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by awb 4y ago
Reading between the lines I’m sure he meant that they could study those arts in addition to those fundamental studies listed prior. A nation devoted to poetry and porcelain isn’t sustainable. And certainly he must have been aware of how c
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by awb 4y ago
There are endless free and low-cost education options online if people wish to pursue it.
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> free speech is not the same thing as consequence-free speech Well, protected speech needs to free of consequences from the government. But the author is right that protected speech does not need to be free of personal or business conse
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by awb 4y ago
What’s your budget?
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by awb 4y ago
“Realistic” in the sense that it’s nearly impossible to see that a filter is being applied. But unrealistic in the sense that it makes significant changes to the user’s looks. Sad to watch the reveal reaction videos further down in the thre
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by awb 4y ago
It’s definitely plausible, but then wouldn’t you expect multiple outbreak sites? * In and around WIV * In and around the scientist’s homes, families and neighborhoods From the news I’ve seen all of the initial known cases were traced back t
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by awb 4y ago
> Lab leak is a lab leak. It’s an interesting question though. Working off of a lab leak theory, how did the first known cases all come from the wet market? Is it just coincidence that an infected scientist traveled to the outdoor market
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by awb 4y ago
0.3% is +/- 80 years. So it’s not 24650BC, it’s 24570-24730BC. And the farther distance you go, the greater the uncertainty. And when measurements improve or are revised, everything would need to be recalculated. So, for posterity, it
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by awb 4y ago
> about 26000 light years away about makes this suggestion completely impractical
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by awb 4y ago
Depends on how you’d like to use your time. Applying is quick and easy. And a company will probably progress anywhere from 5-15 applicants to an initial round. So while your chance of getting a 1st round interview are much smaller than last
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by awb 4y ago
For sure. Time and deliverables are the two concerns. Management can define one and engineering should define the other. If time is defined by management (ex. a Christmas sale), then engineering should estimate which features can be done by
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by awb 4y ago
How long until someone combines an LLM with a free standing android? That’s when we’ll see how good/poor LLM safeguards are.
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by awb 4y ago
At good companies they do adapt to engineering timelines. But marketing (reasonably) wants to know if an app launch is 4 weeks away or 8 weeks away and what features will be included so they can plan their campaign accordingly. And then the
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by awb 4y ago
These deliverables are usually tied to external events with lead times of their own like an ad campaign, new hire, funding, etc. Engineering teams that can more accurately estimate their delivery dates add tangible value to their company.
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> you can't, with a straight face, be comparing a Google search to what ChatGPT is doing. C'mon man. I’m comparing the utility of the output > Trying to explain the behaviour is literally cutting edge research. Here’s a good
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by awb 4y ago
> you're talking to a computer in English ffs and it not only understands you, it goes away and does useful work. Google has “understood” English queries for a while now in the sense that you can type a question in English into the
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by awb 4y ago
I used to run a design agency catering to tech startups. I’ve tried dozens of times to produce something that looks better than a free template for a personal site or a tech startup and came up well short every time. The high quality design
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by awb 4y ago
> the actions of large tax exempt foundations to fund the [censored] movement in a coordinated fashion by founding hundreds of geographically distributed non-profit pressure groups with almost identical mission statements, and sympatheti
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by awb 4y ago
We’ll that’s user-initiated de-escalation. Chatbots should also be able to offer de-escalation on their own.
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I’m sure there’s a name for this type of argument, but saying that X is also bad is not an excuse for dismissing potential dangers of Y. And there are many initiatives to address how teenagers treat each other. So it’s something many people
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by awb 4y ago
I think people are concerned about LLM safety because it’s capable of dynamically creating new private information. Google can only list links to public information. If there is a website that causes harm or violates the law it can be remov
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by awb 4y ago
If LLMs want to be useful in a professional setting, learning de-escalating or non-escalating techniques is essential. Parroting or amplifying a seemingly negative/aggressive tone limits their utility.
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by awb 4y ago
Chatbots claim to have safeguards in place to prevent them from saying anything harmful. If you read the chat linked in the article you can see how the chatbot resists answering the question and then is persuaded to answer it. Google simila
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by awb 4y ago
It suggested ways of poisoning someone without them knowing about it. It was encouraged to guess different poisoning methods that an evil chatbot might suggest.
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They’re two different LLM implementations.
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It seems under acknowledged by the “share the road” signs, or bike lanes that are in between car lanes.
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by awb 4y ago
Eerily similar to the recent Netflix movie "White Noise": https://www.netflix.com/title/81317320
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by awb 4y ago
From your description it doesn’t sound fair. In my experience, non-technical managers underestimate the importance of Senior devs / leaders / mentors. They might have the assumption that those folks are as replaceable as Jr. devs,
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by awb 4y ago
Dev 1 might make a card component with grey text as #999 and Dev 2 might make a footer component with grey text as #888. Components are locally consistent but not globally consistent. Or, let’s say you want to change all your grey text to #
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Seems like there could be a multitude of possibilities.

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