AnIrishDuck

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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Hey! This is a lot of fun, thank you for putting it out into the world! My wife is a public librarian that creates puzzles for a Summer Game that her library runs. She'd like to re-use this idea with book titles for their 2026 Games (t
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
I have lost both a daughter and a dog. I believe your intentions here are good, but I don't recommend trying to rank various types of grief. Past a certain threshold, all kinds are both the same and incomparable.
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
> In youth sports, something similar happens when referees fail to call fouls on rough play. This is actually not limited to youth sports, you can even see it happen with professional athletes. It's a very common human reaction when
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
> The video doesn't really explain how it extends to higher dimensions tho, that I could discern. The neat thing is that it "extends" automatically. The math is exactly the same. You literally just apply the same fundament
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Also the (provocatively titled) "Let's Remove Quaternions from every 3d Engine" [1] Spoiler alert: rotors are mechanically identical to quaternions, while being easier to understand. If you understand rotors, you understand q
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Where you drive and how long you stay there at night, correlated with your partner's connected car. It's not a camera in the bedroom but you can pretty easily extract relationship graphs from geolocation tracking and proximity. US
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Yes, technically. But the broader point is true. Go is a game with well-defined win and loss conditions that can be automatically evaluated. This is critical for game-clock-eons of unsupervised self-play, which by most accounts is how Alpha
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
I'm not? The history of AI development is littered with examples of false starts, hidden traps, and promising breakthroughs that eventually expose deeper and more difficult problems [1]. I wouldn't be shocked if it could eventua
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
Sure; but distributed mesh networks feel like another area where Sybil Attacks [1] can rear their ugly heads. This is a fundamentally hard problem to solve in all distributed systems without a coordinating authority. The blockchain approach
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by AnIrishDuck 2y ago
What prevents an adversary from flooding the network with interest packets?
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
Um, yes it will? You pay the court clerk [1]. You either pay in person, or possibly online depending on the jurisdiction. If you aren't paying in person, you'll need to contact them directly anyway, and their contact info should b
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> This isn't because of the organization size, and doesn't apply to copyright, which is handled by the DMCA. Ok, I'll rephrase: the clarity of its mechanisms and protections benefits small and large organizations alike. My
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> But then why do you need any new laws at all? We already have laws against false advertising and breach of contract. My preference would be for generative content to be disclosed as such. I am aware of no law that does this. Why did we
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> Such a law can't be written in a way that complies with First Amendment protections and the vagueness doctrine. I disagree. What is vague about "generative content must be disclosed"? What are the first amendment issues?
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> You should vote with your wallet and only patronize businesses that self disclose. You don't need to create regulation to achieve this. This is a fantasy. It seems very likely to me that, sans regulation, the market utopia you des
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> They typically don't actually dedicate the same resources because they don't have much money or operate at sufficient scale for anybody to care about so nobody bothers to sue them Yes, but there are also powerful provisions l
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> Who even initiates the proceeding? For copyright this is generally the owner of the copyrighted work alleged to be infringed. For AI-generated works that isn't any specific party, so it would presumably be the government. This is
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> You would be okay allowing small businesses exception from this regulation but not large businesses? That's not what I said. Small businesses are not exempt from copyright laws either. They typically don't need to dedicate th
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> How do you expect to regulate this and prove generative models were used? Disseminating or creating copies of content derived from generative models without attribution would open that actor up to some form of liability. There's n
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
Generative AI. Anything that can create detailed content out of a broad / short prompt. This currently means diffusion for images, large language models for text. That may change as multi-modality and other developments play out in thi
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
> Will potatoes grown on Mars have a "marsy" taste to them? Probably will depend on whether there is a difference you can taste from earthy to "marsy" potatoes. Some experimental trials [1] have indicated that growing
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
Using grep, it looks like they mostly use unsafe code to interface with existing C libraries. In those cases it's roughly as tricky as writing C in the first place IMO, so still probably a net win.
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by AnIrishDuck 3y ago
It transitively expands out to 47 unique packages? Still doesn't seem that crazy to me: $ cargo tree -e no-build --prefix none | sort | uniq | grep -v sudo | grep -v '\*' aho-corasick v0.7.20 atty v0.2.14 bitflags v
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by AnIrishDuck 4y ago
Or, in other words: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? [1] We've been having this debate for ... a while. AI is certainly a new twist though. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%...
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by AnIrishDuck 4y ago
We do not. This is always one of those things that blows minds when one side of the pond hears how things work on the other side.
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by AnIrishDuck 4y ago
The IPCC fact sheet on Africa [1] confirms the core point of the GP: Africa has been and will continue to be disproportionately affected by climate change. The African _continent_ would be best served by every possible acceleration of green
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by AnIrishDuck 4y ago
"It is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure" Silicon Valley somehow feels even more relevant years after it has wrapped.
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by AnIrishDuck 4y ago
> Separately, to express code which creates multiple non-const references into a single object (trivial in any other imperative or OOP language), So multiple mutable references to the same data? I'm personally happy that's hard
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by AnIrishDuck 4y ago
Madoff was also a big political donor [1]. Most politicians (credibly) claimed they were unaware of his shenanigans and returned his money. Probably exactly what's going to happen here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by AnIrishDuck 4y ago
This is even a thing at non-relativistic speeds. Proper operation of GPS requires a time correction [1] because the system's satellites are moving at significant speed from the perspective of ground observers. Their onboard clocks are

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