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by alach11 3y ago
> participation in an industry that has chosen… to betray the best interests of the species is questionable at best In participating in the oil industry, I’ve found opportunities for climate advocacy that far exceed the difference an ave
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It’s ironic you call for making low-level employees of oil companies “pariahs” when you comment about flying private planes as a hobby. The fact is, oil companies act just as any other corporation does in a capitalist society. They’re fulfi
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by alach11 3y ago
> the executives and even the employees… need to be held socially responsible and overtly made pariahs within their communities Or, hear me out, we could legislate a carbon tax that prices the externalities fairly.
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When possible, I prefer people who work for me to have incentives that are aligned with mine. PE-owned medical practices and even many private practices throw that out the window, with financial incentives to do procedures or run tests. I w
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by alach11 3y ago
Yes. I work in the oil and gas industry. When our employees do their pre-job safety meeting, we have an app that makes tailored recommendations about job hazards. The steps are: 1. User types in the planned work (e.g., "replace dischar
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by alach11 3y ago
Boston Dynamics robots are still nowhere close to as dexterous, flexible, or capable as human laborers. Getting them to build houses is a massive and expensive R&D project, not a startup, for now.
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by alach11 3y ago
> I mean... the GPT-3.5 base model That would be text-davinci-003, I believe.
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by alach11 3y ago
Maybe you mean gpt-3.5-turbo or text-davinci-003? Or GPT-4 (technically in beta so not fully available to everyone)?
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by alach11 3y ago
Do you not feel like it’s a complicated issue? We have laws to prevent people from refusing work/service to certain protected classes. I can’t refuse to let you buy a beer at my bar because you’re Black. So there’s definitely some nuan
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by alach11 3y ago
How does the water company know you're using rain water?
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It's always funny to me to see the hypocrisy of HN on immigration policy. Low-income workers to clean our buildings, pick our crops, and receive more in taxes than they pay? Bring 'em in! High-income workers to drive America'
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by alach11 3y ago
> Small engine-based tools are a surprisingly large source of carbon emissions and air pollution... just one hour of gas leaf blower use is the equivalent of driving 1,100 miles Perhaps this is true for certain types of air pollution, bu
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OP in 2040: "It's not AGI because it doesn't have a soul."
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On a multiple choice test, does it really matter if they filter to only correct answers? Guessing will still result in fast answers, and be correct 25% of the time.
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> I would bet that quite a few people just guess when they find this type of question too difficult. Psych research is such garbage. Of course people are going to start guessing if the problems are boring and they can't solve them.
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Alternate title: "Less intelligent people give up on hard tests and begin guessing answers."
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> It will use IBM’s watsonx AI platform > Data, such as tracking data for the ball, tracking data for the players and the type of shots the players make from different parts of the court, is collected from a variety of sources I have
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by alach11 3y ago
This is the goal of Khanmigo. https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs
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Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics(nationsreportcard.gov)
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This is devastating. Whatever you think about covid lockdowns and remote education, it's clear that something drastic has happened. The question is... is there anything we can do to fix it? I'd hate to be a high school teacher rig
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by alach11 3y ago
To be fair, there's a huge sampling bias issue here. We're talking about the submarine whistleblower because it made the news headlines. An employee raising concerns with OSHA and getting proven false doesn't make the front p
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I'm surprised you had such a negative reaction to the Hindi accent! To me, it was no more difficult to understand than my colleagues who speak English as a second language. To me, this is a style choice for the demo. Not evidence that
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“Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and tors
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Neutrinos, perhaps.
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The killer app for smartphones is being a phone.
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The demo for that looked pretty rough. The user's facial expressions looked unnatural, and the lip movements were poorly synced to the audio. I guess there's only so much an "encoder/decoder" model can make up with
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When my wife and I bought our house last year, we made bags of cookies and visited every neighbor to introduce ourselves. This has paid dividends. In our neighborhood we now have friends we see weekly, people to call upon if we're out
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I work in O&G so I can give a few domain-specific examples I've worked on just in the last two weeks: - Smart pre-job safety app that looks across past observations and incidents to make job-specific recommendations about safet
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by alach11 3y ago
> People think the oil business is all about drilling. In reality it's first about reserves While this is true traditionally, shale is a different ballgame. A lot of the money spent in these shale plays is gone forever. If you spend

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