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by PeterisP 3y ago
> that only understands numbers as a sequence of tokens (usually digits in base 10). You wish! A base-10 representation would make it much easier for the model, but the current tokenization merges digits according to their frequency, so
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by PeterisP 3y ago
They probably paid because, as the grandparent post suggested, taking public funds from NIH imposes a requirement to publish the research results in this manner, so for the research team it's an unavoidable part of the expenses related
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by PeterisP 3y ago
They don't provide a good solution for filtered/ranked paper discovery, one where someone else sorts the papers so you have to skim through less garbage. For paper discovery the main problem is the overabundance of noise, not the
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by PeterisP 3y ago
If you have x MWh of wind or nuclear, then using that for CO2 conversion to C is worthless and harmful, since the obvious alternative is to send the same MWh to consumers, replacing x MWh produced by current coal electricity plants, as that
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The technology-caused changes of environment are so recent that we wouldn't have had adapted to them no matter what. Adaptation takes a long time, the last significant adaptation we've had is lactose tolerance (lactase persistenc
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by PeterisP 3y ago
No, that far overestimates the speed and impact of natural selection. Having <1% of population die before breeding because of some factor (no matter if drug overdoses or something else) is not a sufficiently big pressure to nudge towards
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by PeterisP 3y ago
We can, but you have to supply energy to do it; and since we still burn carbon for energy, it's not worth extracting CO2 since if you've got the spare energy for that, it's far more efficient to simply burn less coal.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Technically, no one; in practice, it gets done by both faculty and grad students/postdocs paid by universities as something that's expected of them to keep getting their wages for their primary work.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The people who need to evaluate academics (both individuals and institutions) for purposes of funding, promotions, tracking goals, etc, can't really do it well on their own (you need to have domain-specific knowledge to be able to pass
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by PeterisP 3y ago
They probably could find "a competent CEO", but that's not the bar, and it doesn't make sense to do so, because of the oversized impact and risks. If you're 99% certain that a person is as competent as the current C
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by PeterisP 3y ago
CEO doesn't "pay himself the most money"; CEO pay is not decided by the company executives but directly by the shareholders/board.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
You don't lay off people (or avoid doing so) because you have large or small profits, quite the opposite, you have the profits you do because you do (or don't do) lay off people when it makes economic sense to do so. The decision
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It would debase the S&P500 equally, so any difference between Google's performance and S&P500 performance is clearly caused by something else then inflation/debasement/etc.
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Layoffs aren't a sacrifice, it's the CEO acting against the interests of the ex-employees but in the interests of shareholders (which is his job) and for that they get amply compensated by the shareholders. Imposing a policy that
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by PeterisP 3y ago
The question isn't whether someone would work for $250m but would not work for $150m; the question is whether someone would or wouldn't work for you for that amount. If someone else offers $200m to the same person, they would wo
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by PeterisP 3y ago
It's not to motivate a particular person to deliver more, it's to ensure that you're able to hire that person - if they would pay, for example, $2million, then no one with experience at managing decent size tech companies wou
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by PeterisP 3y ago
I think the Legg&Hutter definition "Intelligence measures an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments" [1] is quite relevant for this issue - once we consider not a technique for a specific task, but a
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by PeterisP 3y ago
IDK, we don't seem lacking in metrics. For measuring the quality of LLMs at the core task of language modeling (which then gets applied to other tasks), the classic information theory metric of perplexity works; for evaluating how well
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by PeterisP 4y ago
There are positions where I was thinking that the perfect hire for that role would be someone who was successful as a kindergarten teacher; all the other skills can be gained on the job but the ability to coax a bunch of figurative three ye
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by PeterisP 4y ago
Well, most of these 360MM non-German EU citizens don't live in Berlin or Germany at all, only some of them do.
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by PeterisP 4y ago
IDK, I would use "immigrant" when someone moves to another country with the intent to stay there, and "expat" when someone moves to another country for work or study (so, longer than just tourism) but while they might
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by PeterisP 4y ago
I don't really understand the question. When I read a nonfiction book, if it brings a new perspective that changes my understanding, then it changes my understanding as I read it, I don't do (or need to do) anything else. And if i
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by PeterisP 4y ago
IDK, I don't see any food-guilt issues from any of the countryside people I know who see "how the sausage is made" because they have done it, and have slaughtered some of the animals they have grown themselves. And IMHO the d
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by PeterisP 4y ago
True, but in the last few decades so many people world wide have stopped being so poor that they do not eat meat in large scale. In China, meat consumption per person has increased more than sixfold since 1980, getting close to EU levels, a
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by PeterisP 4y ago
I think that every platform that's old and has backwards compatibility has to have such a page - because there inevitably will be features for which we (now!) know that there are better ways to achieve the same goal, but they have to s
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by PeterisP 4y ago
Proper illustration is so expensive that in most cases people are tolerating it because the alternatives are either very horrible (random clip art) or to make do without illustrations. If digital tools enable decent clipart that can be
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by PeterisP 4y ago
I downvoted you because of the sentence "Because if you didn't, you REALLY need to shut it and keep your ideas out of their mouths.". The point you rised at "Serious question. Did you ask these black artists?" is a
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by PeterisP 4y ago
"unless they have branches on such countries or they hire an intermediary company to handle the taxes/health insurance stuff" is a big caveat - for any non-tiny company it's not a big deal to hire an intermediary compan
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by PeterisP 4y ago
But they are operationalized, organizing such things is part of what managers are taught to do and what large organizations specifically budget activities and events for. Perhaps it's not operationalized well, but organizations are try
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by PeterisP 4y ago
I work in an environment which has rooms for 3-4 desks, maybe 2 or 5 in some. This results in good communication and collaboration within a project team without the excessive noise of a full pen office, and if you have just a couple colleag

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