CuriousSkeptic

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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
> aged care workers Just picking out this one out of curiosity, not arguing the broader point. In a world where people have more freedom on what to spend their energy and time on I would expect some things to return to the realm of unpai
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
UBI could be funded in other ways than taxes. Instead we could collect rent from all commons added to the economy as private assets.
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
> Why don't LLMs get frustrated with you if you ask them the same question repeatedly? To be fair, I have had a strong sense of Gemini in particular becoming a lot more frustrated with me than GPT or Claude. Yesterday I had it ensur
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
If you by moving the goalpost mean I'm not that interested in the actual size of an UBI, then yes that is probably fair. The point of my argument is exactly that an UBI does not need to be conceptualized from the perspective of needs b
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
> income redistribution schemes such as UBI It’s a common framing, but UBI does not have to be that. Another may be that of a just compensation for giving up access to land. > Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for t
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
One approach is to balance the tax with a mileage deduction. No increased cost for existing owners, but still an incentive to replace the car for a lower emission one
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
> A Youtube video explaining the Fourier series? We know this one! Apparently subscription services to learn STEM. (Coincidentally I actually were shopping for such a service the other day, and checked out the one promoted most. Turns ou
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by CuriousSkeptic 1y ago
Not sure how dependent on wasm as such this is, but sub-millisecond cold-starts[1] seems like a pretty compelling argument [1] https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/03/26/hyperlight-...
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> my ears hurt a bit after a few hours of white noise Seems like something that could lead to permanent hearing damage
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Apple will not beat Microsoft in any capacity here Microsoft has all the context in the world just waiting for exploitation: Microsoft Graph data, Teams transcripts and recordings, Office data, Exchange data, Recall data(?), while not conte
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
On that note, Lawrence Lessigs talks on copyright from that period are worth a watch https://youtu.be/9xbRE_H5hoU
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
I have basically the same setup. I like it, and agree its probably one of the best setups, but to be fair its still a user hostile battle field. Apple has their dark pattern approach to promote the Apple TV+ service. Netflix refuses to part
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
ILogger is not in the BCL. Its part of the Microsoft.Extensions family of libraries.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
It’s not that the frames blend in the screen. Screens are perfectly capable of switching the pixels fast enough. It’s rather that each frame is displayed for to long. In a CRT the “pixels” start to fade immediately leaving the full screen m
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
No doubt JMAP is superior for the problem it solves. I wonder if it will matter in the end though. I have the impression MS is positioning it self to be the only viable AI platform where mail and calendars are just a tiny part of that. So w
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Besides, MS already have their own solution that goes way beyond just mail: Microsoft Graph
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> convince my corporate overloads to allow us to have separate Discovery and Delivery goals Since I’m in the middle of trying to do something similar, would love to hear more details. What kind of goals, whats the conflict?
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
On the slide of body/brain weight relation he highlighted the humanids difference in scaling What he didn't mention, that I found interesting, was that the same slide also highlighted a hard ceiling for non-humanids at the same po
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> History teaches us that end to end learned system beats human designed mechanisms I think this may need some qualifiers Even byte representations are human designed encodings. I would think a human designed decoder of such encodings mu
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Sentence thing being this one? https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/large-concept-mode... I don’t get it, isn’t this concept modelling exactly whats going on in the deeper layers of current LLMs?
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Glad to hear, blocked install for me, so a bit more than pedantic :)
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Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers [pdf](en.vedur.is)
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> It’s not defining what constitutes ultra processed — it’s that no one really knows if it’s bad for you. If I remember correctly, the book on the subject[1] makes a compelling case for the source of that classification, Monteireo[2], to
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> I reread them, regularly, and go through all ten books, That’s the best part! Coming back to the simple life on Faldors farm again.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
I have an hypothesis that exercise is beneficial up to exactly the point where you start getting “fitter” That is, there is an optimal point at which your metabolism is exactly exhausted daily, without needing to increase, but neither needi
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
The law doesn’t really care if its possible. It just states that it is your responsibility when you fail.
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
Just be warned. You're going to spend a couple of weeks after having read it being very frustrated with people influencing your world who apparently didn’t read it…
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
> There probably ought to be laws regarding how AIs can be used or not used. There probably ought to be required disclosure when AI is used to create a work of art. There are such laws: https://ec.europa.eu/commission&#x
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
GDPR is pretty clear on anonymisation requirements https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2021-04/21-04-27_aep... So somewhat possible?
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by CuriousSkeptic 2y ago
I would buy premium in a heartbeat if it actually filtered out all ads and sponsored content. Not just the segment, the entire video should be cut if its creation was influenced by “impressions” or what ever filler content is measured in. T

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