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by fritzo 7mo ago
I was hoping this would be an infinite length terminal view, like the opening backstory in Star Wars
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by fritzo 7mo ago
Just checking :) Didn't want to confuse two totally different equally compelling reasons to ban prediction markets
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by fritzo 7mo ago
Agreed. In my limited experience, conflict resolution rules are very domain specific, whereas CTDTs encourage a lazy attitude that "if it's associative and commutative it must be correct".
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by fritzo 7mo ago
We're not talking about gambling-as-addiction. We're talking about gambling as big players paying participants to throw fights, paying referees to call shots, and the players are the real world and the referees are journalists.
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by fritzo 7mo ago
I'm not accountant, but I would expect Pizza Hut's accounting is significantly more complex than Anthopic's. 50+ year old global franchise with physical supply chain partnerships vs an upstart SAAS company?
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by fritzo 7mo ago
Good point. For sake of argument, how about this stratification of privacy levels: twitter/x/bluesky - a big tech company owns your data mastodon - a grassroots community organization owns your data zulip - someone you've met
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by fritzo 7mo ago
The community has voted for convenience over privacy, and twitter and bluesky have won over mastodon. You're right, but people don't actually care about privacy
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by fritzo 7mo ago
This is great! One lesson they might draw from the negative press is to offer a more open-ended interface, like ChatGPT, where for years people have already been asking "Pretend you are X and review my writing". This interface des
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by fritzo 7mo ago
Inheritance is astonishingly more complex than trees, e.g. Wong et al. (2024) "A general and efficient representation of ancestral recombination graphs" https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyae100
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by fritzo 7mo ago
How does it make sense to compare renewable vs non-renewable energy sources? Where does that electric car's energy come from? Suppose the electric car's energy is solar. Then driving the electric car consumes zero barrels of oil,
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by fritzo 7mo ago
Don't forget the SourceForge rug pull, when the once definitive central source of truth was bought out and became a venue for malware
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by fritzo 7mo ago
I recently spent 1.5 weeks fixing a bug I introduced 20 years ago. Can confirm, I have no idea what I was thinking back then.
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by fritzo 7mo ago
Barendregt & Manzonetto's 2022 "A lambda calculus satellite" has a whole chapter on the S fragment, for those interested
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by fritzo 8mo ago
This is how you get token laundering
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by fritzo 8mo ago
Right, hn is 50% collaborative filtering and 50% dang
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by fritzo 8mo ago
Would those agents happened to be named frk_ai_8b2e and that platform news.ycombinator.com?
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by fritzo 8mo ago
I've long been terrified of the existence of adversarial prompts that can get me to say anything, that dogs can lay eggs, that there are five lights, that here's my bank info
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by fritzo 8mo ago
It's so attention needy, and it's transforming our culture
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by fritzo 11mo ago
Linda Palmer also does "aha" research at UC Irvine https://brain.uci.edu/uci-brain-pilot-grant-investigating-ex...
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by fritzo 11mo ago
The only grave being disturbed is Robert Moses' by his turning
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by fritzo 11mo ago
And the fourth oldest vice is gossip, the original social media, talking trash while you pick bugs out of your friend's hair
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by fritzo 11mo ago
Also curious about latency. In the past I've worked around latency using video sensors for high-bandwidth high-latency features, then literally glued a contact mic to my interface to get low latency tap detection. How does the Board hi
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by fritzo 11mo ago
link is 404 for me
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by fritzo 1y ago
Missed opportunity to call it banana-seeds-400k
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by fritzo 1y ago
Unpopular opinion: hundreds of years from now, loss of mammalian species will seem like sentimental naval gazing when our descendants consider the millions of strains of fungi, bacteria, archaea, and viruses we could have saved, were it not
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by fritzo 1y ago
The batteries belong on a hip belt, not down where the foot swings > rechargeable cuff battery that seamlessly integrate with a carbon fiber–plated running shoe
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by fritzo 1y ago
Look how far we've come! Now we add random .unsqueeze(-1) and .permute(-1,-2) until our PyTorch models run without shape errors!
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by fritzo 1y ago
It looks like almost every AI researcher and lab who existed pre-2017 is now focused on transformers somehow. I agree the total number of researchers has increased, but I suspect the ratio has moved faster, so there are now fewer total non-
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by fritzo 1y ago
> “They didn’t apologize. They just told me it was protocol. I was expecting at least somebody to talk to me about it.” I wonder how effective an apology and explanation would have been? Just some respect.
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The China Tech Canon: books that influenced Chinese entrepreneurs(asteriskmag.com)
4 points by fritzo 1y ago|1 comments

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