ekelsen

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by ekelsen 3mo ago
It was extremely common back in the 1500/1600s, when books were far more rare and valuable to write in them. Almost every copy of these truly old books has something written in them, often by multiple people as the owners changed. Tha
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Then don't buy used books? They are _used_. If you want a new book, buy a new book?
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Reminds me of this classic line from the 1973 movie The Sting: "What was I supposed to do? Call him for cheating better than me in front of the others?!" Said in response to being out-cheated at a high-stakes poker game. Except in
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Truly curious - why did you choose to work at a content farm?
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
I get a 404 not found?
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
See the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48837460 You can absolutely still tell.
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
I used a placeholder for X ELO, but my point was the community should pick one value that makes sense and then not change it.
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Yeah, I don't understand why the metric isn't "complete chess engine that achieves X ELO" in yyy bytes or something. Instead it seems to have been "minimal thing that kinda looks like chess in yyy bytes"
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
I think you're relying far too much on an econ 101 idea to analyze a situation that's far more complicated.
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
At least for me, even income taxes as high as 53% have not discouraged me from trying to make more money. They have made me consider moving. At some level, certainly at 90%+, the most rational thing to do to make more money is to spend time
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
The test of "if it disappeared today, we'd all be fine", would eliminate most of the economy.
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Data centers have negative externalities which is why people don't think anyone should just be able to buy land and turn it into one. Once of those negative externalities is water usage. The parent was commenting on the also high water
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
If the clubhouse is your idea of the valuable public good we can provide without 18 holes of grass.
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Golf courses don't do that either...
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
How is this different from farming? It takes the limited resources of land and water from a community and sells the result for profit as food or fuel. The vast majority of profit is made downstream and outside the community. Golf courses b
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
All of her books seem to be children's books and many of the 13 are illustrator credits. I found this blog from late 2021: https://medium.com/grimhistorian/coffee-the-sexiest-drink-in... I can only see the beginni
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
I would believe she wrote it in this style if you can point to any of her writing pre 2022 that is similar in style. Does that exist? Genuinely curious.
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
It matters because I don't like the style. I wouldn't like it if a human wrote it. I don't like the style so much that I won't read things written with it. So maybe she had something interesting to say, but it was not co
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Seems like yours is? FWIW, on your own blog, the most recent post also reads as at least AI helped "Navigator Theory". This sentence in particular sticks out: "They affect what the person notices, what they dismiss, what they
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
It's clearly written by AI. I find it interesting that some people recognize it immediately and others do not. I don't know what to make of it.
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
The actual experiment is basically training a relatively large RNN (1000 units) to do a very simple copy-esque task. The weight values are constrained to be either positive or negative at the beginning of training. The RNN could probably be
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
I don't think the argument is necessarily against the use of the tools entirely. My interpretation is that it's against delegating to them all understanding. Humans can only usefully steer LLMs if they have some understanding or c
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by ekelsen 3mo ago
Jeff Dean has a paper in 2007 that has proto scaling law plots for ngram language models. https://aclanthology.org/anthology-files/anthology-files/pdf...
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by ekelsen 4mo ago
That's not how it works in most other countries and it seems fine?
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by ekelsen 4mo ago
Might matter a lot to sandy. I think it says a lot that decades later one of the things he remembers is someone he (or the larger company) hurt.
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by ekelsen 4mo ago
Ah, tyranny of the majority, the best form of government.
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by ekelsen 4mo ago
I've done it multiple times. Everytime I wanted to do it, it was possible. If you offer to sign a 5 year lease at current prices, then yeah, can see why they might not go for that.
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by ekelsen 4mo ago
You could sign a longer lease and get the stability you desire. Negotiate a five year lease and stability is yours.
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by ekelsen 4mo ago
Except it's not free. It's free to you but not others.
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by ekelsen 4mo ago
I don't think the first position is steel manned by assuming those holding it actually believe there are no potential problems or ways to use the technology badly. But that belief does not imply the doom rhetoric is necessary or the be

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