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by gcanyon 1y ago
I know my cholesterol numbers going back almost twenty years, over something like 15 tests. This is because that first test around 2007 showed my HDL was ridiculously low. So I took steps to modify it, and tested again (and again...) to see
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Given the low side effect rate and limited overall impact, shouldn't the bar for deciding to take statins be near-zero? Like, the articles say if there's a 5% chance of a heart attack in the next 10 years there's no reason to
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I refuse to use Facebook's app. It's been years, I don't remember why, don't ask me. Their web app is fundamentally broken in half a dozen ways, and has been for years. A couple examples (not all): If you are in the midd
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm guessing it's a very select group of people who want a house next to Andreessen...
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by gcanyon 1y ago
"or at least obscure"
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I work with developers every day. Between us we often give the AI directions like: * Write a query to link table X to table Y across this schema, returning all the unique entries related to X.id 1234 * Write code add an editable c
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by gcanyon 1y ago
99.99+% of all problems humans face do not require particularly original solutions. Determining whether LLMs can solve truly original (or at least obscure) problems is interesting, and a problem worth solving, but ignores the vast majority
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by gcanyon 1y ago
99.99+% of all problems humans face do not require particularly original solutions. Determining whether LLMs can solve truly original (or at least obscure) problems is interesting, and a problem worth solving, but ignores the vast majority
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> The prose is the art I get that, I'm just expressing my preference for ideas over writing style.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I didn't say it doesn't have meaning. I'm saying that I prefer simple language around complex topics, rather than the other way around. As one example, the discussion of "quality" in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle M
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I was alive at that time and working in tech. That paragraph is not a good imitation of the atmosphere and cadence of the language. :-)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The "GPT-3 moment" framing is a bit hype-y I think? GPT-3 eliminated the need for task-specific fine-tuning, but from the article RL wouldn't replace LLM-style pretraining. So this is more of an incremental advance than the p
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by gcanyon 1y ago
It's a funny coincidence, I've never read Neuromancer, and talking with a friend of mine three days ago he said, "I thought we read Neuromancer at the same time and discussed it? You should really read it now!" I have to
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by gcanyon 1y ago
This jumped out at me as well. I think it's fair to say that if you aggregate all predictions, there will be those who vastly over- and under-estimate progress on any given time frame, so depending on who the authors were paying attent
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by gcanyon 1y ago
"If you're on the free plan, there's an 19.8% platform fee" I think you mean the "pay as you go" plan? If not, that's pretty confusing, and 19.8% of "free" should still be "free" :-)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm not sure what time frame you're talking about, but I lived in Bangkok from 2019 to 2021, and Chinese tourists were all over the place then. That said, the mall next to my apartment no longer has the Incredible Hulk standing in
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by gcanyon 1y ago
In some contexts it's super-important to remember that LLMs are stochastic word generators. Everyday use is not (usually) one of those contexts. Prompting an LLM works much better with an anthropomorphized view of the model. It's
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by gcanyon 1y ago
* I meant "extincted" from the gene pool -- auto-correct un-corrected me...
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Not necessarily — the “large” genes could literally have been extracted from the gene pool. It’s possible for them to mutate back into existence, but that’sa lower-probability, much longer proposition than if the genes are still available
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by gcanyon 1y ago
My dog definitely caught rabbits. He even brought two kits into the house. He's a sweetheart in every other circumstance, but he loves toys that squeak when he mauls them.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
>The quantity group would be graded on volume: one hundred photos for an A, ninety photos for a B, eighty photos for a C, and so on. > The quality group only need to present one perfect photo. > At semester's end, all the best
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> At semester's end, all the best photos came from the quantity group. My parents once owned a photography studio. My stepfather often said something like, "A great photographer doesn't only take great photos; he takes man
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm not saying 50% is the right number, but I can imagine that a 100% requirement would produce very noisy results, while 50% might achieve a much smoother graph that produces a (hopefully) better view into the future. It might be reas
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by gcanyon 1y ago
We had a house near Matthews Beach, and when we moved in there were many rabbits in the neighborhood and in our yard. We have a terrier-mix mutt, and there weren't rabbits in our yard for long...
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I don’t remember the result, and the entire endeavor had spun pretty far out of control by that point obviously.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm very disappointed there doesn't appear to be a Tom Scott video on this.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Almost as good as a babel fish!
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by gcanyon 1y ago
This kind of creative thinking reminds me of a time I was playing Arduin Grimoire (anyone remember Arduin Grimoire? Anyone? Bueller?) and the DM decided he was done with me, so I opened a door and saw... a million thunder bunnies. Only a hi
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by gcanyon 1y ago
My math doesn't agree with theirs. First, to cover 2 miles in 6 seconds with smooth acceleration you'd need to accelerate at somewhere around 600ft/s^2. This would give a final velocity of 3600ft/s, or about 2400mph (sor
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by gcanyon 1y ago
For years I've been fascinated by those little solar-powered calculators. In a weird way, they're devices that enable us to cast hand shadows to do arithmetic.

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