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by dentalperson 2y ago
It would be mostly quiet (remember that humans only hear up to ~20 kHz). Sure, this is a joke today, but if we continue down our current path, we would probably hit ultrasonic rates in the not too distant future. The video was fun and insig
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by dentalperson 3y ago
What is the training data and have you thought about how to build a causal model that would be robust to interventions (e.g. by changing or adding a gene)?
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by dentalperson 3y ago
Yes, they all have significant 'ghosting' artifacts where the harmonics are a bit fuzzy if you listen closely. AFAIK all of the recent neural speech engines have this, from SoundStream to EnCodec, especially in low latency causal
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by dentalperson 3y ago
I genuinely want to understand this mindset. Are you only against things that help extend lifespan a very large amount, or is it more nuanced? 80 years was only achieved recently because of various quality of life and medical advances. Do
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by dentalperson 3y ago
I love the math/stats history around gambling-related things, thanks for mentioning this. This method assumes the flipper can't introduce bias. ET Jaynes in his book Probability Theory also mentions that it is easy to learn to f
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by dentalperson 3y ago
Definitely bikeshedding, but it also kind of looks like the TensorFlow logo and for a second I thought there was a group breaking the project free from Google.
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by dentalperson 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendations, I will check them out. I appreciate the point about seriousness too. One part of it that I liked kind of feels like travel writing from the last century (e.g. John Muir) that goes in and out of various subjec
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by dentalperson 3y ago
The essay was fun to read and had excellent balance - the author talked about distractions semi-ironically with fine control of its focused structure and pacing while keeping a light and carefree tone that was nonetheless academic. I'
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by dentalperson 3y ago
The AMC series Halt And Catch Fire had the line: “Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing.”
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by dentalperson 3y ago
There is also 10+ years research for tinnitus using Vagus Nerve Stimulation to stop it [1]. Results seem mixed. Many other drugs/neuro-stimuli for T have gotten mixed results and passed clinical trials such as Leniere only to flop in
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by dentalperson 3y ago
Thanks for reminding me about this. MacsBug was great. Besides being a useful development tool, MacsBug was used extensively to break shareware as well by the mac warez community. I remember seeing some guides about it that were very illumi
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by dentalperson 4y ago
Where did you get that 3 per 100k from? In each of the last 2 years there were 55 homicides in SF from what I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of New York, which is half of SF's rate? https://sfist.com/2023/01
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by dentalperson 4y ago
Any merit to this service? It claims without 'hidden fees' so I thought they would get rid of the airbnb-like fees, but it looks like there is still cleaning fees, platform fees, and taxes not included in the nightly rate (for +5
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by dentalperson 4y ago
The install (npx dalai serve) fails silently for me. With --verbose it says `npm info run node-pty@0.10.1 install { code: 1, signal: null }`. Ubuntu 22.04.
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by dentalperson 4y ago
How do they get ChatGPT not to hallucinate stuff about the articles? Everything seems fairly accurate, which is not my experience with ChatGPT when talking about technical things. Is it heavily curated/edited by humans? I noticed that
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by dentalperson 4y ago
Ah, that makes more sense, thank you. Since this was mentioned in the tokenizer section and the number of unique tokens wasn't mentioned I misunderstood.
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by dentalperson 4y ago
How does token->embedding lookup work with 1.4T BPE tokens? Since there are more tokens than the 65B parameters it must be doing some sort of interesting thing based on the merge operations. Is it different from what other GPT models wit
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Portugal ends Golden Visas, curtails Airbnb rentals to address housing crisis(reuters.com)
7 points by dentalperson 4y ago|4 comments
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by dentalperson 4y ago
The options grant appraisal for startup employees seems very optimistic - 70% it's worth nothing. 25% payout is equivalent to all the backpay you would have gotten if you had worked at a big tech co. instead. 4% life changing money b
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by dentalperson 4y ago
I've seen this use of constants inside big O notation in leetcode and 'informal' discussions. Is it pedantic to say that O(NM) == O(N) if M is a constant (in this case since it's bound by 26)? Or is this the current an
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The Non-Capitalist Solution to the Housing Crisis(youtube.com)
2 points by dentalperson 4y ago|0 comments
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Blizzard has not responded to Starcraft 2 API bugs for over 10 months(us.forums.blizzard.com)
2 points by dentalperson 5y ago|2 comments
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by dentalperson 5y ago
Can you answer this question: In the case of business failure, will customers lose their existing 20 years they paid for and have to pay the new management company all over again?
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by dentalperson 5y ago
>What happens to all of Anja's clients if the business exits? >All biological goods stored with Anja will stay in our New Jersey lab regardless >of what happens to Anja as a business. Client relationship management and >con
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by dentalperson 5y ago
These points and the Guzey essay were discussed in depth in Science Fictions by Stuart Ritchie, which features examples of negligence and fraud in science. Having read and enjoyed the message in Why We Sleep, my first reaction before readi
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by dentalperson 5y ago
Yes, once you have felt and identified a chanterelle with success a few times, it's very easy for an experienced forager to tell the difference between gills and folds (especially in the larger species such as C. californicus). The fo
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by dentalperson 5y ago
> The notion that somehow aging is “special” and therefore shouldn’t be regulated like “normal” diseases is not convincing. The same argument could be made about any number of other conditions. For example cancer – for years we’ve been t
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The End of a ‘Gilded Age’: China Is Bringing Business to Heel(nytimes.com)
3 points by dentalperson 5y ago|0 comments
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by dentalperson 5y ago
I mostly remember this because of the brief appearance in "Halt and Catch Fire", which captured the fascination of early webcams in a few seconds.
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by dentalperson 5y ago
I made up these phrases to give a simple explanation instead of causal inference terms, and they are probably not good terms, so sorry for the confusion. If I describe it in more standard vocabulary, 'at any of those instances' re

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