computerphage

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by computerphage 5y ago
I mean, as opposed to other businesses where owners expect customers to pay <100% of the costs of the product?
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by computerphage 5y ago
> That's pretty damning. Indeed. And we all know how quickly radiologists are improving at their job. At this rate the 6% of AI systems that beat one radiologist will be down to 0% in no time.
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by computerphage 5y ago
> Artificial sweeteners still make you crave sweets. How do you know that this is true?
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by computerphage 5y ago
IMDb is owned by Amazon. Amazon Prime shows IMDb ratings in its app.
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by computerphage 5y ago
So was the 2008 crash, so was the 2001 crash, so was the...
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by computerphage 5y ago
Thomas Bayes? ...but you might have wait another 400 years to be sure
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by computerphage 5y ago
> The challenge ahead cannot be understated. I think you mean "overstated".
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by computerphage 5y ago
Before covid, worldometers was known for tracking population data! https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/#table-histor...
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by computerphage 5y ago
And even if you do sell, they're taxed as capital gains instead of income.
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by computerphage 5y ago
The claim about typicality was to add addition information, not to speculate about this particular case.
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by computerphage 6y ago
The Boy Scouts of America did a lot to promote Leave No Trace and helped it become a common practice.
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by computerphage 6y ago
Because not caring is the default?
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by computerphage 6y ago
Well, if the tax rate is lower than the cost of running a large organized crime organization and trafficking the drugs into the country, then the legal price may still be lower. There's also the fact that buyers ALSO care about the ris
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by computerphage 6y ago
> somehow make the body consume more energy from fat specifically Any way to achieve a calorie deficit will accomplish this. There doesn't have to be a second drug to make your body use fat as energy once you've already given i
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by computerphage 6y ago
(2013)
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by computerphage 6y ago
Fun fact: not all humans can visualize things in their heads. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
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by computerphage 6y ago
This is for all people who give to EFF.
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by computerphage 6y ago
I mean, it's great to "not store state" until you get to the last part of your comment: "possibly a few custom parameters describing password rules for weird sites", plus it also needs to include things like the num
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by computerphage 6y ago
FWIW, and I'm not suggesting you actually do this, but you probably could learn to remember that many symbols. People can memorize thousands of digits of pi. People can solve ~60 rubik's cubes in an hour blindfolded (where they mu
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by computerphage 6y ago
Does this work across multiple machines? (Phone + laptop?)
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by computerphage 6y ago
I used to use a deterministic password manager, but switched to bitwarden because I wanted to be able to rotate (some) passwords sometimes and never found a great solution using a DPM.
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by computerphage 6y ago
Age demographics as well.
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by computerphage 6y ago
Why is it harder to remove them from ceramic pots?
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by computerphage 6y ago
And it doesn't help that popular sources are perfectly happy to just call things AI or RL and leave it at that. The popular discourse around AI sometimes sounds like "How do computers work? Programming. How does google work? Progr
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by computerphage 6y ago
Hmm... One way that I look at it is evolutionary computation is an optimization strategy. It's characterized by tracking a population of candidates, discarding the lowest scoring, mutating the survivors, and cross-combining elements fr
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by computerphage 6y ago
That's one of RL's traditional formulations, yes. Bandits problems are another one. They've been generalized together into POMDPs partially observable Markov decision processes.
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by computerphage 6y ago
I actually wouldn't see them as a scalper. I don't think it's just an equivalence. I've always been fine when looking around for a domain and one is taken but it's being used productively. The thing that feels annoy
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by computerphage 6y ago
Certainly AlphaZero was run on very fast hardware and lots of it. Nevertheless, I think it shows that the days of "speed is all that matters" is over. It did substantially fewer evals than stockfish and still crushed it. LC0 is th
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by computerphage 6y ago
- A simpler but much faster engine will beat a more complex engine any time because the advantage of another ply easily outweighs the advantage of some clever algo. Tell that to AlphaZero
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by computerphage 6y ago
Just because the fool says "The sun is shining" doesn't make it dark out.

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