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by david_draco 2y ago
Not sure how taking off all the safety and exploring "the best model" freely without considering ethics is a "scientific" approach. Computer scientists like us should think about the ethical and societal impacts of what
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by david_draco 2y ago
After reading so many GPT news item, I was confused what APT is, no explanation on the page, no link ... took me a while to realise it is about debian linux' packaging tool apt.
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by david_draco 2y ago
Probably could set the seed and temperature and store these. Run with a few variations and keeping the best would probably work even better, at the expense of more computation.
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by david_draco 3y ago
anyone who has ever been pickpocketed or robbed or worse will know reason and feelings are different things
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by david_draco 3y ago
> Given how easy the infiltration is and how extremely hard to detect it is, likely a lot. I read it exactly the other way around: the infiltration took years and detecting it was the default with a fuzzer, which had to be disabled for t
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Ask HN: Deterministic CI
1 points by david_draco 3y ago|1 comments
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by david_draco 3y ago
How does it compare to gnumeric in terms of speed?
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by david_draco 3y ago
Another approach is to create a synthetic joint distribution by combining the marginal distributions independently and train a random forest classifier to distinguish the synthetic joint from the real joint. If the classifier is unable, the
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by david_draco 3y ago
> Whole different story but do we really have to insist on not delivering any first party frontend logic in 2024? Yes. Not all users may be able-bodied, or humans.
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by david_draco 3y ago
> The vast majority of discourse around AI development assumes that subservient, "moral" models aligned with "human values" are universally beneficial -- in short, that good AI is sycophantic AI. There is a logic erro
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by david_draco 3y ago
He was busy getting us towards wifi first.
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by david_draco 3y ago
A bit ironic to buy "news" to "think nothing has changed in fifty years".
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by david_draco 3y ago
Good that there are open source alternatives: socat - TCP4:192.168.2.100:1234 socat TCP4-LISTEN:1234,fork,reuseaddr - https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/getting-started-socat
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by david_draco 3y ago
You can have a lot of output once you stop receiving input for a few days.
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by david_draco 3y ago
Is it even legal to take a GPL-licensed code, translating to Rust ensuring it is exactly compatible, and then releasing under non-GPL? I thought you would need to extract a clean-room specification from it first, and ideally have separate p
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by david_draco 3y ago
Not disagreeing that plastic is a concern, but calling it one of the biggest threats? I recall it is negligible compared to climate change and expanding land use, which can be addressed by reducing meat, flying, consumption, and increasing
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by david_draco 3y ago
How does differ from the very neat joblib.Memory https://joblib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/generated/joblib.Mem... ?
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by david_draco 3y ago
Thanks!
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by david_draco 3y ago
I suspect the point is that all NP-hard problems are equivalent to each other, often one can be transform one NP-hard problem to another. This shows that quantum will not save us. This is bad but also good for encryption. NP remains an impo
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by david_draco 3y ago
If you have a 300-page legal document, and other sources reference passages, e.g., a paragraph on page 234. It would be unreliable if over the years or depending on the viewer it moves to another page.
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by david_draco 3y ago
Is eye-tracking tech not good enough these days to position a cursor when one stares at that position for 2+ seconds? I am recalling studies of driving or artwork where the gaze lingers.
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by david_draco 3y ago
> I wouldn’t consider any of this open source any more. If you sell someone a AGPLv3 licensed software, that is completely okay and FOSS. If that someone sells someone else a (maybe modified) AGPLv3 licensed software, that is completely
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by david_draco 3y ago
I was also put off by that, but consider the maintainers perspective: The more versions, the more combinatorics (also considering install time), which means more ways for bugs to occur. Then someone files a bug, does not give all the depend
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by david_draco 3y ago
Ireland, which is milking Facebook, would block high fines. Their DPC does everything but enforce ... (see noyb.eu)
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by david_draco 3y ago
I took it from the article: "We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-spac
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by david_draco 3y ago
Based on what are you expecting bug fixes for free from Mozilla? None of us is paying Mozilla for developing in any particular direction. To see the bugs fixed that bother you, contribute to the open source project? Can be code or paying a
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by david_draco 3y ago
It checks lots of browser APIs and makes a proof-of-work calculation in the background. I guess we are getting close to paying for entry with computation.
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by david_draco 3y ago
Has anyone actually been fired for not returning to office, after applying for home office, or is this only a threat?
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by david_draco 3y ago
The author gives evidence that many old people refuse further treatment that would extend their lives, shortening their potential life span. Then they conclude "These centenarians should seek thorough medical care, ... This, however, w
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by david_draco 3y ago
"I discovered" in the abstract is a bit misleading, they realized it by reading the existing literature.

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