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by bigfudge 3y ago
Or we could choose to prioritise humans over the meaningless growth figures the US values. When the median income has barely changed or even shrunk overall growth number is irrelevant. In fact it's worse than irrelevant — it means your
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by bigfudge 3y ago
For someone too lazy to read all the docs, is most/all of the lavaan model syntax implemented?
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by bigfudge 3y ago
brms and rstanarm make using it very easy. Blavaan likewise. The transition from Conventional model syntax is great scaffolding.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
As I understand it, fine tuning is never really about adding content. RAG and related techniques are likely cheaper/better if that’s what you want.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
The other problem with this argument not noted above is that goods are ordered in many cases. It would be possible to substantially reduce costs, but only by living among people who are objectively poor by current standards. Without passing
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I don’t think this is nitpicking I actually disagree with you. I think it’s an empirical question how much money could be saved by disavowing only the frivolous consumer items that you’re talking about. My hunch is, it’s less than you thin
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think it’s more complicated than that though. Whether a nitpick or not in that comment, the money to sustain modern levels of infrastructure to support, clean, water, sewage, healthcare, et cetera are probably only possible because of the
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by bigfudge 3y ago
This is only partly true. By opting out of most of the financial system and deliberately living on small normal incomes. They will pay very little tax and certainly not enough to pay for investment and healthcare national infrastructure pro
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by bigfudge 3y ago
psychologically, though, it’s much easier to suffer hardship. If everyone in your community is also suffering the same hardship. Making unilateral choices to deny yourself, creature comfort doesn’t seem all tha likely to succeed as a strate
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I’m not sure how people are supposed to do that in the browser. This feels like an excessively dismissive comment.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
You are being snarky but are right. I have scripts set up to auto summarise expansive answers. I wish I could build this into the ChatGPT ui though.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Is John Stewart really edgy? He seems like a middle of the road Democrat, and your funky electoral system notwithstanding most people actually vote for them.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I can't find the script now, but my kids and I did this had the Queen Elizabeth 1st talking to a pirate about his life on the high seas. It was quite fun. I wouldn't want to read a historical novel written that way tho...
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Gpt4v seems to be doing the former, at least in my experiments with it. It interprets plots and categorises images.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
If you want to make causal inferences you really do have to look at a graph that includes both observed and probable unobserved causes to get any real sense of what’s going on. Automated methods absent real thinking about the data generatin
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Pearl’s framework isn’t really distinct from SEM as I understanding it. SEM is really just one tool to achieve the sort of adjustments that Pearl describes to make causal inferences from observational data.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I have the same problem writing references for students and summarising my feedback to them. I find asking to “write concisely and without waffle, like a brusque, British academic” helps a bit.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
In reply to the iamnotdang comment below, which I don't seem to be able to comment on directly: There is sarcasm here, which is perhaps what you're referring to. But I'd argue here it's a form of satire which is also (s
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Surely most LCD patents have expired by now?
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by bigfudge 3y ago
They look cool. Would be great to have an oled version without a backlight.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I think it would be interesting to hear from an insider (with examples/evidence etc) what the mechanism is for eink to be more expensive. I/e/ the fundamentals for why this is the case beyond economies of scale. Given this hi
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by bigfudge 3y ago
From the perspective of most artists, piracy and Spotify aren't much different.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I thought the evidence was that this did actually have a substantial impact on lifetime earnings and employment. The data I saw actually related to unemployment, but I would be surprised if it didn't have an impact. There are more oppo
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by bigfudge 3y ago
It would setup the boilerplate though. That’s primarily what I use it for.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
And loads more fun. A Brompton looks wacky but rides like a much bigger bike.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
To within an order of magnitude that’s probably true. Local llm use is a rounding error at present and likely to remain so outside of specialised application s like scanning. For child porn on your mobile, which you still have no control ov
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by bigfudge 3y ago
I love the eff, but I think the comment still stands — it’s not a mass market organisation. Unlike unions, it’s not clear what service eff provides to individuals, and so the market for membership is lower. That’s not a critique of eff, but
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I know sarcasm isn’t very hn but this is hard to distinguish from a genuine prediction.
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No, but not quite as badly paid as those on bikes.
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by bigfudge 3y ago
Creating a regulatory environment in which a large fraction of the population end up on wages that don’t sustain a reasonable standard of living is a problem for everyone, not just those experiencing low wages. from a utilitarian perspecti

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