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Working to accomplish what goal for whom? I think largely they have not yet been effective at protecting immigrants. > They’re as much about spreading awareness and mobilizing the voting public as they are about current events. Right, so
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From the results paragraph in the top of the linked journal site: > Furthermore, 42% rated one of their experiences to be the single most profound of their lifetime. > Although no serious adverse events were reported, 46% rated a psil
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I think this means you're not longer optimizing for the right thing. My understanding is that max is important because your value of taking action A from state S includes the presumption that you'll pick the best available action
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The thing that worked for them was reducing the horizon. From my limited and dated understanding, I thought that's what the gamma term was for: exponentially you discount the value of stuff in the future to the point of being negligibl
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> However, as tasks and model behaviors grow more complex, human supervision becomes increasingly unreliable: LMs can learn to mimic mistakes in demonstrations or exploit flaws in feedback. How do we train LMs to do tasks that are too di
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I'm dimly aware that the Hindley-Milner system is closely related to System F and that System F has many notable exceptions on of the most significant of which is System F<: (System F-sub), which I thought was the subject of a numbe
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I think one seriously broken thing is that every company seems convinced their work is important, and scales their sense of how important work items are relative to the company as a whole. Orgs and teams do the same. You can be on a team th
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After Musk's purchase of twitter, I recall Musk making claims that there was a lot of bot traffic, and the numbers that had been used for valuation purposes were inflated. Even if companies weren't afraid of their brand being tain
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> which both (1. gives you an unlimited supply of noncopyrighted training data and (2. handily sidesteps the issue of AI-contaminated training data. I think these are both basically somewhere between wrong and misleading. Needing to gene
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Sure, and a hunting license doesn't require you to shoot anything but it would be weird to oblige you to get one if you don't have an intention of hunting? If green cards are easier to get, then the people that want them, and who
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> Keep good paying jobs in the USA. If we need immigrant labor, give them Green Cards instead of precarity. I'm all for giving more people a faster path to a green card if they want it. But should a person really have to get permane
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> The core question is to what extend software constitutes an asset or consumption. Isn't part of the problem with our industry that, even it is an asset, its value can be hard to determine even for a long time after you've wri
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IDK if that's right. Oddly, the current administration has gutted the IRS and seems pretty ambivalent about collecting taxes that are on the books. I wonder if there will be an inconsistent definition of who is a software engineer, b
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> Potential energy minimization is one of the most basic forms of goal-directed behavior. I'm confused by this statement. Potential energy minimization happens when my errant soccer ball rolls down a hill, but this seems not at all
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> I would never bring a dog with me outside to do anything other than go for a walk, always on a leash. They really don't belong in public spaces. This seems a bit extreme. I think dog owners have a responsibility to make sure their
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I haven't used the app and likely won't but neither article shows the mechanism by which users opt into "sharing" their interactions. Is there a dark pattern involved? Like, in lots of other app contexts, you can hit &qu
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... but why is not responding to a request for zero retention today better than not being able to respond to a future request? They're basically already saying no to customers who request this capability that they said they support, bu
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... but now, the "something new" isn't that new anymore. The model 3 looks similar today to how it looked in 2018 right? And in some places, they're everywhere . I can see how the more recently released EV models from o
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IDK about "at cost" but shouldn't _some_ price regulation of spare parts be included? With no limits, any manufacturer might say "The price for any spare part is the cost of the original item + a significant additional f
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Sometimes the involvement or effort from an actual human is part of the perceived value / willingness of the customer to pay. - People will pay more to go to a concert performed by live human musicians than they would to listen to a re
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> to more lightweight semi-formal approaches (such as property-based testing, fuzzing, and runtime monitoring) Ok, I get how property-based testing and fuzzing have a relationship to formal methods (the thing being checked looks like par
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> “On top of that, with inbound tourism and eating out resurging as we came out of the pandemic, demand increased,” Why does eating out increase demand for rice, rather than just shifting the same volume of consumption from being throug
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How about Argentine ants? The word "civilization" is of course loaded. But I think the bigger questionable assumption is that intelligence is the limiting factor. Looking at the history that got us to having a globe-spanning civil
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Concurrent with the WWII ice cream barges, the Navy _did_ actually have a lot of alcohol but really didn't want anyone to drink it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_juice
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> The idea that the first amendment disallows vetting of non-citizens is unfortunately not tenable Yeah, I keep hearing people say this kind of thing, or that the first amendment only protects US citizens. But ... where does that come fr
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> I’m pretty sure the men who actually wrote the first amendment would have been strongly against any non-European foreigner being educated in America, let alone those among them with anti-American views. Is there any example of colonial
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> I'd expect the lower bits to be changing at least half the time. I didn't read the code, but the readme focuses on whether less than 32.4% of bits are 1. So even if a lot of the pixels are changing at the lower bits between e
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> It hasn’t always been a cakewalk, but we’ve been able to establish a stable position in the ecosystem despite sharing it with all of these different kinds of intelligences. To me, the things that he avoids mentioning in this understate
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> simply list all structures and pick the structure with the index of the integer This sounds like to decode a single item you have to do work proportional to the cardinality of the set? Optimal space efficiency comes at a high computati
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I think the thing missing here is that the killer domain isn't necessarily intrinsic to the language or its design. Some languages are designed for specific domains, but some find their domain based on large projects that happened afte

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