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by djoldman 1y ago
https://archive.ph/C0mNq
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They Let Their Children Cross the Street, and Now They're Felons(nytimes.com)
12 points by djoldman 1y ago|4 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
> There’s a strange disconnect in the industry. On one hand, GitHub claims that 20 million users are on Copilot, and Sundar Pichai says that over 25% of the code at Google is now written by AI. On the other hand, independent studies sho
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by djoldman 1y ago
Relatedly with respect to passkeys, it seems we have the following tradeoff (simplified): 1. authentication via password: accounts stolen by criminals and then inaccessible to the user. 2. authentication via passkey: accounts lost by users
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School AI surveillance can lead to false alarms, arrests(apnews.com)
95 points by djoldman 1y ago|152 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
Politics is the OG bad system. Because politicians literally write the rules of the system, it's incredibly difficult to prevent abuse, bad incentives, and inefficiency. One of the most fundamentally broken aspects of the US system is
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by djoldman 1y ago
> Bob needs a new computer for his job.... In order to obtain a new work computer he has to create a 4 paragraph business case explaining why the new computer will improve his productivity. > Bob’s manager receives 4 paragraphs of den
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Motorcycle Helmets – Data Details – Injury Facts(injuryfacts.nsc.org)
2 points by djoldman 1y ago|0 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
> Navigating the Digital Age: How Technology Shapes Our Social Lives, Learning, and Well-Being > Navigating the Digital Age: A Personal Reflection on Technology > Navigating the Digital Age: A Personal and Peer Perspective on Techn
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by djoldman 1y ago
> Rank polymorphism means that a function can be polymorphic in the additional dimensions of arrays. For example, if you write a function that takes a 2x3 and a 4x5 array, it can also work on 10x15x2x3 and 10x15x4x5 arrays by broadcastin
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by djoldman 1y ago
Checkout section 3.2 Data Filtering: https://qianwen-res.oss-cn-beijing.aliyuncs.com/Qwen-Image/Q...
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by djoldman 1y ago
The cat's out of the bag / pandora's box is opened with respect to AI training data. No amount of robots.txt or walled-gardening is going to be sufficient to impede generative AI improvement: common crawl and other data dumps
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by djoldman 1y ago
The programmer can define functions that operate on matrices without having to be explicit about the number of dimensions and possibly (types of data, size of data, or length). Example 1: A function that can take as input a 4x2x8 matrix or
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by djoldman 1y ago
Abstract > ...Here we investigate the geographic clustering of common genetic variants that influence complex traits in a sample of ~450,000 individuals from Great Britain.... The level of geographic clustering is correlated with genetic
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by djoldman 1y ago
One mistake I think many make is to look at technology X and ascribe outcomes primarily to technology X. AI is one in a long long long line of new technologies. It is generating a lot of investment, new corporate processes and directives, d
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Genetic correlates of social stratification in Great Britain (2019) [pdf](research.vu.nl)
62 points by djoldman 1y ago|59 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
Voting is required in Australia, and the participation rate is >90%. There is a financial penalty for not voting.
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by djoldman 1y ago
> According to Pew, 61% of U.S. adults say having close friends is extremely or very important for a fulfilling life. I'm not sure what one is supposed to infer from this. I'm reminded of a Gallup poll[0]: > How worried are
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by djoldman 1y ago
Agreed, a good passenger train system in the US won't happen in our lifetimes. It's frustrating to contemplate what could have been.
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by djoldman 1y ago
I detest flying. If it seemed to be the only possible reality, I wouldn't care. But for flights that don't span water, my understanding is that it's almost certain that a train system is far superior. (Emissions, weight&
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by djoldman 1y ago
This is exactly the kind of obvious mistake that contributes to the complexity of explaining education outcomes. Requiring a "teacher recommendation" to allow a student to take an advanced course introduces bias and consequently i
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Icelandic Naming Committee(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by djoldman 1y ago|1 comments
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by djoldman 1y ago
There's a lot to talk about here. I think this is pretty interesting: > In reality, this wouldn’t happen, because, generally, people understand that stabbings are a cultural issue, rather than a technical one. The issue is less the
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by djoldman 1y ago
It may be worth pointing out that a few open weights models score higher than gemini-embedding-001 on MTEB: https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard Particularly Qwen3-Embedding-8B and Qwen3-Embedding-4B: h
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by djoldman 1y ago
Ah! Yes, thanks very much, I misread.
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If I had one piece of advice for someone trying to pick a career, it would be to require that they shadow someone actually in the professions they're considering. Doctors: you may spend many many hours in front of a mobile computer ent
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by djoldman 1y ago
The data set is a list of ("descriptive text", URL) tuples. As with almost any URL, it is not in and of itself an image. As an aside, this presents a problem for researchers because the links can resolve to different resources, or
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by djoldman 1y ago
LAION was alleged to link to CSAM. If LAION didn't link and instead hosted/contained/distributed the actual files, I think there would be a much higher chance that someone distributing LAION could serve prison time, at leas
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by djoldman 1y ago
A more accurate analogy is "it's not his actual money, it's a link to a webpage or image that has his bank account and routing number."
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Just to be clear, as with LAION, the data set doesn't contain personal data. It contains links to personal data. The title is like saying that sending a magnet link to a copyrighted torrent file is distributing copyright material.

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