CobrastanJorji

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by CobrastanJorji 5d ago
Nobody's immigration fears are data-driven, nor have they ever been.
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by CobrastanJorji 6d ago
What is a possible use case for a legal reasoning tool that is wrong 46% of the time?
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by CobrastanJorji 8d ago
> Astra for Law passed the evaluation’s overall correctness check on 54.0% of questions. How is this a product that you are selling?
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by CobrastanJorji 11d ago
> I don’t like the idea that anything I say in a public setting...could end up in a transcript summary on someone’s personal device. My friend, if there's a reporter standing behind you, it could end up on the nightly news. And it&#
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by CobrastanJorji 11d ago
I love it.
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by CobrastanJorji 11d ago
No, but take other applications with a grain of salt. Everybody gets excited about the idea of having a dozen large virtual monitors floating around your desk, but even really great resolution has just not been good enough to make those dis
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by CobrastanJorji 13d ago
The NYT watches an event like Trump making a crowd of supporters swear to "cheat like hell" and to vote even if they're not registered, and they turn it into headlines like "Trump leads supporters in a pledge to vote.&qu
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by CobrastanJorji 14d ago
Plausible. Figure 100 GB each of search index for Stack Overflow, Wikipedia, and GitHub issues, then add a dozen more for docs of all your favorite techs. So maybe half a terabyte. Download and build updated dumps of those once every week o
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by CobrastanJorji 16d ago
What's wrong with my interpretation?
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by CobrastanJorji 16d ago
That's just it, though. The people who buy electric cars because they want to help the environment are wrong. They're only doing a good thing because they're self righteous pricks who are full of themselves. They're just
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by CobrastanJorji 17d ago
See the word "rare" in the headline? They didn't go after Gore because he was wrong. They went after him because he committed the cardinal sin of really, earnestly taking a stand on a big issue. That is NEVER okay in South Pa
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by CobrastanJorji 18d ago
As soon as I thought "man, this sounds like some evil sociopath shit," my second thought was "oh, Sam Altman must have been personally involved."
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by CobrastanJorji 24d ago
Appendix C is blasphemy against cuberule.
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by CobrastanJorji 25d ago
Thanks, I was trying to work it out in my head. I knew brazilian jiu jitsu was 20th century, and I was like "but wait, is jiu jitsu itself not that much older, that seems very surprising."
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by CobrastanJorji 25d ago
Tangentially related, but has anyone else noticed a big increase in fraud attempts over the last year or two? I hardly remember any a while back, but I've gotten probably a dozen calls this year that go "hey this is AmEx please co
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by CobrastanJorji 25d ago
Merlin's story is very interesting: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/the-magic-of-merlin/ The journey to a magical, free bird sound ID app involves some obvious steps (the NSF gave them money), but the amou
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
This would maybe be a pretty good opportunity to use some of that "upscaling" AI tech: given this weird results of spatial scanning, produce something plausible and much higher definition. There are some dangers of doing so, of co
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
Maybe it would, but I didn't say it was a good idea: I said I think people would vote for it.
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
> Why don’t the poor people vote to take all the money away from the rich people and redistribute it amongst themselves? It's because the Powers That Be don't put it on the ballot. If you put "take 99% of the money from th
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Georgia Tech in the Mark Guzdial days?
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
La Fermiere makes these fancy little yogurts that are fine, I guess, but they come in these amazing little terra cotta cups that are amazing for all sorts of little organizing tasks. Each flavor's a different brightly colored glaze. I
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
A premium brand that got significantly worse but didn't drop the price? Seems obvious that this is going to be a story about private equity or a similar acquisition, and indeed it is. https://www.worseonpurpose.com/ ha
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
There are lots and lots of fun shared sci fi and fantasy universes out there, some of which were carefully designed to be a shared universe from the start. George R. R. Martin's "Wild Cards" comes to mind. Plus of course all
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
I can't agree until I have some reason to believe that the non-human leadership will be moral in a way that I can accept. Giving up control forever to some unfathomable, alien intelligence is basically the last meaningful choice our sp
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
I love when people do an amazing job carefully explaining something complicated in a way that makes it seem very intuitive. Excellent job. Way to show off those technical communication chops!
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
We'll know that we've reached AGI when a key conservative political belief in the US is that AIs are not people and do not deserve rights. We'll know that we've reached the singularity when there's a mysterious and
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Yoot Saito, actually, although it does really feel like a Sid Meier or a Will Wright game.
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
This is great, but to me, the definitive elevator scheduling game was SimTower.
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
For small projects, especially small 2D projects? No. For big projects being done by pro teams that are willing to do a lot of work to customize their render pipelines and whatnot to really push resources to the limit? Yes. I am absolutely
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Why would I want to be the hero at the START of the movie? That's when I'm just doing my daily shit and I'm showing off all of my character flaws. That's the worst possible moment of the movie to be aping the hero.

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