Al-Khwarizmi

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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
The moral weight of democracy is heavily overrated. Of course democracy is better than autocracy, all other things being equal. But I don't think a democracy that starts wars and bombs a new country every other year is morally superior
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
We were told otherwise, but it might have been propaganda as well. There was a lot of blatant indoctrination to push that reform.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
Spanish STEM graduates innovate just fine. They just do it abroad, where they get paid decent salaries if their work for others, or decent investment opportunities if they choose to be entrepreneurs :) Spain has lots of issues but I don&#x2
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
Yes, it does have some advantages. Apart from what you mention, another one is that it's not so consequential to e.g. sleep badly the night before an important exam. It's just that I find the disadvantages to be much greater than
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
To me, exams are just like democracy. The worst form of evaluation, except for all others that have been tried.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
If poor students have capable models but rich students have much better models that go the extra mile for a great mark and do everything in a single prompt, it would still be unfair. For it to be fair, you would not only need good free mode
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
Rather than banning the use of AI and trying to catch students who are cheating, why aren't they creating schoolwork that requires AI? It's an interesting debate, but I see several reasons not to. 1. As a human you need to learn
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
In Spain, the whole university system was like that until like 15ish years ago. Exams were king, in most courses they were worth 80%-90%, and of course always in person. Then we did a university reform, partly with the excuse of aligning wi
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
"Especially if you are already well-established. Publish less, but publish better research. Put time and effort into transparency. Share everything you can share, as openly as you can share it. Use your privileged position to do resea
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
Sure, but then the issue would be in the kind of content, not the medium. There are plenty of non-violent video games, and plenty of violent hobbies that aren't video games. I don't see any consistent argument to single out video
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
So according to you, playing a shooter game makes one a man-kid but watching an action movie doesn't? And if so, why?
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
Spanish also has that property, i.e. given a word (existing or invented), there is a single way to pronounce it, easy to determine following some rules.* Finnish (from what I've heard, as I don't speak it) is even more regular in
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
I teach CS at a university in Spain. Most people here are in denial. It is obvious to me that we need to go back to grading based on in-person exams, but in our last university reform (which tried to copy the US/UK in many aspects) the
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
I like it as well, it works great. But I wonder if it would scale if at some point there were a massive exodus from arXiv.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
Well, maybe they found themselves in the last hours of the deadline without the reviews done... in some cases due to procrastination, but in a few cases perhaps because life is hard and they just couldn't do it. So they used the LLM as
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
My impression is that Gemini does it in a quite natural way. It answers your questions, and then suggests possible related questions that you might ask, which I find useful. But ChatGPT feels extremely baity. Like it doesn't answer you
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
That's nonsense. No matter how corrupt the CCP is, it cannot have a stake in all court cases in China. Maybe politically sensitive trials are a farce (arguably that's the case in much of the West too, but that's a different s
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
> As an aside, I don't think there is any backing out of this war. If somebody launched a missile at your country and killed hundreds of schoolgirls, and destroyed ships on diplomatic missions while leaving the survivors to drown,
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
But will they still support him if gas prices and general inflation spike hard, as is nearly a given if Trump doesn't back out from the war? My impression is that most of his voters are selfish and couldn't care less for other peo
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by Al-Khwarizmi 7mo ago
It's not even duplicitous because that implies some sort of benevolent facade. It's outright evil.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 8mo ago
I'm not defending their regime or implying that they have more freedom than in the US, but from the purely practical perspective of a traveler, the fact is that it's much easier and less disruptive to avoid showing anyone the midd
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by Al-Khwarizmi 8mo ago
I'm not a big fan of Dubai, but it used to be a really safe travel destination, at least for male travelers. A month or two ago there was no reason to assume it would be otherwise. BTW, the irony is that they decided not to go to the U
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by Al-Khwarizmi 8mo ago
I know that, but what I don't get is with a society like that, how can a theocratic government last for so long? Maybe I'm being naive, but authoritarian governments tend to fall when an educated population is against them. Iran l
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by Al-Khwarizmi 8mo ago
I've always been struck by how outrageously exploitative and anti-consumer the textile industry is in so many ways, and how people just normalize it and don't even discuss it. Not just in sizing, which is also a problem — my polo
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by Al-Khwarizmi 9mo ago
Well, the point is that if we reach a point in which a robot can do it better and cheaper, it's no longer useful work.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 9mo ago
One of my favorite Monty Python sketches, the fish license: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lXyup0De7Q
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by Al-Khwarizmi 9mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I suppose emulating Android apps on a non-Android system will have the same problem as trying to run them in an Android without Google Services or in a rooted phone, i.e., banking (and similar) apps detecti
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by Al-Khwarizmi 9mo ago
Yes, but China has always been straightforward in that they believe in protectionism. It's part of their system. In contrast, in the West (at least until a few years ago), we have been fed the discourse that free market without protect
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by Al-Khwarizmi 9mo ago
I haven't gamed much in the last few years due to severe lack of time so I'm out of touch, but I used to play a lot of CRPGs and I always dreamed of having NPCs who could talk and react beyond predefined scripted lines. This seems
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by Al-Khwarizmi 9mo ago
And it's highly circumstancial, as LLM efficiency keeps improving as the tech matures.

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