Marco Selvi

Research Scientist @ EIT

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@karpathy Some things are not meant to be measured or defined. The beauty of a sunrise over the sea. The first cry of a newborn child. The taste of water after a long run. The deep sense of wrongness when looking at an AI generated picture of a cat - realistic, but not quite real...

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@ThreeUK have been trying for a while to get in touch to cancel my Three Broadband contract, but with no luck. Is there any way I can get in touch through X? Otherwise I'll just have to cancel my direct debit and see how it goes...

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@allnick *whose.

Choose grammar.

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@fchollet Except no? All innovative ideas and inventions have been judged, historically, on the basis of the often unfounded fears they instilled and the potential they inspired, not on their immediate achievements.

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@fchollet Anselmo d'Aosta will never leave us alone.

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@iamdevloper The existence of JavaScript

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@fchollet True, generally speaking, but... depends on the individual

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@ThreeUKSupport for three and a half days now the signal in north N1 has been terrible - internet speeds in the order of 1Mb, even on 5G. Any news on when this will be resolved?

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

Non-democratic republics are now very rare. Non-republican democracies are a little more common in modern times. In any case, stop saying the US is a republic but not a democracy. It's both.

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

I've seen the democracy vs republic argument so many times I just want to set the record straight, even though I know no one will read this thread.

The US is a republic AND a democracy.

For contrast, the UK is a democracy but NOT a republic (it is a constitutional monarchy)...

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

In the US on the other hand the power resides solely in the hands of the elected representatives. Which makes it a republic, as well as a democracy.

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@plemy11 Mostly the fact that there's not enough land above water on the planet to fill that...

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@Rainmaker1973 Ah, the Bureau of Control is real!

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Don't have to go far, in the solar system alone we have diamond rains on Jupiter https://t.co/WeTX2zB7q0. Useful material, but really cheap and terrible fuel.

[Marco Selvi @macselvi]

@fchollet Someone didn't read any Iain Banks I take it?