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by dlkf 6y ago
The cliche that total scientific socialism sounds great in theory but doesn't work in practice actually applies far better to laissez-faire capitalism (scientific socialism doesn't even look good on paper). Your arguments against
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_music
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This comment is getting downvoted for its rhetorical nature, but I think that each point is worth addressing. - The first point is missing the point, because it is ignoring the Simpson's paradox critique that a few users have already p
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by dlkf 6y ago
> Liking the idea of being a novelist is not enough; you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you're going to be good at it ; you have to like making up elaborate lies. [0] Something I wish I had realized 10 years ago
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by dlkf 6y ago
> To me, this seems to be putting the cart before the horse, as if the truth of a statement is dependent on its linguistic properties. In practice, it seems to me that usage and semantics are bent to a language-independent (but imperfect
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strillation stril·la·tion the action or process of boiling (a subject, typically an animal) at room temperature I have to say this is pretty hilarious
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^ This. The AGI crowd consantly abuses the bird/plane parable.
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Site Design, Parking and Zoning for Shopping Centers(planning.org)
6 points by dlkf 6y ago|0 comments
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The discussion so far is largely unproductive, because it is conflating "WFH life" and "we're in the midst of a global pandemic and we can't do our favourite activities." Personally I'm hating my current s
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Wolf Down is in Canada. Your currency conversion is incorrect.
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It's tough when your country isn't much of a democracy. A major difference between Scandinavia and the US/Canada/many others is that proportional representation plays a much greater role in the electoral system here.
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by dlkf 6y ago
I think this is a very good point, and I find the reasons for which it is getting downvoted wholly unconvincing. Time is only good insofar as I have the mental/physical energy to take advantage of it. Lots of tasks double-dip in the ti
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by dlkf 6y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight but it's worth noting OP said "necessary" and not "sufficient."
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by dlkf 7y ago
Butteridge's law of headlines
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I think the problem is AI-complete and human curation would go a long way. Admittedly it's more expensive and doesn't scale as well.
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https://davefernig.com I write about data science. More specifically I'm interested in search, ux, and psychology.
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While I'm generally pretty receptive to the idea of a UBI, it is wholly incomprehensible implementing one would be "easier" or "cheaper" than directly addressing COVID-related wage loss. Additionally, something as p
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by dlkf 7y ago
This is a great question. It would be interesting to run an A/B test on an online course. The treatment gets an actor reading pre-prepared notes, and the control gets a lecturer who actually knows the material.
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by dlkf 7y ago
I think that the spirit of the Turing test-determining intelligence through behaviour-is basically right. The only problem is the _choice_ of behaviour. "Convincing someone that you are real through a chat interface" is not a beha
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The Cost of Reading in Prison: In West Virginia It’s 5 Cents a Minute(bookpatrol.net)
3 points by dlkf 7y ago|1 comments
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> I apologise for the "It's both right and wrong at the same time" kind of answer. In summary I believe BTBurke is a fantastic language learner, but if you look closely at what they are doing, you'll see they are prov
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by dlkf 7y ago
> So the model is bounded by the context window, which is currently mostly at 512 tokens, and is thus, bounded in how much it can understand. This is begging the question as to whether the model "understands" anything at all. A
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by dlkf 7y ago
> In principle you might be right but it only works if there is an archivist who maintains the archive by repeatedly copying the content to new storage systems and distributing the results. In the long run, the same is true of print book
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The Virtue of Sloth(davefernig.com)
1 points by dlkf 7y ago|0 comments
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This would also be very fishy to anyone who inspects the source code. Immediately they would ask "uh where did this giant file of floats come from?" One approach would be to write some handcrafted rules/features that look lik
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A large number of commenters fundamentally misunderstand what happened. They are saying "why did he upload his scraped training data? Why didn't he just train on it and upload the resulting model?" If you are making this argu
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Wikipedia's search is totally inferior to google. It requires correct spelling within one or two edit distances and the SERP is far less informative. This is a common enough action that those seconds add up. If ddg wants to be competit
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by dlkf 7y ago
Lately I've trying to learn Swedish. Sometimes EN to SE translations are fairly direct, but other times you have to adopt a different mode of thinking before you can properly translate what you wish to say. In English, we can use the v
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Hahaha this is so on-point. Finite and Infinite Games is probably the most intellectually offensive book I've ever read. As much as I hate on the continental philosophy crowd, even those guys are better than Carse. At least their books
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by dlkf 7y ago
I like your post a lot. I don't disagree with anything in it per se, but I think there are a couple qualifications worth making. > From my perspective, choice of language matters very less compared to the number of experienced progr

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