advael

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by advael 2y ago
I'm strictly speaking never going to think of model distillation as "stealing." It goes against the spirit of scientific research, and besides every tech company has lost my permission to define what I think of as theft forev
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Certainly most of the ones with green names for whom a reply to me criticizing a big tech company or disavowing them in aggregate is among their first ten must be
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Unless we start chopping these tech companies down there's not much hope for the public internet. They now have an incentive to crawl anything they can and have vastly more resources than even most governments. Most resources I need to
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Isn't that kind of a non-sequitur? The claim made was that renewable energy would still be a finite resource to some degree. It's possible that the available energy surplus will be too big for any decisions about usage to matter,
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A lot of this is attributable to the way our society is designed at a high level With the exception of a tiny number of people in exceptionally autonomous jobs (either working for small organizations or in high-powered roles) both governmen
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While it's technically true that the specs are public, the implementation not being public is most of the issue being solved
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Love to see someone genuinely trying to improve at something and I'm glad to have played a tiny part in it
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Yea sorry if I came off caustic there, dealing with really dismissive attitudes toward juniors I'm actively trying to foster has perhaps left a bad taste in my mouth
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I suppose such a bootcamp may exist but wow, that's crazy to me But yea, having now read the whole thing I'm mostly taking issue with the writing style I guess. I find the method they tried interesting but it's worth noting t
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by advael 2y ago
I read to like the first line under the first bold heading and immediately this person seemed like an alien. I'll go back and read the rest because it's silly to be put off a whole article by this kind of thing, but what in the ac
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Again, I really don't feel qualified to weigh in on most of these matters, though I will say that I generally do prefer direct citations if you'd like me to take the epistemic credibility of a claim more seriously than any other t
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by advael 2y ago
Huh. For all the claims that US manufacturing is down, it does seem that if we adjusted per-capita it's on par with China based on the figures presented here, which I really didn't expect to see I'm no expert and of course I
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It's weird to me how often people come away from interacting with the poor with a reaction that would seem overly stilted and unfair if it was put in a cartoon
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I mean if you wanna angel invest I have some backburner projects I can't get done without some funding for hardware and time spent not earning an income, which I could probably spin into startups
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Wait so you're saying that it's important to allow predatory business models to continue in the industries that do the most harm through constant consolidation to support ballooning costs? Like the healthcare system's conso
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Okay but for the vast overwhelming majority of people, what they actually need is "a helping hand, a business loan or grant etc" You talk about this like this is trivial, but it's the kind of material help that would make a d
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by advael 2y ago
Yea but you know what's even better than a tax? Not being able to release those products onto the market. I really doubt products whose "value-add" is lock-in would be able to survive black-market dynamics. But Apple, Google,
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A "tax" like this is essentially equivalent to a fine, and a fine is a price Also, companies can just price the additional cost in, blame the government for the price increase, and mislead consumers about the tradeoff being made.
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So the idea is to ban the practice for smaller players without the scale to eat the costs? No thanks, an outright ban is necessary. This will not prevent manufacturers from doing business no matter how they may whine about it, and frankly i
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Generally when people refer to the "times" they are discussing the vibes over some aggregate. Zoom in enough on anything and you start to see different individuals with unique circumstances, but this doesn't make futile the e
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Optimistic times always end when people who won power in them fight to hold on to increasingly more of it, and tend to only come back once they fail, stop, or fall.
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People really worry about fake video and images and whatever but I have to say, the correct heuristics both already exist and have existed for a long time: 1. Anything on the internet can be fake 2. Trust is interpersonal, and trusting cont
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I think the claims here are kinda weak, not gonna lie. It's unclear to me that this means of adding case-by-case additional conditioning data to improve results is particularly novel or effective compared to the popular StyleGAN-based
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Sure seems like we ought to be more aggressive about this whole anthropogenic climate collapse problem Like maybe problems like vast swaths of the world becoming both less livable and less arable all at once is somewhat to blame for all the
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A major reason why petrochemicals are such an economical solution in so many places in the supply chain is that petrol companies are drastically subsidized by governments. Merely ceasing those subsidies might go a long way to help
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Several of today's "business leaders" and the various judges appointed by the ascendant kleptocracy seem to constantly argue otherwise. What's the actual plan for doing that?
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Cuz quality is not equivalent to standardization, and sometimes the latter is undesirable
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There are few drugs for which withdrawal symptoms can include death, but alcohol is one of them and it's legal for adults to consume it recreationally. I don't think elucidating the risks of any substance is ever a bad thing, but
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Yes! I think people should understand the risks of anything they try, and it's imperative to do good research, combat misinformation, and do anything we can to allow people to know enough to make informed decisions. If by "precaut
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I wouldn't say most, maybe a little under half, and usually these are pretty minor effects that don't bother the person very much, and for the most part seem within normal subjective variance, just perhaps jarring because of the c

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