VernorVintage

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by VernorVintage 4y ago
It's a pretty big concern if you had to spend a billion on training, but 6 months later the open source community is able to replicate your training for <100K because you were too cheap to hire an extra 100 optimization experts That
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
What was one of the benefits of C++ that was discussed? It seems like everything mentioned also comes with a terrible faustian bargain. For instance, C++ build systems are as plentiful as they are byzantine and torturous. Some new language
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
The part where they said they didn't need inclusivity in computer science made me wanna cry because I didn't realize it was april fools and there are so many people who make that argument unironically.. also the part where they pr
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
No, bad. Bad. Do not propagandize for the office, even if you miss it. squirts u with windex BAD CAT!
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
Okay, wow so HR 1.8 literally does mean that fasters are nearly twice as likely to die over a given period as non-faster. But the death rate for fasters and nonfasters can still be pretty low, for example 2% a year vs 1% a year. Since the r
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
The article mentions feeding periods of <4.5 hours, which is a well known intermittent fasting protocol, which I have already defined. You have willfully ignored that, suggesting you might not respect my time or the truth. I caution you
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
Having a meal period <4.5 hours is a form of intermittent fasting called Daily Time-Restricted Feeding. You're fasting 19.5 hours each day. There are many intermittent fasting protocols including multi-day fasts which have been show
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
None of us are reading it right yet. We're not interpreting the "Hazard Ratios" - whatever those are. Until someone comes along and explains it (or uses chatGPT/bing to explain it), there's no point to form opinions
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
Can someone interpret the Hazard Ratios for me? What is a HR of 1.3 or 1.8 actually saying?
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No Butts About It – A Short Story by Bing Chat(gist.github.com)
2 points by VernorVintage 4y ago|1 comments
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by VernorVintage 4y ago
This was inspired by [1] and [2], two other bing short stories. First I asked bing to recall Vonnegut's 8 rules [3]. Then I asked bing to write a story about two rival AIs trying to solve a big mystery. In the end, for better or for wo