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by boothby 4mo ago
If you're going to strike up conversation with strangers, it's best if you make it easy for them . If you're asking for a joke, you're making it easy on yourself and setting a bar for them. I'm a jokester but I d
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by boothby 4mo ago
If tech isn't special, why are nine of the ten richest Americans in tech?
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by boothby 4mo ago
> The math underlying the models is widely known, and there are tons of competitors, including foreign competitors. Foreign militaries investing in autonomous warfare does not assuage my concerns about my country investing in autonomous
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by boothby 4mo ago
Timnit Gebru was laughed out of town for overlooking research into making LLMs more energy efficient. By the logic used to drag her through the mud, Musk must be a total idiot to be buying so much fossil fuel capacity. Truly, nobody could
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by boothby 4mo ago
>> AI products worth $26 trillion, roughly equivalent to U.S. GDP." > This is unhinged. The only way for Musk to become a quadrillionaire is hyperinflation. And a week later, we'll be quadrillionaires too!
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by boothby 4mo ago
> What does it say about progress that the same laws that protect human rights also stifle innovation? Innovative methods to destroy human life are "stifled" by measures intended to preserve human life. What to you mean by &qu
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by boothby 4mo ago
If anybody has ever tried folding a very large paper (or, bedsheets, tarps, etc), they'll realize the wisdom of this comment. Our intuition from folding paper on the order of several to tens of centimetres does not scale to arbitrary
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by boothby 4mo ago
It depends what you need that line for -- if you're projecting onto a wall, that sag matters. If you're projecting onto the ground, it doesn't.
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by boothby 4mo ago
I had the same thought -- with a checkerboard pattern of 1:1:2 "brick" voids where each brick would be surrounded by bricks of a differing offset, one could conceivably calibrate the injection step and the print might have less pr
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by boothby 4mo ago
> a land border with a large continent that has a lot of guns and violence and criminality That's a curious perception indeed, given that guns predominantly flow from the US to Mexico and not the other way around, and guns in Mexico
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by boothby 4mo ago
As in, these kids are crushing tiktok reels?
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by boothby 4mo ago
There are degrees to these things. A nation's leader repeatedly and explicitly declaring intent to commit genocide is makes that "lift" an extremely light one.
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by boothby 4mo ago
Concretely, I know it's happening in the Vancouver BC school district, and thankfully many students are protesting. Probably many more places.
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by boothby 4mo ago
Teachers in public schools are being told to use AI in their curriculum. In some cases, this means students are being taught not to think (regardless of the intent of the lesson). When prices make this curriculum untenable but the kids al
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by boothby 4mo ago
My favorite (dys|u)topian setting; universal child removal to robo-nurseries, gets closer to implementable every day.
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by boothby 4mo ago
Yes, and obviously: bots crushing servers in strict contravention of the robots.txt rules.
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by boothby 4mo ago
Where I work, interns are hired to work on projects that a senior person could do and failure won't wreck us. And your last sentence is where we see the real payoff: the bright ones come back and become valued team members.
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by boothby 4mo ago
Personally, my team is looking for circuit designers and EDA tooling developers (though it looks like the roles have been taken down for some rewording). But the bulk of our tech positions are physicists and software developers. https:&#x
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by boothby 4mo ago
I've contemplated a similar act, but then I took a security mindset to it. Folks have given their agents credit card numbers, passwords, email access. My repo can engage in "social engineering" to: 1. Pay me 2. Waste masses
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by boothby 4mo ago
As a Canadian on a hiring committee, it's fascinating to talk to Americans who hate the political environment but still don't want to relocate.
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Scientists accidentally discover sea cucumber with 'tissue immortality'(cnn.com)
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by boothby 5mo ago
There's a wide world outside of tech jobs. Most of it isn't immensely lucrative, but I hear it can be quite fulfilling
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by boothby 5mo ago
I imagine that a thrown scooter would do the trick
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by boothby 5mo ago
The Chinese government would be stupid to not do the exact same thing when departing the US. They aren't stupid, and they aren't going to wage war on the basis of some discarded lapel pins.
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by boothby 5mo ago
> unsafe just means that you take responsibility for the safety of the code contained within. In this case it means you delegated the responsibility to a notably flaky heuristic.
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by boothby 5mo ago
This is why misspellings and homophones are tells of human righting. LLMs strongly prefer word-level tokens, and word substitutions follow semantic similarity and not the more human auditory similarity.
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by boothby 5mo ago
In my hometown, we're quashing human rights to make room for the world cup! It's not a smokescreen, it's the justification. https://www.pivotlegal.org/city_of_vancouver_s_new_fifa_byla...
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by boothby 5mo ago
Do your AI patches introduce fewer flaws than they repair?
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by boothby 5mo ago
Administration decides the constitution doesn't spark joy, yeet
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by boothby 5mo ago
My ex-spouse worked in IT at a hospital and their user account was inadvertently marked dead. It ended up taking weeks of effort to remedy the problem, as the system wasn't built to handle corpses suddenly arising or perhaps less plau

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