Dr_Birdbrain

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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   I have heard of people who say creatine helps them sleep. Creatine is technically not a stimulant, but in most people it causes a state of mental activation that would make it hard to sleep. I suspect you and the people who sleep better on
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   I would be curious to hear what “better learning methods” the author used. He calls them out but doesn’t describe them.
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   Angry upvote
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   I have to disagree :) It’s true that Marionberry is one of the most delicious as well as aggressively thorny, but there are many excellent thornless cultivars pioneered by the University of Arkansas, including Triple Crown and Prime Ark, as
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   I think the main thing that is exciting about this is that it can hopefully be extended to other cancers. Currently, detecting lung cancer involves imaging with radiation that can itself trigger cancer, but imagine a world in which you can
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   I agree with your last point—the Solar Council should have provided conditional aid. The most basic assistance could have removed the justification for cannibalism.
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   Interesting. In what way is the structure more rigid than university?
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   I think it means it’s an endowed chair, where the endowment is provided by Panasonic. It’s common for corporations or wealthy individuals to donate large amounts of money to fund prestigious academics.
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   by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

   I’m annoyed they don’t include pictures of the iron fillings.
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    I wonder if the cleanliness will be maintained over time? Presumably this requires humans to physically clean periodically, and it seems like this would suffer when the company starts to squeeze costs to improve margins.
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Problem is, people vote for them :(
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    How could a code completion tool be made safe? One natural response seems to be “it should write bug-free code”. This is the domain of formal verification, and it is known to be undecidable in general. So in this formulation safe AI is math
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    But Anthropic produces very capable models?
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    No, lol—Ilya liked ditching the “open” part, he was an early advocate for closed-source. He left OpenAI because he was concerned about safety, felt Sam was moving too fast.
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    You might be underestimating vim ;) Key point is that vim macros are interactive. You don’t just write a script that runs autonomously, you say “ok, for the next transformation do this macro. Oh wait, except for that, in the next 500 lines
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Employees definitely tolerate this. As said above, this already happens in industry, and also for many years Amazon used to cap salaries at some hilariously low number—I think like 180k. That may not seem low until you try to buy a house in
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Oh, they don’t need an internet connection! Just a terminal, vim, and gcc. GCC because C is small, you can just give them paper docs.
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    What are glass bead games?
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Love this! Like when we accidentally discovered the axolotl can turn into a salamander if you stress it enough.
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    I am confused why this appears on NIH.gov
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Wow those are big
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Can you help me understand what is the point of this project? :)
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Great resources for further reading, thanks. Win3.12 sounds like… a windows version? Lol
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    I don’t understand. What is needed? I tried Google.com as well, i don’t understand what I need to do
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    I’m still confused, why can’t they return to the real Darling 58? Are they saying even the real 58 is not that good, and if they are going to rewind that far back they might as well start from scratch?
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    I would say 100%, simply because there is no other reasonable source of video data
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    I seem to remember that due to political infighting and ass-covering, they never really tried it. There were competing proposals that they hybridized in broken ways, and nobody in power wanted to commit to have their name on something that
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    I seem to remember that a big concern in feudalism was whether your underling lords would actually show up when you needed them. This kind of “bring me 12 pasties” thing is as you say most likely a token that he will show up in court and br
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    Are the Elon Gates made of sugar, I. E. Zucker? Elon Zucker Gates to reach the stars?
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    by Dr_Birdbrain 2y ago

    This is extremely interesting to read. I did learn my multiplication tables correctly, but I was always horrible at mental arithmetic—my elementary school periodically had formal exams for mental arithmetic, and I consistently failed them.