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by PeterisP 3y ago
I seem to recall that for some games the community recommended fix for performance problems was to install a crack so that the game wouldn't try to read stuff from the CD, which might be slow depending on the drive you have, and would
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by PeterisP 3y ago
There's DPAs and DPAs. A key issue is that the Ireland DPA is understaffed and overwhelmed, because that's where historically most of the global internet megacorps have registered their EU part for tax reasons, and it seems plau
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by PeterisP 3y ago
My favorite statistics quote by John Tukey seems relevant - "The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data."
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I do consider at-home mail-in voting as a bad risk - locally we have a solution that involves separate 'voting stations' (just as any other voting station, officials + observers from opposing parties monitoring) visiting the peopl
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Well that's kind of the key point of making some rules (and training) about handling firearms, to have a legally valid reason to prohibit the irresponsible people from handling firearms if they have demonstrated that they won't, a
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Because the traditional reason for census is taxation, voting, or military service, and in those cases you effectively only care about free adult males and count only those. For example, the original Roman census, from which we take word &#
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Even in Europe we have Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian as reasonably large non-indoeuropean languages; Maltese as an example of a Semitic EU language, and of course Turkic languages are also right there.
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I think the main point being made is that 'closest' doesn't necessarily imply 'close'; that the closest living relative is still reasonably distant.
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It shouldn't affect corpus linguistics but the other way around, because all these things have long ago (even before computers) been legally contested by authors and publishers w.r.t. what can be done to text by dictionary makers and c
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They are automatically generated, the algorithms have a bunch of tricks, but essentially they merge together the most frequent token pairs until a desired fixed vocabulary size is reached. So, for example (looking at GPT-3 tokenizations - y
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Especially since "arrows.midst.senses" and "arrow.midst.senses" are two different locations, and if you mishear it as "arrows.midst.sends", that's yet another different valid location. Really, there's
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It's worth noting that some huge limitations/risks of W3W are there because of the flaws in their word list choice, so if you're analyzing a different wordlist, you explicitly aren't looking at a big source of problems
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> In any case, I understand your point about there not being many options for gendered pronouns in some languages, No, I explicitly did not mention pronouns, my post was about all the language groups where merely changing pronouns is bar
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The parent post probably means that it's not a random chance independent of the question, that while for some (many!) types of questions the hallucination rate is low, there exist some questions or groups of questions for which it will
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No, because most assignments aren't really to test understanding but for different pedagogical goals (you could go down a rabbit hole of educational theory about different types of assessment and how and why they are used in different
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Assignments are usually just a proxy for the skill which we're actually trying to teach or evaluate. The fact that a course assignment can be done by using a chatbot does not mean that the skill which that course is teaching can be don
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Underresourced languages also are underresourced in terms of training data for LLMs, and so for smaller languages LLMs do have significantly more problems with sometimes generating something that's completely weird and wrong not only
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If you're issuing a statement that includes an 'IN' statement with thousands of values, where are those values coming from, how are you getting them? In a relational database, a so large list of values generally indicates tha
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Painting miniatures; saw a friend do it, then for Christmas got a kit to try it out together with my kids, and it turned out to be a surprisingly de-stressing form of hands-on tinkering.
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That assumption isn't valid. In some languages in order to say anything about anything you have to apply either the masculine or feminine form of the verbs and adjectives, so there's no way around picking one of the two, so if you
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You describe valid problems that are reasonably frequent at many organizations, however, literally none of them get solved by a software tool being stricter at enforcing state transitions - all of them require the relevant managers to actua
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That's not how international travel works until you totally leave civilization; no matter who's paying for the trip, you do know where you're going, and each individual has a choice at every border crossing; they can't s
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The key benefits of an ECS system with large static arrays of data is (a) to avoid the speed overhead of managing memory allocation and deallocation - instead of doing it automatically or manually, these memory allocations/deallocation
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Money talks, bullshit walks. If employers really wanted employees to abandon remote work, that would be obviously visible as a significant difference in remuneration. If some employer is paying on-site workers 20% more than the exact same
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We're not really trying to model the organic brain; while some structures are somewhat inspired by some structures in the brain, the current learning structures are fundamentally quite different from biological brains. While there is a
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Straws require ridiculously small amounts of raw materials though, if you choose a material that increases the steel price by $1000/ton, then that adds a single extra cent to the costs of a 10g metal straw which then retails for a doll
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> I can't answer a call or text my family with my laptop while I'm on the go That's interesting, for me, any texting (usually via whatsapp or signal) is far, far more convenient on the laptop than on the phone, so far that
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No, it only assumes that for every integer there exists a single, well defined set of "the proper divisors". Afterwards, summing all of them up is a trivial operation that can only possibly yield a single value.
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> The good news is that you can mitigate for much of the consequences by simply not being in the West, ideally in a commodity rich country. That's interesting, my impression has been entirely the opposite, that Global South is going
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The article is quite clear on whose money it is - "Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Salesforce and Sound Ventures". For at least half of them, it might make sense to simply sponsor accelerating worldwide new AI p

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