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by alex_sf 3y ago
That's a limitation of the dataset used for that particular tuned model. Probably not a great choice on their part given that people aren't reading past the headline, but the actual base model is not restricted.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> Or to a manual load balancing strategy. What I have in mind is being able to easily re-direct users from one server to another using a simple CLI utility. This won't entirely eliminate downtime issues but it will (hopefully) miti
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by alex_sf 4y ago
More than the cores and RAM, you have bigger issues with I/O (both throughput and latency) to disk and the network from cloud providers. Physical hardware, even when comparing cores/RAM 1:1, is outrageously faster than cloud serv
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by alex_sf 4y ago
StackOverflow still just runs on a pair of (beefy) SQL servers. Modern web engineering is a joke.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
As others have mentioned, this is a kind of sharding strategy. It doesn't get rid of the need for load balancing, and it's really going the opposite direction of what we know to be reliable. > Manual/statistical load bala
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by alex_sf 4y ago
No, your intentions are very clear (and naive), you're just wrong.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
The research being hard means progress will be slower, not that we should implement unproven things.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Can a benevolent system be inwardly focused? How benevolent is it to ignore your neighbor? If we say that it's not a pretend virtue to care about democracy and freedom around the world, then wouldn't it would be a reasonable impe
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Is the US somehow unique in history for this? If the US is simply better at it, isn't that relevant? It's not like other (former) superpowers didn't do the exact same things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by alex_sf 4y ago
This is often repeated when talking about education, and it is absolutely wrong. Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland all have private schools.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Education is not a javascript app. Even ignoring the consent and ethical issues, doing something double-blind in a government ran system impacting statistically significant number of children simply can't be done. You can't maint
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by alex_sf 4y ago
That seems likely. Small groups allow for lots of questions and deeper explanations, which plenty of teachers can't provide.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
We don't know, and school districts aren't required to report it. In 2022, 78% didn't. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-12-15/la-ed-schoo...
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by alex_sf 4y ago
That's what achieving equity means.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
You're being intentionally obtuse. If you have the capacity to have an accelerated program for 1,000 students in a district, then you rank by test scores and bring in the top 1,000.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
If everyone was dedicated to greenwashing, would that be better or worse than the current situation?
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by alex_sf 4y ago
It's not 'throw away', it's just (over a couple generations, admittedly) they are objectively better. People want them. The fact that they are being recycled mitigates the horrors of technology improving.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> I almost want to cry thinking about how critical of him I was (never shared, but sometimes reflected implicitly with how I phrased questions) at the time. Reach out and tell him that. I'm sure he'd appreciate it.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> The level of bureaucracy in administering these brain puzzles at mass scale is absurd. It's unavoidable when you allow too many different interests to have a say in the process.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
If you want human-readable dumps, there's no reason you can't convert the more-efficient format into something human-readable.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> Again, that's not what I said. You seem to have a problem with this. It would be interesting to see you actually argue against something other than a strawman. Are you capable of that? Yep. In fact, I specifically asked you for y
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> Maybe take others advice and stop commenting on this topic because everything you said is wrong. Oh lord. > I’ve bought Bitcoin many times without any KYC. In old days localbitcoins and these days ATMs in many countries ... There ar
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> You could say the same about the US healthcare industry as it currently exists. No, because despite the mixed-bag that a single payer system would bring, it is not actually destroying healthcare. Unless you intend to force them to pro
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> unhoused people were never prospective clients of the real estate industry See, this is what I mean. This sort of 'solution' is advocated by people that have never bothered to contemplate the second order effects. Try to ima
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by alex_sf 4y ago
Another great point. Truly insightful. This is the level of discourse adults experience from cryptobros, and it's why no-one except other cryptobros actually take you seriously.
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by alex_sf 4y ago
There is a ton of trusted third parties involved. You're trusting: - The KYC of your exchange, and any exchange in the coins path - The wallet you're using - The recipient to provide the correct address - The exchange rate And
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> No-coiners are exhausting. More than naive cryptobros? > Bitcoin triggers a deep psychological anxiety in some people and their reaction is to construct these defensive arguments in their heads about why Bitcoin is stupid, a scam, u
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by alex_sf 4y ago
> - Bitcoin doesn't use DHTs. I didn't say it did. But the idea of distributing data in a P2P fashion is not novel. > - The term blockchain was coined after the Bitcoin white paper was published, to describe the mechanism
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by alex_sf 4y ago
It's only useful for speculation, scams, and drugs. What other utility does it have?
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by alex_sf 4y ago
I think it depends on what you consider to be the first such system. The earliest ones I personally recall using were Liberty Reserve and E-Gold, which were basically fine, I guess. It was a good way to send money around with less eyes on

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