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by afpx 10mo ago
If anything, the LLM is cool because it keeps me moving forward.
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by afpx 10mo ago
I know a surprising number of people who take ibuprofen daily but will avoid stretching and exercising.
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by afpx 10mo ago
The global debt is at almost 350 trillion dollars, which is over 300% global GDP. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mature-markets-push-g...
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by afpx 10mo ago
From that wikipedia link, it looks like most of the deaths were of people who already had severe mental illness.
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by afpx 11mo ago
received message: "Maximize the production of paperclips"
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by afpx 11mo ago
The best functioning society that I experienced was when 90% of the people were (presbyterian) Christians. We replaced that with something very, very disfunctional.
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by afpx 11mo ago
How deep do you need to know? "Imagination is more important than knowledge." At least for me that fits. I have quite enough graduate-level knowledge of physics, math, and computer science to rarely be stumped by a research paper
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by afpx 11mo ago
It does if you're connected. I've seen many incompetent and under-skilled people given high-ranking positions in tech companies simply because they knew someone.
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by afpx 1y ago
They were actually correct, though. I thought it was funny. There were a lot of us back in the day especially in the rust belt.
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by afpx 1y ago
That's awesome they gave you greens. All I seemed to get were bricks of moldy cheese, dried milk and occasional bread and mayo sandwiches.
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by afpx 1y ago
I block X and related domains at the router.
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by afpx 1y ago
I can't see how AGI can happen without someone making a groundbreaking discovery that allows extrapolating way outside of the training data. But, to do that wouldn't you need to understand how the latent structure emerges and evol
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by afpx 1y ago
I’ve never used DuckDB, but I was surprised by the 30 GiB of memory. Many years ago when I used to use EMR a lot, I would go for > 10 TiB of RAM to keep all the data in memory and only spill over to SSD on big joins.
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by afpx 1y ago
Does it take into account ESL? I know at least at my daughters school, kids with English-speaking parents score very well. The others score very low, on average. I notice when I pick up my daughter that the ESL kids group together and only
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by afpx 1y ago
The current AI hype is causing a lot of leaders to put their organizations on the path to destruction.
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by afpx 1y ago
Not that I understand all of this. But does that mean a bijection exists from probability values to specific prime positions?
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by afpx 1y ago
That will never happen as long as people are terrified with anxiety from continuous media exaggeration and "Security and Defense" are hidden behind thick veils and dark budgets.
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by afpx 1y ago
Papers published on PubMed are often pretty wild: "Conservatism is a system-justifying ideology that seeks to rationalize the existing political, economic, and social order" I'd bet most conservatives would describe themsel
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by afpx 1y ago
Buddy, the US currently has highest % immigrant that it has ever had, and it's getting really close to the max that a non-authoritarian government can sustain. For comparison, here are the immigrant pcts for top 20 most populated count
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by afpx 1y ago
Here's a regular occurrence for me: I took my daughter to shop for clothes at Target. She picked out an outfit and wanted to try it on but it was in a pack and needed to be separated first. I found a clerk and asked her to separate it.
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by afpx 1y ago
Immigration is great when it's done at the right pace. The pace of the last 10 years has been jarring. It's counterproductive at this point just because of the extra cognitive load alone. Can we take a 20 year break then start it
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by afpx 1y ago
For real, the ad in the middle was kind of obvious.
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by afpx 1y ago
It makes me uneasy to let a company that was literally named after a CIA program and given billions of dark money over the years selectively educate our next generation. Plus, Ellison on surveillance tech: "Citizens will be on their be
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by afpx 1y ago
What surprises you about my comment? I’m sure a lot of people are re-thinking where they stand in light of recent world political trends.
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by afpx 1y ago
I sure hope so!
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by afpx 1y ago
I guess so
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by afpx 1y ago
I was a politically active liberal all of my life, but if the world forces me to choose between communism and fascism, I'm choosing fascism.
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by afpx 1y ago
It's tough to watch the change when not too long ago a software developer with decent skills could literally submit 5 resumes and end up with 3 good offers.
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by afpx 1y ago
"Understanding. Judgment. The ability to see how pieces fit together. The wisdom to know what not to build." How would one even market oneself in a world where this is what is most valued?
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by afpx 1y ago
I never understood why an upstart couldn't just identify the top revenue producers on YouTube and compensate them extra for moving to their platform.

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