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by _yb2s 2y ago
Great to hear from you, and awesome project. I had an early 90s 240 that did have ABS so assumed incorrectly that yours would. Dropping the hydraulic pressure sounds like a really good idea, hope that works!
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Very cool! I love the Volvo 940- it stands out as one of the best quality, and best designed cars ever made. It's an incredibly mature design evolved slowly from the Volvo 140 in the 1960s through the 240 in the 70s and the 740 in the
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by _yb2s 2y ago
It’s not, the author either does not know what they are talking about and/or is mistranslating to English. You can clearly see in the photos that this car has electronic fuel injection, but simply has a physical throttle body- somethin
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> it's fundamentally impossible for an LLM to exhibit those qualities, because they depend on having volition I don't see the connection between volition and those other qualities, saying one depends on the other seems arbitrar
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> Flat Earthers can still come up with a pretty good idea of where (direction relative to the vantage point) and when the Sun will appear to rise tomorrow. Understanding is having a mechanistic model of reality- but all models are wrong
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> But it doesn’t - it’s a statistical model using training data, not a physical or physics model, which you seem to be equating it to (correct me if I am misunderstanding) All learning and understanding is fundamentally statistical in na
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Any thoughts on how to identify which HDPEs have those things as a regular consumer, without mass spec? I'd assume they add those to get specific properties for specific applications and knowing the application and/or that an expe
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I get that people really want an oracle, and are going to judge any AI system by how good it does at that - yes from sci-fi influenced expectations that expected AI to be rationally designed, and not inscrutable and alien like LLMs... but I
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Except I didn't just state it, I also explained the rationale behind it, and elaborated further on that substantially in subsequent replies to other comments. What is your specific objection?
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by _yb2s 2y ago
> You seem to be equating "being able to predict the next symbol in a sequence" with "possessing a deep causal understanding of the real-world processes that generated that sequence" More or less, but to be more speci
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm not sure if you read the entirety of my comment? Increasingly accurately predicting the next symbol given a sequence of previous symbols, when the symbols represent a time series of real world events, requires increasingly accurate
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm actually in the camp that they are basically not very useful yet, and don't actually use them myself for real tasks. However, I am certain from direct experimentation that they exhibit real understanding, creativity, and model
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by _yb2s 2y ago
No, that example is not something that I would find very useful or a good example of its abilities- just one thing I generally expected it to be capable of doing. One can quickly confirm that it is doing the work and not copying and pasting
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by _yb2s 2y ago
You're expecting it to be an 'oracle' that you prompt it with any question you can think of, and it answers correctly. I think your experiences will make more sense in the context of thinking of it as a heuristic model based
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by _yb2s 2y ago
What an uninspired and dishonest view of Mullis. This basically presents him as an idiot that just got very lucky once - a "complete fluke," that had an unfortunately awful personality... and then goes on to try and spread the cr
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by _yb2s 2y ago
The headline question here alone gets at what is the biggest widespread misunderstanding of LLMs, which causes people to systematically doubt and underestimate their ability to exhibit real creativity and understanding based problem solving
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I'm not writing a biochemistry textbook here (although I have done so)- the things you are saying are not new concepts to me. It is always challenging to be precisely correct, while clear enough to have a meaningful discussion with peo
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I have noticed traveling that in many other countries it is the norm to have some type of totally waterproof flooring in bathrooms, kitchens, etc. so that it can be simply hosed down, and the inevitable leaks don't destroy everything..
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I hate fake wood floors with a passion… they are so slippery they are fatal- I had a dog become paralyzed by slipping and breaking his neck, and an Ex break a foot falling on these. They are so hard they hurt your feet, look disgusting even
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Honestly the water bottles are probably fine as they likely don’t leach much BPA unless something happens to break the polymer apart- like contact with a strong chemical solvent. Although BPA is an endocrine disruptor, it is likely that nor
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Same here, although they sadly discontinued the narrow mouth version.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
True- I don't think they are likely to specifically exhibit the drug like toxicity that some other plastics are responsible for, but you are right that doesn't rule out other potential issues from a small, hydrophobic, physical ob
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Good point- what I said is wrong, it was removed from consumer goods like water bottles but is still legal and used in food manufacturing equipment in the USA. It has been banned in the EU from all food contact. I have edited my post above
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Everything I said are basic facts about plastic chemistry you can verify yourself, but I can elaborate more if that is helpful. If you'd like a more specific example of what I am talking about, take for example Bisphenol A (BPA), one o
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I've looked a bit, and not been able to find evidence of HDPE getting into cells, or exhibiting biological toxicity, whereas there seems to be quite a bit of evidence of this for almost every other type of plastic. Still, I wouldn&#x27
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Plastic cutting boards are mostly just plain undyed polyethylene (HDPE)- which is just a fully saturated perfectly straight hydrocarbon, similar to saturated fat or wax and lacks the kind of reactive functional groups that make other plasti
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Sadly, we probably all are LLMs/bots on the internet at this point, just talking to one another. The real humans have all become fed up and are now mostly off fishing by a lake.
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by _yb2s 2y ago
I had similar issues as an (also heavily customized) Firefox user, but was able to fix it by installing Cloudflare's Privacy Pass browser extension. It seems ironic that as a human I can't seem to reliably prove I am a human with
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by _yb2s 2y ago
Thanks, that clarifies my confusion about how this could be realistically implemented. I couldn't see a practical way to verify every device on every connection via a central authority without massive scaling and reliability issues, bu
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by _yb2s 2y ago
One point I wanted to add- an older car like this is fully depreciated, and will often increase in value if you manage to keep it in the same condition. Buying older cars- especially models with rarer desirable traits like a Turbo or manual

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