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by btilly 2y ago
Don't assume bad faith where it doesn't exist. As I clearly think, given what I said above, most of what trans people want is obviously fair and just. To go through life, being treated as their preferred gender, and not facing dis
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by btilly 2y ago
It would be more efficient for them to spin up a team to study this robots.txt thing. They've ignored that low hanging fruit, so they won't do the more sophisticated thing any time soon.
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by btilly 2y ago
Not weird at all if lawyers are involved.
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by btilly 2y ago
Most of the time this would happen in the form of an interactive debugging session, with immediate feedback. Code review is its own domain. In general at some point LLMs need to be trained with a self-evaluation loop. Currently their traini
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by btilly 2y ago
Not with the way it is taught. But if the course structure is changed slightly to have reinforcement of early concepts woven through the course, people learn much better. At least that was my experience when I taught it. See https:/&#
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by btilly 2y ago
That, with an unfortunate side of not getting past this. Take a look at the overuse of back surgery, despite decades of evidence that it is almost always the wrong approach for back problems. Why does it persist? Three reasons. 1) Back surg
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by btilly 2y ago
Its own answers, with feedback about whether the answers seem to have worked. Learning to predict what word will lead to a successful solution (rather than just looking like existing speech) may prove to be a richer dataset than SO original
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by btilly 2y ago
My biggest concern with how fact-checking has played out is that fact-checkers themselves have gotten into an "us vs them" perspective. With "us" being the fact-checkers themselves. This is a problem when they are analyz
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Unicode Stenography(johndcook.com)
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by btilly 2y ago
"Just" absolutely deserves its bad rap. There is nothing that you can say with it that you can't say without it. And the alternative is almost always strictly better.
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by btilly 2y ago
Journal space is not a limited resource. Premium journal space is. That's because every researcher has a hierarchy of journals that they monitor. Prestigious journals are read by many researchers. So you're essentially competing f
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by btilly 2y ago
How so is it "literally punishment"? People wind up with as much work as they think they can reasonably do. They would have done that whether or not they "just volunteered" themselves. You only wind up with too much if y
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by btilly 2y ago
People were free to offer any idea that they want. But you couldn't say "just". Equivalent weasel words are easy to come by. "I don't see why it wouldn't work to ..." But now you're asking for an expl
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by btilly 2y ago
Taking on what others thought was more work, in return for abandoning less current work, is a loss. Unless, of course, you're right about the better approach. So no, not easy. Not unless you're right, and someone else was wrong.
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by btilly 2y ago
It was not a punishment. It was more, "You're sure that you know an efficient way to do this? You get a chance to prove that you're right." It made people careful because being wrong had a consequence, but it usually mov
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by btilly 2y ago
For anyone who wants to read more about what the Amazon experience was like, I highly recommend Steve Yegge's platform rant at https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 .
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by btilly 2y ago
At a previous employer we had a rule. The only person allowed to say, "just", was the developer responsible for actually making it work. Another developer who said it, just volunteered themselves. It was a rule that worked well fo
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by btilly 2y ago
Whatever method is available to American law enforcement is eventually going to become available to Chinese spies. The record of keeping this kind of secret is abysmal. If by no other means, then by social engineering the same access that l
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by btilly 2y ago
It is sensible that people would want the impossible. It isn't sensible to try to mandate it. Government keeps trying to mandate it in various ways. With predictably bad results.
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by btilly 2y ago
As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery_of_funds_from_the_Mad... says, this is the percentage of money in that later came out. With no adjustment for, for instance, inflation. 94% recovery, correcting for inflation s
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by btilly 2y ago
Django allows for the common use cases for that to be abstracted out. So the SQLite version will do things manually, while PostgreSQL can use the database feature. That's the reason to use an ORM. It abstracts away things like that.
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by btilly 2y ago
Django is a Python-based ORM that works really well and has a large community. See https://www.djangoproject.com/ . If I have to do anything CRUD like, I'll use Django. For reporting apps, I prefer native SQL.
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by btilly 2y ago
For most use cases, PostgreSQL is cheaper and faster to run. A lot fewer are "web scale" than think they are. For ones who are, there are other competitors like Snowflake that work well. As for scaling, it depends what you want to
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by btilly 2y ago
Ahem MongoDB? I must admit, I've never understood what MongoDB's real use case is supposed to be. Whenever I've looked at it, there has always been a better alternative. When I've had to use it, I've had to debug pe
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by btilly 2y ago
I've found that replacing the database with in memory SQLite for tests is a sweet spot. Almost as fast as a mock, catches a lot of database issues. And it's really easy to do if you're using something like Django that makes a
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by btilly 2y ago
This was 2004. I think that PINs on SIM cards were uncommon. In the video that I watched, it worked 2x in a row.
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by btilly 2y ago
Any homeless person can walk into an ER and get care. What will happen to the bills? Effectively it is no cost care for those who are sufficiently poor.
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by btilly 2y ago
Three ideas. All tried, none worked yet. First, get government regulation on your side. OpenAI has already looked for this, including Sam Altman testifying to Congress about the dangers of AI, but didn't get the regulations that they w
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by btilly 2y ago
The detail I remember is how they identified the dead. They would find the person's phone. Pop the SIM card into another phone. Call people on the contacts until they found someone who recognized the number. Ask the name, record it and
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by btilly 2y ago
Just because success is unlikely, we shouldn't try for it? There are a lot of ideas that sound good. Far fewer that are good. Being able to tell the difference makes it much more likely that you're on a plausible path to success.

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