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by aeturnum 3y ago
To me, it kind of sits between Golang and Rust in terms of intent. I think the goal is to deliver reliable runtime characteristics at the speed of a compiled language, while generally only demanding as much specificity as higher-level inter
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An example used in the paper are the human drivers of Uber self-driving cars - one of which killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
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by aeturnum 3y ago
There was a great paper[1] I read about the human components in complex technical systems which argues that one of the roles of the human is to take the blame when the entire system fails. This does real valuable work for the companies invo
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by aeturnum 3y ago
This seems like a useful index, but I just wanted to say that I love the name. A good name is so much fun.
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I am not well versed on them either! I was thinking of things like people on the spectrum finding eye contact uncomfortable (as opposed to connecting), or perhaps a focus on sub-points of the conversation which others find difficult to foll
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by aeturnum 3y ago
My understanding is doctors will reliably treat requests from autistic patients with more suspicion than they do neurotypical patients. Either because of how people on the spectrum often communicate or how they react to stress and discomfor
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by aeturnum 3y ago
You have misread the article, I believe. The article opens with this quote: "The National Retail Federation earlier this month retracted its April assertion that nearly half of the $94.5 billion in merchandise that went missing in 202
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think there are many problems with the patent system but the way you are describing it is overly broad. There are lots of technical details in this patent that describe a way of doing that. Once the period of exclusivity is up anyone can
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by aeturnum 3y ago
> I wonder if putting "You are GPT-4.5-turbo" in the system prompt improves performance >> quite possible I love this! I love the idea that we are in an age where, by accident, our technology pays attention to the en
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by aeturnum 3y ago
It's probably both - right? Because there's more CO₂ each individual plant will grow larger and draw up proportionally fewer nutrients. At the same time, we are also able to rotate crops more often, so whatever replenishes nutrien
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Yah, without any evidence to back it up my personal suspicion is that we'll arrive at a local maxima of "full self driving on highways and instrumented roads" in ~20 years. I think the area has a lot of potential, but so much
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by aeturnum 3y ago
So my analogy is false huh? Then say a true one! The point is that "deployed to a limited area" is not what people are thinking when they talk about a "self driving car." Of course ParkShuttle isn't the same as Waym
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by aeturnum 3y ago
This is always a game of boundary-setting. In one way that's true, in another way Waymo is 21+ years behind[1]. People have been setting up 'particular vehicles' to navigate 'particular areas' for decades. If the Wa
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I would say that criminalization is "an" issue - when the drugs go through black markets quality suffers, it's harder to drive out bad suppliers, keep markets open, etc. This decreases the quality of the product overall, but
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Yah - I guess what I am saying is that in order to write the, "factor X is worse than we thought" article - you need to know what factor X was before. So really...people who do this work must have a set of coefficients that go int
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by aeturnum 3y ago
This article is so close to what I am asking about, but in the end it's once again about an unexpected increase in warming. Yet you can see that the information probably exists somewhere.... > ...analysed[sic] data on ship emission
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Articles like this seem to get published most often when a problem turns out to be worse than we thought. That makes sense - and I suspect that, on balance, we've been overly optimistic about how much warming will come from each source
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think the thing being criticized is the tenor of the pushback. The suggestion that, because the blog author (Eshel Yaron)'s patch wasn't accepted and the change is still currently in, that the maintainers are "insistent not
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by aeturnum 3y ago
> What makes the Gaza conflict more prominent to the US than what's happening in Africa? Lots of things! Israel is generally the largest recipient of foreign aid[1]. This is partially, but not exclusively, because Israel is consid
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I read this before it 508'ed and now can't quote from it (so you will forgive a critique in abstentia), but I think this energy is misdirected. The author is broadly correct about how much space Africa takes up in western "po
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think that there are a lot of legitimate reasons to work on developing new distributed ledger tech. There are interesting potential use cases. However, I do think that pessimistic list applies to most people who are currently investing
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I don't think you're wrong exactly, but I would say that computational photography is an explanation for why you might pick this camera over similarly spec'ed ones. Most people never approach the fundamental physical limits o
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by aeturnum 3y ago
Parts of this reminded me of Daniel Ellsberg's admonition to Henry Kissinger about security clearances[1]: "[...]You will feel like a fool, and that will last for about two weeks. Then, after you’ve started reading all this daily
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by aeturnum 3y ago
> realizing that it's better to say nothing at all than to write "it works for me, use something else if you don't like it" It seems really important to clarify what you will and won't do in your projects. Sett
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by aeturnum 3y ago
It's a shame this is all you got from the response because I think what they said is actually a lot more interesting: > Thanks for trying the font and having lots of thoughts. You're right that it doesn't follow all of the
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I think you have an unrealistic and unfair set of expectations here. Most climate change models are designed to try and predict certain events over others - i.e. sea level rise, overall temperature change, etc. It doesn't really make s
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by aeturnum 3y ago
I suspect that an overall rise in sea levels will lead to extremely difficulties in the infrastructure that loads and unloads ships. Again - it's not that this is "the problem" - it's that such huge systemic changes di
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by aeturnum 3y ago
> A queue of ships waiting to use the canal has been growing in recent months amid a deep drought. A key point of a lot of climate change projections have been that we will be encountering changes that are very hard to predict and plan
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by aeturnum 3y ago
> The only way to do that is to have some kind of smarts doing very non-trivial computations to arrive at the next-next-next-next...-next word that makes sense within the context of previous words and words that haven't been yet ge
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by aeturnum 3y ago
This is a subject that I have always been confused by. For instance, my WindowServer is currently shown to have 3.26gb, which is a "VM Compressed" amount of 1.96GB, but a "Real Mem" amount of 223.1 megs. This is on a mac

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