Lerc

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by Lerc 4mo ago
One of the things that I have come to trust the least in journalism is any WSJ story that says "people familiar with the matter said" Can anyone find another source for this?
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I agree on your points of what matters. I disagree that this was shown in the SBF case. In fact, it seems much of the case was based on the fact that these points were not pertinent to the charges he faced. Which is also likely why his a
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by Lerc 4mo ago
>Loss of freedom is ultimately what will reform a criminal, if reform is possible. I don't believe that is correct. In fact there's pretty good research to suggest that custodial sentences inrcease recidivism. This does not
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Well I have only seen media reports alleging theft, such as the article linked, they don't necessarily have to conform to legal definitions. A cynical person might suggest that perhaps media coverage deliberately chooses between coll
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Yeah that happened with MtGox too. I don't think that aspect should be factored in as a defence. It should be more down to the degree of risk that people were exposed to at the time the offence occurred.
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Not a SBF defender, and at no point am I suggesting that a crime was not committed. I am saying that the crime is different to theft. Would you say that a misuse of funds with zero chance of the rightful owner losing their money is a less
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I'm saying a Fraud conviction is not the same a stealing. I'm completely ok with a conviction for fraud, provided that the conviction and sentencing is based upon that fraud. I would characterise robbing a bank, placing a bet and
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Very little of the article talks about their process. > Objection assigns a human investigator — at the $2,000 price tier, a college graduate; for $10,000, a former CIA or FBI agent — to gather evidence, which is displayed as exhibits. I
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by Lerc 4mo ago
> In appealing against the conviction, Bankman-Fried’s defense lawyers argued that US district judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial, improperly prevented Bankman-Fried from introducing evidence to back up his belief that FTX had eno
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Good people can do bad things. Bad people can do good things. Evaluate the things, you may do so being aware of their provenance, but if you use that as the starting point of your conclusion then you are just asking for your biases to be co
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Characterising it as cheating serms unfair. The goal of a benchmark is to evaluate actual capability. Following instructions is a capability so you can measure that with a benchmark. Already knowing the answer is also provides capability,
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by Lerc 4mo ago
> When a company says “AI made everyone more productive, so we need fewer people”, They are implicitly saying that as a company, they don't want to be more productive. They want the same productivity by paying fewer more productiv
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by Lerc 4mo ago
also > two empires, three monarchies and a bunch of short-lived totalitarian regimes, coups and other major political events. Do you think you'd still have the Health insurance, unions, and paid vacation after another roll of the d
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I measured it out. I think it's the bulk of red, possibly ending at the dashed lines at the right-top. That area going all the way down including the housing development and cutting out both of the substations is 87 acres. Each of th
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by Lerc 4mo ago
The picture at the top of the article seems at odds with the text of the article. The text says 135,000 square feet for the data center. Given the area marked city owned property says it is 560 feet. 135,000 square feet would be an area
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by Lerc 4mo ago
The problem is that, while there are times when violent acts may bring about positive outcomes, it is extremely rare for those outcomes to be in the minds of those committing the acts. It is far more common for someone to commit violence
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by Lerc 4mo ago
How well did they turn out for people each time?
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by Lerc 4mo ago
> 2) China distills and is therefore possibly not that competent. I think deepseek at least has done enough innovative work that you could grant them a baseline of competency. In general, there are enough papers coming out of China to s
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by Lerc 4mo ago
> symbolic tasks were the best, non-symbolic tasks such as image recognition were the worst I wonder how much of that is not so much the overall task but the need to build up to a complex state where KANs can excel. If you consider the
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by Lerc 4mo ago
You understand their point of view and are just rejecting it? And commenting to express disagreement but not bothering to say why? I don't quite understand what's going on here?
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I think the variation, evaluation, and selection idea is a good, if not the only, way do do creative work. I don't think I would attribute anything in that process that I would consider an AI to be incapable of. The characterisation of
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by Lerc 4mo ago
That's a bit of a tricky point. I have had quite a lot of problems with models informing me what I am attempting is impossible. If no-one has done it, or at least it doesn't know about it being done it tends to fall back on peop
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Has there been much exploration on how much benefit comes from precision in activation functions in KANs? There's a little niggle in the back of my head that maybe 90% of the benefit of KANs can be gained from a quite small variety o
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by Lerc 4mo ago
After dropping the keyboard for the TV one too many times, the touchpad stopped working. I looked for a decent remote keyboard app to use on the tablet, and found nothing I liked. I ended up asking an AI to make something that served a webp
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by Lerc 4mo ago
This is the strangest thing. It's like an attempt to rehabilitate the image of Bitcoin by distinguishing it from 'bitcoiners' a bogeyman archetype. The weirdest part is it tends to lean on anti-intellectualism to criticise bi
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I'm not sure if service workers are particularly amenable to having Developer A provide an interface for User B to run untrusted code made by Developer C, D and E.
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I did a lecture once which included a 5 minute whirlwind tour of neural net history. I included a remark about how time travellers would find Rosenblatt a better target than Miles Dyson. I was never quite sure on how close, or over, the lin
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by Lerc 4mo ago
Fundimentally, when you talk about a if statement, you are talking about the ability to do something different dependent upon some state. It's the same thing as stimulus, response. Unchanging in response to circumstances is static. Cha
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I'm not sure if I'd like to declare a best. There are so many different approaches and I think their ability to inform is cumulative, I like the ability of this article to do the tiny training runs in browser. It makes the point
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by Lerc 4mo ago
I have never quite found a full and comprehensive catalogue of escape sequences. I think the last time I needed a list, I found a developer of a terminal app(might have been kitty?) had a page with what they had found. This isn't no

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