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by azernik 1y ago
"Those types of cognition have been found to map to real-world employment of the same." ...in humans. That correlation has not been established for LLMs.
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by azernik 1y ago
The point is that the correlation between doing well on these tasks and doing well on other (directly useful) tasks is well established for humans, but not well established for LLMs. If the employees' job is taking IQ tests, then thi
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by azernik 1y ago
The "rise of power of the church" was not the cause of and did not exacerbate the collapse of Roman state power in the Early Medieval period. It was in fact in the Early Medieval that the Church was most instrumental in propagat
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by azernik 1y ago
That is not how the "dark ages" came to be, and that is not how the Church functioned. The Church didn't think witchcraft worked and saw belief in its existence as heresy! Institutionally-backed witch hunts were mostly an
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by azernik 1y ago
The way to reduce the risk is to diversify. Taiwan with a China risk and the US with a "US risk" is much safer than either alone.
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How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok into MechaHitler?(prospect.org)
11 points by azernik 1y ago|0 comments
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by azernik 1y ago
Mechahitler was likely the trigger.
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by azernik 1y ago
Flush door handles are completely orthogonal to whether a car is an EV; that just happened to be Tesla's design language.
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by azernik 1y ago
It's considered a really small orbital rocket. This demo vehicle is preparation for a suborbital vehicle, those can be much smaller.
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by azernik 1y ago
Sometimes the efficient market happens to you (and that's good)
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by azernik 1y ago
No. As an extension of the rule about not taking his name in vain, and rules about preserving written instances of the name, observant Jews try not to refer to him explicitly. There's a bit of a dysphemism treadmill involved, but oh we
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by azernik 1y ago
"Everyone agrees - this is non-partisan" is itself a piece of rhetoric designed to create that reality in a situation where it's in doubt. If everyone actually agreed you wouldn't need to emphasize it.
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by azernik 1y ago
G-d is not your parents, and set and worded His rules with omniscience that your parents do not have.
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by azernik 1y ago
Judaism in most variants doesn't have hell. Don't try to parse this religion as "Christianity with different rules", it'll only mislead you.
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by azernik 1y ago
There's an important distinction between "thing that happens even if you don't intend it" and "thing that happens because you intentionally caused it" (and the even more subtle distinction between "benefic
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by azernik 1y ago
He's not "fooled" - this is within the rules he set.
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by azernik 1y ago
Things have improved a lot. These days GNU Radio (via OsmoSDR) supports all the big hobbyist-price-point SDR vendors, and most of them go from ~50MHz to ~6GHz.
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by azernik 1y ago
Then just don't use percentages, and rely on people realizing that a 7 degree difference is big!
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by azernik 1y ago
The slope of the Fahrenheit scale matches that of the Rankine scale. I would still say that the in the Rankine scale percentage increases make sense, and Fahrenheit changes to not. The thing that matters isn't the slope, but the zero p
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by azernik 1y ago
It makes just as much intuitive sense in Fahrenheit as it does in centigrade.
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by azernik 1y ago
"The average temperatures on the Victoria line have risen by almost seven degrees since 2013 – nearly a *30%* increase. Conversely, the increase in the average annual temperatures across all Underground lines from 2013 to 2024 was mere
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by azernik 1y ago
An analogy I've heard is that it's like using a forklift at the gym. The point is not to get an object from point A to point B, it's to develop skills.
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by azernik 1y ago
The descent mechanism would be built for the much denser Venusian atmosphere. On Earth, it may not slow the thing down enough.
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by azernik 1y ago
If you're treating a "this person is who they say they are" checkmark as a status symbol, that's a you problem.
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by azernik 1y ago
We need the blue checks to combat impersonation attacks. If a malicious actor pretends to represent a New York Times journalist, or your bank, or a government agency, you don't want users to be tricked into believing them.
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by azernik 1y ago
It was a "hidden caste system" with no real consequences for people's interaction with the platform. I have approximately zero sympathy with the "anti-bluecheck" resentments that Musk tapped into.
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by azernik 1y ago
If you're looking for a link to the results of illegal hacking, then I humbly suggest that aboveboard news sites are not the place to look.
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by azernik 1y ago
Even worse is the all-decimal MAC problem. Some genius decided that, to make time input convenient, YAML would parse HH:MM:SS as SS + 60×MM + 60×60×HH. So you could enter 1:23:45 and it would give you the correct number of seconds in 1 hour
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by azernik 2y ago
If you don't mind sharing - what's the specific prompt you use to get this to happen, and which LLM do you use it with?
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by azernik 2y ago
Humans are really well designed mechanical systems!

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