DennisP

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by DennisP 8mo ago
This is an outdated view. People get the idea that just because LLMs are initially trained to predict word sequences, that's all they can do. This is not the case. Transformers are general-purpose learning mechanisms. Word sequences ar
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by DennisP 9mo ago
If the only point is distributing money, then the pointless bullshit job is an unnecessary complication.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
Care to be more specific?
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by DennisP 9mo ago
On Macbooks, no. But there are a few lunatics like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFgTxr5yst0
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by DennisP 9mo ago
My response is already contained in my comment above, in the sentences after the first.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
That's still a smaller ratio than the ~4X gain in irradiance over LEO. But if you're doing it at scale you could use orbital tugs with ion drives or something, and use much less fuel per transfer. It's probably not competitiv
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by DennisP 9mo ago
And in geostationary, the planet hardly ever gets in the way. They get full sun 99.5% of the year.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
I'm not against regulation in principle. In this case, full disclosure of exactly what's in the drug should definitely be required. People's doctors can make informed decisions after that. Restricting this to patients who are
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by DennisP 9mo ago
Well one major change to his politics was his view on climate change. He also supported Obama in both elections, and had the self-control to keep pretty quiet about issues unrelated to his business. I found the article I was talking about:
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by DennisP 9mo ago
I saw a pretty convincing argument that Musk fried his brain with ketamine, written by a former ketamine abuser who saw a lot of familiar behavior. I don't think Musk is the same guy now that he was in the early days.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
Then it'd be interesting to see a similar study, with some olive oil mixed into the oats.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
I think that depends on the individual, or maybe on the dose. Years ago I read a bunch of books arguing for saturated fat, started eating a lot of it, and my cholesterol and triglycerides got horrifically bad. Even those books, which claime
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by DennisP 9mo ago
Clinical studies today are funded entirely by the pharma companies, keep that. Selling at cost of production would be something extra, for patients who want the drugs but aren't enrolled in an actual study. The company doesn't get
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by DennisP 9mo ago
So don't let people sell the drugs at a profit, at early stages.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
A drug that works even without help from the immune system seems like it might be even better. It's hard to imagine how the immune system might interfere, since it doesn't interfere with other drugs.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
Yes. Most people buy OS X and Windows preinstalled, too.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
I agreed on the supercharger network, which made it pretty surprising when Musk fired the entire supercharger team.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
That ship has long since sailed. My college-age niece just bought her first car, which is a 2012 V6 Mustang with 305hp, naturally aspirated. I'm sure it's lighter, but that just makes it faster.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
So are Tesla's customers but that doesn't mean car sales are subsidies.
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by DennisP 9mo ago
> Most people can't operate drones, period. Technically true I guess, but learning to fly a recent DJI drone takes about ten minutes. You're not so much flying it, as telling it what you want and letting it fly itself. And the
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by DennisP 9mo ago
I'm not convinced that's the case. A few years ago I had a laptop with pre-installed Ubuntu and it worked without any fiddling. You certainly can turn Linux into a hobby and try all sorts of variations, which isn't really a
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by DennisP 9mo ago
I assumed it's because IKEA is famous for flat packing its furniture.
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by DennisP 10mo ago
Generally, you want specialized robots only for tasks that can keep the robots busy most of the time. If you have a variety of low-volume tasks, you can't fill your factory with specialized robots for all of them. You need more general
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by DennisP 10mo ago
The same people, the ones prone to tinkering with their cars, might give you a one star rating for putting the car together with proprietary screws.
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by DennisP 10mo ago
And a track day can cost just a few hundred bucks. It's not like you have to rent a whole track just for yourself.
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by DennisP 10mo ago
Yep. I started looking into sports cars recently, and the general consensus among enthusiasts seems to be that for public roads, if you're not going to drive at reckless speeds then you'll have more fun driving a slow car fast tha
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by DennisP 10mo ago
Why would that be your problem? Make it a warranty violation, and they can either get it fixed themselves, or pay you money you wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
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by DennisP 10mo ago
That seems unlikely since they can use the same factories and the raw material cost is significantly lower.
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by DennisP 10mo ago
Oh weird, I'd just searched for it. I tried again with the US site and it came right up. Maybe their search isn't as good with typos or something.
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by DennisP 10mo ago
It's not just that. E.g. Cooper and Hutchinson's edition of Plato's complete works, available on Kindle for $31.[1] Or on another tack, Yudkowski's recent If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies .[2] Neither book is on Unlim

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