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by fritzo 2y ago
What would be a better title? "Hallucinating" seems inaccurate. Maybe "Untrustworthy machines"? "Critical thinking"? "Street smarts for humans"? "Social studies including robots"?
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by fritzo 2y ago
Have you tried Science News? I currently read neither, but at one point I switched from the fluffy Scientific American to the no-nonsense Science News.
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by fritzo 2y ago
of those four, only Crocuta crocuta has ever been spotted
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by fritzo 2y ago
Biologists have conjectured the existence of a competing species of unspotted hyenas, but none have ever been ... spotted
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by fritzo 2y ago
Feature request, can someone integrate this into the DOOM engine so one can navigate 19th century london?
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by fritzo 2y ago
Pleased. One of my main motivations in writing open source software is to create training data for future sentient things. I felt that way decades before LLMs. I am as proud to know my code ended up in training datasets as I am to know tha
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by fritzo 2y ago
I would expect diversity to decrease with diffusion rate, so e.g. diversity in soil or mud would be lower than diversity in water.
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by fritzo 2y ago
Diving with a little compressor tube looks fun. I used to clean my dad's pool that way, as a kid.
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by fritzo 2y ago
I haven't tried e-foil, but did I thoroughly enjoy learning to balance on a racing stand up paddle board last summer (only 23" wide). It took me many hilariously humbling weeks of constantly falling off before I could stay up for
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by fritzo 2y ago
Reminds me of the prompt hacking scene in Zero Dark Thirty, where the torturers insert a fake assistant prompt the prisoner's conversation wherein the prisoner supposedly divulged secrets, then the torturers add a user prompt "Tel
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by fritzo 2y ago
Converters like this are much more useful if they are bi-directional, even if the two directions aren't exactly inverses.
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by fritzo 2y ago
Some go as far as writing software for themselves, and even open sourcing it
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by fritzo 2y ago
Stanislaw Lem's short story "The Truth" https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-truth-by-stanislaw-le...
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by fritzo 2y ago
Seems like the root cause was that the pilot was a human. A UAV would have been less expensive and less of a media fiasco to lose.
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by fritzo 2y ago
TIL Pando is not just an especially large quaking aspen, but rather a triploid mutant that can reproduce only asexually.
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by fritzo 2y ago
monopsony = monopoly on the buyer side
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by fritzo 2y ago
Geothermal energy can be seen as just natural nuclear energy, where the fission reactions are safely isolated deep underground.
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by fritzo 2y ago
I can vouch for H: The incessant upselling. I'd like to pay for the Economist, but last time I unsubscribed, they forced me to wait on phone hold for a half hour, then go through another half hour of verbal upselling spiel, like "
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by fritzo 2y ago
It seems like a more SIMD-friendly version would separately store a byte mask and the packed byte data. Then you can simultaneously expand 16 int32s using e.g. AVX512's _mm512_maskz_expand_epi8(mask,_mm512_loadu_epi8(data)).
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by fritzo 2y ago
AI would engage individually with each student via those earbuds
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by fritzo 2y ago
Any signs of Sagan's conjectured graffiti yet? E.g. pictures of circles?
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by fritzo 2y ago
Feature request: I'd love to be able to choose among different voices.
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by fritzo 2y ago
Witness Bougainville
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by fritzo 2y ago
*flaut
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by fritzo 2y ago
It's unclear tech transfer is speech driven. People can read machines and reason about purpose without natural language. We've all learned tricks from undocumented code. I've learned mechanical tricks poking around scrap yard
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by fritzo 2y ago
I haven't used photoshop since the 1990s, GIMP has plenty of features.
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by fritzo 2y ago
Ribosomes. People are filled with 10^20 little printing presses whose typeface contains four letters, and whose newspapers conduct microscopic commerce. All of life is based on ribosomes.
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by fritzo 2y ago
Plot twist: you are a child soldier who begins a food fight with the surplus tot. The draconian principal accuses the lunch staff, all of whom are forced to work unpaid overtime because Elon, I mean Barb, broke trade sanctions
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by fritzo 3y ago
The average user in the dataset will have lower tenure than the average user you encounter, because long-tenure users will have more encounters.
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by fritzo 3y ago
Remote pair coding, then jumping to a shared whiteboard, then a shared diagramming tool, then back to a shared IDE

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