Eisenstein

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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
Are you invoking something like the Chinese Room where manipulating symbols can never be understanding? If so, that is a philosophical question and that thought experiment has its own conclusion baked into its premise. You will notice that
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
Newspapers, magazines and TV shows had editors to curate content, reputations to uphold, and were liable for things they published. Social media has none of those things.
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
Its number of parameters. The 'B' is billions. If you have bf16 weights each parameter would be 16 bits.
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
They started with offering training methods for quantized models to save memory and added new things over time. They are very active in the local model community and have extensive documentation and tooling to help with running and training
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
A token is hashed and used to seed a random number generator, which produces the red list for the token after it. Paper: * https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10226
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
The amount of money you pay is irrelevant if you don't leave the platform once they starting adding revenue streams that degrade your experience.
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
> SEO is the practice done by webmasters of optimizing a website to improve its visibility and ranking in search engine results. They do this because they benefit from their site being visited or the information they are providing being
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
> Rational people will pick the ideology which has the fewest contradictions. Irrational people will choose that which serves them best. Perhaps everyone is irrational? How we would know otherwise if we can make irrational things rationa
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
Try this: take a position you hold that you are sure is rational but that a number of people disagree with, and pretend it is wrong and look at it from the opposite perspective. Steelman it and honestly take that perspective as true and arg
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by Eisenstein 3mo ago
You bring up good questions, but you are making an assumption here: > The last thing I'll touch on is why did human society begin to rapidly change after we started following the scientific method. Looking at the method in hindsight
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Its based on the most common heuristic people have developed in regards to the phenomenon. What do you think about 'alphabet soup company' instead, referring to the tendency for names to be a mix of random letters? Otherwise, you
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
When you raise the pressure the boiling point of water increases which makes steam which is hotter than 100C. This is not 'superheated' because it is still at the boiling point (which is raised by pressure). This will condense on
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
1. That didn't answer my question 2. Do you have evidence that the we are operating under standard economics when massive personalized data collection is being used in conjunction with AI to individualize pricing per consumer instead o
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
What you are saying is that the amount of money people save getting discounts is made up by increases to the retail price for everyone else, and that this is equal to the extra money that individually priced people would pay or receive or d
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
The autoclave does not superheat steam.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
How much did you know about the person you were selling to? Did you know what websites they visited or what past purchases they made or what time they went to sleep every night?
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
> But if we want it to be steam, isn't that a bad thing? Not if we want the steam to be hotter. > Don't we want a nice big safety margin between our active steam temperature and the temperature it condenses? Water is in one
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Doxycycline is also a prescribed for acne, so there are a lot of teenagers getting 12 prescriptions every year.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
> If the steam condenses to water (for example due to raising its boiling point above the autoclave's temperature of ~125°C) that'd probably be bad If water boils at 100C then steam condenses at 99C. If water boils at 120C then
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Probably frowned on to bring in food stuff and make it in a bio lab.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure it is because when there is high pressure the boiling point of water is higher.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
> So the "political football" characterization is itself very political. According to your description it sounds completely accurate.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
You should look into emergence. An ant in a colony, an offer in a market, a drop of water in a weather system are all evidence that irreducibly complex things have simple mechanisms at their core.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Are we socialist because we don't charge people for investigating crimes they report?
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Sounds like something we should remedy.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
> Love to hear all the time how the "free market" is ruining healthcare. Of course everyone knows a "free market" is when you have profit caps, supply restrictions (residency cap), government-run marketplaces, byzanti
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Unless bots subscribe to the subreddit they wouldn't count as members.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Brave is on iOS and will block 'use the app' notifications'.
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
Here are stats from from a 100k member subreddit with 15k unique visitors a day. * https://imgur.com/UTJyyl8
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by Eisenstein 4mo ago
I shall assume that as much thoughtfulness goes into your stock trading as went into that response.

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