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It’s about each country’s own laws about free speech, not a universal free speech. He says countries have to pass laws if they want to restrict free speech and he will comply with those laws
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Elon has been very clear about this: he follows the laws of each country. That is, if the government wants to restrict free speech, they must pass laws (or the equivalent in court) to do so and Twitter will follow their laws. If their gove
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Naturally, the infrastructure arises when the demand is there. But nobody was ever hesitant to buy a 4G-only phone for fear of insufficient 4G service because every 4G phone also worked on 3G. The same is not true of electric cars. People h
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> There is drift within an organism. The genome on your scalp is different than the genome on your toes > Also chimeras exist This provides a deep insight into the nature of multicellular life. People think that a "unicellular or
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> Even the mere act of walking out to one's "car", opening the door, getting in, and zooming away could be an act of adventure. It's incredible how much screen time is dedicated to the opening/closing of car door
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Characters in a movie only last during the viewing. When following a Twitch streamer, you keep following this person or character over many months or years (since many of them are playing character). If you feel a strong connection to a cha
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Even when we start to plateau on direct LLM performance, we can still get significant jumps by stacking LLMs together or putting a cluster of them together.
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Measuring across countries in a $ figure doesn't quite capture it. I'd use something like percentage of annual disposable income
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The savvy users that integrate new features into their creativity are the young people. Under 25. And of course creatives that do it as a hobby or a job. Regular folks won’t be using this stuff
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For how many years did this collusion last? What percentage of their annual profit could be attributed to price collusion? Norgesgruppen's 2005 annual report shows a profit margin of 2.2%. In 2021, that ballooned to 3.8%. That's a
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You should just need a better prompt. I think everyone would benefit from using a standardized prompt which asks the model to think through its work between `<thought>` tags before writing its response, and also reflecting on the resp
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It was template-based. The templates were written by humans. The computers filled in the blanks in the templates and combined templates together.
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> also wonder if impurities will become fashionable, just to show that a specific diamond is actually natural and can't be made in a lab. Why can’t you add impurities when manufacturing a diamond? “Doping”
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How do you achieve multiple dynamic dispatch with lambdas? Without pattern matching, don't you need the visitor to incrementally dispatch?
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I think it's a matter of taste. I just watched your link and it seems performative to me. I imagine a video from one of his earliest performances would have come off as authentic. But decades later, does he really even feel the same wa
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Copilot has your open tabs in context. Cursor has that plus whatever files you want to specifically add. Or it has a mode where you can feed it the entire project and it searches to decide which files to add
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Yes. Essentially, statements have no value (or return no value). Expressions have a value.
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I was not actually thinking of Javascript (or any particular language) when I mentioned async-await. I was just referring to the concept.
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20nm? TSMC’s N4 plant in Arizona is set to be fully operational this year. There was a delay, and then their schedule was accelerated. https://www.emsnow.com/tsmcs-us-fab-reportedly-eyeing-for-ea... N3 is still a few years
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Monads are pervasive: async-await. We just don’t call them monads.
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You are unfairly being downvoted. The reproducibility project attempted to reproduce the results of 97 experiments in psychology that originally had "statistically significant" results and was only able to find 37 with statistical
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This video blew my mind and hit me in my soul.
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Meta and Google want to retain their data moat to maximize their ad premiums over competitors. They really do not want to sell any data.
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> the decoupling seems more likely to be from the transition from manufacturing and other energy heavy sectors to more services based economic activity Put another way, instead of producing the products we consume, we offshore production
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> when you ask an LLM to give you a confidence value, it is indeed computed You mean the output of the transformer? It does not "compute" confidence values. It's still doing token prediction.
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> At the end of the day we’re just a weighted neural net making seat of the pants confidence predictions too. We might be. Or we might be something else entirely. Who knows?
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Yes, this is achieved through a meta process > By sampling multiple responses from the LLM and considering the one with the highest confidence score, we can additionally obtain more accurate responses from the same LLM, without any extra
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China this week just approved 11 new nuclear power plants, including a 4th Gen. Last year they approved 10. They currently have 56 in operation. I would hardly say the age of nuclear is over.
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Is visceral fat causal of those other health issues? Or coincident?
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> It doesn't seem that this approach "knows" the actual music. The article doesn't seem to explain how track embedding vectors are produced That's the thing with transformers, right? It doesn't actually &qu
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