Tao3300

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by Tao3300 3y ago
Buying shady penis pills on the Internet is a voluntary risk. Play stupid games, win stupid heart attacks and priapisms. Though I do think Amazon should have a share of the blame. Buyer and seller are both wrong here.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
All the better for when we need to hijack their ships with a virus.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
My understanding is that this lawsuit is about the training corpus. This is on the level of asking it to cite its sources for a/an/the.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
You'd effectively be asking it to cite sources on why the next token is statistically likely. Then it will hallucinate anyway and tell you the NYT said so. You might think you want this, but you don't.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Neural nets don't memorize passages of text. They train on vectorized tokens. You get a model of how language statistically works, not understanding and memory.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
First contact with aliens will happen or it will be confirmed to have already happened.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Hey it's Vince with Shamwow! (Skip in 1320 seconds)
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by Tao3300 3y ago
The first half definitely isn't, it was a term on the list of top priority bad things to stop saying. The second half might just be me mistaking correlation for causation. Other items included: * blacklist/whitelist - mostly compl
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Someone from HR told us we weren't allowed to call them that anymore. No one knew how to ask for something we no longer had a good name for, so we stopped doing them.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I suffered a fatal error because I expected a few end parentheses there.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Almost cute, but I don't give a flying fuck about my HN points. I also haven't counted as "youth" in a long time.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
There's a bright side??
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Why would I? Whenever I do it gets buried by the algorithm unless I specifically tag someone.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
They can't. It's a pizza cutter comment. All edge and no point.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Not cheating, but there isn't a good argument from the given criteria: 1. Quality of work. 2. How much better he was than his contemporaries. 3. How much he stayed the very best in subsequent centuries. 4. Quantity of work. 5. Peaks. 6
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I'm a Xennial and I love the Beatles. I can't think of anyone I know my age who doesn't. My kids love them. Even if the Boomers were peak Beatles they aren't going anywhere for a while.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Those are stored elsewhere in the Library.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
This paper is in the Library, along with all the endorsements and refutations, as well as the discussion of it here. So are: - all the false discussions that deviated into a political topic that turned into a flame war - the index of all th
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by Tao3300 3y ago
2010 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Should have picked a different snake, like... I dunno, Asp? Wait, no, not that one...
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by Tao3300 3y ago
This person gets it.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I maintain that "wiki" should be pronounced "weekee"
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by Tao3300 3y ago
It rhymes with GZA
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Almost cute. That's been the past time since before all our ancestors left trees.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
That's probably above the Guardian's heads. I don't mean that as a diss, just that that level of technicality isn't their thing.
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by Tao3300 3y ago
"just" is there to distinguish a gold rush from a singularity
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by Tao3300 3y ago
I've got nothing smart to say about databases on a Saturday
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> "It won't ever do this thing" and "ok, it kind of does it in simple cases and may do it in increasingly complex cases as time goes on" are two very different statements with a gulf between them. Until it's
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by Tao3300 3y ago
Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, Ebenezer!
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by Tao3300 3y ago
> A job today is no guarantee or even context for a reasonable assumption for a job tomorrow. This is rolling over in submission for evil men, thinly veiled in the language of badass cynicism.

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