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by Herring 3y ago
These kinds of articles are not helpful. "Why isn't A talking to B? Isn't that so sad?". People are busy (on both sides). If Mathematicians want to want to get Biologists' attention, they should do something like De
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by Herring 3y ago
No desire today != no desire tomorrow. A lower participation rate might indicate untapped potential or barriers to employment, such as lack of childcare or training opportunities.
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by Herring 3y ago
>They drew histograms, which are hard to compare. Note that in some places they used boxplots, which offer clearer comparisons. It would have been more effective to present all the data using boxplots.
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by Herring 3y ago
Yeah that sentiment in the article reflects a common mistake in America regarding capitalism. Many countries, from Western Europe to Japan and New Zealand, already outperform the U.S. in key metrics like average lifespans, social mobility,
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by Herring 3y ago
Looks fine to me, man. I asked chatGPT to summarize this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation ) in the context of your question Mozilla Corporation's Experience *Challenges and Adaptation:* Mozilla Co
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by Herring 3y ago
Imagine you sold your soul and you see someone else succeeding (wildly) without also selling theirs. Like crabs in a bucket, some people get mad and don't want to face the possibility they've been lying to themselves.
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by Herring 3y ago
It's possible to adapt ResNets for unsupervised learning. A popular approach is to use self-supervised learning techniques, where the model is initially trained to predict some aspect of the data (e.g., predicting a missing part of an
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by Herring 3y ago
>Person on the internet likes something. Time to shit on it! Another safe bet on the internet: unnecessarily caustic comments.
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by Herring 3y ago
It looks like a longformer architecture, but with dedicated "attention sink" tokens at the beginning that provide storage space. Is that right?
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by Herring 3y ago
> In one hour, the chatbots suggested four potential pandemic pathogens, explained how they can be generated from synthetic DNA using reverse genetics, supplied the names of DNA synthesis companies unlikely to screen orders, identified d
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by Herring 3y ago
That's not how it works. There can be a lot of good people, but all you need is one in-your-face racist encounter to ruin your decade. It's like how even a rumor of a shark will keep you firmly on the beach.
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by Herring 3y ago
I think he means something like this discussion I had with it earlier today about assembling squat racks. I literally knew zero about the topic https://chat.openai.com/share/a74bb56b-fc5b-40ec-90a9-f46cc7... A few week
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by Herring 3y ago
Excellent article. I always loved 1-1 tutoring, but in grad school I discovered I hated teaching. I read the wiki page and some of the paper, then got to thinking about it more. It feels like the difference between watching TV and playing a
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by Herring 3y ago
I just asked it right now. It wrote me a 500-word essay with multiple important bullet points, each of which is probably a 300-500 word essay on its own. This is simply not a twitter-length topic. If you're really interested go educate
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by Herring 3y ago
On the off chance that this is a genuine question, try asking GPT4.
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by Herring 3y ago
I'd say the issue is "factionalism" as the US founding fathers identified it. Some group (elites, landlords, corporations, white people, etc) is looking out only for themselves at the expense of society in general. East Asian
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by Herring 3y ago
I wouldn't be so sure that it's a bad idea. Look how social media has damaged democracy around the world. US democracy is stuck in a bit of a death spiral - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021&
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by Herring 3y ago
"Surprisingly, their scaling law analysis still focuses on training FLOPs instead of training + inference FLOPs." It's kind of weird. In the conclusion, they say > With PaLM 2, we have independently verified the scaling
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by Herring 4y ago
It is important to recognize the distinction between money and wealth, which is often overlooked in American culture. The consistent high rankings of European countries on the lists of "happiest places to live" can be attributed,
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by Herring 11y ago
If you can't help then you can't help. It's not your problem. If you want to make it your problem then take a long hard look at all the things you want to accomplish & see if you can fit this one in. Possibly spend 10 y
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by Herring 12y ago
I think it has something to do with shame vs guilt cultures.
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by Herring 13y ago
readability? It's the usual workaround but I haven't tried it on android.
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by Herring 13y ago
> Usability. One time pads have been around forever, are provably secure, but a pain in the ass. With cell phones so widespread, I wondered why someone doesn't write a one time pad app. People could share gigabyte-sized pads via tr
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by Herring 13y ago
Do you have friends who lost friends in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars? What do you tell them? The wars made us less safe. What do you tell your kids who have to pay for them? Look, I'm not saying don't act. Sometimes military acti
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by Herring 13y ago
There will always be threats. That is not the problem. The problem is the Us vs Them attitude that causes overreaction to a relatively small number of deaths while larger dangers go unnoticed. You endure road accidents and gun deaths every
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by Herring 13y ago
Yeah, and before that was communists. I wonder what's next.
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by Herring 13y ago
Too few people do that. They can afford to tag you for other kinds of surveillance. If the State wants your head, there's not much you can do even if you're innocent.
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by Herring 14y ago
Ah, I see your point. You're right. If it's studying philosophy to convince other people then I'm in.
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by Herring 14y ago
I don't know if it's sad really. I guess it depends what your priorities are. There's fighting off philosophical arguments, and there's getting things done. Too much emphasis on either one reduces your ability to do the other.
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by Herring 14y ago
I think if you're running experiments you're called a scientist. Talking about has limited utility.

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