Jedd

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by Jedd 1y ago
We should catch up next autumn for a quiet ale to talk about the ambiguity of that date format.
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by Jedd 1y ago
While one half of the planet is having spring, the other half is having autumn.
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by Jedd 1y ago
That's also one of those things that would probably confuse LLMs as readily as it confuses North Americans (for much the same reason - training). Spring 2024 for me was from the 1st of September to the 30th of November.
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by Jedd 1y ago
Ha. Next you'll be asserting there's no good reason for an all-powerful entity to create humans to rule over the fish and the birds etc. All good fiction starts with a conceit, and then plays out some hypotheticals.
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by Jedd 1y ago
You've experienced AI?
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by Jedd 1y ago
Is this a new theory ? I'm sure this has been a fairly commonly perceived trope amongst late-X and millenials for several years now. Presumably accelerated during 2016-2020, and once again ramping up quickly, for our stateside friends
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by Jedd 1y ago
Covered in TFA.
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by Jedd 1y ago
Oceania is a big mass?
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by Jedd 1y ago
As an Australian, inculcated with the orthodoxy that this was the largest island while also being the smallest continent - how does 'Oceania' fit with your quite technical 'big contiguous mass of land'? If we made anothe
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by Jedd 1y ago
> And another that even considers Afro-Eurasia to be a single continent. Well, as per parent's logic, that claim is out the door ever since the Suez was dug out.
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by Jedd 1y ago
Accurately speaking, that wasn't true before the Panama canal was built, and remains not true subsequently.
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by Jedd 1y ago
By anti-AI, do you mean people who oppose the seemingly whimsical (while potentially being an existential threat) creation of genuine artificial intelligence without exercising unprecedented levels of caution, or people who mistake LLMs for
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by Jedd 1y ago
TFA seems to miss a lot of things. Mac's unified memory makes them (price-) compelling over x86 with GPU(s) for large models, say something over 24-32 GB. But a 32GB Mac doesn't take advantage of that architecture. (IIRC by defau
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by Jedd 1y ago
I'd guess a symptom rather than a cause, but I'm not sure what of. Curious about your evidence and metrics for your claims of: 'net negative', 'few women play', 'more balanced' and 'more success
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by Jedd 1y ago
I think almost all the free LLMs (not AI) that you find on hf can 'run on CPUs'. The claim here seems to be that it runs usefully fast on CPU. We're not sure how accurate this claim is, because we don't know how fast t
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by Jedd 1y ago
This is the kind of belief that people with the luxury of choice often assume applies to everyone else.
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by Jedd 1y ago
> From a high level, what is an ocean but a thick atmosphere? "Now you have two atmospheres."
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by Jedd 2y ago
I dispute your foundational claim that discovery of things != progress. I concur that semantics have a) overtaken this thread, and b) are part of my complaint with OP when they claimed all historical progress was the result of specialisatio
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by Jedd 2y ago
> All of these examples are done by specialist because I don't see many cars being build by dentists. I'm not sure how you get from pre-agricultural humans developing fire, to dentists building cars. I don't doubt that aft
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by Jedd 2y ago
Given the original, ludicrous, claim was: > Literally all progress we've made is due to ever increasing specialization. Then we don't really need plural examples, right? Anyway - language, wheel, fire, tool-making, social con
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by Jedd 2y ago
That is literally not true.
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by Jedd 2y ago
It seems like it would be extremely difficult to identify that breakdown. Not because it's difficult to identify emissions generated in order to produce those goods subsequently exported (it would be arduous to do so, but not infeasibl
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by Jedd 2y ago
I remember reading in a PJ O'Rourke book about Comparative Advantage - I've found the section, as the 'non-trivial and non-obvious' sleight stuck with me, even decades later: > Todd G. Buchholz, in his book New
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by Jedd 2y ago
Yes in the sense of ownership, no in the sense of authorship.
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by Jedd 2y ago
Sounds like an easy way to solve both problems. Does it cache the fandom site, pull it all down, or it's just a redirector / re-theming front-end and makes calls out to fandom for each page load? I skimmed the docs looking for an
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by Jedd 2y ago
You were prepared to replace a functioning washing machine just to match a replacement clothes dryer?
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by Jedd 2y ago
That is very much not what is being said.
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by Jedd 2y ago
Is the massive number of spam messages on this thread an attempt to suppress the article / discussion around it? I've not seen this many from multiple but evidently related green accounts before. Given the implications about nat
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by Jedd 2y ago
> Schools also used to teach sarcasm detection. Aha, I had briefly considered whether that was your intent when you made your original claim, but had mistakenly assumed earnestness: > The entire world has too much riding on the US no
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by Jedd 2y ago
Can you think of any long-lived ( > 100 years), empire-scale civilisations that have collapsed despite a firm belief they were non-collapsible and/or essential to all surrounding nation states? Without consulting wikipedia, I can

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