ImaCake

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by ImaCake 3y ago
I am on Aus.social as that is a relevant country for me. It’s a left leaning instance but generally relaxed aside from the usual anti nazi moderation.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I guess it is very marginal rhetoric. People like De Santis are not actively saying it, although their actions indicate a great deal of opposition. For what it’s worth, I dont think its fair or right that you were blocked for your example.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
It has enough traction that it’s a vibrant set of communities. I use it to share bird photos, talk about adhd/autism, and follow some climate science. Its smaller than twitter, but its big enough to work now.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Those people aren't common on the default subreddits, which might make it feel like there is not much community. But in the places that count, the more niche communities that actually have real community , those people are still aroun
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I think your hypothesis is underrated. For sure part of the argument is to get around ad-blockers but people underestimate both the level of dysfunction and just how awful some people in powerful positions are.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Yeah, mental health is so stigmatised that there is little room for the grey, like in your example. A few radicals end up controlling the discussion and most of us, who are too busy with life, are left confused and locked out by the hysteri
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This stuff happens on the mental health subreddits too. Its bad enough to always second guess your own diagnosis but its worse when a mod decides you are excluded from one of the few places that will tentatively accept you.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
If it's measuring VOCs and you live in a city then chances are it would be measuring car exhaust!
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by ImaCake 3y ago
No, actually a good thing to point out. Extrapolation is just interpolation into the unknown and thus is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. It's a robust framework for argument from incredulity.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
People who are really good at one thing are not necessarily good at all the things. Sure, they are likely better than average at a lot of things. But Stephen Hawking being brilliant at physics and sci-coms does not mean he is good at AI fut
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by ImaCake 3y ago
They do look weird to a lot of us. In excel, its trivial to fit a smoothed bendy line between points on a scatter plot. Because of the underlying math (taylor series) when you reach the end of your data points the line flings off into pos
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I am not sure... with caveats about timeseries ofc, plotting the yearly mean with a linear fit shows a curve where values in 1960 and 2010s are above the line and the between years are below. This would fit with a non constant slope that is
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Hard to argue with robust monitoring of CO2 concentrations which are now increasing linearly rather than exponentially (i.e emissions are constant instead of increasing).
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Yes, to put it simply, the rate of emissions stopped increasing but we are still emitting what we were in 2010 (plus a bit) so the keeling curve goes straight instead of continuing to subtly bend upwards.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I find birds both easier to find and identify than marsupials though! But I do appreciate that I am technically wrong here, next time I make this argument I can be more correct as to why birds are useful, thanks! :)
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This is only true for a subset of birds. Many birds either avoid or are unable to fly through dense urban areas. Maybe this is more a thing in Australia where most of our birds are not migratory.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
How about a country incapable of stopping the consequences of unregulated industry? That fits with global warming.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Birds are a great way to measure changes in ecosystems. They are, relatively, easy to spot and there are few enough species that it’s possible for a lot of nerds to know all of the local ones well enough to do routine informal surveys. Peop
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by ImaCake 3y ago
It's a hard one because cardboard containers and wooden utensils are objectively better. But clearly also serve the interests of reducing political will for legislation against plastics.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
It sorta feels like LLMs or some kind of NN should be useful (with training) for parsing malformed jsons. I suspect its a hard problem but honestly it would be such a massive help for those of us dealing with data at work!
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I get this is in jest, but I think the actual solution is to use image classification with a framework of normal code to glue it together. GPT-4 could help you code it…
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by ImaCake 4y ago
The playbook against NFTs is that they did nothing useful. That seems to still be the case. ChatGPT is useful, some of us are just not sure how useful it is yet.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Yes, chatGPT hallucinates facts and is not great at causal inference chains. The interactivity is the real boon as what I can do is query the chat bot, and then explore the results either with traditional research or with more queries and e
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Something like that. Since interacting with the model is the best way to learn how to use it, a good course could just put that experience on rails to direct the student's learning towards optimal ways to use the chat bot.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Two thoughts on this: 1. someone could make a shitload of money building a tool for learning how to prompt engineer LLMs in a formal course setting. Would be better than most of the GPT grifts currently circulating. 2. the ETHZ writer, whil
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by ImaCake 4y ago
There is a big difference between extending the chatbot explanation from "compressed word guesser" to "recursive compressed word guesser" and the argument being made here that it "understands" context. The form
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by ImaCake 4y ago
Libgen is not particularly difficult to navigate, although its bare bones which makes it look intimidating. The real problem is some hosts are clearly trying to get me to download viruses.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
To be fair, it has worked well for them for at least half a decade. It’s only now they are paying the price.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I use noise cancelling headphones for this. It's not perfect, but it helps a lot.
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by ImaCake 4y ago
I think the GPT-3 thing is wrong, but it is not impossible. You can always train an existing neural net to do new things right? Not sure how to handle different whitespace tokens.

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