NovemberWhiskey

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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
LLMs don't return objective information. Never have. You're getting a statistically-probable token stream based on the training corpus and the prompt.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
... because at some point, the gains in safety are infinitesimal and the reductions in quality of life are large.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The problem with Prop 65 is that we've delegated plaintiff's attorneys to conduct private enforcement actions. Also that the law requires a warning, but doesn't require an explanation of what the material is, what part of the
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
If guaranteed-sesame-free bread (or whatever) isn't a commercially viable product, then there's nothing that the FDA can do to change that. If you operate a punitive regulatory regime with respect to cross-contamination, you can&#
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> "outputting a sequence of tokens representing a claim that can be uncontroversially disproven," is still a useful concept. Sure, but that would require semantic mechanisms rather than statistical ones.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
WiFi? What? How would you even use that?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
You would anticipate a lot of confidential supervisory information: the Federal Reserve (and other Federal regulators) inspect banks regularly, and are allowed to ask for basically anything at all from them. You would expect there to be a s
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
It's broadly recognized that minimizing jerk and snap is important to comfort in roller-coasters, so there is evidence for that proposition: e.g. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6552/aba73
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
But OCI falls down on essentially all that stuff vs AWS or even GCP. OCI is cheap; that's the USP.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> The increased value of my stock holdings has resulted in a very nice increase in my quarterly dividend distribution. But there are masses of companies in the S&P 500 that don't even pay dividends. The dividend yield of the in
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> Rising home values are a zero-sum game. It makes people look wealthier on paper, but there's nothing good that comes from gains in housing prices. If I substitute the word "stock" for the word "housing", would
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
You can always file your taxes for free - you just get the forms and fill them out. In reality, that's essentially impossible or a waste of time for anyone with even slightly complex tax affairs so you're paying for preparation se
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> Is this really a “public option” for everyone to file their taxes? No; this is really an MVP. It doesn't work for people with certain types of income (including gig workers), for higher incomes, for cases where you need to itemiz
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
There's very little voluntary about signing up to rules that you're required to sign up to in order to have a career in your field. The policy position that detection of prohibited drugs at arbitrary low levels should result in a
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The difference between insurance and gambling is about what happens to your risk - whether it's a hedge or not. When you buy insurance, you pay a premium to make you whole should a random event occur in the future. You exchange a payme
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> Airspace above the US is nationalized. It's managed by the government, which is funded by taxpayers. So they have a right to know who is doing what using that airspace. Flying secretly (or at all) is not a Constitutionally protect
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
I have to ask: if we think privacy is a right, then why does flying in a private jet mean you give up that right?
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The point is that you could change the particular privacy identifier used each flight, in principle.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
This isn't to do with aircraft registration: it's to do with the fixed airframe identifier in the Mode-S data. By default, a single airframe (plane) will also squawk the same identifier on Mode-S, which can be picked up by passive
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
> I have serious qualms about someone flying a 23,500lb hunk of metal, laden with volatile and explosive fuel, over my community without needing to publicly report telemetry and flight plan details in plaintext. But none of that require
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
So, uh, when my browser checks that the certificate for a site has a DNS SAN that matches the name I used to access it, is the website "logging in" my browser? And does a signed S/MIME email "log in" to the MUA that
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The RP pronunciation (i.e. standard British English) is /sləʊθ/ ... i.e. slow-th, and that's how it's indicated in the OED.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
It’s how it’s pronounced in British English.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
The problem with electric leaf blowers is that they're no good for people who need to blow leaves all day; and most of the leaf blowing is (in my experience) contracted out rather than done by home owners. I have an electric blower tha
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
If your use-case is "crop screenshots", your competition isn't Photoshop, it's MS Paint.
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
But there's really not any evidence that talc for personal use actually contained any asbestos, other than some extremely vague indirect discussion of quality control parameters and testing quality confidence. Even assuming that there
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
I've been following this litigation for a long time, and everything in this post is right. The scientific evidence of a causal link between talc usage and ovarian cancer simply doesn't exist. What does exist: extremely sympathetic
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
J&J is winning virtually all of the suits that go to trial; it's just the ones they are losing end up with multi-billion dollar jury awards. A jury trial is not a quest for scientific truth, and a jury doesn't need to explain
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by NovemberWhiskey 2y ago
Oh, that's the JRE software version - that's completely different from the language version. For the JRE, I want to say that they stuck with the 1.version.minor numbering (although the last version with a minor other zero was I

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