Ageroth

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[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Funny to me how defensive you got so quick, accusing of not reading the linked paper before even reading it yourself.

The reason OP was so rude is that your very premise of "what is the brain doing if not statistical text prediction" is completely wrong and you don't even consider it could be. You cite a TV show as a source of how it might be. Your concept of what artificial intelligence is comes from media and not science, and is not founded in reality.

The brain uses words to describe thoughts, the words are not actually the thoughts themselves.

https://advances.massgeneral.org/neuro/journal.aspx?id=1096

Think about small children who haven't learned language yet, do those brains still do "stastical text prediction" despite not having words to predict?

What about dogs and cats and other "less intelligent" creatures, they don't use any words but we still can teach them to understand ideas. You don't need to utter a single word, not even a sound, to train a dog to sit. Are they doing "statistical text prediction" ?

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

This statue looks like the moon sisters from Kubo and the two strings

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 3 points 7 months ago

There must be many chickens laying eggs, many layers, for the quantities of eggs being recalled.

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 11 points 7 months ago

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) was a draft agreement negotiated in secret between members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) between 1995 and 1998.[1][2] It sought to establish a new body of universal investment laws that would grant corporations unconditional rights to engage in financial operations around the world, without any regard to national laws and citizens' rights. The draft gave corporations a right to sue governments if national health, labor or environment legislation threatened their interests.

Literally designed to put the interests of corporations above the interests of nations and their citizens

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 18 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There's a lot more to it than "they just do" we just don't know yet because there's actually a lot we don't understand about the fundamental properties of, well, fundamental particles.

See the higgs boson as for why matter has mass. We used to say "inertia is a property of matter" but some clever fucks figured out why and then proved it.

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 3 points 8 months ago (21 children)

How many was too many?
I've got birds and while they've slowed laying I'm still eating 3-4 eggs a day and can't say I've noticed any ill effects

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 15 points 8 months ago

Frost both sides?

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago

I'd guess like any other mold prevention, moisture control.

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have about 9 crowns currently, and my wife is a dental assistant with implant and surgery experience. I asked about this one time and got this explanation.

Implants are a highly invasive, long, and expensive process, like over 10k each expensive, and months of procedures and recovery. Granted, usually implants aren't done to healthy teeth, but they usually have to build up the bone material after extracting the tooth and let that heal, drill into the bone and set the post then let that heal, then fit the implant and adjust everything because your teeth have been moving while it's been healing.
One of the reasons the dentist doesn't want to just pull a tooth and do an implant is the even when root canaled, that tooth is a better support than the implant post would be, and the implant is a lot more work.

The process of fillings, then crown, then root canal and crown don't usually happen in sequence like that, and if you do preventative maintenance you can keep a tooth with a filling from ever needing to be crowned or root canal'd

You wanna know what's a hell of a lot cheaper and easier than getting any dental work? Flossing and brushing!

I have hated flossing my entire life because it hurts my fingers to wrap the floss enough not to slide, but a couple months back I discovered I could tie a figure 8 knot and make a loop to pull tension on and now find i can't stand the feeling of anything in-between my teeth so I end up flossing after every meal.

Moral of the story is: floss and brush your teeth and you won't need to worry about crowns or implants. Always before bed and especially after anything with sugar or starches

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A friend of mine introduced me to this channel and I love it. They do such amazing historical recreation of so many different aspects of pre-modern life. One of my favorites

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 2 points 9 months ago

It was widely compared to the matrix which I did, but watching later it is a great movie in its own right

[–] Ageroth@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

I've always loved this movie even if the "science" behind restarting fusion in the sun was nonsense

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