on Google colab, if it doesn't work, ask ChatGPT why and keep rerunning it until it does
5. If you find some API that's too new for ChatGPT to know about, just paste in the API documentation and then ask ChatGPT to propose some code using it
ChatGPT is wrong a lot, but if you keep badgering it, eventually you will get a solution that works. It's like having a tutor standing next to you that you can ask questions to, I can't think of a better way to learn even if it's wrong on occasion.
Am I the only person appalled by Carmack's apparent privilege here? In an era when a CEO is routinely making 300x the wage of an average worker, and sometimes thousands of times more, giving people the option to work less for the same amount of wage seems like one of the few ways we can force the ultra-rich to give back? No one is forcing people to work 7 hours and they could easily work more if they wanted to, but reducing the minimum amount of toil required seems to be a net benefit to everyone who is not insanely wealthy.
ActivityPub of course uses the same cryptographic certification virtually all the web does, just TLS/HTTPS and relies on the host cert to be valid. But if you wanted to add further levels of verification like pubkeys and sigs, there's absolutely nothing stopping you.
The only market it seems to be gaining traction in from my perspective is millennials who have nostalgia for old Twitter -- and as someone who grew up with old Twitter, I can say I don't really miss it.
[1] https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...