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by gwern 3y ago
When you're a small incompetent corrupt country, a sovereign wealth fund is the last thing you want. Like dumping gasoline on a fire. Whereas cutting taxes - well, it may not be optimal, but it's harder to corrupt, is transparent
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by gwern 3y ago
Props for use of https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/
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by gwern 3y ago
> For years, colleagues have described him with a mix of admiration and fear, commonly referring to him as “Crazy Ken” and telling stories about his tirades at work. Talk to people who knew him in his Sony days, and they’ll often describ
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by gwern 3y ago
Fun historical trivia: shortly after winning the Nobel Prize, Bragg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Bragg#Work_on_sound_r... spent WWI working on exactly this problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by gwern 3y ago
Do you ever run out of RAM?
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by gwern 3y ago
> Interestingly, students using ChatGPT synthesized a number of ideas having no effect at all on the primary problem—littering of the grass by the fragments. Examining these ideas in detail shows these ideas were related to “educating sh
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by gwern 3y ago
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by gwern 3y ago
Google canceling their contract certainly isn't going to help their business conditions, you have to admit.
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by gwern 3y ago
> Since the first author name is zero characters long, the regex skips that line, and the fake second author line is used instead. Git ignores extra author lines after the first, so Codespaces looks at the second author line but Git look
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by gwern 3y ago
> While the background of the V5.1 image looked like Hogwarts, the V6 image has a tasteful, blurred background of hefty-looking lawbooks. If this image was in the brochure for a law school, we’d probably feel compelled to go there. >
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by gwern 3y ago
It's frustrating because Archive.is/today keeps doing this. Some sort of fight with Cloudflare, who cares about the details - it sucks. A few weeks ago it suddenly started working again on Firefox, and it was great! I wake up toda
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by gwern 3y ago
The references he gives in that section suggest that it boils down to a convenient way to try to gauge poison by contrasting sugars to bitterer phytochemicals. Plants with sugar may be less nutritious on average, but that's just counti
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by gwern 3y ago
Paywalled.
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by gwern 3y ago
This is a typical GLP-1 journalist self-report, but it is still amusing to see it hit so many of the usual points: the realization that 'CICO' was always really false in any substantive sense, that people really do differ in exerc
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by gwern 3y ago
This could have been an interesting talk (as have been past ones, like their recent cockroach one), but winds up being too filled with superficial banter and more interested in judging the past than reporting it.
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by gwern 3y ago
Heh. This problem reminds me of back in 2019 when I was working with Shawn Presser on finetuning GPT-2 using Google Colab - there was a problem where it would randomly error out every once in a while, but also it would take like 10 minutes
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by gwern 3y ago
Repost of https://www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographers-devise-an-appr...
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by gwern 3y ago
Upvoted because while the reconstruction is not too convincing, it is hilarious that he's discovered the banks are cheating tourists by selling them under-weighted bank note sets & making up the difference with random pebbles &am
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by gwern 3y ago
You probably didn't intend to link to ' https://subs.ft.com/products ' but https://ig.ft.com/ai-animals/
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by gwern 3y ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02332-9 Preprint fulltext: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.30.494086.fu...
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Dropcap Generation with AI for Webpages(gwern.net)
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by gwern 3y ago
> However there are tons of disadvantages to blogging this way. The main one is that your post is just text, nothing else. That means no images, no clickable links, and no analytics to figure out how many people have read this post. Text
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by gwern 3y ago
(An awkward comparison, considering that the AI hands are solved by scale and are already going away in good image-generation models and in a few years people will be wondering what that phrase even means.)
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by gwern 3y ago
If you follow the tabs, he has a whole slew of popularizing articles: https://rodrigobsalvador.wordpress.com/publications/science-... https://rodrigobsalvador.wordpress.com/publications/others&#x2F
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by gwern 3y ago
Better known URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bx3gkHJehRCYZAF3r/pain-is-no...
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by gwern 3y ago
I'm interested about the public benefit corporation part here. Did the PBC status wind up changing anything at all here? How does a PBC sell itself or get acquired? How is a PBC supposed to terminate or wind down? If they violate their
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by gwern 3y ago
Since 2020, eh? Well, that's a familiar-sounding year... how much has it increased since 20 19 ? And don't forget inflation. (Oh wait, it's from Oxfam, cherrypicking years and 'forgetting' about inflation is just pa
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by gwern 3y ago
https://reviewed.usatoday.com/ovens/features/we-tried-an-ove... is a much better writeup. It seems to be a directional microwave, where it monitors how much microwave gets reflected back as a proxy for how much is
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by gwern 3y ago
Covering numeric types more in depth could be interesting. It seems to surprise most people when they run into '0123' for octal or '123f' (or is that 'f123'?) for a float, '0xdeadbeef' for hex, or &#x
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by gwern 3y ago
He provided it in the third tweet: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-2524684/v1 (He does this to avoid being penalized. Tweeters generally now exclude all external links from the first tweet in a thread be

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