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by feral 5y ago
>How much does peace cost? > Has anybody ever costed it? Depends on what you mean by 'tools' but I would say the Marshall plan, roughly $100B in today's money, would be a good example of this. Explicit investment to reb
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by feral 5y ago
Because it could be active?
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by feral 5y ago
> How are the drones going to detect them apart from randomly running into them? In this context the idea would be that drones can use active sonar, because they are relatively expendable.
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by feral 5y ago
I don't mean we should be sure it couldn't have been a lab escape because we have found the natural origin. I mean we should be sure it wasn't a lab escape because lab escapes have a prior probability extremely close to zero.
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by feral 5y ago
> They said that no scientist wants to work in a remote location, they want to have a city social life. Which is why these labs are typically located in million+ cities. Sounds honest, but selfish given how the most recent pandemic took
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by feral 5y ago
The idea that we do gain of function research in urban areas is mind boggling to me. If someone told you they were working on experimental nuclear warheads, you'd think they were crazy if their lab was in a city. But they experiment wi
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Coding Guidelines for an Easier Life(mcdermottroe.com)
2 points by feral 5y ago|0 comments
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by feral 5y ago
So many people, even here, read the article and are like "I knew I had covid that December, I had the weirdest cold". But actually this should make you suspicious of such anecdotes. There's just much too many of them for them
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by feral 5y ago
His reviews all seem either 5-star or 1-star - fitting for someone who makes his career railing against overuse of normal distributions!
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by feral 5y ago
I found the reaction to this surprising. When Security Researcher tell a company about a bug they've found, and the company reacts badly, this community is usually strongly in favor of the Security Researcher. The overworked corporate
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Hong Kong Customs Busts GPU Smugglers(tomshardware.com)
2 points by feral 6y ago|0 comments
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by feral 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action_problem
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by feral 6y ago
>If you're writing software Yes, 100% yes. Adding substantial resources can hugely speed up a project. I will requisition the very best engineers, the best support staff, remove all financial bottlenecks, dedicate shadowing teams to
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by feral 6y ago
OK, but conversely there were literally no mRNA vaccines mass produced a year ago, and now they are delivering hundreds of millions of doses this year - so they've clearly being able to scale production quite quickly. Its a big claim t
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by feral 6y ago
It's a huge claim to say that $100B extra couldn't have resulted in a speed up. What makes you so sure of that? What's the manufacturing bottleneck that an extra $100B up front couldn't parallelize? I just have trouble b
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by feral 6y ago
That is a bad sort of victim blaming. I hope you wouldn't apply that logic to victims of other non-online crimes. Anyway, separately, she addresses that in her article, convincingly I thought. Plus she's brave and helping others t
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by feral 6y ago
Inside all the well socialized Irish.
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by feral 6y ago
I'm very pro-vaccine, and not disagreeing with your conclusions, but your logic leaves out the consideration that the natural risk also depends on catching the disease, whereas the vaccine is administered systematically.
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by feral 6y ago
This reminds me of a fun Irish news report that's on YouTube, from 1980, shortly after they established the factory, including an interview with Steve Jobs in Ireland: https://youtu.be/61scMzhVEF8
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by feral 6y ago
I haven't looked it up, but the trial will certainly be randomized. Randomized trials and statistics solve this problem.
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by feral 6y ago
I thought the VC was generous here. But there's some benefit to being generous. How many future founders will read that blog? If you were a founder, would it influence your choice of investor, to know if things don't work out, the
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by feral 6y ago
It doesn't seem like the actual local bookstore does much in this arrangement? They don't ship the book, own the customer relationship, or deal with customer support? How does this work out well for them in the medium term? Won&#x
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by feral 6y ago
Its a hard challenge to create bots that have good UX and help users, even without taking context/history into account. A lot of companies are just focusing on getting that right, and delivering that value first. But I think everyone b
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by feral 6y ago
Right - or maybe directionally radiating it away in a direction your adversary can't observe? The James Webb space telescope cools it's observing side instruments to 10s of degrees above absolute zero, using active cooling. I wond
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by feral 6y ago
Why can there not be stealth in space? The link you gave doesn't seem to have any arguments. Not saying you're wrong, just curious. Some simple arguments that it's not a ridiculous question: There is stealth on earth - paint
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by feral 6y ago
As an ML engineer for Intercom, I wrote this post about the principles we follow when developing Machine Learning products. Happy to take any questions!
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How Intercom applies ML in product development(intercom.com)
5 points by feral 6y ago|1 comments
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Huang's Law is the new Moore's Law(m.marketscreener.com)
3 points by feral 6y ago|0 comments
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by feral 6y ago
This will be the case for everything built on GPT-3, but you've got to imagine it's possible for them to keep refreshing it, eventually training or fine tuning it on a daily basis as their web crawl updates.
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by feral 6y ago
If this turns out to be easy and convenient, it won't matter whether the tech is overpowered. A family car is really overpowered for most trips to the bakers. Yet people take the car all the time, instead of walking or cycling, because

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