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by codekansas 3y ago
People have been training ML models on data scraped from Reddit since at least 2015 [1], back when there were less than a million users [1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ehallmar/reddit-comment-scor...
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RWKV Language Model Math(ben.bolte.cc)
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> including personal information obtained without consent Obtained from (check notes) public internet forums > For the 16 plaintiffs, the complaint indicates that they used ChatGPT, as well as other internet services like Reddit, and
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by codekansas 4y ago
Not OP, but one reason could be that if a lot of early infrastructure was debt financed, cities will have an increasingly harder time paying for infrastructure maintenance over time
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by codekansas 4y ago
By n-word do you mean "no-can-do" or "normal person"? Both on the Stanford Elimination of Harmful Language list
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It is super hypocritical, but also, it's basically correct. I'd rather live in a world where random people showing up to Atherton city council meetings can block developments on property they don't even own (fortunately we se
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by codekansas 4y ago
Some level of inflation is good because it encourages investment, too high or too unpredictable is distortionary. Here are some explanations from the Jamaican central bank, in the form of Reggae songs: https://news.sky.com/v
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by codekansas 4y ago
I feel like this was lost in the conversation about Meta / Twitter moving towards verified accounts. I think social media companies are starting to realize that they should prepare for a world where most online agents are AI or AI-assi
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by codekansas 4y ago
Maybe worth asking why so many highly qualified people with Chinese last names decide to work for US-based companies when Chinese AI companies have been hiring like crazy for the last six years? "China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3
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by codekansas 4y ago
Defining an economic system as growth and profit driven is sort of tautological though, given the definition of "economics": > The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth. Original
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by codekansas 4y ago
Some important points about large language models verses self-driving cars: 1. The former is entirely in software and has the favorable economics that brings with it 2. Language models don't need to be that good to provide value, whe
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by codekansas 4y ago
Social security payments are inflation-adjusted actually. It's more an issue of solvency. The trust fund backing payments is projected to run dry in the mid-2030's [1]. Solving this either means raising taxes on working-age adults
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I'm surprised the article doesn't mention social security. A young person making $2,000 a month is paying $240 a month towards social security (half directly and half through their employer), and will likely never see any of it on
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A key difference is jus soli citizenship in the Americas, if you're born here you're a citizen
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This seems tangential? Engineering and law aren't the only exemplars of these categories, there are lots of fields where the marginal problems to solve are interesting verses uninteresting, they were just contrasting the two in the art
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This sounds more like a sci-fi AI bot than the current route that AI research is going. How do you even get the training data or build a simulation for an agent like this...
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I suspect we're about to enter a world where AI supercharges the average engineer's productivity, which is going to make it so that so much more stuff can be built. Using Copilot, the time to build a prototype for a simple app or
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by codekansas 4y ago
I think this is pretty apparent when you look at self selection into residency specialties. Everyone presumably has invested roughly same amount for college and medical school, but people choose residency programs with vastly lower earnings
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The difference is that you have a choice about whether or not to engage with a corporation, but not for your union or government. If you don't want to engage with a corrupt corporation then you can switch jobs or start a new company, b
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Isn't the first part just rephrasing what I said?
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I mean, doesn't that necessarily follow from an implicit understanding that corporations are ruthless profit maximizers though? I fail to see the supposed ideological inconsistency...
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What's wrong with employees just voting with their feet, instead of mandating rules like this? If a company behaves horribly just go somewhere else
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by codekansas 4y ago
People that make statements about what the primary goal of such and such a union would be seem to implicitly assume that the union would be run according to their particular vision, when in fact it would be run by majority rule at first, an
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by codekansas 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand what the alternative is - should you pretend that corporations are not ruthless profit maximizers, and allow them to have undue sway over our legislative system all the same? It seems like the root of the prob
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Maybe... "Are you mentally handicapped" sounds more insulting to me than "Are you retarded" but maybe it's from playing video games too much
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Taking the question literally, the answer is that because in this kind of system there's plenty of incentive to lie to get the maximum number of days of paid leave. So if you're in charge of scheduling employees and you assume tha
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Building housing should actually be a great investment, owning housing should be a bad investment. The problem is that with construction being so mired in inefficiency and red tape, there has to be an expectation of many years of great
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1.86 births per woman is still shrinking, just not as quickly
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I find it strange that stopping advertising on some particular platform is a "big deal". It feels like it might have been so when ads were run in newspapers and on TV, but regularly adjusting your advertising strategy to be able t
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I switched to an iPhone about six months ago and have been shocked by how user-hostile the experience is compared to my old Pixel, primarily because of their ecosystem lock-in. For example, the watch randomly logged me out of Strava and sta

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