Frost1x

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by Frost1x 3y ago
I think it's worth keeping in mind tweaking different parameters often yields varied levels of improvements. Going from near freezing to hot water yields very different results that you can definitely discern for example. Coarseness of
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by Frost1x 3y ago
But, how will we protect the children's need for privacy if just anyone can read their communication?! Think of the children! The children argument has no bounds.
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>In the early 1980s, NASA's Landsat program was facing a severe data tape shortage and it is likely the tapes were erased and reused at this time. Wow, just wow. That's mind boggling. I actually had no idea. While I get that hi
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>I'm unsure where this expectation of 100% absolute correctness comes from. I'm sure there are use cases, but I assume it's the vast minority and most can tolerate larger than expected inaccuracies. As others hinted at, th
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>You really have to look at production systems and ignore "demos" and pointless proofs of concept. While I agree, I wouldn't call proofs or concepts and demos pointless. They often illustrate a goal or target functionality
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>On a more serious note, this list highlights how development without standards leads to control information being encoded in various tolerable side-channels. I don't think it's a lack of standards, it's more of a lack of
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by Frost1x 3y ago
As a country, we (the US) keep pointing at other political systems and governmental systems as examples of terrible practices while those with power in our country seem to be seeking the exact same sort of outcomes, doing everything they c
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by Frost1x 3y ago
In businesses I've observed this behavior tends to surround dysfunctions in liability and understanding of liability organizationally and from business management. If you make a purchasing decision, your ass is on the line when people
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>However that is not what the general market wants. Not sure that's the case. You're seeing enshitification here. We keep pretending demand has a lot to blame but when you see voters opinions like this, it seems a lot more like
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>Like people, maybe it’s just an underwhelming update… no need to pretend it’s not. "Buy the new M3, a small incremental improvement on the M1/M2" would probably get a lot of people fired as a marketing campaign. While I
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by Frost1x 3y ago
The thing about business models is they are in never-ending flux, always shifting, optimizing, and re-optomizing seeking the most profitable model(s). If you have some business model either coincidentally or intentionally in alignment of co
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by Frost1x 3y ago
We've abstracted so much in life as a transactional situation through which our system of exchange, money, holds power to do so much. It shouldn't be surprising that the some of most useful resources to accomplish tasks in life or
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by Frost1x 3y ago
As someone who has worked at such research labs I disagree. Innovation is encouraged, sure, but the research funding model, agencies, and most research labs create environments that push work on small iterative efforts and system gaming. We
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>One of the things I've noticed with a number of recent strikes (not all, but a bunch) is how many are not over pay but primarily over working conditions. E.g. there was a big strike by nurses in Austin whose primary concern was woe
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>I can't understand the mindset of any AI researchers who stay at Google at this point. >You're there (presumably) because you want to make an impact. I can't speak to AI researchers specifically but I can speak to rese
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>This is all marketing/commoditization at work, of course, and I'm not negative long-term. I think it's more that the principles of competition in capitalism ultimately tend to lead to converging on one or a very few solut
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by Frost1x 3y ago
I'd say it ultimately depends on the information you're encrypting. Information and secrecy around it often has some sort of temporal/time relationship tied to the information and surrounding context. If it's something y
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by Frost1x 3y ago
The trick to this stunt is to, as usual, hide behind complexity. While this sort of stunt may be telling in some cases where a single or handful of exposures lead to health problems, there's an increasing amount of investment in things
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Where do I sign up?
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by Frost1x 3y ago
As an armchair observer, China and businesses within it seem to have the general upper hand when it comes to production of most of anything. One popular tag line is that they lack true innovative IP type work but I'd say that's hi
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by Frost1x 3y ago
My biggest gripe is continuously changing interfaces. You've sold me. I'm a customer, I'm using your thing. Why do you want to make it difficult for me to memorize my use of your thing? Moving menus and buttons around all the
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Frankly I don't even like putting my pet photos online in close connection with myself. All it takes is one psychopath and one slip or link of information to try and use something as simple as a pet against you. Pretty low risk but peo
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by Frost1x 3y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, just pointing out how reality diverges from how science is often taught to be practiced as this innocent discovery process. The structure behind research and funding in research, which leads towards all so
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>From my understanding, you can't draw any real conclusions from the data unless you predicted that it would look that way beforehand. Oh my sweet summer child, a lot of lab work and data collection is expensive and in the game of r
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by Frost1x 3y ago
I mean curves apply artificial scaling to data of course how one decides to apply them. In some contexts it means that there's always someone failing because in the pool of data you're fitting to, they performed the worst (relativ
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by Frost1x 3y ago
It's often used as an argument to prop up service models though: use our service because it's more secure than not. In theory it makes sense. In practice, security through obscurity I think doesn't get enough justice.
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by Frost1x 3y ago
Well the other risk you have trusting all your personal data to some organization is the longevity of said organization. Your data may be protected as long as their business model aligns with that but it's never guaranteed to stay that
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by Frost1x 3y ago
>... or was the enshittification of search inevitable? My bet is on the latter. Enshitification is a direct product of greed. No crafts person or creator I know of goes into something they enjoy creating with the intent to make it this m
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by Frost1x 3y ago
This is true although a significant portion of increased quality of life can be purchased using wealth. Just like "money can't buy happiness" which is true, it can certainly drastically increase the opportunity of happiness.
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by Frost1x 3y ago
There aren't a lot of people being paid to do this type of work though and social science tends to lag behind on the technology front because people with said skills tend to find more lucrative venues. I've worked with a few compu

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