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by drpossum 2y ago
A big part of all these discussions is "why should you trust any computational result you can't verify?"
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by drpossum 2y ago
This is how I have made my living for years, and that was before AI
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by drpossum 2y ago
lol lmao even
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by drpossum 2y ago
I don't see how von Neumann's work here helps at eliminating the problem and is arguably not particularly different than "just use more LLMs". His key result was to come up with a sufficient number of redundant computat
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by drpossum 2y ago
I'm confident the marketing folks would just say something akin to "shut up nerd", cash their bonuses, and leave you with the problem.
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by drpossum 2y ago
I think I'm missing something then. If that were true, wouldn't you lower the network allowance and then make the product cheaper or at least priced the same? This would have the no-traffic users paying "their fair share&qu
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by drpossum 2y ago
Is it really a "driver shortage" or "we don't want to pay drivers a living wage or allow them to have dignity and oops no one wants to be a driver for some reason" like in the US?
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by drpossum 2y ago
No one you're complaining about would care if people were training LLMs on pirated material for their own private use.
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by drpossum 2y ago
*happening in Georgia to white people
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by drpossum 2y ago
If you read the article title it is not a ban on the drug. > Ending Use of Oral Phenylephrine as OTC Monograph Nasal Decongestant Active Ingredient It is a ban on marketing/listing this as an active ingredient on those products. If
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by drpossum 2y ago
Having worked on the design of safety structures with mechanical engineers for a few projects, it is far, far cheaper to do a simulation and iterate over designs and situations than do that in a lab or work it out by hand. The type of stuf
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by drpossum 2y ago
The average age of a bridge in the US is about 40-50 years old and the title of the article has "80 years of FEM". https://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/wp-content/uploads/... I'd posit a large f
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by drpossum 2y ago
I've worked with COMSOL (I have a smaller amount of ANSYS experience to compare to). For the most part I preferred COMSOL's UI and workflow and leveraged a lot of COMSOL's scripting capabilities which was handy for a big but
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by drpossum 2y ago
This reads like one of those things where you developed an idea or even a product but without talking to your potential customers first . Is that true? You say "This bypasses the complex queries and extensive table transformations th
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by drpossum 2y ago
> think it is probably fair to call Google out as having always been an advertising company I don't think that's fair unless you can find something that says that was their intent (sibling posts in this thread claim there&#x27
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by drpossum 2y ago
It was brief, but google did not sell ads from when they launched in 1998 until October 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google 1998 is not outside "living memory"
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by drpossum 2y ago
You forgot to mention how much you are willing to pay.
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by drpossum 2y ago
Was I attacking Sabine or was I saying trusting a single source to inform the entirety of a view of a non-expert about a debatable topic is perhaps not responsible?
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by drpossum 2y ago
Do you think you can't? It's all covered under FOIA. Bureaucratic stuff like this is in fact FOIA's wheelhouse.
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by drpossum 2y ago
The question was to the person above where it seemed like that's what they were doing and then expected us to take their view as something worth considering. It was giving them an opportunity for them to explain their position and giv
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by drpossum 2y ago
Do not read "the system is perfect" or even "good" from my post. I'm focusing only on the claim from the post above that there is "zero accountability". The people accountable are everyone in the chain I
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by drpossum 2y ago
Do you have an example where funding was given out with zero accountability? I've worked at a number of universities and national laboratories for particle research and they all had multiple layers of accountability. At the top of an
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by drpossum 2y ago
Would you recommend following only Sabine to be a good way to get a thoughtful and unbiased view of the issue?
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by drpossum 2y ago
No, because an untestable theory is just a useless theory (i.e. it is not meaningfully predictive). There are more difficult and confrontable issues such as predictions models will make like "supersymmetry", "the proton deca
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by drpossum 2y ago
You're aware this discussion is about wealthy people trying to avoid taxes? The person who doesn't have $2350 handy is the person furthest from this conversation.
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by drpossum 2y ago
I would consider using this if I could just shove my API key in and have it run.
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by drpossum 2y ago
I'm confused. None of my favorite projects are here.
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by drpossum 2y ago
I hadn't noticed, but it's a free board.
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by drpossum 2y ago
You've misunderstood the difference of "sameness" those two works are trying to address. Knuth is not using an equivalent idea of "sameness" as discussed above. Two people each going by Philosophy of Computer Sci
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by drpossum 2y ago
I'm not sure how you find this would be helpful. This is a legitimate question you have answered with "your premise is wrong" despite the fact you don't have nor have presented enough information to be able to assert th

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