brian_cloutier

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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
Three Body Problem is not quite this but is pretty close to this, you might like it.
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
What distinguishes a derivative from an original work? What is it about AI-generated art which makes it so clearly derivative, in your mind?
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
Let's say land ownership gave you complete ownership of the infinite wedge of space extending down from your plot of land to the center of the earth and extending up from your plot of land out to infinity. We might give this imaginary
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
Which use-cases are you thinking of? I'm sure they exist but they've never come up for me; I've used mitmproxy many times and it's always worked gloriously, but I never use it to capture / re-write more than a few d
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
What do either of these `grepprg` options win me? Currently my `grepprg` calls `ag` which is plenty fast for me, and it sounds like `lid` is a slightly more general ctags?
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
I've used vim for a while now and using it isn't a point of pride, it's more that whenever I try an IDE I wonder how anybody could be productive using it. I've rarely had a problem with search, I can type `:grep [some re
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
This recent video does a good job of illustrating some of the power of what they've built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJhfTUSDlR0 I find the gtoolkit interface a little clunky in a way I can't quite describe
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
What would you think if models were bundled with a second model, the "copyright filter". Just as humans know to keep their creations sufficiently far away from copyrighted material, you could distribute models which are trained on
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
why must it change, why is this different? genuinely curious
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
I think you're saying any work created by a model trained on copyrighted data is a derivative work of that copyrighted data. But this can't be right, it is inconsistent with how copyright has worked so far. Artists and musicians a
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
Both are true. I would throw in a third conclusion: given that you're directly using signals (without a wrapper to rationalize the interface) your team should be composed of people who fully understand how signals work. Neither the per
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
4x games are empire building games, the four Xs are eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, eXterminate. They're more complicated than other strategy games and have multiple win conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
"force browsers to use a CA they control" is an essential ingredient. The article you linked mentions they have performed some CA trickery but does not mention anything about them having done it "for decades" and does no
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
PoS seems very similar to PoW, and if one is fine (as we seem to think), the other is fine too. In POW there are only block producers, and producing a block requires actively choosing transactions and transaction ordering. Ethereum POS incl
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
This link is not particularly relevant, as it talks about how the phrase "no evidence" is used within a specific community and that community has little overlap with the community which writes press releases after security inciden
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
Or maybe hallucinating additional training data: my impression is that AlphaFold was able to get around a lack of sufficient data by training an initial model and having it make a bunch of predictions, then the high-confidence predictions f
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
It might be one of these: A) the benefits are higher than you think: e.g. little did you know it but they have an unusual mouth microbiome which means some toothpastes will work and the rest will turn them into a wimpering ball of cavities
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
It is not a paradox but it can be irrational. When the two choices have similar utility the cost of distinguishing them is high and the benefit of making the correct choice is low. There is a crossover point where it does not matter which o
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
That was a very clear explanation, thank you!
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
> This aggressive and putative new use is refuted by every founding principle of the common law in Anglo Saxon countries Which founding principles, exactly? Your comment seems to imply you think we should live in a world where we are onl
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
We both agree that language models allow for the quick creation of large amounts of content. There already exists far more content than anybody can read. We have developed mechanisms for filtering out content which isn't worth our time
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
What is the issue with fake news? Language models can now pass as human in many situations but there are already billions of humans capable of writing fake news, this isn't a new capability. We have already created mechanisms for decid
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
What makes it so bad, and what would be a better way?
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
crypto assets have different fundamentals. For businesses it's important to understand earnings and assets because those put a floor on the price of the business: they set a price level at which you are very likely to see demand for ta
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
To add to this, evolution typically happens _all at once_. Change does take a very long time but most of that time is spent in statis: everything has found its niche and lives in an equilibrium. Once the environment changes (such as by intr
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
Great links, thank you. While you're here, do you happen know of a good book / other resource to read if I want to learn more about how we decided climate change was real and anthropogenic? I take it for granted; I've never a
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
I don't have any particular reason to believe the data is unreliable, I'm inclined to believe temperates are actually rising, but it's fun to try to come up with reasons why the rise might be artificial: - Most cities grow an
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
It's not possible to have an uncapped block size. As blocks get larger they take longer to propagate through the network. Longer propagation means more forks, which means more work is wasted on forks which do not become canonical, whic
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
My understanding is at a pop-science level, but it seems like once again the chemical energy overpowers the radioactive energy. The "free radical theory of aging" blames mitochondria for a lot of the damage our cells sustain. Mito
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by brian_cloutier 4y ago
> especially those that are (supposedly and explicitly) genetically determined entry criteria. IQ is very much so not genetically determined. See for instance the flynn effect which is happening far too fast to be the result of genetics.

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