SamBam

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by SamBam 2mo ago
But that doesn't help you understand why "chair" might be feminine while "book" might be masculine.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
> No client will pay $350/hour for your AI. But they may be willing to pay $200/hour for your AI (plus, of course, your final expertise in the matter as the lawyer), and the firm can ditch the paralegals and pocket the differen
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Indiana Jones, Monkey Island, Sam & Max, The Grim Fandango. Such a big part of my childhood and teen years.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Most of the sails in the article seemed to be rotor sails, but the suction sail mentioned by GP seems to be a type of turbosail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail
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by SamBam 2mo ago
I was thinking an apt analogy might be making stock -- you filter out all the solid food you don't want to keep in the liquid. And it's a doubly-good analogy, because I have occasionally gotten that confused in real-life as well.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
TL;DR, one of the main scientists and Nobel Prize winners for his work on the Kuru disease and discovery of prions, Carleton Gajdusek, was also bringing home (essentially kidnapping) young boys from his expeditions, in theory to experiment
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Wild that we accept that OpenAI didn't want to deal with the social/political fallout of people realizing that their tool was responsible for flooding the internet with misinformation and bigotry? Sure, now that all seems quaint,
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by SamBam 2mo ago
I don't think it counts as brute forcing unless you're resorting to trying every possible solution. And clearly the LLM didn't do that here, because there would be near-infinite possible solutions. I don't think we can r
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Agree. It was more a worry that someone would create a bot posting lies and bigoted ideas to Facebook/X etc.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Can you point to a recipe you liked, or rough instructions? How was it savory?
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by SamBam 2mo ago
> The problem isn't that AI could never be capable of causing real world damage. It is that there is absolutely no fucking path towards human extinction. I think the "humanity will go extinct" discussion is a silly strawma
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by SamBam 2mo ago
I tried following an authentic Southern pickled watermelon rind recipe, and they were so sickly sweet I couldn't stomach them. I should try again sometime with a regular cucumber pickle recipe, just replacing cucumbers with watermelon
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Were your geometric figures Form Constants? I learned about those from the novel Blindsight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_constant
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by SamBam 2mo ago
I should have scrolled down to your comment first! I spent 10 minutes debugging. Nice work GP if that was air-coded, though.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
I'm a software engineer turned public middle school science teacher. At the moment, I would never encourage any of my students to go into software engineering. It seems to me that's rapidly becoming a field where a small competiti
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Preferring books that have stood the test of time is totally different from just avoiding everything published in the last few years because you're worried it might be AI slop.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
There's more to Fantasy than a single boolean "does it contain something that is not real?" Fantasy gets applied to the work as a whole, to its dominant tone and structure, not to one element. A work of fantasy usually has ot
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by SamBam 2mo ago
You're not the only one to be taken aback by that. Yes, the Hugos do fantasy, but I'm not sure I would have even thought to categorize Sinners as fantasy. I mean, yes, it has vampires. Was From Dusk till Dawn fantasy? But as a
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Never heard that this is stopping anyone from reading recent books. Maybe someone whose only method of selecting books is to scroll through Kindle and look at the titles, maybe they need to pay attention to publication dates. But the rest o
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by SamBam 2mo ago
It's not about whether it makes rational economic sense, it's whether people are happy about it. It could make economic sense to be the world leaders in the next drug that turns everyone into mindless worker drones ("if we&#x
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Because (a) that vision of utopia is not party of any "self-proclaimed communist" philosophy that I've ever heard of, and (b) no one believes that's what's going to happen. Instead the evidence of our own eyes tells
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Besides the data center itself, many people in the US are against what the data center is bringing: more AI. Most regular people have not been sold on the idea that more AI will be good for them or their families or communities personally.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
And yet the bubonic plague did indeed exist and kill people between large outbreaks.
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by SamBam 2mo ago
Even in Massachusetts most people I know tend to know the seasons of many fruits and vegetables, and I definitely mostly eat apples in the fall when they're much better. When I lived in Europe people were even more aware of the seasons
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by SamBam 2mo ago
There isn't great evidence to suggest that electric toothbrushes are much better at removing plaque than manual. E.g. this metaanalysis [1] found basically no difference. There are also studies that show that electric is better, like t
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by SamBam 2mo ago
I'm curious whether individual-word highlighting is best for people with reading disabilities, or a broad, whole-sentence highlighting might actually be preferable. When I'm reading my eye is jumping back and forth across the sent
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by SamBam 2mo ago
If you're in New York and you look due East across the Atlantic, what country are you looking at? Most people would assume Portugal. Nope, you're looking (over the curve of the earth, of course), at Morocco. Look just a tiny bit t
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by SamBam 3mo ago
Desktop only (to save you frustration).
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by SamBam 3mo ago
I feel like that's the benefit to the creator having made this a dog (even if a demon-possessed dog). As intelligent as a dog can be, can we ever truly understand why they do the things they do? The Uncanny Valley effect would be too b
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by SamBam 3mo ago
It's a heartfelt apology to the UN, but, as the article says, too late.

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