akira2501

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by akira2501 2y ago
> does not make value judgements So we are not allowed to? The Hacker News gatekeeping instinct is particularly hilarious to me.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> I like AIs with a personality You are confusing training artifacts for "personality." > could be better for coding and for puzzle-solving, which are not the vast majority of uses of LLMs. To see a product fail to evolve a
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by akira2501 2y ago
It's ground beef. The rule is you must cook it to the proper internal temperature. This is reasonable food safety. This simply precludes medium as an option. If they grind their own meat or use something like ground chuck or ground
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by akira2501 2y ago
> Children pretty much have to eat what you give them until they get a job. So.. then.. why are we advertising to them _at all_?
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by akira2501 2y ago
You're telling me this ad appeals to you in your demographic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJmM2CSn2ao
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by akira2501 2y ago
> Unclear why "service" is in quotes. Not many people get to be in the room where it happens. You answer your own question. There's no reason at this point in history the "room size" needs to be artificially lim
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by akira2501 2y ago
The "service" of writing down things people have said out loud is pretty low margin. So your choices are to put a paywall up and hope people pay a flat rate for whatever you happen to offer each month or to increase your distribu
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by akira2501 2y ago
Failure to properly perform discovery is already common grounds for a malpractice suit. I don't care if you believe me. You seem to have your mind made up anyways.
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by akira2501 2y ago
It's already a common grounds for a malpractice suit. In a lot of cases these will be handled by the attorneys insurance and will probably be settled. You really shouldn't take the absence of evidence as any sort of evidence itse
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by akira2501 2y ago
> will the weather support an outdoor bbq event this late in fall next year? Sure, but there could be a disease outbreak, or a pork meat recall that prevents it anyways. The weather, as a factor, is generally insignificant with resp
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by akira2501 2y ago
It'd be a great way to get sued for negligence. You can't even assume the counterparty has correctly put everything into discovery for you. What you don't know is what gets you into trouble. An example from the Karen Reed c
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by akira2501 2y ago
In order to predict the climate you need to predict volcanic eruptions. Good luck.
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by akira2501 2y ago
Exactly. https://press.uni-mainz.de/the-limits-of-weather-forecasting...
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by akira2501 2y ago
Forecast models predict 7 to 14 days ahead. They have not and never will be able to predict further than that. We don't even need them to.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> One caveat is that GenCast tested itself against an older version of ENS, which now operates at a higher resolution. The peer-reviewed research compares GenCast predictions to ENS forecasts for 2019, seeing how close each model got to
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by akira2501 2y ago
We used to sell _literal_ "snake oil" as a curative. What you may actually be witnessing is a low awareness society turn into a high awareness one. What is being highlighted is you never should have had that trust in the first pl
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by akira2501 2y ago
> failing a random annual FDA inspection What is involved in that inspection and what does it take to actually fully fail it? Is it like most government tests where the first failure means you just have to fix the problems and schedule
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by akira2501 2y ago
> For small local brands I'd exempt them until the economics became viable. Why would they suddenly become viable? The only way that would happen is if the price of the product is increased to cover the costs of what you're pr
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by akira2501 2y ago
https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/
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by akira2501 2y ago
So a few years ago I went into my chrome configuration and added a new custom "Site Search". It's shortcut is "mdn" and the URL is " https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=%s&w=3&
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by akira2501 2y ago
> Why are we suddenly screwing around with democracy? Suddenly? We've been doing this for 60 years, most particularly, in South America. It's now just made it's way fully into Europe. > We know how to do it - we&#x2
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by akira2501 2y ago
C:\Progra~1 They didn't force anything.
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by akira2501 2y ago
Safety tests really are the lowest level of engineering understanding you can have with a product. You give it to a bunch of people and not to a bunch of other people and check to see if things seem to be working without too much divergenc
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by akira2501 2y ago
> probably signaling pathways Check out Homeobox Proteins.
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by akira2501 2y ago
UBI will do nothing with respect to advertising. In fact it would probably make it worse.
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by akira2501 2y ago
Stop pharmaceutical ads. Stop NGOs and USAID from being able to buy ads on any issue.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> Did you know that YouTube does not make a profit, but only covers its own expenses? Yet they make no decisions to reduce those expenses. You either have to believe they are incompetent or this statement is on the spectrum of half trut
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by akira2501 2y ago
Half of what they're paying for is the analytics. Look up "cost of customer acquisition." Those numbers can get pretty high depending on the segment and showing you an ad costs fractions of a penny.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> do better Which is what? > just because that happened The subtleties matter. The ads were purchased per issue or over several issues. The publication solicited the advertisers business and not the other way around. The rates were
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by akira2501 2y ago
Herds are notoriously hard to wield. It's a rather foolish mission. Anyways I see all these as "signals of despair." It shouldn't be that shocking it's just the particular form it is taking this news cycle.

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