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by bigfudge 2y ago
How do you think manufacturing in the US got started? Everyone is on someone’s shoulders.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Fwiw I assumed they were using o1 to train. But it doesn’t matter: the big story here is that massive compute resources are unlikely to be as important in the future as we thought. It cuts the legs off stargate etc just as it’s announced.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
That's not what I thought doom scrolling meant. I thought it specifically referred to the existential doom of endless scrolling for a dopamine hit.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
And pedestrian fatalaities. Although to be fair the autobahn is more fun than the highway.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
As an original Macintosh user who discovered programming via HyperCard and Unix through OS X I’d disagree. I think there are a fair number of people like me who can’t bear the ugliness (in all senses) of windows and the time sink of Linux
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by bigfudge 2y ago
>Do you have some examples of additional freedoms we're missing currently? Freedom from gun violence for thousands of US children annually?
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by bigfudge 2y ago
But drugs and firearms have very different risk profiles for other people. Perhaps it bears repeating: US lax gun laws and culture which glorifies violence leads to an order of magnitude more violent deaths than comparable countries in Euro
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Agreed this is a bad idea in the case you are replying to, but I love ChatGPT as a way to recover the name of a book or film I’ve forgotten. I recently prompted for “a book about nuclear wasteland dominated by a church” and it gave me A can
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Worth pointing out that something being bad for the economy, from this perspective, isn’t necessarily the same as being bad for the population. Median incomes are stagnant and quality of life is declining in the US. In part, I’d argue this
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I’m less sure. This seems like an asymmetrical battle with a lot more money flowing to develop the models that write than detect.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
If it comes across that way apologies. I was honestly suspecting that the post I was replying to was being deliberately obtuse, but I guess it’s possible that this happened to them and it’s unduly salient as a consequence.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Is it possible you are being thick here? Mentally rehearse the process of photoshopping your victims image and then printing it out and circulating it to everyone in the class before or at bedtime.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
The lectures are on YouTube and are really very good.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
There is a version of everything in the book reimplemented in rStan, which is a fairly easy to install and well supported R package that wraps Stan. I don’t have the link but should be easy to google. I think it’s a magnificent book - defin
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by bigfudge 2y ago
> Social media that enabled independent coverage and discussion is still there for the adults in the room I'm not actually sure that's true. The only reliable sources on social media (in the sense of 'usually not horribly
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Yes
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Exactly what should government do to fight global inflation largely Caused by fuel prices? Perhaps try to decarbonise… but that’s not very MAGA is it? The reality is inflation is lower in the US than much of the rest of the world and the US
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Can you explain why? It seems like that is exactly what was implied by the recent SC judgement.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Or educate and persuade?
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Most dems, and certainly Harris, want nothing to do with abortion at 9 months. This is adding nothing to this discussion.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
This is idiotic. People who live in California just voted Harris. Their quality of life is fine. The irony is that it’s the redneck parts of the states that are suffering most from neoliberal austerity.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Immigration is not at a historic high in us or Europe. I think it’s a combination of regressive social policy and redistribution upwards plus moderately high immigration which leaves an opportunity for populist bigots to leverage anti immig
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by bigfudge 2y ago
But inflation has been a global/western phenomena post Russian invasion and not unique to the US. Your economy has outperformed the developed averages. Non existent dem messaging on it is inexplicable to me… from a uk or European persp
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Is there evidence of this. I’d be interested to know more.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Sorry - it was tongue in cheek, but reflecting what university seems to be for these days rather than what it should be for.
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Amusingly, willingness and capacity to conform to a system you are paying $30k a year for is a pretty good proxy for general intelligence. So maybe it's not that bad?!
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by bigfudge 2y ago
Interestingly, in the UK strong student preferences against proctored exams and nervousness about how mental health issues interact with exams means universities are resisting dropping coursework, despite everyone knowing that most coursewo
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I agree. There are small question about bias (gender, race) etc in these oral systems, but I think they are resolvable and much better than written essays (which are now written by AI).
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by bigfudge 2y ago
I don't understand this comment. Are you implying Prince Andrew was _in_ or part of the UK Government? This would be a weird misunderstanding of our system. If it's just a general cynical "all gubernment is bad and full of pe
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by bigfudge 2y ago
"The government" in the UK already basically shields big internet operators from legal responsibility from showing teenagers how to tie a ligature. But I wouldn't characterise them as the problem — more public oversight or at

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