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by gojomo 3y ago
Seems to me that soon as there are consistent nighttime freezes, pumped water could create a level & sealed frozen surface.
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by gojomo 3y ago
TThough unmentioned in the article, their thoroughness (& the value involved) implies they'll have a fix in place before attempting take-off – perhaps some form of quick/temporary pavement, perhaps assisted by seasonal freezin
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by gojomo 3y ago
While I like the Open Source Initiative's early & principled stake-in-the-ground, as a matter of usage, many things get casually called 'open source' that don't fully fit the OSI 'Open Source Definition'. A
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by gojomo 3y ago
Many clearly think of the weights as a source-like artifact. Also, the model's architecture is sufficiently documented, & supported by open code, for others to fine-tune it & run it for generation, which to me justifies describ
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by gojomo 3y ago
What kind of novel thing would convince you, given that you're also dismissing most human creation as mere remixes/rehashes? Attempts to objectively rate LLM creativity are finding leading systems more creative than average humans
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by gojomo 3y ago
I agree we're not at 160 IQ general-assitants, yet. But just a few years ago, I'd have said that prospect was "maybe 20 years away, or longer, or even never". Today, with the recent rapid progress with LLMs (& other
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by gojomo 3y ago
> "If a language model spits something out it was already available and indexable on the internet" This is false in several aspects. Not only are some models training on materials that are either not on the internet, or not eas
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by gojomo 3y ago
The latest models generate original combinations that can surprise the prompter with their inventiveness, so your confident assertions about what LLMs can't do seems calibrated to the models of a year or more ago – and not at all an en
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by gojomo 3y ago
Good idea! I expect there will be profitable businesses based on training LLMs to simulate eminent people & celebrities – on both their public utterances and their private correspondence – then charging for access to the best models.
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by gojomo 3y ago
Far closer than for most of the US population, east of the Mississippi! And, less than a day's drive. People should get out more.
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by gojomo 3y ago
It's plausible; a $40k new gas-powered car in California would owe about $600 in annual registration fees in San Francisco. Texas's electricity rates are about half of those in California, so 3 summer months' AC costs in Dall
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by gojomo 3y ago
Sure, Texas has to pay for government-paid things, too. But they save a bunch by not buying as much. For example, both Texas and California have 0 miles of high-speed rail. But California has spent $10B for those 0 miles, while Texas has sp
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by gojomo 3y ago
SF's not too far from some famous deserts - within 8h drive you can get to Death Valley, Mojave, or the home of Burning Man, Black Rock Desert. (From Austin, Big Bend's part of the Chihuahuan Desert is about 8h away, plus of cou
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by gojomo 3y ago
One quote, and one bit of 5-month USPS change-of-address data not specific to techies or those who'd recently moved-to-Austin? Not much to hang a trend story on. This kind of story is just pandering to some readers' desired headli
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by gojomo 3y ago
Thanks for ref! I share your frustration at those who confidently & prematurely write-off rapidly-changing AI tech based on dated examples, cherry-picked anecdotes from the unskilled, & zero extrapolation based on momentum. They do
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by gojomo 3y ago
Emphatic assertions "it has been known" are anti-convincing.
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by gojomo 3y ago
As parent deleted, which tweet was being referenced?
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by gojomo 3y ago
Given your testimony, I trust you that it's person-specific – especially since my experience at Berkeley, back in the CS60A-CS60C days (with Scheme) was almost diametrically opposite. My 80s high school had no programming classes to sp
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by gojomo 3y ago
If they've figured out how to deliver performance that Python might get around to in 5-10y, shouldn't they tout that, for people who might want that now? Ultimately promoting the possibility for better performance, & current
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by gojomo 3y ago
If it looks bad enough that you'd risk starting cancer treatment right away (!) with no further confirmation, it's definitionally something they'll have been glad to detect early. But for most things, the advice would be: wat
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by gojomo 3y ago
Of course you can. It's not a unique tendency uncorrelated with all other aspects of personality/temperament/anxiety. There are expecially emotional people, especially neurotic people, especially gloomy people – and their opp
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by gojomo 3y ago
Does this page have a bunch of blue-text runs that aren't links?
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by gojomo 3y ago
This is absolutely true of many personality types! But not others. (And there are perhaps some marginal temperaments that could, with more practice & supporting culture, become more sanguine about any worrying-but-non-terminal interim&#
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by gojomo 3y ago
The artificially rationed – & frankly abusive – traditions for training & licensing doctors in the US makes me heavily discount "the general opinion among doctors" as a guide to what's systemically-optimal. They'
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by gojomo 3y ago
If the "things showing up on MRIs that currently require a biopsy" don't actually pass cost-benefit analysis on their own, that 'requirement' can & should be adjusted down. Or, new diagnostics with less cost&#
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by gojomo 3y ago
A number of municipalities have already banned all helium balloons simply due to litter concerns. Major suppliers rationed helium sales as recently as 2022, after the Ukraine war limited supplies from Russia. Helium has often been the subj
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by gojomo 3y ago
The delivery mechanisms for a nitrogen-free air – be they personal respiration devices or sealed environments – could be onerously regulated, or effectively banned for certain places/purposes. It can be hard to confine helium, and its
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by gojomo 3y ago
My understanding from the lit, & experience, is that there's a natural high/mild-euphoria from moving to higher-altitude (despite slight cognitive impairment) for the 1st 24-48 hours. That can then give way to crankiness, unti
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by gojomo 3y ago
You'd hope mind-hackers would've explored & confirmed/refuted/quantified the effect, but stuff like this often lies underexplored for decades, despite hints like this 1975 study – which actually shows the 'gradi
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by gojomo 3y ago
Harvard's not purely private: it receives massive structural tax advantages, & lots of government funding via many kinds of tuition & research subsidies. Harvard's supposed "excellent reputation" is significantly

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