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by feoren 3y ago
> MTF "transwomen" are not women. That's not an opinion, it's biological fact ... they never had a uterus or other female sex organs and almost zero had a XX chromosome A favorite technique of bad-faith arguers and sp
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by feoren 3y ago
More like: Him: "Facebook's ToS classifies totally cool, normal opinions as hate speech" Them: "Give us examples!" Him: <literal hate speech> Them: DOWNVOTE
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by feoren 3y ago
And like always, we see again that "express my conservative political opinions" is code for "spew unsubstantiated hate speech". It's the standard meme: "I have been censored for my conservative views!" - O
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by feoren 3y ago
Ehh ... is Wikipedia seen as "not innovating" or "evil"? Craigslist? They haven't really changed their core model (except for Wikipedia's recent more minimal look, I guess, but that's a pretty small change
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by feoren 3y ago
> In that case Universities will have to expel their entire student bodies! Liars think everyone lies; cheaters think everyone cheats. I suspect these were university administrators, which is a job that I can definitely see attracting kn
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by feoren 3y ago
I agree. It sounds like an army private testifying before congress about hidden stocks of blinker fluid. Whoever originally played the prank on him must be rolling on the floor during this testimony.
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by feoren 3y ago
> Maybe part of the problem is that I'm grossly under-estimating the amount of work involved in "post an interesting technical article to it once or twice a year" for people who don't already spend a lot of their time
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by feoren 3y ago
Indeed it's not possible. Say you had a classifier that detected whether a given text was AI generated or not. You can easily plug this classifier into the end of a generative network trying to fool it, and even backpropagate all the w
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by feoren 3y ago
> people are afraid of downvotes People are afraid of downvotes because people will throw out downvotes without even reading your answer , and once you get the first downvote, everyone else will pile on, also without reading your answer
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by feoren 3y ago
He says this in the article: if you ever want to jam a multi-trillion-parameter model into a phone app or a Raspberry Pi, you must quantize. I've seen some quantization go from doubles to bytes (64 bits to 8) per weight, reducing the
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by feoren 3y ago
That's a very self-congratulatory way to say "I intentionally coughed on people in WalMart"
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by feoren 3y ago
> path of exile Path of Exile actually is unpleasant to play toward the endgame without specialized stash tabs, which cost money. PoE has possibly the most irritating item/inventory management of any game I've ever seen, and
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, this speaks volumes about his character: > Tessier-Lavigne defended his reputation ... "issues with his research" ... "discussions" Meaning he believes he did nothing wrong and he's the target of "chara
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by feoren 3y ago
> movies don’t ever have any actual hard science, and they never require mathematical thinking on their viewership Um, no, I haven't noticed that. In fact I've seen "this movie is based on hard science!" as being a ge
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by feoren 3y ago
Okay, have these guys seen how people who are really good at football are treated? And all those guys who are great at guitar keep getting all the chicks, goddammit! There's no reason to think that mathematics has any more of a "c
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by feoren 3y ago
So if a kid is being bullied for learning to read, the answer is to stop teaching them to read? Is that really your suggestion? And by the way, the statement "Some kids are educatable. Some are not." also comes from a sub-culture
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by feoren 3y ago
> Average IQ is very different between races Wow, I thought we left this nonsense back in the 1960s. Study after study shows that every additional confounding factor you account for lessens this supposed difference. Nutrition, health, en
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by feoren 3y ago
> it's a pretty common joke how virtually inapplicable calc is to us If you think calculus is not important to software development than you are not bothering to look. Just a few examples: - Calculus was the first math class I took
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by feoren 3y ago
> the reason they're not all getting competitive scores with good shots at college is because advanced math (being intrinsically negative/evil) is ruining it I ... I don't understand. This is literally the craziest conspir
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by feoren 3y ago
Maybe anti-Twitter? Aren't Elon and Zuck having a spat?
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by feoren 3y ago
> there are humans, albeit in minority, that take pleasure from painful experiences. And we should seek to act in such a way that, all else equal, those humans have opportunities to do so, except in those cases where allowing masochists
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by feoren 3y ago
> a reasonable vision of the world based on everyone's moralities I was actually careful not to say "moralities" as parameters of the model, because people's claimed moralities are often really awful representations o
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by feoren 3y ago
Yes, we. See my sibling comment for my response to this.
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by feoren 3y ago
See my sibling comment for my response to this.
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by feoren 3y ago
People are responding that I'm using the word "we" and therefore I'm not being objective. I think I need to emphasize a point better: there are infinitely many objective measures. Here's one: how many total paperc
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by feoren 3y ago
That's like saying they're lighter than the moon. Your fact is more about how unbelievably resource-intensive aluminum smelters are.
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by feoren 3y ago
It has meaning because we want it to have meaning, and that's enough. The universe didn't come with meaning a-priori. We're not here because the universe has meaning; it's the other way around: the universe has meaning n
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by feoren 3y ago
When you say "survival" in terms of Darwinian evolution, you're really talking about survival of specific genes. Why should we choose to be beholden to the primal "desires" (if you'll grant me the intentional s
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by feoren 3y ago
Right, if you're having to choose between two models that meet your current needs equally well, and are about the same cost/effort, then asking that question is great. If one of the models is easily extensible to heavier loads, an
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by feoren 3y ago
YAGNI should be applied to things that you're adding . Features, database columns, interface methods, etc. Everything being added must have a need, and that need needs to be immediate and real. Refactoring is inherently not about addi

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