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901.
by dboreham 1y ago
Hmm. Not one single bit of information about "natural dog/cat life" is encoded into a shelter kitten's brain. All the data used to train their brain came from humans and their human environment. Cats even learn to talk h
902.
by dboreham 1y ago
It wasn't originally less good. For at least 20 years it was much better.
903.
by dboreham 1y ago
LLMs (and ML before that) have attracted a class of hand-waving bullshitter. Hardly surprising --- anyone who knows what they're doing in whatever field is going to be busy doing their thing. Meanwhile some new hot tech comes along, wh
904.
by dboreham 1y ago
It's not the constitution. It's the American people (on average) who tolerate corruption and crime within their leaders.
905.
by dboreham 1y ago
These are all just symptoms. The underlying vulnerability is the median US culture, which permits venality, scamming, skuldugery, shenanigans and crime in its ruling class.
906.
by dboreham 1y ago
These entities are not really the same kind of thing. BA and RR were successful private companies that ran into difficulty for one reason or another and took on the UKG as an investor of last resort. BT was an offshoot of the Post Office, a
907.
by dboreham 1y ago
Japan has a culture of running trains on time though. There is no MBA figuring out that they can pay themselves a bigger bonus by firing the backup train drivers needed to ensure on-time service.
908.
by dboreham 1y ago
Remember: everything you see that seems odd is in service of someone's business model.
909.
by dboreham 1y ago
I've been in the industry since 1985. There have always been boom and bust cycles with the basic components. It's the nature of the thing: very costly factories that take many years to bring online. Plus normal business cycles tha
910.
by dboreham 1y ago
Apart from not having to deal with a human, observance of traffic laws is the main advantage I see in autonomous vehicles. Once there are a decent proportion of them on the road we can ratchet up penalties against human asshole drivers, con
911.
by dboreham 1y ago
We ran a public NTP server for many years. Then, details hazy, but I think there was a UDP amplification vulnerability that was exploited which upset our transit provider so we took it down. Might be fun to try again though.
912.
by dboreham 1y ago
Presumably most US street lamps are 120V which is probably why we see this idea implemented in other countries that have 220V power everywhere. Also worth noting that many towns in the US don't have street lamps or only have them in th
913.
by dboreham 1y ago
I saw them in London a couple of years ago, and they looked like they had been there for a long time then.
914.
by dboreham 1y ago
Harrier 2.0
915.
by dboreham 1y ago
So many of these threads recently. The abstract pattern is: people are surprised that many other people who one might reasonably expect should give you money or resources, or otherwise behave in a cooperative reasonable way, are psychopaths
916.
by dboreham 1y ago
Takes me back. I don't think we have the number of shoe shops that used to dominate the high street and at the time I assumed inspired Adams.
917.
by dboreham 1y ago
See also: The Loop
918.
by dboreham 1y ago
1280×1024
919.
by dboreham 1y ago
Because it's mono?
920.
by dboreham 1y ago
> decent German and Japanese components Whoa there! Audio components were about the only thing the British still excelled at by that time.
921.
by dboreham 1y ago
All the west coast port cities (SF, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle, Vancouver) imho have always had a similar s.hole vibe. For most of the last 40 years SF was the worst. But now Seattle has the top place. Clearly complex issue with many causes
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by dboreham 1y ago
Those are examples not counterexamples.
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by dboreham 1y ago
Yes but presumably other NATO members would counterattack, e.g. the UK has Trident missiles capable of significantly degrading the US. Modulo any kill switch those might contain.
924.
by dboreham 1y ago
I've been watching this thread. Almost everything posted makes me say "no I don't think it was that", but also "I suppose that was something of a factor". This probably tells us there are many reasons not one.
925.
by dboreham 1y ago
Yes, but no once you factor in Conway. Teams deploy and are responsible for their own running services. The line of demarcation is via TCP connections, not the call stack inside some process owned by 9 teams.
926.
by dboreham 1y ago
Meanwhile the UK did give us the web and the CPUs we all use.
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by dboreham 1y ago
Um. Montana resident here. The state also had quite strong anti-corruption (aka campaign finance) laws, since the copper baron days. But the US Supreme Court ruled that doesn't matter (because their corruption trumps any state anti-co
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by dboreham 1y ago
A thing that can read the expiry dates on food packages that take me 20 minutes to find because they're printed in light gray on gray background would be useful.
929.
by dboreham 1y ago
Historically big AI skeptic here: what you say is very not true now. LLMs aren't just regurgitating their training data per se. I've used LLMs on languages the LLM has not seen, and it performed well. I've used LLMs on code
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It Is All about Token: Towards Semantic Information Theory for LLMs(arxiv.org)
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