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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Maybe, but Penrose himself was involved, so I'd be very bummed if that were true. SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) has received approval from Dr. Roger Penrose, the eminent British mathematical
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
We disagree on the predictive power of twin studies. Also please cite actual studies rather than Wikipedia. You’ll capture more nuance. We conclude that there is now strong evidence that virtually all individual psychological differences,
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Wait, temporarily giving someone currency that they eventually give back to you is more or less the definition of a loan, no? And Coinbase is doing the work of abstracting that process into a single instrument (Coinbase earn)? Because that’
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>- Coinbase's position is that they are simply providing a technical service to their customers to do something that their customer's could do themselves. Sure, I could write multiple mortgages and roll them up into an MBS myse
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
So you get studies with very confident titles like this: Genome-wide association studies establish that human intelligence is highly heritable and polygenic Then you read the paper and you see: A total of 3511 CAGES (2115 females) par
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Sure, by no means am I trying to make some argument that immigrants or manual laborers are worse or inferior. In fact the opposite! I'm trying to say that regardless of who your parents are, your intelligence is primarily driven by y
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Sure, but that's an argument against abstraction/specialization that is also somewhat hard to really buy into. How do you smelt bronze? How do you grow crops? How do you build a lean-to? Knowing how to do all those things does g
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>the intelligence of their children is a tighter normal distribution around the parents' intelligence. Again, this is the core fallacy of eugenics. How many current US PhD's are the children/grandchildren of immigrants f
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
The problem with this and many other self-reported happiness surveys is that they measure what people think about themselves, rather than actually observing their behaviors. Generally, Conservatives ideologies (by nature) lean toward conf
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>We are artificially selecting the worst people to reproduce and dooming ourselves. The fallacy of eugenics is that 'smart' people have 'smart' children and the same for 'dumb' people. I think 90% of this fo
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> I think it is only a few terminally online people that object to this. The reality of the matter is that the insane population growth of the 20th Century led to some pretty haphazard development (e.g. CDMX’s never ending sprawl). Thi
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>a P/E under 2 FWIW, banks are priced on Book Value (that's literally what the stock in a bank represents, whether it's public or private - banks aren't like normal operating companies), since earnings are volatile an
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>We don't know our own cognition works which makes all arguments along the lines of "LLMs are just .." Sure, but there are very binary tests we can do to understand the first principles of what LLMs are vs. what they are n
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
This is actually a huge debate right now. OpenAI is on the side of 'LLMs have only surprised us to the upside, so using crutches is counterproductive' Whereas other people think 'Teaching an LLM to do arbitrary math problems
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Have your LLM text mine the day it learns how to drive. /s There are plenty of problems that a Neural Net alone can’t solve.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Oh, sorry, classic HN US-centrism (though TBF, Amazon is primarily a US company). Sure, in Canada it maybe different.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>If we're not going to let economic signals tell companies to check who they're banking with before putting all their assets in one place, how can that happen The assumption that an operating company should understand fixed inc
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Have the FDIC rates actually changed or is this a hypothetical. It's hypothetical. The FDIC is likely to recover a vast majority of the uninsured deposits through asset sales, people just want to be outraged. At smaller banks, 6
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>How is this not constructive dismissal Companies move offices all the time and require you to go to that new office (even if it's inconvenient for your commute/you have to move cities).
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>with the understanding If you want something to be true, get it in writing. 'Yeah, we're technically based in Seattle, but everyone is working from home anyway' is not a legal contract. Sucks and the employees aren&#x27
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
I think the tape just had 5 channels and each channel related to one level of grayscale. If the tape had more or less channels, there would be more/less exposures.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>We are getting close to the point where there isn’t enough human written text in existence to continue scaling these models. People say this, but GPT-3 (the latest we know the details on) was 45TB of text, which may be most of the open
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
FDIC has broad authority to issue advance dividends on uninsured deposits, based on their estimate of what they will be able to recover from asset sales. FDIC determined that a 100% advance dividend was appropriate, but merchandised it in a
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Whether it's grift or not, it's still keeping people out of the workforce.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Generative "Pre-Trained" Transformer - GPT They did not start with a transformer that had arbitrary parameters, they started with a transformer that had been pre-trained.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
> The issue is: from beginning on and for a long time Duolingo advertised with "Learn a language for free. Forever." :-( The original business model (from the guy who made Captcha) was that the learners would translate text for
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Because they got bought. Uninsured Indymac depositors got $0.50/dollar and usually, an uninsured depositor at a small bank can expect $0.60-0.75/dollar.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>Also, can you reference where they used a pre-trained GPT model? The trite answer is the "P" in GPT stands for "Pre-trained." >I think they conclusively show the answer to that is yes, right? Sure, but what's
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
Yeah, sure seems like it was guessing, right? Congrats on the sickest win imaginable though.
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by RC_ITR 4y ago
>published peer reviewed research from Harvard and MIT researchers months ago Curious, source? EDIT: Oh, the Othello paper. Be careful extrapolating that too far. Notice they didn't ask it to play the same game on a board of arbitr

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