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by edanm 2y ago
> My question, though, is does pushing these kinds of toothless resolutions make any difference beyond showing that the ICC essentially has no power to enforce its warrants? Absolutely this matters. This effectively limits where Netanyah
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by edanm 2y ago
If you think the "confirmed" data is unreliable, what makes you think you know the "real" number? How is your number any more reliable?
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It is a report that was correctly widely criticized. Certainly worth reading, but worth being aware of this. (I personally think that estimating that the eventual death toll will be 4x higher than the somewhat-verified death toll that exist
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> You're pointing the finger at the State of Palestine and "any Muslim country", when the real supporters of Hamas for years has been Israel and Netanyahu. You said true things before about Netanyahu propping up Hamas, and
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Just to stick up for the Israeli software developer POV - most Israelis would completely disagree with you that genocide is happening in Gaza. You might think they're wrong - that's valid. But it's not that they're openl
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> However, in this case, not only do we have an incredible amount of video evidence of war crimes, but we also have a huge catalogue of Israeli politicians explicitly calling for the genocide of Gaza. I disagree that there is an incredib
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by edanm 2y ago
AI is here because an AI product came out that millions of users found actually useful. The massive success of ChatGPT is what brought the current era of hype around AI - it's not anything VCs did.
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by edanm 2y ago
> If it isn’t severe, then why bother protecting yourself at all? (Leave it to those that want to, or need to, to protect themselves.) It was a severe disease for a certain portion of the population, especially before the vaccine. If y
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Managing User Roles in Airflow with the EDW-Grants Plugin(newsletter.hipposys.ai)
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Agreeing on facts is always important, because if not, nothing else matters in a discussion. We should never criticize people for actually bringing real numbers into a conversation to clarify things. I didn't know that statistic, and I
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Blender is an even better counterexample, because it had a truly terrible GUI that everyone complained about, worked hard at it, launched a new version with a much better GUI that made things much closer to how commercial apps do it, and th
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by edanm 2y ago
The thing is, these symbols are supposed to represent something, so it's better if they give some intuition. But some words get overused, exactly because of that. E.g. the two Rs we are talking about here both stand for the same word
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by edanm 2y ago
> There is a longstanding tension between those who believe human intuition is trustworthy, and the “checklist manifesto” folks. I really think this is a false dichotomy. Both are needed. I even vaguely remember from the Checklist Manife
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by edanm 2y ago
As others have pointed out, some of your examples are very bad, because they're the opposite of hype - they're companies that innovated and created a better product by leveraging new technology . This gave actual consumers a be
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by edanm 2y ago
And the parent's statement is still true: >This is a news story and a controversy because it's a weird thing that happened. How often do you read a news story that says "sun rose in the morning"? The news doesn't
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Even with a company of size=1, you have to worry about customers.
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by edanm 2y ago
> Historically, Pepsi won taste tests and people chose Coke. Because Pepsi is sweeter, so that first sip tastes better. But it's less satisfying—too sweet—to drink a whole can. As a Pepsi drinker (Though Pepsi Max/Zero), I disa
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by edanm 2y ago
This is an enormously fruitful part of using LLMs for me too. As a programmer, there's always a million small scripts I can think of to improve my life, but it's often not worth spending time actually building them. But with LLMs,
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by edanm 2y ago
What kind of evidence could convince you?
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That's important context. But in the article, Gary Marcus does what he normally does - make far broader statements than the narrow "LLM architecture by itself won't scale to AGI" or even "we will or even are reachin
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm still waiting for a computer that can make my morning coffee. Until it's there I don't really believe in this whole "computer" or "internet" thing, it's all a giant scam that has no real-world ben
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by edanm 2y ago
That's very misleading. Terrible war keeps on happening all the time, just not so much in the US and Europe for the last 70 years. Yes, since WWII things have been relatively peaceful, but the key term there is relatively . As we spea
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by edanm 2y ago
But in this case they're talking about rights in your origin country, so "expat" is the only term that makes sense.
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by edanm 2y ago
Do you think there is no inference we can draw from ChatGPT being faster to X million users than, e.g., Facebook, Uber, YouTube, whatever? I don't think population exploding is true, and certainly not true enough over 20 years to make
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by edanm 2y ago
> Whenever I hear about AI craze, I remind myself of the 3D printers craze from 10-15 years ago. "Death blow to factories", "We will print our own cars", "We will print our own food". I imagine LLM AI will f
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by edanm 2y ago
Yes, that's assuming a single local process. Redis bills itself as an in-memory data structure store, and at least in my memory, it was mainly pitched for doing interprocess communication with real data structures.
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by edanm 2y ago
> Is "new pizza place that makes dessert pizzas" really that different to "new financial modelling website that can import from Excel and Xero"? Yes. I mean, I'm not thinking of "dessert pizzas", which
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by edanm 2y ago
I mean, it's not a practical answer to your question, but I'd love a backup of YouTube. I think it's probably got most of humanity's knowledge in there somewhere, in all kinds of forms for all kinds of levels.
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Steven Rudich (1961-2024)(scottaaronson.blog)
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by edanm 2y ago
You're comparing unlike things here. 97% of businesses are things like "open up another pizza place in the corner", "franchise a McDonald's", "open up a town hardware shop", etc. That's what bein

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