LPisGood

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by LPisGood 1y ago
This style of attack has been discussed for a while https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20-quiring.pdf - it’s scary because a scaled image can appear to be an _entirely_ different image. One method for this wou
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Is anyone else surprised by how poorly performing the results are for the vast majority of cases? The foundation model which had access to sensor data and behavioral biomarkers actually _underperformed_ the baseline predictor that just uses
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by LPisGood 1y ago
> It’s pretty clear to anyone who’s using this technology that it’s significant I disagree entirely. It’s neat, and it’s a marginal improvement over current-year google, but significant is an overstatement.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
A lot of companies have upper limits on the value add of more programmers.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
This reminds me the issue with the old windows access control system. If those prompts pop up constantly asking for elevated privileges, this is actually worse because it trains people to just reflexively allow elevation.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
> its going to save the clerical staff hundreds of hours per year How many hundreds of hours is your team spending to get there? What is the ROI on this vs investing that money elsewhere?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The normal compensation for full time work is x2080. Do you actually value 401k, benefits, time off, etc at only 20 hours wage per year?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
It’s easier for security researchers to check
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Accepted by whom?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Why do they have to work?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The thing is that this administration has repeatedly and openly punished, intervened, otherwise interfered directly the affairs of _specific_ private companies in a blatantly corrupt manner based on the opinion of the president. This is ind
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Do you have any evidence that the change in enforcement was targeted at Tesla or that the change was in response to Musk’s criticism? Also, comparing the actions of Trump to anything any previous President (including Trump 1!) almost feels
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by LPisGood 1y ago
This government already has a track record of punishing poorly cooperative companies! Look into the illegal executive orders that targeted various law firms.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
That’s all well and good if you live in lala land where nothing bad is ever happening that isn’t the current government’s fault, but here in the Real World, the impacts of foreign governments engaging in an information war need to be dealt
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I have personally known people to be offended by the term and the broader war on Christmas they feel it represents.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I’m on the left and I use that phrase. It took me forever to figure out what was “wrong” with it. They’re democrats, democrat politicians. Like the other person said, this usage is extremely common and not just on extremist conservative spa
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The “Twitter files” showed almost nothing of substance, to my knowledge. What are these coordinated efforts you’re talking about?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Foreign operatives were legitimately engaging in information warfare against the American people, so it makes sense for FBI and others to let American companies know when their platforms are being used for these things. This is especially t
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by LPisGood 1y ago
> My point is that there is open levels of collusion with the Biden admin (and Obama earlier) and media corps What do you mean?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Do you have anything to add - this comment almost literally doesn’t say anything. What is “OK” About this in your opinion?
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The way everyone is using the term lately is to refer to an LLM that can use one or more tools, calculators, search engines, etc
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The printing press was a time when a technology was different than everything that came before it, completely ushering in a new era inconceivable to people from the past era.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The printing press, for example.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
That’s not necessarily a counter argument though; some times are different.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Each ChatGPT query costs orders of magnitude more than a google search. I can’t say for sure how many orders, but I suspect more than a few.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I was still in middle school in the early 2010’s and I remember thinking how lucky I am to want to be a computer programmer for a career AND it happens to pay a lot of money. Unfortunately many people today got into for the money and not th
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by LPisGood 1y ago
The analogy is not about safety and correctness, but about who is producing and who is assessing/analyzing/poking & prodding.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
Formal verification and case automatikn can be done automatically anyway without a mathematician hand checking each case. For an old example that predates LLMs, see the four color theorem.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I think fines are very reasonable. If you can’t safely do the thing, you should be punished for doing it. If you can’t safely safely do the thing then there is no issue.
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by LPisGood 1y ago
I meant that in particular you should _not_ think of the “programming” part of “dynamic programming” in the sense of computer programming

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