ccppurcell

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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
So what if we are quite predictable. That doesn't mean we are "trying" to predict the next word, or "trying" to be predictable, which is what llms are doing. Over a large population, trends emerge. An LLM is not a m
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
People like to, ahem, parrot this view, that we are not much more than parrots ourselves. But it's nonsense. There is something it is like to be me. I might be doing some things "on autopilot" but while I'm doing that I&
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by ccppurcell 8mo ago
This should be a war crime...
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Filming ICE is legal but exposes you to digital tracking(theconversation.com)
63 points by ccppurcell 8mo ago|13 comments
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by ccppurcell 9mo ago
The thing about norman doors is that it's not really a design flaw, not in every case. Like handles on push doors. It's tempting to think of that as a design flaw but more likely it's designed to be mass produced and reversib
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by ccppurcell 9mo ago
Can you give an analogous example for data science? I confess ignorance here, and always took the term at face value. Is the issue that "data science" tries to be agnostic about the source of the data? (I'm not claiming that
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by ccppurcell 9mo ago
Are you an expert? Not gatekeeping here but I have no intuition for what is easy or hard to formalise. A lot of very simply stated graph theoretical results are apparently extremely hard to formalise.
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by ccppurcell 9mo ago
I just asked chatgpt about 72 hour preparedness kit. I said what I had already and asked it about the best way to store it first. It said something to the effect of "good, you are thinking about this in exactly the right way -- make su
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by ccppurcell 9mo ago
My dad says the same thing about seatbelts.
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by ccppurcell 9mo ago
I think your objection regarding future governments is valid. The others I don't think are valid. For the record I agree with your conclusion that any effort like this is doomed to fail. But we already enforce point of sale age checks
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by ccppurcell 10mo ago
>The only thing is, you can't really publicly admit exactly what dataset you trained/tested on...? Curious why not? Assuming you only used the metadata. I think they would be considered raw facts and not copyrightable.
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by ccppurcell 10mo ago
But apple makes (at least in theory) a useful product that consumers value. As is pointed out in the article.
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by ccppurcell 10mo ago
Yeah it's insulting. It would be very long and boring to list all the things I thought of and discarded, just to ward off such attempts at help. If someone doesn't ask your advice, don't give it.
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by ccppurcell 10mo ago
It's obviously of more interest as a piece of outreach than as a piece of mathematics. Nevertheless I've always wondered about the e^ipi + 1 = 0 formulation. It seems ugly and ad hoc, and the connection between the "5 constan
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by ccppurcell 10mo ago
The Little Prince was published before the baby boom. I am a millennial. We've read it to our gen alpha kid. We have it in three languages.
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by ccppurcell 11mo ago
GB news!? More sober sources describe it as "considering scrapping" rather than "intends to scrap".
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by ccppurcell 11mo ago
Why this matters: <bullet point list>.
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by ccppurcell 11mo ago
There was a lot of hubris around microwaves. I remember a lot of images of full chickens being roasted in them. I've never once seen that "in the wild" as it were. They are good for reheating something that was produced earli
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by ccppurcell 11mo ago
I'm a bit of an LLM skeptic but chatgpt could probably explain this kind of thing pretty well and a) it's interactive so you can ask if you don't understand a step b) there will be no filler to pad the content for ads (well n
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
I skimmed the paper so might have missed something, but iiuc there is no algorithm used for comparison. They did not run some well defined algorithm on some benchmark instances, they estimated the cost of simulating the circuits "throu
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
Sorry if this is low effort, but I wanted to show some appreciation for a subtle Monty Python reference here! I won't spoil it though...
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
Some destinations don't have passports. But all passport issuing places are in principle visitable.
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
Ok. But this serves as a reminder not to expect privacy when sending messages back and forth to some software company.
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
You are right I think. I lived in Finland and rarely used cash. Even people selling their clothes at pop up second hand markets seemed to be able to take card. It has nothing to do with criminality, just culture. Germans use cash a lot and
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
"Never believe quote attributions given on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
Rankings are just meaningless. And this isn't the evidence for it! Actually in the past they've more or less admitted that they play around with the weighting and discard if the outcome is unexpected, meaning that even by its own
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
A nugget of advice distilled from Bill Hader: when people tell you what you're doing isn't working, they're right. When they tell you what you should do instead, they're wrong.
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
I get a really bad vibe from this guy. I first came across him from a viral video where he was making claims about millennials in the workplace. In my opinion they were a mixture of obvious and wrong. And it was framed like he was some expe
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
As a mathematician I'd like to draw your attention to the magic square on the Passion facade of the Sagrada Familia, with magic constant 33, the final age of Jesus. It has repeated numbers so it is considered trivial or not a magic squ
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by ccppurcell 1y ago
I'm glad it's not just anecdotal. I had an American colleague whose husband praised her amazing guacamole recipe. The recipe turned out to be a jar of guacamole and a jar of salsa mixed together. I may have forgotten the details b

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