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In the past, when I tried to use power tools for woodworking in my garage, it created a lot of sawdust. Everything in the garage got covered by a layer of dust, and it became hard to do things like...
Is the historical method a scientific method? When I was a child in grade school, I learned that "The Scientific Method" had the following steps: Observe a phenomenon: find things by curious ex...
I visited a site that I use infrequently and got a certificate error, specifically NET:ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID. I contacted the owner, who asked for a screenshot. That surprised me, as I had a...
I believe the normal "best" way to check a certificate is to connect to the site using one of the CLI clients in the OpenSSL software suite, which is normally installed on Linux machines because ma...
Jon Ericson[1] is working on pretty much what you asked for. It seems to be Discourse with a different base configuration that emails collaborators by default. There is a free open Beta for small c...
If I'm looking to pay someone to replace my floors (eg. carpet, laminate, hardwood), what is this service called? Would I be looking for a contractor, handyman, floorer or something else? I am ask...
Socrates was fond of engaging in philosophical discourse where he would simply ask questions and not make any statements or assertions. This created a situation where all the conclusions come from ...
The public votes in November. The results are publicized shortly thereafter. Then the electoral college has the real vote in December. If you were elected against your will, you would probably fin...
Historically, philosophy is broadly scoped and does not exclude any particular domain of knowledge. Most branches of formal knowledge today started out as discussions between philosophers. I think ...
Since self-signed server certs are discouraged nowadays, often people create their own root CA and sign server certs with that. Obviously client apps won't trust the root CA, so the admin must the...
I've discovered that I can capture syndicate thugs in pal spheres. It appears that I can then summon them to fight for me or work in my base like other pals. The message when I capture says that "...
I've discovered that I can capture syndicate thugs in pal spheres. I can then have them fight for me or work in my base like regular pals. The thugs I caught (around level 10) seemed pretty useles...
What exactly are the steps to creating your own TLS certificates such that they create minimal error messages for users? For example, a simple self-signed certificate will trigger a lot of errors ...
When explaining a piece of knowledge, sometimes the explanation is short and simple and other times it is long and complex. Some people put the burden on the explainer, and demand that they make i...
TL;DR: Fine-tuning is not the same as transfer learning, but is often a part of transfer learning. The goal of transfer learning is to "transfer" information from one model to some other model. T...
I want to do woodworking in my garage, but when I've done this before it created a lot of sawdust and everything else in the garage got very dusty. This is really annoying when doing polyurethane c...
Many stores seem to sell "grounding wire". This is a solid copper wire, similar to normal THHN wires used to do house wiring, except without the plastic jacket. I'm confused why you would bother b...
Stripping more than a few inches of wire is a lot of work. If you need 6 inches of 14 AWG or 12 AWG grounding wire in a junction box, you can use bare wire, green insulated wire, or strip a piece o...
LLMs are trained on a lot of text. At its heart, an LLM is a glorified autocomplete engine. You give it text, and it adds more text that matches the pattern. You need to "direct" the autocomplete,...
In unsupervised learning, training data does not have labels. But, how can a model be trained without labels?
When people talk about fine tuning LLMs, it sounds a lot like glorified transfer learning. Is it the same thing, or is it a distinct technique? What are the differences?
You can use ASCII representations of hexagonal grid maps as shown on Rogue Basin.[1] If doing so feels less tedious than making a picture directly, you could take this map and write a script to bui...
Every question in the Incubator Q&A category should have 1 or more tags for a proposed community, so that it is clear which community or communities the question is intended for. Currently it ...
I agree - the obvious candidate for these mandatory "community" tags are those listed for each community below "Descriptions". The "community" tags should be optional on meta, since posts here mig...
Many natural language processing models begin by taking text and converting it to a vector where each element is a number representing some semantic entity (I would say each number is a word, but a...
