Ntrails

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by Ntrails 1y ago
> those don't keep them from being useful. They do stop it from being intelligent though. Being able to spit out cool and useful stuff is a great achievement. Actual understanding is required for AGI and this demonstrably isn&#x
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> taking a group of volunteers to Antarctica to format them to a supposed sociocultural blank slate I'd love to see an actual blueprint for making this work. I don't believe in it at all. > They are not just governed with
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Could such a middle ground exist? Sure. Could someone design a system where that middle ground was a natural equilibrium? Unsure. I don't see how you incentivise the goldilocks behaviour (but I am not the smartest bear so maybe som
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by Ntrails 1y ago
The SE is a great phone, and a reasonable size. I will say ever more websites are starting to screwup their layouts on such "small" as indeed is iOS. Tiresome as hell
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> you have to realize you’re talking to a population of people, and not necessarily the same person. Opinions are going to vary, they’re not literally the same person each time. I pointed this out in my post for a reason. I get it. But
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Some of it is just that (probably different) people said the same damn things 6 months ago. "No, the 2.8 release is the first good one. It massively improves workflows" Then, 6 months later, the study comes out. "Ah man, 2.8
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Honestly my only positive from the films was the way that they flawlessly melded with the plot from the videogame. Niobe/Ghost covering important plot on my ps2 that just fit around and into scenes from the film. For me that was a c
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I remain bemused that they described this as an "unintuitive strategy which required significant back testing etc". As I read it they were just smashing underlyings to move the close price and profit from larger derivative positio
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I'd expect the relationship goes the other way around. Most old people I know sleep lightly comparatively
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by Ntrails 1y ago
Alcohol doesn't just make more money because it has huge margins. It has decent margin, high profit per unit, and a magic trick: it makes people less cautious about spending more. I have no interest in a second coke or a third coffee
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> Trump just said “do as you please” - this was pure insanity. I'm all for attacking Trump when justified, but given how Biden managed Gaza it is spectacularly unclear that we would expect a different outcome from Dems.
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by Ntrails 1y ago
The real world constraints of time and money are non trivially involved in sample size decisions. CLT may be invoked but I do not give the benefit of the doubt to studies being announced at this point
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by Ntrails 1y ago
"before" and "after" introduces a large axis of noise The problem is that for A/B testing to really work you need independent groups outcomes. As soon as there is any bias in group selection or cross group effect i
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by Ntrails 1y ago
A tremendous frustration at the inability to say what you mean and mean what you say has plagued me for years
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> you can tell so much from someone's shoes You can make educated guesses based on apparel of all sorts - but you are always guessing .
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I thought barcodes were effectively just "guids" that you could use for a lookup table or whatever to get pricing etc. Knowing what the product _is_ wouldn't tell you what the price is - you'd need the table. How does i
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by Ntrails 1y ago
The AI's play meaningfully added ideas of ways to play dota2 iirc. It wasn't just buying back, the way they played around early advantage hyper aggressive, not much farming, spam buying regen to stay out etc. On the other hand yo
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I have a vague memory of a "game-dev studio tycoon" sim game which, if you played the pirated version, would have your sales taper off super hard and you'd go bust because pirates. There was, however, an explicit nod to this
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> the causal factor here is that people became wary of public oversharing Instead of chatting shit in a "public" area (rip wall to wall) limited to just my uni friends, there were suddenly home friends, relatives etc readi
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by Ntrails 1y ago
> Auto completing a sentence for the next word in Gmail/iMessage is one example Interestingly, I despise that feature. It breaks the flow of what is actually a very simple task. Now I'm reading, reconsidering if the offered
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by Ntrails 1y ago
fwiw I read it as a statement of the CIAs historical position, not the authors own view.
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by Ntrails 1y ago
It's got to retain sufficient shape/integrity/speed of the "dart" after 100m to penetrate clothing and skin cleanly. I can't believe that this is actually that useful a delivery mechanism compared to something
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by Ntrails 1y ago
I know it's not the same - but I remember the "bubbling" phase a few years back. It was a bit messy and fortunately faded away pretty quick
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by Ntrails 2y ago
I'd accept "build a tnt trap for your buddy" or "defeated the end dragon"
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by Ntrails 2y ago
Yeah i had the same vibes and could definitely see a refined version of that being very quick to type on
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> You can install a charger at home, even a very slow one that doesn’t need a special circuit, and always have a full battery in the morning I am fortunate enough to own 2 homes, and neither can do what you suggest since they don't
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by Ntrails 2y ago
I honestly don't see why anyone who isn't JK Rowling should be allowed to coopt her world. I probably feel even more strongly for worlds/characters I like. Why am I wrong?
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by Ntrails 2y ago
I distinctly remember a student arguing with a teacher for a mark. "Look sir, here in the scrawl at the margins is the answer you just said was right" "Yes Dylan, but this was a 1 mark question. Part of getting the mark invo
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> I'm sure it's full of loopholes. Yeah, there are a few very well defined loopholes - gifting early, pension wrappers, some trusts, agricultural land, non-dom etc etc - some are being closed. In general the richer you are the
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by Ntrails 2y ago
> That's hardly hammering the little people. Agree. It hits the (upper) middle, as with most of the tax code afaict. I rarely resent paying tax until I see how little people earning multiples of me get away with paying.

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