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by abeppu 3y ago
They try to define "conscious content", "conscious attention" and "conscious awareness" in their system (pages 6-8) -- but nothing really convincingly says why a system with this architecture should have an inn
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by abeppu 3y ago
This is in the Japan Times and Kuraray, the company doing the surveying is a Japanese company. The article doesn't mention whether the 4000 children surveyed were all entering schools in Japan -- but I wonder how much these results wou
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by abeppu 3y ago
Given that the agency seems not to be able to cope with change at a reasonable pace, I wonder if 1998 was just when the control system project finished, having been planned and started several years prior.
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by abeppu 3y ago
Frustratingly, though the article goes into how replacing/upgrading the whole control system will be an big, expensive project, they don't attempt to say why they can't just update the "read from floppy" part of the
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SFMTA's Train System Running on Floppy Disks(abc7news.com)
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think it's actually for approximately the same reasons: - the spokesperson has learned a specific tone and register - the spokesperson is almost certainly not actually involved in adapting systems and policies to do anything, and for
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by abeppu 3y ago
And does the requirement that "this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software" mean that the mpeg specifically must be included?
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by abeppu 3y ago
Google search has been getting worse over time, and has strongly biased towards showing its own content, or content extracted from source sites, rather than linking to those. I think key issues of this move will be: - if people are paying f
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by abeppu 3y ago
> Get out of the Google Cycle wherever you can. I think this is a bit much. Maybe the better lesson is "don't get attached to products whose providers aren't sustained by and dependent on you and your money." Yes, goo
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by abeppu 3y ago
Why would it be unconstitutional? There's a reason I made a direct comparison to the CBO above -- that reports to the legislature and has a responsibility to gather information and prepare analysis about the likely (fiscal and economic
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by abeppu 3y ago
Is that the DIA? I'm of the understanding that because the DIA reports to the Secretary of Defense, and is a combat support agency, that it is pretty tied to administration goals. An example of serving administration goals and politica
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think in the same way that the Congressional Budget Office is generally regarded as pretty neutral and trustworthy, and makes forecasts about legislation proposed by both parties in a way that is generally credible, perhaps we need an int
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by abeppu 3y ago
> A federal grand jury in New York indicted Veliotis in 1983 on 17 counts of fraud and perjury Hold up, even the US doesn't do the death penalty for fraud and perjury right?
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by abeppu 3y ago
I thought extraordinary rendition was a) started later and aimed at "terrorists" (and it seems hard to argue that this guy is in that category) b) used to take people to black sites in 3rd countries, not to face charges or detenti
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by abeppu 3y ago
> A federal grand jury in New York indicted Veliotis in 1983 on 17 counts of fraud and perjury, and he is being sought as a fugitive from this prosecution. He lives in Athens. > Top Navy officials acknowledged after Veliotis fled that
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by abeppu 3y ago
Do the service owners/providers even have meaningful benefit? Anna's archive asks for "volunteers" to run mirrors. I have to imagine that most users do not pay for content that they download.
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by abeppu 3y ago
> While cognitive tests to distinguish mild cognitive impairment from pathologic decline do exist, they take about 15 minutes, which can be hard to come by during the limited time of a doctor’s visit and may require a follow-up appointme
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by abeppu 3y ago
For people on this who are more knowledgeable about both recent incidents and perhaps any details about Boeing as an organization ... do the recent incidents make you skeptical of _all_ Boeing aircraft? Is it only later generations of the 7
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by abeppu 3y ago
Yeah, we're agreed that j cannot be less than 0. But your conjecture was about _every j > 0_. Do you have any specific line of reasoning which suggests that j can be arbitrarily close to 0 (0 is the greatest lower bound)? Why do you
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by abeppu 3y ago
> red flags, can help you negotiate the best deal and extract the most concessions from a seller ... but under the current system, the buyer's agent is also incentivized to get the buyer to pay as much as possible, to maximize their
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by abeppu 3y ago
But: - sale by owner without a realtor is a thing (at least many places?) - all you need to do to be "them" is take a test and get a license, right? I.e. if as a buyer willing to pay 6-7 figures for a home, the cost of getting tha
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by abeppu 3y ago
I also find the realtor system to be poorly aligned with the best interests of their clients. But ... is it a cartel? On the one hand, yes, brokering these transaction is limited to a specific group. But getting into that group seems not th
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by abeppu 3y ago
Predicting that this holds for any j > 0 seems rather bold. Would you care to share your intuition why you think that's the case?
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by abeppu 3y ago
So, I agree that I don't think a software project solves the problems the post starts out with. However, I wonder if the project can be used to solve other issues? For example, I think there's a spectrum of knowledge-base like sol
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think even setting aside the edge device aspect of this, continual learning is quite challenging. Even doing good experiments about continual learning in a single architecture (which kind of require simulating a model's "lifetim
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by abeppu 3y ago
IDK, looking at SF data, I see plenty of firefighters, police officers etc whose overtime pay is higher than their base salary, and whose cash compensation is above 300k. For example: https://transparentcalifornia.com/salari
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by abeppu 3y ago
... except the rich can hire enough lawyers to use the courts as a weapon, and in the US, campaign contributions or other rewards for compliant politicians can mean that legislatures are often on the side of corporate interests.
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by abeppu 3y ago
I think a flip side I've seen is when the first applicant through an interview loop has basically no chance of getting an offer because (a) people know they're not calibrated and (b) "surely the odds are low that the very fir
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by abeppu 3y ago
I'm not a heavy reddit user so please correct me if I got this wrong. - I think the "giving 10% shares" thing morphed into reddit creating its own crypto coin which was supposed to be backed by shares? https://tech
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by abeppu 3y ago
Wait, these are not the same. "you now (2024) have the opportunity to become Reddit owners at the same price as institutional investors" is very different from in 2014 saying "the Series B Investors are giving 10% of our shar

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