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by contravariant 8mo ago
The short answer is that it's up to a judge to decide that, up to the law what it's based on and up to the people what the law is. Sure there is still some leeway between only letting a judge decide the punishment and full on mob
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by contravariant 8mo ago
Don't resign, just offer a remise after moving a pawn. Only resign if no pawns are left. I'd claim it would work on human opponents, but I think it would get banned from chess tournaments.
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by contravariant 8mo ago
People thought negative numbers were weird until the 1800s or so, they arose in much the same way as a way to solve algebraic equations (or even just to balance the books, literally). Complex numbers were always going to show up just so we
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by contravariant 8mo ago
Well no, in that case all traffic is exposed anyway.
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by contravariant 8mo ago
Well websites like AirBnB tend to make it as difficult as humanly possible to automate stuff like this, so maybe? Although that likely only lasts until they learn how to block LLMs effectively.
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by contravariant 9mo ago
I'm never quite sure what to think of papers that have a conclusion and then build a mathematical model to support it.
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by contravariant 9mo ago
It's somewhat interesting how the wisdom of the crowd and economic theory for rational actors are usually combined as an argument for free markets. While the reverse is not used as an argument against unchecked wealth.
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by contravariant 9mo ago
> Trouble is that, [...], even if they include the charging and refilling bits they can be cheap enough to throw away after use. Well that is fixable, it's even one of the solutions posited here. Just make them artificially expens
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by contravariant 9mo ago
Give it some slack, it's probably doing its best to inexplicably run windows.
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by contravariant 9mo ago
Could just be the webpage to be fair, but it's not a great look. After trying a few others I do think I was a bit unlucky with my first few tries.
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by contravariant 9mo ago
They should really update those links. Could be a coincidence but about half seemed to redirect me to a service that was discontinued or continued under a different name.
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by contravariant 9mo ago
Both of these do, in a way. They just differ in which gaussian distribution they're fitting to. And how I suppose. PCA is effectively moment matching, least squares is max likelihood. These correspond to the two ways of minimizing th
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by contravariant 10mo ago
I mean we've had to cope with users for ages, this is not that different.
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by contravariant 10mo ago
Hey we have the same tree! (()(()((())((())(()())))))
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by contravariant 10mo ago
It is a moral one, but laws have no morality.
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by contravariant 10mo ago
While that is indeed one of the causes, it does feel a bit like whataboutism to point it out on an article explaining the scam.
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by contravariant 10mo ago
Ultimately I think the paradox comes from mixing two paradigms that aren't really designed to be mixed. That said you can give a Bayesian argument for p-circling provided you have a prior on the power of the test. The details are alm
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by contravariant 10mo ago
Don't use them for the parts that are fuzzy. I mean it should be obvious that making executive decisions about what the code should do exactly should only be left to a RNG powered model if the choices made are unimportant.
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by contravariant 10mo ago
Why is figuring out what UI elements to capture so much harder than just looking at the network activity to figure what API calls you need?
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by contravariant 11mo ago
I'm confused, of course if you await immediately it's not going to have a chance to do anything else _before_ returning. If you do the following it works as expected async def child(): print("child start")
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by contravariant 11mo ago
Well what is the most obvious application of a highly volatile energy dense substance? This substance can basically only do two things. 1) whatever ordinary hydrogen can 2) explode violently on contact with matter Sure it's interesting
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by contravariant 11mo ago
None for the foreseeable future I hope.
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by contravariant 11mo ago
This exchange is somewhat hilarious. Oh how on earth do we keep things safe and secure if everyone can see the code and verify what it does! Who would keep us safe if we turn our backs to unverifiable, unvetted, unprofitable security fixes,
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by contravariant 11mo ago
Ah that was why. Oh well, I just needed to get the code to the server, so I didn't really need Github anyway.
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by contravariant 11mo ago
Seems a bit harsh to leave out the rest of the apology and only focus on the part that is not much of an apology.
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by contravariant 11mo ago
I don't think you're wrong but I think I failed to convey the point I wanted to make. What I was getting at is that without an objective way of measuring the whole idea of super- or sub-linear becomes ill defined. You can kind o
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by contravariant 11mo ago
Just map quality q to e^q or something and it will be sublinear again. Or more directly, if your argument for why effort scales linearly with perceived quality doesn't discuss how we perceive quality then something is wrong. A more dir
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by contravariant 11mo ago
If it's unethical it's not because of what the robots.txt says. Blindly violating it is bad manners, but deliberately scraping a single website over a month isn't the worst.
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by contravariant 11mo ago
For the intersect page you probably want to order the users by the size of their shelf. For some more obscure combinations I'm mostly getting users who read 10,000s of books, which is less useful than the users with <1000 books.
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by contravariant 11mo ago
At what point are they feeding reviews into an LLM? From what I got the only personal data they're using is which user read which books.

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