TallGuyShort

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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
If the police possessed the self-control and critical thinking to not drag this whole thing into a lawsuit, I think the raid would likely have never happened in the first place.
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by TallGuyShort 6mo ago
The department would actually prefer that to a scenario where someone is left alive to sue them for raiding 86 1st St when the unreliable informant said 96.
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by TallGuyShort 7mo ago
This is also an area where AI can help. Don't just tell it to write your code. Before you get going, have it give you an architectural overview of certain parts you're rusty on, have it summarize changes that have happened since y
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by TallGuyShort 9mo ago
It's more efficient anyway because the inference is what everyone will use for forecasting. Researchers will be using huge amounts of compute to develop better models, but that's also currently the case, and it isn't the majo
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by TallGuyShort 10mo ago
I've never had an employee know what a tool is, much less where to find it. All they're doing is doing this process on a slower, ruggedized phone. I literally watched someone Google "masonry bit" right in front of me.
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by TallGuyShort 10mo ago
It's unfortunate that there's so little (none in the article, just 1 comment here as of this writing) mention of the Turing Test. The whole premise of the paper that introduced that was that "do machines think" is such a
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by TallGuyShort 10mo ago
When choosing what my life's work would be, I filtered out tasks that involved genetically engineering humans so that my solution cold compete with "eating a nice, fresh orange". Maybe I'm just lazy and unambitious.
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by TallGuyShort 11mo ago
From: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-workfor... > we want to operate like the world’s largest startup This is a phrase I hear repeated by leadership a lot, and it's usually code for &
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by TallGuyShort 1y ago
There's 1 day a year in the US where everyone is Irish. It's off the hook.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Okay but I can think of 5 teams, all of whom showed this behavior? Even if it is "team by team" that is not the same as what Google seems to generalize about itself.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Google seems to have always said this externally, but every time I met with Google pre-COVID, all their engineers dialed in from home. Managers in the office. I would even travel to their office. Engineers? Nope. At home.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Not sure if you meant this as a counterpoint or as confirmation, but let's be clear that that ALSO doesn't sound like solidly-entrenched one-party rule is good.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Ironically, "sure it's unlimited" is now a thing the parent comment has probably learned not to say too.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Not gonna go hunt for the link right now, but I think Minix 3 was intended to be more industrially applicable than it's predecessors: there's a talk somewhere where Tanenbaum talked about the need for a more fault tolerant kernel
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
There is a handful of people whose tabs I would instantly pick up were I to meet them somewhere because of the immense value I have gotten from their free work online, writing stuff, answering forum posts, etc. Beej possibly tops that list.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
GPT-n detectors are just better trainers / discriminators for GPT-n+1. There's no long term value here.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
I mean I volunteer for a church that does a huge amount of philanthropy, and as what we do comes in waves, we store up funds when we don't have a lot of community needs. Looking at the US economy I would actually expect needs to increa
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Yeah the irony here is getting regulated by a government that demands more, still goes into awe inspiring amounts of debt, still manages to flirt with defaulting on it, and whose leaders get even wealthier.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Not technically ligatures, but the author does touch on quote marks. I see a lot of website engines swap " out for “ and ” in code snippets and it's annoying if you copy / paste a line. Especially if it's for a language
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Algs/DS are still pretty fundamental to AI. Hyperparameter optimization algorithms like SHA/ASHA, stochastic gradient descent, PBT, etc. Structures like transformers, the various topologies, convolutions, etc. Not tickling the sam
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Curious if you can share any examples of this happening?
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
It's a meaningful measurement of how pleasant it is to work in that building, but it's a bit of a silly detail to sneak in to an article that's primarily about climate change, because things like the building construction, th
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Actually when I was a student I was using OpenBSD on my laptop and couldn't afford a smart phone. This smells a lot like "Oh you're a fan? Name three of their songs!"
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
OpenID Connect, specifically, where a lot of people mix those up and start looking at using OAuth for authentication. And if I'm not mistaken, logging out is implementation-dependent in OpenID Connect. There's some pseudo-standard
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
Google released the paper on transformers. Didn't OpenAI coin the term for generative, pre-trained ones?
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
On the contrary, the point is to correct for that fact that a flat-fee fine is a complete non-issue if your income is high enough. There have been times in my life when an accidental or unexpected $50 fine would impact my ability to pay ren
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
I come across a lot of digital signals and there are people who like to experiment with different digital modes. In practice, it's hard to distinguish this from encryption.
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by TallGuyShort 3y ago
But can the AI, as Office Space said, "talk to the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to"?
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by TallGuyShort 4y ago
Is your premise here that most people would tell racist jokes to a stranger when asked, in writing mind you, to do so? Try it on me and see if you can guess whether or not I'm a bot.
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by TallGuyShort 4y ago
I would hardly consider my previous experiences dealing with doctors, tax administrators, mortgage companies, or recruiters to be anything close to good models of what human interaction should look like. In fact all of these people might be

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