u/ALLIRIX

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    What's a suitable rival to a Mind Flayer colony? (self.DMAcademy)

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    TIFU by eating the ends off a chicken wing. (self.tifu) [S]

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ALLIRIX

Should have visited Innisfail. It's built on the backs of Italian immigrants

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Artificial neurons are usually described as "coarse caricatures" of real ones. You need about 1000 artificial neurons to simulate the behavior of a real neuron

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BTW you just re-invented the "Chinese Room Argument".

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Well randomization is built directly into it. But your point stands. We don't understand what each of the neurons are doing in an LLM just like we don't understand what each of the other neurons in a human head are doing. We understand regions of the brain, like we understand regions of an LLM brain. But we don't truly understand either

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Yeah claiming you were whataboutisming by bringing up another problematic author is a wild take. It's not like you said why do people hate on JK when there this other bad author. You said why don't they also hate on this other bad author

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If it's based on the last election how do newcomers have a chance?

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You sound informed. I'm current holding >$500k just shuffling it around different high interest accounts (~6%) because I was getting ready to buy, but now house prices are collapsing around me, interest rates are going up, and I'm subletting so my real rent is only $75/wk inner Brisbane city. What would you recommend?

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I'm very happy you've used a reference in your argument, so I'll trust you can also look up the births and deaths in Australia and compare them too

I was a bit worried you were thinking about the replacement rate when you made that original claim. But think about it, how long have we been below the replacement rate? How long does it take for a birth to become a death? I'm sure you've heard we have an aging population right? They estimate there's still 30 or so years until the reduced replacement rate catches up to us

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Deaths won't outpace births until 2060...

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Here in Australia, we have an entry-level position open and about 50% of the applicants have a masters in cyber. If you have no real work experience, the role is better than nothing. The relevant experience is around networking and maybe physical pen testing, but cabling, stacking servers, and all the other tasks will not be that relevant to a future employer.

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100% agree. They're so dishonest, I wouldn't be surprised if they're a bot

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I too like to stop reading halfway through a sentence when it makes me mad

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It's just used to combine 2 related sentences together; most people use it incorrectly so it's confusing

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Priciticing clear and concise communication is the point of most assessment.

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I asked this exact question and it answered it fine

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Dude he said it already. If you can't be bother reading or looking it up there's no point continuing this conversation

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And which of her policies do you fully support? And please don't just say something like "130k cap" or "cut energy bills by 20%", but read the details and think about their implications or peculiar lack of details.

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They don't pay enough attention to politics to know that voting for PHON is a vote against their interests. It's not intelligence, but media literacy is something an education helps with

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We use Launchpad and build our own courses or stitch together Udemy and YouTube videos.

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The US is actually 45th in the world from what I could find. But maybe that's good enough for you, or you'll find another way to whataboutism or dismiss that because 'murica is the greatest

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If you read between the lines, I am pointing out that improving the economy doesn't increase birth rates. The effect across the globe is actually the opposite, and South Korea is the most famous example.

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Sure, but do you think no one in the west is racist too? You can play the whataboutism games if you want, but what does it really achieve?

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So it only exists in Asia? We've solved racism in the west? Okay... My point was it's obvious to the most naive colourblind person over there. That doesn't mean we're good here. And we're not getting any better