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by bobsomers 1y ago
This is Whataboutism. What the police are like in Mexico is irrelevant to someone living in the United States.
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by bobsomers 1y ago
What if those people consider what they're being told by the authorities, understand that it makes sense, and choose to take that action because it's important for the public good? Why are people who prioritized public health duri
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by bobsomers 1y ago
We are aware of the term of art. The point that was trying to be made, which I agree with, is that anthropomorphizing a statistical model isn’t actually helpful. It only serves to confuse laypersons into assuming these models are capable of
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by bobsomers 1y ago
They're not actually that great of an EV anymore. The build quality is lackluster and the ride on the Model 3 in particular is quite harsh. Some of the comments I hear almost universally from prior Model 3 owners when they switch to an
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by bobsomers 1y ago
This is a rather useless comment without elaborating.
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by bobsomers 1y ago
I don't think nepotism is what we're talking about here. I don't come from poverty, I come from a firmly middle class background. We were a single income household where my dad was a public attorney. Nobody in my immediate or
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by bobsomers 1y ago
For fucks sake, this is a heartless take. Having not-starving kids is beneficial to literally everyone in the community, not just the kids who use the program.
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by bobsomers 1y ago
> > they also outperform human expertise directly > When measured statistically. THANK YOU. It's mildly infuriating how often people forget that one of the things most human experts are good at is knowing when they are looki
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by bobsomers 1y ago
> IP is nonsense. It is putting an ownership over an idea, but ideas aren't objects. You can not steal or destroy an idea, giving ownership rights to ideas is absurd. IP isn't ownership over an idea, it's ownership over a
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by bobsomers 2y ago
In your astronomer example, what makes you attribute this to “planning” or look ahead rather than simply a learned statistical artifact of the training data? For example, suppose English had a specific exception such that astronomer is alwa
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by bobsomers 2y ago
There has been a bit of a shortwave revival in recent years, with activities like POTA (Parks on the Air) and SOTA (Summits on the Air) getting people back onto the HF bands. For those unfamiliar, POTA encourages people to get out to State
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by bobsomers 2y ago
It wasn't quite that bad. It was Runway 23 and the METAR at the time reported winds from 270 at 28 kts gusting 35 kts, so it would have been ~18-22 knot crosswind.
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Let's start at $1B. I cannot think of any earthly reason a single individual needs more than $1B worth of wealth. After all, the US presidency apparently only costs $250M to buy. I would fully support a 100% wealth tax for everything o
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Well, to be blunt when your CEO openly abuses ketamine and smokes blunts with Joe Rogan it invites a certain level of additional scrutiny. Perhaps if Tesla wants to be treated like a regular car company they should get a regular car company
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by bobsomers 2y ago
> I've said over and over that there are only two really hard problems in robotics: Perception and funding. A perfectly perceived system and world can be trivially planned for and (at least proprio-)controlled. Funding for sure. :)
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by bobsomers 2y ago
> They don't learn, or more likely, don't care. Of course not. Enraged, uninformed people "engage", and that sells ads like hotcakes. I don't know where people get this idea that Zuckerberg had any principles or
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by bobsomers 2y ago
As someone who worked in V&V for AV systems for a decade, it’s exactly the kind of thinking displayed here that has held back real assessment of AV safety for years. There is absolutely no meaningful signal about a system’s safety that
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Sure, but if we follow that line of thinking to its logical conclusion, we must move to a cabin in the woods, 100 miles from the nearest civilization, growing our own food and never connecting our computing devices to anything resembling a
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by bobsomers 2y ago
These are bold claims. > This time it's different. The naysayers are wrong. This has been said every time. What is fundamentally different this time? > LLMs today can already automate many desk jobs. Which desk jobs existed 2 yea
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Completely agree. This is excellent advice.
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Airplanes don't flap their wings and boats don't wag their tails. Assuming that all technology should imitate nature is a naive engineering principle. The solution should solve the problem within the given constraints.
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by bobsomers 2y ago
That's a bold claim. Care to justify it?
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by bobsomers 2y ago
What makes you think the network inference is less expensive? Newtonian physics is already extremely well known and pretty computationally efficient to compute. How would a "function approximation" of Newtonian physics, with billi
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Just so we're all clear here, there is a lot of gobbly-gook in this answer which is either off target or irrelevant. > a standalone device (the panda) that provides and enforces the safety model What the actual safety model is tha
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Perhaps we disagree on semantics here, but IMHO I wouldn't call this "reasoning". It's essentially just data compression, which is exactly what you get by constructing an encoder network that minimizes loss while trying
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by bobsomers 2y ago
> I think the phrase "stochastic parrot" is misleading and has fooled millions of people into thinking that LLMs can't do genuine reasoning about situations they've never seen before, nor been trained on, which is wro
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by bobsomers 2y ago
In my experience, Bazel is great if you are a Google-sized company that can afford to have an entire team of at least 5-10 engineers doing nothing but working on your build system full time. But I've watched it be insanely detrimental
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Just because the argument is "common" or "uninspired" doesn't make it wrong. Certainly different "NIMBY" complaints can have differing levels consequences based on whether we're talking about sweeping
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by bobsomers 2y ago
When I worked at iFixit ~12-13 years ago most of the site was already aggressively cached whenever possible, and I’m sure it’s only gotten better since. They are no strangers to bursty traffic. We would get insane bursts of traffic many, ma
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by bobsomers 2y ago
Amen to that. Software Engineering as a discipline badly suffers from not incorporating well-known methods for preventing these kinds of disasters from Systems Engineering. And when I say Systems Engineering I don't mean Systems Progra

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