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by dpark 2mo ago
> But I'm prepared to accept it was just variance. The problem is, that variance undermined the competition for many people Honestly I found it really frustrating that Balogun got that red card (and gross when political meddling s
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by dpark 2mo ago
It’s a good term. :) I originally heard it in the context of picking paint color for the bike shed, which is probably more on point for software engineers, most of whom would not be involved in any discussion around building a nuclear react
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by dpark 2mo ago
Bad management will certainly tank a team, but he’s right. The draft structure also helps to even out the teams. In the NFL, winning is more about quality management and coaching (and some luck) than anything else. Which is a good thing. Le
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by dpark 2mo ago
Dude, this is gross. Stop calling people racist for disagreeing with you about Argentina. It’s not racism to call out concerns about Argentina’s play or reffing bias. You should be embarrassed to repeatedly resort to ad hominem attacks like
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by dpark 2mo ago
Thanks. I know what bikeshedding is. I’m asking what cyandees specifically means. The normal definition of bikeshedding doesn’t seem to make any sense in his sentence. I’m assuming he’s using it to mean “cruft” or “low value features” but m
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by dpark 2mo ago
What is bikeshedding supposed to mean here?
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by dpark 2mo ago
Fernandez deserved each of his yellow cards. Especially the second for that reckless and dangerous tackle. Cucurella did not violate the rule. He touched his mouth for an instant. The rule is not “if you ever touch your mouth you get eject
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by dpark 2mo ago
> Now, you seen more countries qualify, and you see countries who used to not qualify, dropping ASAP (in the deathmatch 16th matches, right after poule). > So what did we get out of that? A few matches during the tournament, and th
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by dpark 2mo ago
The NFL is so balanced not because it’s a “super” league but because every team has the same salary cap. The best team and the worst team all have to spend essentially the exact same amount of money on their players, ensuring that no team c
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by dpark 2mo ago
I really hope AI is going to help turn the tide from this “everything runs a copy of chrome” architecture. It’s never been cheaper to build fast native UIs than right now, but everyone is still shipping web apps wrapped in chromium.
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by dpark 2mo ago
This is getting way into the weeds but the fact that costly signals are more trustworthy doesn’t mean all signals are costly. An “in this house we believe” sign is signaling but if you live in a liberal neighborhood it’s extremely low cost
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by dpark 2mo ago
They aren’t trained on compressed plaintext so I’m not sure of the relevance there. But regardless it’s my understanding that’s modern models are trained with orders of magnitude more storage than their parameters require. But it’s possibl
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by dpark 2mo ago
These models are trained on way more than just books. GPT-3 was trained on about half a terabyte of filtered plaintext and the training corpuses have grown significantly by then by all accounts.
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by dpark 2mo ago
The books in question are not antique. The Twitter post makes this claim but so far as I can tell it’s not based in fact. 404 Media published a story about this as well and cites a bookseller who notes that all of the books there have sold
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by dpark 2mo ago
That would be a clear case of copyright infringement under current law. You can’t make a copy of a book and then give the original to someone else.
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by dpark 2mo ago
> When people call something virtue signalling what they usually mean is that it's cheap talk, but this is wrong. The whole point of signalling is that it's costly. What? Signaling is not costly. It’s literally a display , a
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by dpark 2mo ago
> That makes it even worse, then. This proves the original point. I don’t know what the “original point” is here, but these AI companies are not providing “book excerpt services” and do not claim to. ChatGPT at least will refuse to pro
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by dpark 2mo ago
> they're using the info to regurgitate in some fashion and serve back. Sure, in the same sense that they regurgitate any other text they consume. LLMs by definition do not have the full training dataset available, though. It’s fa
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by dpark 2mo ago
I don’t trust or expect AI companies to serve books at all. That’s not what they are scanning them for.
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by dpark 2mo ago
> being digitised so they can be found in electronic searches You make it sound like they are running a second Project Gutenberg. They most definitely are not making these available for electronic searches. At least not searches the pu
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by dpark 3mo ago
That’s cool but also definitely not the same thing that GP claimed.
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by dpark 3mo ago
> * Everyone who isn't a FAANG or Frontier Lab seem to be absolutely starving for good talent.* I think this is largely a pay gap problem. There’s a bit of prestige involved (why work for random corp’s dev dept when you could work a
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by dpark 3mo ago
> I don't like I'm pushed to migrate only because the software wants that, otherwise the hardware works with no problem. This is one of the problems with the switch from shrink-wrap software to always-upgrading software. Cust
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by dpark 3mo ago
> "Scientists bad because I don't understand statistics" is boring. Just because you decided that is a meaningless variable does not mean that it is. It’s literally a comic about how spurious results arise. I understand
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by dpark 3mo ago
The annoyance of every AI announcing is a machine every time it’s invoked is obvious. I don’t see any basis offered for this actually doing anything beneficial.
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by dpark 3mo ago
> This is exactly my point. They are not repeating experiments. Each one is a different one, and independent of the other, because the chemicals in each color are different. They are not testing what you think that they are testing. Th
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by dpark 3mo ago
The downside is it’s annoying as hell. The upside seems limited to a bureaucratic pat on the back for “doing something good”.
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by dpark 3mo ago
This sounds like the kind of well-intentioned thinking that results in products that are no safer practically but are far more unpleasant to interact with. This is like the pop up every time I start my car that reminds me I should not play
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by dpark 3mo ago
> If they found a link, they found a link You could have skipped the wall of text. They didn’t find a link. They found a random correlation. The scientists here essentially engaged in P-hacking: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by dpark 3mo ago
It’s got electrolytes.

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