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by bigfudge 2y ago
I don't think so. UK and US have equivalent unemployment rates but vastly different welfare systems. Germany is more generous than the UK but has lower unemployment. Southern Europe has higher unemployment, but welfare typically less g
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by bigfudge 2y ago
And because they are physically more removed from the consequences of being a dick.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
But Pearls book explicitly argues for using correlational evidence to infer causation. The trick is to actually have a causal model and design observational studies that rule out as many alternative explanations as possible.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
We only have correlation for lots of important results. Smoking cigarettes is one example. Experiments are almost always better, and a lot of correlational research is terrible. But knowing something for sure doesn’t always require an expe
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Part of it is that we’ve destroyed many of the sociable spaces in which this sort of acculturation can take place and be supported.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
If you think setting this up is simple you have no idea how big corporations make decisions like this. Even if the actual website setup was simple, many people will have been involved and the 'marketing cost' has to account for th
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Ollama is great. I actually wish they would wrap OpenAI and Azure and generally act as as a proxy for third party APIs. Having a consistent, well thought out API which isn't tied to a single provider would be really good for the commun
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I think your comment is rude, and naive in that it misses the point. The investment here is small relative the the marketing budget, which tells us something about their priorities.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
It’s so niche that it regularly wins the popular vote in the US despite massive voter suppression. The only reason the god n guns lobby wins in the US is 1. the constitutional settlement which massively overweights rural voters and 2. corpo
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Fine tuning doesn’t ’add content’ the way RAG does though. They’re not really comparable in that way.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
It works with one eye closed though. I wouldn’t like to have to close both eyes when I’m arrested and pissing off the police by not opening my phone.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
In my case, I have to make a conscious effort to remain consistently (in)tolerant of lazy writing. It’s hard to keep on reading between the lines and giving the benefit of the doubt.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I actually pitched this idea as a project for students on an MSc EE course a friend runs. Sadly none of the students picked it but we looked at it in some detail and it’s so simple that even the dev boards +battery + mic array could have be
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I really wish someone would make a pendant like this which is focussed on local-only use. It could connect to a mobile app or computer for transcription and summarisation, but using local models or an API key that the use chooses. I would p
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Facebook already knows how old its users are with a great degree of accuracy. The block does not have to be perfect to be effective at a societal level. Some curious kids may circumvent it. But it would prevent the massive network effect wh
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Why polarise things even more like this? I agree with you (in partperhaps) and think it’s often fine to like 70s and 80s films for what they are without ignoring the fact that values and mores have changed. 1970s attitudes to women at work
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Why do 5 a an extension of the original chat? Just start a clean context. I actually wish this is something lmql added - the ability to start a clean context but still refer to previous completions by name. I have a hacky implementation of
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Because one will be a net benefit to society and the other probably won’t be?
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Your dystopia is not the only alternative to prohibition. Legal sales through boring/uncool government outlets would be my preference.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Alcohol is the one people really can’t handle. The evidence is that this causes far more harm to users and society than other hard drugs.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
But there is something special about both of those temperatures because they matter greatly to humans. This graphs should be designed to make referencing agains those values easy, where that is going to be useful.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Steel is less common, but not really for performance reasons. There are plenty of lovely steel bikes, and they are more durable and just as light. Feel is also nicer (although this slightly more subjective). Ali is just cheaper to manufact
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Presumably they don’t have to be around for too long though as they will be replaced by coral once their job is done? Your comment did seem needlessly pessimistic to me, and was absent any specialist knowledge of the engineering involved i
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think it’s a fair assumption that you cant trust memories of dreams. Heck, you can’t even trust memories of eyewitnesses very much. We are all doing a -lot- of active inference and post hoc reconstruction all the time. We just don’t notic
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by bigfudge 3y ago
What about your login password though? Or an email password which you occasionally need to access on a machine you don't control? Those are the passwords where I use a passphrase.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Edit: I replied to the wrong comment, although this still stands! I still miss macromedia Director though. I learned to program with HyperCard and then director, and I always thought it was a shame it got canned when adobe bought it.. it wa
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I guess that’s why it’s fairly interesting to see scores thrown out in this thread on random hardware. It’s anexdata, but gives a sense of the spread/variance of scores for common platforms. I don’t think this is a number that is ever
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by bigfudge 3y ago
It’s not clear that’s the case. Speculation on the HN thread when it happened was that there had been back channel talk with the EU to clarify that this wouldn’t be the case.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is a cool idea, although presumably m3 would be faster even for single thread apps? Also, are there cases where memory bandwidth could leave cpu at less than 100% on m1 but still be faster on m3?
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Why not point to actual flaws in the methodology then? It’s a really interesting a very hard to run piece of research. Inevitably it will be flawed because tight real world experiments in economics are hard/impossible.

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