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by glial 3y ago
It's brutal on the hiring side too, FWIW. I'm getting lots of "cover letters" that are written to other orgs, e.g. Hugging Face.
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by glial 3y ago
I'm curious what situation you have in mind. I suppose if you wanted to calculate a rate, you would need to divide (integer) money by an (integer) time interval.
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by glial 3y ago
I'm guessing it's named after Judea Pearl.
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by glial 3y ago
For scale, 100M hours is about 143 lifetimes.
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by glial 3y ago
> classical or liberal arts education a luxury for the idle rich My understanding is that this is exactly the original meaning of the term 'liberal' in liberal arts. Liberal => free => not a servant => has time for lei
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by glial 3y ago
Awesome idea. I'm curious how comprehensive your set of evaluations is. For example, how does it compare to OpenAI Evals? Could I import evaluations from there? Add my own?
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by glial 3y ago
I think it's a well-known Stephenson issue. Here's his response when asked: https://www.reddit.com/r/nealstephenson/comments/5jjwmq/neal...
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by glial 3y ago
I have the same sense of nostalgic fondness for the hardware. The software, however, was terrible. If I had a nicer software solution for managing files on my MD, I might go dig it out of the closet.
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by glial 3y ago
Maybe the new cities could be built to be walkable.
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by glial 3y ago
In the context of Bayesian inference, the KL divergence between the prior p(m) and the posterior p(m|x) is the information gained by observing x. With VAEs, adding a KL divergence to the loss term can be thought of as regularizing informati
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by glial 3y ago
Yeah but mostly due to cars.
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by glial 3y ago
Beth Lord has a great guide to the Ethics.
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by glial 3y ago
It's not the status of the human mind we're talking about here, it's definitions of 'language' and 'intelligence.' It seems offensive to some people that those labels might be applied to entities other tha
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by glial 3y ago
That too, but this trend has been going on for decades in the field of linguistics. "Language is X," people say. Oh, it turns out that prairie dogs can do X. "Oh, well then language is X-prime!" Turns out parrots can do
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by glial 3y ago
Agreed, it's apologetics for human intelligence.
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by glial 3y ago
Meh. A nicer way to say "gluing things together" is "reasoning with abstractions." There's detail all the way down, but you don't need most of it and can't remember all of it. The key is just knowing when
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by glial 3y ago
I agree that asking psychology grad students to register & replicate a result as part of their training would be a boon to the field -- and useful experience for them.
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by glial 3y ago
Abstract says "mean absolute error of 0.229 °C"
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by glial 3y ago
I really love the idea -- learning a new language can be pretty embarrassing, and a chatbot is a wonderful way to practice (in theory). The site worked pretty well with German! It would be helpful to be able to click on words I'm not f
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by glial 3y ago
Well worth the read -- I saw both the Odyssey and the Trojan war in a different light after reading this essay.
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by glial 4y ago
Better World Books is one of my two go-to used bookstores, the other being www.secondsale.com. Abebooks is also great but they are owned by Amazon.
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by glial 4y ago
That's bitten me too. So annoying.
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by glial 4y ago
How does an American find a job in Germany willing to hire them? I'd jump at the opportunity.
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by glial 4y ago
Where can I find a list of the supported operators?
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by glial 4y ago
I don't disagree, but to play devil's advocate, maybe the Trump campaign could have used a slogan that wasn't used by the KKK or Nazi sympathizers? If they REALLY believed in the idea behind the slogan, and not the historical
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by glial 4y ago
Beats sleeping in the park.
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by glial 4y ago
It's legal for an adult to drink a handle of vodka every night. Doesn't mean it's a good idea. It's legal for you to tell your neighbor you hate them. Doesn't mean it's a good idea.
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by glial 4y ago
I wish I shared your optimism about education's ability to adapt and meet the needs of students.
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by glial 4y ago
Just to add to the chorus: some books need to be slowed down to follow. I find books like Paradise Lost, Blood Meridian, or even Sherlock Holmes are almost impossible to follow at normal speed.
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by glial 4y ago
I agree generally, but it depends what you're reading. There are many books that "could have been an article" -- these might not be worth reading slowly.

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