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by bloaf 3y ago
Even homeschooling falls into the personalized education bucket, and the data I've seen seems to indicate that parents with no educational background are actually able to outperform public schools.
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by bloaf 3y ago
It could also be illegal activity, e.g. insider trading.
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by bloaf 3y ago
I would be very interested in following a software-based eminent domain case.
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by bloaf 3y ago
Indeed, the death knell could be tolling not for regulation of ai but for general purposes computers. In AI we have four horsemen: copyright infringement, illegal pornography, fake news generation, and democratization of capabilities that
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by bloaf 3y ago
Unless you're on a fairly high end bike, you will start feeling uncomfortably wobbly somewhere in the 30-40mph range.
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by bloaf 3y ago
But we don't have many instances of flat ground accidents, all the serious injuries in the article involved going downhill, from what I could tell. And that's what I'd expect, as you can decelerate fairly quickly even if you
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by bloaf 3y ago
I heard stories of companies like this doing things like buying old coal power plants that were slated to be closed, closing them, then claiming they had reduced emissions by 1 coal powerplant's worth. To give people an idea of what t
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by bloaf 3y ago
There was a recent study which found child blood lead levels were higher in areas with high gun ownership after controlling for socioeconomics. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/higher-rates-of-f...
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by bloaf 3y ago
I agree, I think there is a wide open vista of opportunity in the hypothesis generation space when it comes to science. An instant literature-review-as-a-service would be incredibly valuable too, to say nothing of a, "write the code t
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by bloaf 3y ago
I read a post a while back by a guy who claimed to be managing a long term condition he had via homemade blood monitoring and pills containing something that earlier trials had shown were effective at managing the condition (I don't th
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by bloaf 3y ago
I agree, there was a recent funded-by-diet-shake-company study which found that current US recommendations for protein intake we're too low. It would not surprise me at all if the makers of things like Ensure are scared of weight loss
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by bloaf 3y ago
Let me describe the situation the other person is talking about, with two examples that happened to me in the past year. 1. I scheduled a colonoscopy with a hospital. They charged me $300 for the procedure, which I paid up front. Everythi
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by bloaf 3y ago
The Chinese room thought experiment proved nothing, except that people are willing to latch on to bad philosophy. This author hasn't nailed down consciousness, and so is teetering on the edge of a dualist, vitalist cliff. Consciousnes
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by bloaf 3y ago
https://www.projectprakash.org/_files/ugd/2af8ef_5a0c6250cc3...
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by bloaf 3y ago
This sounds like the old question "if a blind-from-birth man (who can recognize squares by feel) gained sight would he be able to recognize squares visually?" And since that question has been answered in the negative, I'm inc
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by bloaf 3y ago
I work in an industry where expert systems were a flop. I have seen the presentations and memos from 30 years ago that promised a future of fully automated facilities and drastically increased engineer productivity. In the past 30 years w
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by bloaf 3y ago
Fundamentally, the "size of the economy" measures value creation, i.e. the conversion of low value atoms into higher value atoms. The economy grows by either converting more atoms, or changing the value of the in/output. Obvi
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by bloaf 3y ago
I use the toolz package for currying and a few other conveniences. That plus named tuples and a little discipline gets me 80+% of the benefits of pure functional. The biggest thing to me wasn't in your list: lack of tail call optimizat
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by bloaf 3y ago
It is a long-running myth in "climate skeptic" circles that we're due for an upcoming maunder minimum in solar activity which will reverse global warming (or cause global cooling). See, for example, this article from this glo
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by bloaf 3y ago
Which is fine, but the point here is that as you increase the onerousness of your interview process you don't just get diminishing returns, your ability to attract good people at all actually declines past some point. Qualified peop
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by bloaf 3y ago
Why don't you come up with an example of a new phrase with the same meaning that is actually original so we can compare your "real" originality to this "fake" originality?
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by bloaf 3y ago
There was a post here on hacker news not that long ago where GPT4 came up with "the confetti has left the cannon" when asked for an original phrase similar to "the cat is out of the bag". Other users confirmed Google cou
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by bloaf 3y ago
Lawrence Sonntag regularly streams a 90s nostalgia program like this on twitch. He calls it Mediatek, and will use it as filler for his gaming streams when he is afk. twitch.tv/sirlarr
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by bloaf 3y ago
Dolt is working in this space, and I think there is a lot of potential: https://www.dolthub.com/ One use case I've not heard anyone talk about is modeling/optimization. In my previous role we were managing a bunc
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by bloaf 3y ago
>and the reporter, without evidence, also implied This is not an accurate characterization. The author reviewed the speaker's slides, interviewed students in the lecture, and consulted with her professional network; the reporter&#x
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by bloaf 3y ago
Did the California Community Colleges implement anti-racist policies because they believed they resulted in the best pedagogy, or because politicians told them to? This article doesn't say, but it does appear from other reporting that
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by bloaf 3y ago
I was struck by the final passage in the article: >“While it is important to preserve and defend academic freedom and as such be able to discuss and present to students and the public the results of research observations and strategies,
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by bloaf 3y ago
This is not an accurate characterization. - She made factual statements about policy impacts on overdose deaths. - A politician's relative who was in attendance reported it to the political party backing those policies. - The politicia
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by bloaf 3y ago
This bloke on huggingface documents the memory requirements for his quantized versions of popular models: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke Tl;Dr, Max ram needed depends on quant method, rough ranges are: 7B models are in the
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by bloaf 3y ago
I'm running a 30B model on an amd 5600x cpu at 2-3 tokens/s, which is just under a "read-aloud" pace. I'd wager that you can run a 70B model at about the same speed with a 7900x and a bit more RAM.

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