bongoman42

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by bongoman42 23d ago
This is a solved problem in 2026. You can create as many bots with varied personalities to talk to. Therapists have a vested interest in you continuing to talk to them and can induce neuroses in susceptible individuals.
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by bongoman42 3mo ago
We use Qwen 7B parameter model for this in production. It works quite well.
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by bongoman42 4mo ago
A part of saying something like um is to continue your speech and prevent the other person or someone else in the group from interjecting.
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by bongoman42 4mo ago
If it wasn't fun you wouldn't need to have an aphorism against it.
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by bongoman42 4mo ago
This is largely because states will not cooperate with ICE to help identify criminals among immigrants. ICE is not an issue in states where the police are cooperating with it.
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by bongoman42 5mo ago
The Islamic system literally permits slavery, including sexual slavery. It is far worse than capitalism any day.
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by bongoman42 5mo ago
The middle east has the largest concentration of billionaires outside of US/China and huge poverty alongside. It is so grotesque that the rich will often just kill people and casually pay blood money.
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by bongoman42 5mo ago
NASA went and turned itself into a gigantic inefficient bureaucracy to the point that SpaceX considers NASA experience a negative.
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by bongoman42 5mo ago
Dating apps are really good for women, particularly young women. Several of my women friends have said they can have a decent partner for an evening or a weekend with as little as 30 mins of time investment.
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by bongoman42 5mo ago
I have a friend at Meta. He said he hates every moment of working there but when the sweet RSUs drop every month it makes it all worth it.
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by bongoman42 5mo ago
Government is not great at picking up or creating ideas. Academia has to lead in that and then show government why it would be best for the nation to fund those. The government is good at long term funding for ideas that may not be the best
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by bongoman42 6mo ago
I use it, overall, it is not too bad. I wouldn't use it for coding etc, but its access to X means it can answer news related stuff much better. Its guardrails are lower so it does fairly innocuous things that will have ChatGPT or Gemin
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Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs(alphaxiv.org)
2 points by bongoman42 6mo ago|0 comments
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OpenAI is throwing everything into building an automated researcher(technologyreview.com)
2 points by bongoman42 7mo ago|0 comments
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by bongoman42 7mo ago
'Do the integration' is where all the fun and money is.
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by bongoman42 7mo ago
It is a different mindset and they are happy with what they are doing. I come from India where there is a ton of that labor. When I lived there, I had a couple of full time house help, supplemented by cook etc as needed. They had plenty of
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by bongoman42 8mo ago
I don't even live in a super rural area, but if you think you could just walk a couple of kms in a couple of foot of snow to get something like a bookcase and bring it over is hilarious. Also, I would rather not receive packages for my
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Lawnchair Larry Flight(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bongoman42 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bongoman42 9mo ago
Interesting that Kuwait is on the list, it is literally a first world country with very high per capita income. The list seems somewhat arbitrary.
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by bongoman42 9mo ago
Would be important to see how that number is being computed? If it is the amount of meat sold divided by number of people it may be misleading since there is a fair amount of wastage particularly in places like schools etc with kids filling
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by bongoman42 11mo ago
Charlie and Jamie had always sort of assumed that there was some grown-up in charge of the financial system whom they had never met; now, they saw there was not. -Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine I've often see
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I loved my time in the UK. But it needs an AC intervention(natesilver.net)
3 points by bongoman42 1y ago|1 comments
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by bongoman42 1y ago
For all we know, it might have gone supernova in the last few hundred years and we've yet to receive the light from it.
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by bongoman42 1y ago
Terrible shitshow all around. They could have just played it cool and waved their hands like they were juts enjoying a show and got a it carried away. Though it might be difficult to explain them going to a Coldplay concert to their spouses
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by bongoman42 1y ago
I think all GCC countries achieve this for their citizens, going well above just living wage.
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Humans Age Faster at 2 Specific Times in Their Life, Study Finds(sciencealert.com)
3 points by bongoman42 1y ago|1 comments
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by bongoman42 1y ago
Allowing men to set a BMI or weight preference would be business-wise far more sound decision. Their userbase is anyway men dominated and they are pretty much the entire revenue source.
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by bongoman42 1y ago
I feel it is not just about bigger but also about what all is supported in the current brain that is potentially not as useful anymore or useful for intelligence as such. The evolutionary path for our brain has an absolutely major focus on
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by bongoman42 1y ago
Sequel comes from the same root.
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by bongoman42 1y ago
Could also be Covid sequelae showing up. Many blue states significantly delayed opening up schools post Covid and the effects are only being apparent now.

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