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by akiselev 3y ago
Both. In an ideal world, all nonviolent prisoners would serve their time in minimum security prisons as would violent offenders who are genuinely rehabilitating. With work release reintegration into society is little more than a change in r
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That might have been some fake news that worked itself into my brain. Politfact says it's mostly false [1] and that McDonald's doesn't use prison labor in its franchises but did at one point contract out the manufacturing of
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It's a joke even if she does report and serve. > Holmes, 39, was expected to serve her time in at a minimum-security prison camp in Houston, Texas. Minimum security prisons are the kind where you can leave during the day to go to
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by akiselev 3y ago
Even then getting ASML equipment at cost only saves a few hundred million. They'd still be left with almost $20 billion in other expenses like the hundreds of millions in robotics and material handling equipment (the most precise in th
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by akiselev 3y ago
> There were just as many, or more, that died out, but my point is that measuring how many people have heard of a thing is not a great metric. For a social network , it's kinda important.
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There are no unregulated markets. Property rights are a regulation.
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The Mental Health Crisis Has Hit Millennials(jonathanhaidt.substack.com)
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If anyone honestly feels this way, I invite them to read The Republic for Which It Stands [1] by Richard White which is about the post-Civil War era and the Gilded Age. Everything from the political division to the growing income inequali
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by akiselev 3y ago
Nothing happens, except everyone on the Hill will ridicule the politician and his staff. To resign Congress members have to actually send a letter to the governor of the state they represent. Most unilateral actions in government require so
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It’s an excitation of the sensor. It may be interpreted somewhat like a bit flip when converted to an image, but it’s normal for image sensors to experience a lot of noise, going back to the days of film. It may just be eliminated by the de
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8x A100 80GB are $12/hour or so on Lambda Cloud. If you get lucky enough to snag capacity.
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Have you tried adding “(answer) in the style of [writer]” to your prompts? It really changes the voice of the generated text. Charles Bukowski, Hunter S Thompson, Christopher Hitchens, etc
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https://archive.ph/l6zo7
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I’m guessing it’s a play to build up a training and RLHF dataset for another model. A diverse dataset can be hard to put together without opening it up to the public like OpenAI did.
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I think that explains that visceral self hatred he carries around and how much he despises the final five but not his hateful contempt for humans. The rebel Cylon models and grunts who turned against the rest of the collective at the end ce
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by akiselev 4y ago
I put the entire article into ChatGPT just for a laugh: > "Earth Day Blowout: Save Green on Bro Candles, 10% Off!" > There, your eye-catching email subject line promoting a 10 percent discount on select Bro Candles with a
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by akiselev 4y ago
They're the "largest" manufacturer of tiny little toy car wheels that use a few grams of rubber. It's a paid ad for LEGO, not a serious record.
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Would fluid-structure interaction [1] with encapsulated systems fit the bill? It’s a subset of continuum mechanics which is probably the best field to model the layers of atmosphere as a mix of solid and fluid continuums and oscillatory sys
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Autoformed, as in self-formed, by cyanobacteria
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I object. Please don’t take the word alchemy away from us amateur alchemists before we even figure out an economical way to transmute nuclear waste into gold. Can we hold off on the cultural dilution until there’s an extant culture to dilut
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by akiselev 4y ago
Nothing. If you're only going to use it non-commercially on private property, there's almost nothing stopping you. You can even have an entire tank shipped in as long as it doesn't have any shells [1] or secondary guns, and y
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You’ll need to sterilize everything with a 50% solution of bleach. Not by spraying it like a domestic cleaning agent, mind you, but by submersing or covering it for five minutes. That should be enough to denature prions on the surfaces of e
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by akiselev 4y ago
The use case here is looking through logs for software that aren't familiar, especially stuff that gets touched too infrequently to internalize like, say, driver logs on a Linux workstation. If it's faster for you to read the logs
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That log line ( with the four space at the front for HN formatting) is 40 tokens [1]. You can easily fit several hundred log lines with GPT4 8k context and with the incoming 32K context, you'll be able to fit close to a thousand log l
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A lot of those human lessons learned and failures probably are incorporated in the training data. I wonder if literally telling it to perform an OODA loop in those words might allow it to perform better than otherwise, using reasoning exa
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Flanderization has the honor of being one of the few TvTropes that has leaked into Wikipedia proper [1] and it's even credited! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanderization
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Do you have a source on that? My understanding is that most cattle are finished on grain but most of that feed is distillers grains [1], which is an industrial waste from ethanol and biofuel production. The majority of cattle spend most o
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It's worth reading to the very end: > Murdoch seemed trapped by the people he radicalized, like an aging despot hiding in his palace while the streets filled with insurrectionists. This is what struck me the most though: > Dur
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"Aspiring dictators in Berkeley" What permeates society is chronic histrionics.
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That's a guaranteed path to evil [1] [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil

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