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by PeterisP 3y ago
Standard large transformers trained on corpora of multiple languages will generally perform next-word prediction in language A by using information that was only seen in training data in language B, demonstrating that they have managed to i
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I use non-stick pans so that I don't ever have to care about things like that. "should have put a little wine in there" - well, I should not have to! I expect that after I sear some meat, there will be nothing that will requi
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by PeterisP 3y ago
> You can’t just deny immigration in every country in the world and have the worlds oppressed and poor floating in international waters. I understand that this shouldn't happen for moral reasons, but at least some aspects of that ar
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Does Alberta or Canada depend on glacier melt for their water supply?
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by PeterisP 3y ago
With climate, there is a significant time delay between cause and effect. Maldives are already lost due to our actions, it just will take quite a few decades to materialize. The current actions will determine how large the change will be,
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by PeterisP 3y ago
We know very well what happens when we tell that people should use less carbon - they don't. From the perspective of what countries are willing to do, spending some billions of dollars on some technology is far more feasible than large
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There have been a lot of wind generators built in central to eastern europe over the last decade or so.
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Politics is just a different word for interests, relationships and motivation - the majority of people are not willing to cut their consumption nor support any leaders which have policies that will restrict consumption. It's not limite
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by PeterisP 3y ago
One of the common - if not the most common - activation function is 'rectified linear unit' (ReLU) which is a fancy name for y=max(x,0), which has a discontinuous gradient (1 if x>0, 0 if x<0) and that works mostly fine.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The "smaller" open source models with adequate capabilities are still rather large and thus compute-intensive. Running thousands of pages through it on a random CPU won't happen in minutes but rather in days, and extracting e
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by PeterisP 3y ago
We do see North Korea, Russia and Iran funding cyberattacks (e.g. major ransomware operations) and supplying weapons to various external groups. If/when we get to a stage when a wacko in his basement possessing some AI tool could be da
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Maintenance on that boat will be far more than maintenance of a home even if you do most of the labor yourself; gas on that boat will be more than the gas of your car and the electricity bill; you'll spend more on maintaining the water
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by PeterisP 3y ago
In any case, the key point is that in an ICE car the heating is mostly "free" since the engine has perhaps 40% efficiency and the majority of heat released by combustion is unused/unusable waste heat that might as well be use
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Everything that wasn't written down, and everything that happened before we invented writing, isn't lost, it's simply called prehistory instead of history. We do know all kinds of things about ordinary people's lives bas
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I think in most historic wars the civilian deaths far outweighed the soldier deaths, not fighting would not protect you from dying because of that war. E.g. if we're talking about the major conflicts causing depopulation - the 30 years
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Some cars do have additional resistive heating or heat pumping through AC, where that is technically driven by engine power, but not from the waste heat.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Your comment is more about the 'passive' heating to keep some bare minimum for the hardware to function, but a big part is the 'active' heating for the driver and passengers. If we look at the total energy consumption fo
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I do a custom layout to get the diacritic non-English letters from my "proper local" layout but all the special characters/symbols as per US keyboard, since the "proper local" layout has them moved around for some r
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by PeterisP 3y ago
They don't get it as a rule, and they didn't get it at all for a long time - that is optional data for which there is a standard where the terminal can send it if it is configured to do so; and some merchants are now sending it -
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Those things are not or should not be the same. The existence of the record is inevitably linked to the ability for it to be used in legal actions or criminal investigations. However, the ability to use that record for literally every other
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The solution to bank the unbanked doesn't need a technological solution, it needs a motivation solution - banks can already "bank" everyone if they want to, but they don't. The EU approach to that is establishing a right
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by PeterisP 3y ago
That's a great fit for scenarios where you do know programming but don't know the particular language and framework on which you suddenly have to do some maintenance or improvement. For many things the available documentation is p
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Perhaps, perhaps not - there are many companies which had reasonable backups which would have protected them in case of a fire, but since they were accessible remotely with administrator privileges, the ransomware operators were able to des
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IIRC feds have gone against companies using some third-party consultants to pay a ransom that eventually went to a entity on US sanctions list like Iran or North Korea. Or at least they have loudly threatened to do so. Also, there have been
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Consent is not a request where the consumer has to make a decision to accept or deny, in EU consent is an opt-in activity. So there is a clear default state - doing nothing is the same thing as refusing a request, and refusing to even read
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by PeterisP 3y ago
That's interesting, I'm not a lawyer, but the way I understand the German Prostitutionsgesetz, it makes sexual services legitimate part of the financial contract - so both parties may be entitled to payment or compensation in vari
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The whole idea of unalienable rights (which in ECHR includes privacy) is that you can't "alienate" them by signing them away in a contract. It's just like any contractual clause that would sell yourself in indentured sla
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No, a cookie with default settings attached to https://example.com saying "previous_visitor=true" does not provide any information whatsoever to any sites other than https://example.com . There are various t
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I think the parent post is making a very valid point that even in _popular circles_ he's relatively unknown, as his fan base may be large, very intense and vocal on social media but is still tiny fraction of the general public, the vas
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The article is really nice, with a fresh perspective on how we-the-public (or, rather, segments of the public with very different worldview) perceive creations and creators, and how that seems changed recently because of the incentives driv

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