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by gwern 2y ago
So the explanation would be that growing is just very metabolically expensive and that is where the deficit goes to?
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by gwern 2y ago
Also related are submissions of https://gwern.net/maze which is about finding the sources for the psychology anecdote towards the end.
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by gwern 2y ago
The MAC part sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winnowing
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by gwern 2y ago
The content does support it? They show with quotes that WPATH demands pre-publication review & approval for the purposes of making sure any publication is “thoroughly scrutinised and reviewed to ensure that publication does not negative
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by gwern 2y ago
> How do we know it wasn't a placenta in delicate wine sauce? I've never seen a placenta described as an "inch-thick steak" by people who have eaten steaks many times before. It is not a thick muscle, and none of the
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by gwern 2y ago
It's not supposed to be funny . The shock twist of it being cannibalism is supposed to make you think about the nature of default cultural assumptions and meta-ethics: "what factors Tardo would consider significant—probably very
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by gwern 2y ago
But you can at least buy the domain from the squatter afterwards, so the deadweight loss is limited. This is analogous to proposals for Harberger taxes on IP, or requiring copyright registration/fees for renewal after a few decades - i
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by gwern 2y ago
Well, that's why I am asking: Facebook has not made any legal binding promise to release the weights, and people just assume/hope they will release weights. But OP's 'releasing it' will cover anything from a blog
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by gwern 2y ago
But are they releasing the weights ?
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by gwern 2y ago
There are two quasi-replications, which mostly failed to replicate the major results Calhoun so sketchily described in his few research publications on Mouse Utopia: Kessler 1966 and Hammock 1971. See https://gwern.net/mouse
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by gwern 2y ago
(Rat Park doesn't replicate either.) > The process was not reversible, and remained degenerative in offspring. Accordingly, I found this work greatly affected how I processed neuroscience material, and viewed violent behavior. And y
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by gwern 2y ago
> Why doesn't every GPT interaction on the planet, when it generates code, simply generate white box tests proving that the code "works" and produces "expected results" to reach consensus with the human in its &q
583.
by gwern 2y ago
An entertaining outcome here is that LLMs may render the docs vs code debate largely moot: as LLM coding capabilities increase and the cost per token plummets, it becomes increasingly possible to simply stop writing code at all, and instead
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by gwern 2y ago
This is especially true when it comes to reinforcement learning: what people should take away from the bloodstained guides written by past RL programmers, it is one thing at a time : https://andyljones.com/posts/rl-deb
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by gwern 2y ago
'remote' also means you can set up networks of them to cover your area. Just dump a bucket every n meters, and spend a few hours driving around every few weeks to harvest the data & swap out batteries.
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by gwern 2y ago
> People might have tripped over thousands of them Obviously not, because when these guys tripped over them, they were struck enough to then spend years looking for explanations. > unlike the unknown but huge number that were not. The
587.
by gwern 2y ago
OP: the YT loading paradox you are thinking of is https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters
588.
by gwern 2y ago
Whether or not she was improved or worsened, she was luckier than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Eckstein#Surgery anyway.
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by gwern 2y ago
It's been rumored that the SemiconductorAnalysis GPT-4 arch leak might be from here.
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by gwern 2y ago
> The one exception arrived when the film cut to the interior of a cave. Up until this point, every shot had been outdoors or underwater. They looked good but didn’t really showcase the Sphere’s strengths as a wraparound display, since i
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by gwern 2y ago
If they had been doing the ritual regularly enough to preserve it for over 12,000 years in a relatively small range, it seems surprising that the excavations didn't turn up way more instances than it did. They can find 2 perfect instan
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by gwern 2y ago
Web design note for OP: you designed your site for dark-mode, and your initial SVGs are correct, but then it clashes with your graphs which are all light-mode. You can invert them in CSS, and they'll look a lot better. And you can choo
593.
by gwern 2y ago
That's an interesting argument. My intuition would've been the opposite: the title is much more likely to be dirty. 3 quick transactions in under a decade (and a fourth ongoing) means that many more opportunities for problems. Eac
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by gwern 2y ago
> From a predict-the-future point of view, I’ll say that Anthropic’s progress this year precisely backs your point that taste might in fact matter. Last year I would have said safety concerns had irrevocably ruined their product, but I w
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by gwern 2y ago
Because it turns out that while this might sound like the easy, simple, convenient, right thing to do, if you try it (as we did), what happens is that people will forget or not understand they set it, and be unhappy and complain: https:&#x
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by gwern 2y ago
Rereading this for the nth time, what strikes me is the emphasis on the keybindings, and not on the conceptual model of what a document or writing is . Other editors like Emacs or vi have clear paradigms: in Emacs, everything is a buffer o
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by gwern 2y ago
> maybe from here it is just mostly engineering, data and regulatory capture, and the question of creativity won’t be the defining one. I’m not saying this is likely but I don’t think it’s unlikely either. Actually I’d say it’s more like
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by gwern 2y ago
This seems to be a bait-and-switch argument. I can't see how any grid feature can handle all of the media-query things you highlighted as wasteful bloat like "the drop caps and the other flourishes". How does that handle drop
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by gwern 2y ago
> The benefit is less data going over the wire. I get it--100 KiB doesn't sound like much these days, especially given the page weight of almost 800 KiB. But it's still an extra 100 KiB that doesn't need to be transferred
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by gwern 2y ago
> The site design and content are great; the execution, not so much. As I mentioned, I think it would be helpful to link an example (even just one) of a website you think is executed correctly and does similar things but much better. &gt

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