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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
I think in general the model makers and to some extent their clients want a slightly higher pass rate over efficiency. This makes sense: for critical first week impressions clients notice pass rate much more, and only later start to grapple
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Looks to be within the realm of natural variance expected from naturally variable models, ie error bars.
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Another somewhat similar concept is how you can write Quarto markdown notebooks and have them output a RevealJS slideshow
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Oh very interesting, I didn’t realize I should probably be using Fable Medium more than High, due to how that curve and the cost looks!
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Beat me to it. The Wikipedia page for example looks like an advertisement for tutoring firms, and when you dig into the sources, it’s pretty oversold
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
I really never thought it would come up in a HN thread but I’m actually working on a modified version of Anki as a personal project (not quite ready yet though, but will open source probably in a few weeks) where improving the editing/
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
The tricky question at the forefront of education research is, at least in my mind, trying to thread the needle between effective techniques that students don’t like, ineffective techniques that students do like, and poorly defined techniqu
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
I think the book Superlearning just gives the simple rule that you should spend 10% of your budgeted time on meta concerns (what to learn, what order, what strategies to use, etc) and that’s always seemed a sensible, good-enough default tha
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
Except the same companies have shown (see: closure of the DS online storefront) it's still an issue, just 20 years delayed instead of 10. Sure, it's better, but it's not good . I'll still take it of course, but we need
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
There are different grades of vendor lock-in. There's mechanical lock-in (which is a thing, like .claude folders) and economic lock-in but then we don't pay enough attention to behavioral lock-in. Habit is powerful, and if you c
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by cheesecakegood 3mo ago
It didn't stop all of Facebook's behavior, far from it, but we did get to see Zuckerberg hauled in front of Senate committees multiple times (who we do vote for). This has never happened in China, and will never happen, nor anyt
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
Has anyone created a tool for easily doing this? Imagine if all the Virginia Guiffres of the world created crypto-provable diaries they could later reveal.
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
Bombs are a bit of a non sequitur here. The point is that Chinese companies are demonstrably hostile to American ones historically (and threatening in some specific structural ways to the American consumer). The presentation may be similar
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
Yes you can! Well, mostly, depends on how pedantic you are with definitions: you can transplant layers but not weights, which in common parlance are conceptually similar. But usually it isn’t a good idea for a few reasons. There’s a really
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
I’m not normally one for doom and gloom, everything is getting worse kind of thinking. However, one observation from the past few years in particular is exactly that thing, a specific kind of faulty media literacy. Someone will read Lord o
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
It might be irrational but ticks terrify me (grew up in the Northwest where they aren’t so much a thing) and make me want to avoid moving to the East entirely
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
If they have a year sub, then yes I agree (even if it’s implicitly always part of the risk of buying so far in advance) but if they are month to month this position is absolutely nonsensical.
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
Memory? Doubt it. But I’m hopefully optimistic that we’ll see a renewed emphasis on speed and responsiveness, since users do notice that despite most products ignoring it.
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
To be fair, the US has long followed a model prioritizing district-level control, this isn’t anything new.
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
It’s not just critical thinking skills, it’s also that there’s a big difference between recognition/following instructions, and recall/generating your own memories of an approach. But most students don’t recognize the difference.
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
If I've observed anything about humanity, it's that feeling out of control or that we are subject to randomness is something we absolutely hate , both on an individual and societal level. The easiest way out of it is to conclude
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
Computers and improvements in data science/machine learning are basically the entire explanation. A LOT of the techniques that we use today to de-anonymize data require computation power not previously available. Even when doable, reso
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
Right. For those who didn’t catch the text between the lines, it’s because terminal phase precision guidance is basically the same tech as smart bombs.
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
That’s not even factually true. Turnout in 2024 was 63.7%[1] of the voting age population. You’re just wrong. [1] https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_...
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
Why is everyone acting like this is unknowable? Can’t you just look and see what the team’s output was like 2-3 years ago? Of course there might be long term risks that have a time lag and are thus not visible yet, but it shouldn’t be a com
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
All good examples but all relatively low cost as well (and don’t require 1:1 student-laptops). However I’m pretty darn sure that videos do more harm than good - too easy to zone out during them, and providing them to students only allows th
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by cheesecakegood 4mo ago
> So I guess I would like to see a language neutral notebook platform with pluggable kernels. Doesn’t this already exist? .QMD files (Quarto Markdown) allow you to mix and match languages in code cells and is platform neutral. Python, R,
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by cheesecakegood 5mo ago
… or generate twice as many images. Maybe not quite, but if we’ve seen anything with AI so far is that it fits Parkinson’s law pretty well.
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by cheesecakegood 5mo ago
I guess a little bit of background is helpful, which most people don’t realize, about carpet production. A lot (a LOT) of carpet is some variant of polyester since it’s just a really nice durability + cost + stain resistance mix (although t
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by cheesecakegood 5mo ago
Actual memory, in my opinion. Right now memory is broadly speaking like a system of sticky notes the AI writes itself and checks every time, rather than an integrative system that allows learning and can trigger more flexibly.

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