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by armoredkitten 3y ago
Firefox has an experimental fingerprinting protection option built in, which you can enable with a flag: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-protection-agai...
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by armoredkitten 3y ago
Yes that stuck out to me as well. The author seems to be setting up a straw man, as if people are arguing that the brain can't distinguish between a line drawing and the real thing (or a line drawing and a photograph). The other inform
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by armoredkitten 3y ago
That's an impressive accomplishment, although the comments here are rightly mostly about the absurdity of student debt. I feel incredibly fortunate to have been able to graduate debt-free, through a combination of a) attending school i
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by armoredkitten 3y ago
As someone who went through and got a PhD in psychology (I now work outside of the field, but that's neither here nor there)... There are definitely problems in the field, in some subareas more than others. I am pleased to see how much
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by armoredkitten 3y ago
When I saw the 2023 date, I was very confused, as I could have sworn I read this years ago. But yes...the original publication date was 2015, as noted in the "Information" section as well as the copyright. Looks like when Cambridg
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by armoredkitten 3y ago
Yeah, I'd be curious to dig into the specifics of that research a little more. My gut is telling me that there may be other factors at play that could explain this sort of thing. People who respond quickly are likely also showing signs
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by armoredkitten 3y ago
I had a friend of mine recommend them a while back. I was extremely dubious -- a gel pen? For lefties?? No way. Well, he was right. I've been converted to the church of EnerGel.
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
This seems like a needlessly complex theory to describe the behaviour of generative LLMs. I think there's a kernel of something in there, but quite frankly, I think you can get about as far by saying, essentially, that because LLMs are
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
Part of the contention is that the OGL 1.1 is trying to retroactively revoke the OGL 1.0. Whether or not that is legal is, well, a legal question. But boycotting the new edition is not "the only thing" the industry has to do, if b
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
Sometimes you just need a burger-like product to take to the company BBQ so that Todd from accounting will shut the fuck up for once about how vegetarian food is all "rabbit food". Sometimes you want to make one of the many dishes
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
I've got a bunch of stuff, all running in Docker: - Nextcloud for file syncing and sharing, syncing photos/contacts/calendar from my phone, and Joplin notes - Pi-hole for ad-blocking - Jellyfin for media - Miniflux for RSS re
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
I don't know if I'm too concerned about that, to be honest. Yeah, there's a huge cost in terms of training the LLMs, and then there can be a cost for downstream inference, but I think it depends on the use case. In some cases
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
That's fair -- perhaps we could frame it as a large-scale beta test of sorts. Researchers are building LLMs to solve problems, but new technologies can often end up solving problems they were never designed for. Once people get their h
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
Please don't reduce LLM down to ChatGPT (or generative models more generally). People are using LLM for real-world problems every day. BERT and its descendants/variants are used all over the place for many different problems in na
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
For anyone using btrfs on their system, I heartily recommend btrbk, which has served me very well for making incremental backups with a customizable retention period: https://github.com/digint/btrbk
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
What a sad state of existence if you think this is true. There are so many incredibly tasty and satiating foods made entirely out of vegetables. Many cultures have a wide range of tasty plant-based foods -- India, Thailand, Japan, Mexico (j
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
The reasonable counterargument to this is that you are comparing the actual pain and suffering of real, existing animals, to the potential life of animals who do not currently exist. "What happens if we stop raising livestock?" me
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by armoredkitten 4y ago
That's a good follow-up, with the quibble that the math is wrong -- he added $7.5k for insurance as a benefit for a salaried employee, then also subtracted it as an additional expense for being self-employed. So he double-counted it. W
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Non-mathematician here (psychologist now doing work in data science & machine learning). I was told this book had interesting insights about AI, consciousness, and the like. But I read it last year and found it the most tedious, absolut
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I'm honestly astounded by this. This might just be the stupidest idea I've ever possibly heard. I mean, okay, "distributing money for everyone fairly" sounds noble (though maybe naive, too...), but like...literally every
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Definitely doesn't end like that -- when I finished, it gave sort of a summary screen with the performance for each round (kind of similar-ish to Wordle's summary screen). So sounds like it bugged out for you.
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Certainly there can be dangers when government funds research, and especially when it's the military arm. But (democratic) governments at least have a purported interest in the public good, whereas other funding sources (i.e., private
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I switched from Evernote to Joplin a year or two ago, and it has been a great experience. Joplin is much more markdown-centric, so it doesn't fully replace all of Evernote's features, but it does have good support for multiple org
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I agree with you to some degree, but I don't feel like you're winning anyone over with the "I'm not X but if I were, I would just..." I've been vegan for 6 years now, and vegetarian many years before that, and
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Much better :)
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
This looks really cool! One small suggestion -- I found it difficult to read the text that I was typing. The black text on dark grey is hard to read. The dark theme is nice, but I could only read what I was typing when there was a tooltip s
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
I would love to see journal editors transition into more of a "curatorial" role. Journals as publishing outlets don't need to exist anymore. The arXiv and other preprint services (e.g., Open Science Framework) have solved the
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
If you are into self-hosting, I've been using Miniflux for the past six months or so and it's been great. There are lots of options for RSS readers in that space, but the advantage is that they can be checking feeds "in the b
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
It's not inherently true. Technically, deep learning is essentially any neural network model with hidden layers (i.e., one layer in between the input layer and the output layer). You could have a "deep learning" model with
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by armoredkitten 5y ago
Let's see, how about mincemeat, mountain oysters, pork butt, Welsh rabbit, prairie oyster, black pudding, sweetbreads, and (the most delicious of the bunch) beavertails. There are plenty of names of foods that do not at all describe th

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