PeterisP

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by PeterisP 3y ago
I don't know how much long ago was "When I was much younger" but even if we go as far back as the 1960s and look at the Artificial Intelligence scientific literature of that time, you'd find the understanding of what th
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We can reuse X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
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The actual mechanism of action is handwaved away because there are many options, we don't expect to ever have an exhaustive list and specifics of those are largely irrelevant with respect to preventing them, so IMHO it's not worth
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As in any community, you can ignore politics but politics won't ignore you.
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I feel that "soon" is doing a lot of the work here, as far as I recall back in 2018 people in the research community absolutely were expecting something similar to GPT-3, only the expectation was that these capabilities would land
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The bar is different - saying "there is no risk of apocalypse" requires you to be ~100% certain, because it you're saying "I'm 99% certain that there won't be a an apocalypse" then you're on the side
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Yes, if your company has builders that build you an asset (like a warehouse or a factory or office building) then you always had to amortise those salaries together with all the other expenses for building that capital asset. That's no
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It is salary, but it goes not into operational expense (that applies directly creating the things you sell right away) but into building a capital asset that helps you generate future revenue and can depreciate over a number of years. It&#x
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From employee perspective it was my impression that EE developers tend to get lower salaries than web developers. But it could be the case that building an android or web app for a simple UI would take less dev-months than an embedded app
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This is one asymmetry which can and should be corrected by legal means; markets which require unsubscribing to be as easy as subscribing get a bit more 'healthy' for subscriptions than those that don't.
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Purely from a materials perspective, 2x cheap WiFi-capable microcontrollers (e.g. esp8266) will cost the manufacturer something like $4-$5 total for both devices - which is comparable to 3m cable+connectors+cheap chips to handle the cable c
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The equivalency would be if there were weapons of e.g. some Iranian company sold to Israel and used against Gaza. As a US company, Haas has a duty to obey US-ordered sanctions and ensure that their products are not being used against the in
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IMHO much of the key training data can't simply be downloaded/scraped/labeled, no matter what code you had - it's not like it's freely accessible to everyone and just needs some code to get it and process it. You ca
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The #3 is an issue. If I get a binary of some software with a permissive license, I technically could patch that binary to modify some functionality, but I'd rather really like to have the source code instead. Similarly, if I have a LL
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As long-time a 'practitioner' of machine learning models I strongly disagree, the preferred form for model modification is by retraining the model with a tweak to the parameters or the training algorithm or the model structure or
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The public domain literature is big, but not that big and very far from infinite data - all the major current models already include all of the public domain literature that has ever been digitized and much more (so all the public domain
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You have a point, but it's important to note that the template needs to be local to you. Laws aren't global, what is an appropriate T&C for a service hosted in USA won't be okay for a service hosted in UK or Singapore,
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I think it's relevant to take a step back and ask why exactly do people want a laptop to be made of things that can be upgraded or replaced (like the classic maxim "people don't really want to buy a drill, they want to buy
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You really can't, because bandwidth matters as much as compute power - you can only utilize as much power as you can transfer data to/from. The training methods for current LLMs are parallellizable only by very frequently transfer
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As you note, the Fed lending policies do act as a money source (when increasing supply) and also as a money sink (when decreasing supply). That doesn't invalidate the parent point that taxes have nothing in common with a money sink,
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Why would it? People are voting with their wallets that this is okay, that they'd rather have Slack and all that it has instead of some competing solution that's more responsive but lags in other areas, so there is no market press
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Billionaires like Warren Buffet ( https://thehill.com/policy/finance/99096-warren-buffett-incr... ) and others have argued to raise taxes on the wealthy - he and other supporters are anyways donating most of their w
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Why not by outright taxing it? IMHO that would be the most effective and least overhead way to achieve what you want.
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War is also excellent for business if it disrupts your competitors, and especially in liquid commodities where any shortage immediately bumps prices. For the major oil exporters any conflict happening in countries involved in oil production
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To be fair, in WW2 Germany did not attack France - it attacked Poland, and expected that France would not keep its alliance and give it up just as they folded on Sudatenland and the rest of Czechoslovakia, but France did attack Germany over
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"pretty well" means 40-ish dB attenuation - that's about 10000 times weaker signal, absorbing 99.99% of it. But that's not even close to sufficient for actually isolating wireless transmissions. My microwave got 35-38 dB
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I am a bit confused about it being treated as a socially relevant issue - it definitely was a relevant socially sensitive issue back then, but that was 100 years ago, and now it's not an active issue - as far as I understand, women c
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The price might actually be adequate - they're not getting 200+ dollars in ads for the average user (IIRC it was something like 50+), however, these aren't average users; if someone is the type of person who's willing to pay
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Working capital and cash flow - the majority of a board game's expenses are literally just the physical manufacturing of the items, you need to pay all that up front before you have anything to sell, and you need to guess how much you&
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"Endangers global security" often is treated as equivalent to "endangers the status quo", especially by the organizations and people who are powerful right now and so usually benefit from whatever the current situation i

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