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by barrkel 2y ago
Crime seems sufficiently low that police have bandwidth to deal with more petty crimes. However I would not expect an unlocked bicycle to be safe, there is still quite a bit of bike theft. But I would expect a simple lock to be enough, most
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by barrkel 2y ago
Top of article photo is Baden, 5 minutes walk from where I live. Small world.
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by barrkel 2y ago
The argument for growth is ammunition against the kind of cosy deals that are everywhere in Europe, insulating established businesses from competitive pressure. Half the regulations out of the EU are an attempt to level the playing field so
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by barrkel 2y ago
A tape drive was a standard accessory for the Commodore 64. Almost all games were on tape. The Amstrad CPC 464 had a tape drive integrated into the chassis (the 6128 used a 3" floppy - not 3" 1/4, a 3" disk). In the UK a
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by barrkel 2y ago
Good moderation can increase the signal to noise ratio immensely, but also increases the latency. I vehemently disagree that Reddit is in any way even approaching equivalent, much less better, than Usenet was. There's something about t
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by barrkel 2y ago
Chat isn't a good way to store information.
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by barrkel 2y ago
China has been for some time a mercantile state that believed trade surplus and subsidising local production would create geopolitical strategic outcomes in its favour. It's a bit less like that now as Xi drifts into a more personal di
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by barrkel 2y ago
It creates a legal fig leaf for the usual Chinese protectionism.
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by barrkel 2y ago
I don't think that's the right way to think about LLM logits. Fundamentally the logits represent probability of similarity with the text it's been trained on, given the current prefix. Mixed in with any correspondence with tr
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by barrkel 2y ago
The article is badly written if the author's intent is to communicate their ideas to other people.
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by barrkel 2y ago
It's penalizing high power to weight ratio, i.e. sports vehicles.
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by barrkel 2y ago
I have never used an LLM for buying intent and those are the valuable queries, AIUI.
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by barrkel 3y ago
See also this article from 2016, where I first read about Sima Qian: https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/
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by barrkel 3y ago
I'm not really talking about trauma or anxiety. I'm talking about a feeling of resentment and anger directed at the other - the kindling for that flame of anger is past injustice. Letting go of this is forgiveness, I think. It&#x2
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by barrkel 3y ago
You can't change the past. The opposite of forgiveness is hanging on to a past hurt. Past hurt cannot be changed. Forgiveness isn't gaslighting, making up a fake story, or brainwashing. It's letting go of something you can&#x
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by barrkel 3y ago
I think that's just the US, though, right? UK imported 11 tons of saffron from Iran in 2023 - https://wits.worldbank.org/trade/comtrade/en/country/GBR/yea...
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by barrkel 3y ago
I think this was probably a machine learning play, generating data for training, and I guess it didn't add up in the end.
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by barrkel 3y ago
By interacting with it. You see the contours of its capabilities much more clearly, learn to recognize failure modes, understand how prior conversation can set the course of future conversation in a way that's almost impossible to corr
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by barrkel 3y ago
I think you see this dynamic anywhere young women and older teenage girls are trying to build an audience through video, not just Twitch. I don't see any obvious way to change it. How do you police the line without seeming fundamentali
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by barrkel 3y ago
Sure, you tell the finance industry that. They have systems, the systems already produce CSV. They can sign a contract worth multiples of your salary if you can consume it. Do you want the money or not?
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by barrkel 3y ago
On the topic of nested CSV, three approaches: - treat it as a join, and unroll by duplicating non-nested CSV data in separate rows for every element in the nested CSV - treat it as a projection, have an extraction operator to project the ce
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by barrkel 3y ago
CSV is not well-defined. Data in the wild doesn't even agree that it's comma separated. String encoding? Dates? Formatted numbers? Booleans (T/F/Y/N/etc)? Nested quotes? Nested CSV!? How about intermediate syst
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by barrkel 3y ago
FWIW, Rombach and Esser, the two guys behind the original model, gave some appreciation for Emad on Twitter just now.
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by barrkel 3y ago
That's my guess too. Emad teased SD3 while it looked like he was looking for more money, but without convincing rationale for not releasing it already. The samples may have been heavily cherry-picked, we don't know if it's ac
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by barrkel 3y ago
Reviewing this comment I didn't get all the terminology right - when I said rake, I was conflating trail, rake and steering head angle, where the latter two combine to define the amount of the former. There's more stuff here: htt
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by barrkel 3y ago
That article doesn't look to be up to date with respect to meat fat. As far as I can tell, the current bad stuff is trans fats (hydrogenated oils), followed by processed meat (preservation like smoking, nitrates, high salt), followed b
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by barrkel 3y ago
The counter steering answer to that question is rake, the fact that the steering axis hits the ground in front of the contact patch if the front tire, so that when a bike is leaned over it self-steers into the turn (the contact patch torque
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by barrkel 3y ago
Languages are generally only similar at a superficial level and have a lot of fractal detail with high variance. For your data flow graph, are you going to handle copy constructors, assignment operator overloads, implicit conversions etc. l
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by barrkel 3y ago
That asset value is made out of rent. It has baked into it an assumption of market inefficiencies in the form of excess profits.
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by barrkel 3y ago
This isn't an argument for a default.

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