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by bloaf 3y ago
Its pretty clearly a vicious cycle. Racism is right in the loop too, because its a lot easier for people to adopt racist attitudes when communities that break along racial lines are undeniably having struggles with addiction.
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by bloaf 3y ago
This was in Australia, which already has universal health care and a minimum wage of $23.23 (AUD).
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by bloaf 3y ago
> Indigenous people and advocates have long warned restrictions and bans are not the solution, urging action on addressing drivers of harm such as... family violence. The bans reduced domestic violence calls by 37%. It sounds like the a
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by bloaf 3y ago
There was a lovely comic years ago, entitled "the foolproof way" which captures this feeling. https://www.deviantart.com/eldahast/art/Foolproof-way-155527...
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by bloaf 3y ago
Those method would work on recurrent neutral nets, not just feed forward.
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by bloaf 3y ago
One interesting application is to imagine you have a bunch of data in some proprietary binary format, with metadata in plain text. This is saying you could potentially make a network that generates new instances of the proprietary format wi
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by bloaf 3y ago
That's interesting, because I've tried to use F# several times, and never really felt comfortable. I've written in a bunch of different languages and F# is probably the most disappointing because of how much I want to like i
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by bloaf 3y ago
No. I'm talking about things like polymer rheological or film properties, or industrial scale reactor performance. That's not to mention one-offs like cloud point predictors, or specialized thermo packages. See, for example, ht
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by bloaf 3y ago
They do. Internally, the gatekeepers of this data are mostly old-school chemists whose ideas of AI are stuck in the "maybe AI can do some property predictions better than our first principles FORTRAN 77 models, but I doubt it" mi
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by bloaf 3y ago
No. This is a counter-claim to the conservative talking point that Biden is irresponsibly escalating towards nuclear war.
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by bloaf 3y ago
Imagine if you were trying to optimize a real physical system you didn't have a model of. These methods will still work; you could implement them "by hand" if necessary.
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by bloaf 3y ago
While we're at it: * Taichi "is embedded in Python and uses modern just-in-time (JIT) frameworks (for example LLVM, SPIR-V) to offload the Python source code to native GPU or CPU instructions, offering the performance at both deve
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by bloaf 3y ago
I think that is the reason jupyter is as popular as it is.
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by bloaf 3y ago
One of the wilder possibilities of the future of AI is discovering that we as humans have some form of collective anosognosia. The AI would just repeatedly and confidently assert things that we knew to be false, and we'd go to great
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by bloaf 3y ago
So, yes, gpt4 isn't suddenly going to become godpt. But when people say we're close, I think they mean 1 accidental breakthrough away. Like the "just add more layers" meme, the solution to the own-dataset creation proble
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by bloaf 3y ago
1. Their existence is the political justification for inaction. 2. They form an unholy alliance with other anti-empiricist groups (e.g. anti-vaxxers, young earth creationists) to undermine reality-based policies, including in education. 3.
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by bloaf 3y ago
I personally feel like negative filters are important because they create an incentive for advertisers/SEO/etc people to not spam every keyword into their product. If you're only allowed positive searches, the best way to get
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by bloaf 3y ago
ah, the auto-corrected version of 'rdfind'
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by bloaf 3y ago
I've used fdupes and refund for exact duplicate finding. They work shockingly well on large libraries, I've managed to check millions of files consuming several TBs in a matter of hours.
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by bloaf 3y ago
There are deep philosophical implications, just not these. There has been a long history of reifying the behaviors of living things in general (e.g. vitalism) and humans in particular (e.g. dualism). The success of LLMs challenges a lot of
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by bloaf 3y ago
Explorer can resolve some http urls to network paths, e.g. for SharePoint libraries. Programs, e.g. python scripts, can then use those paths, but only after explorer has resolved them. Before that, the path will be treated as not existing.
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by bloaf 3y ago
The Red Green Show did comedy segments on both these concepts: Turkey in a dishwasher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Y4RV8pcY0 Turkey in a car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niegc7QcilM
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by bloaf 4y ago
> A UBI experiment, in contrast, might be a good way to convince people of the folly of the UBI. For a modest cost, you could persuasively demonstrate the strong disincentive effects, reducing support for this massive waste of resources
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by bloaf 4y ago
My old android phone got 52.7±2 chrome, 51.6±0.8 in Firefox, so effectively the same. However, I had to disable some ff add-ons to get that score (chrome had no add-ons to begin with).
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by bloaf 4y ago
The fastest, most bug free code is the code that doesn't need to run. The most consistently implemented procedure is the one that doesn't require anyone to do anything. I agree that when looking at a process that seems bloated and
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by bloaf 4y ago
Have you considered ( checks notes ) an electric scooter?
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> People are buying cars because they're better than horses This is only true for people with a certain amount of spare money to pay the extra, since cars are more expensive to purchase. "According to Kelley Blue Book, gas cars
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by bloaf 4y ago
It's literally already here: https://twitter.com/thiteanish/status/1635678053853536256
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by bloaf 4y ago
I think this is related to the AI alignment problem; our human languages simply aren't precise enough to communicate with any guarantee that our intent will be correctly conveyed.
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by bloaf 4y ago
> What is the worst that can possibly happen as a result of AI being able to generate text that is indistinguishable from something a human wrote? Or that a "chat bot" can answer questions with more relevance and detail (correc

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