halgir

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by halgir 2y ago
> LLMs fail in entirely novel ways you can't even fathom upfront. Trust me, so do humans. Source: have worked with humans.
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by halgir 2y ago
> (although "forced" is an exaggeration) Maybe. "Forced" implies "against their will", and prior to existing they of course had no will to oppose. It seems like you know what I mean though, and I'll try
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by halgir 2y ago
> I cannot put my finger on why I dislike this comment so deeply but I am a parent and I suspect you are not. I am also a parent. > I do agree though that parents should deeply love and support their kids which is what it sounds like
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by halgir 2y ago
On the contrary, from a moral standpoint you owe your children everything. You forced them into existence without their consent. Though I agree that doesn't have to mean conforming to societal expectations of ivy league schools and so
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by halgir 2y ago
I'm not qualified to interpret results, but this paragraph stuck out to me: > Using mice for the study, the researchers found that heart muscle also decreased in both obese and lean mice. The systemic effect observed in mice was the
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by halgir 2y ago
This looks like such a fun product. Similar to another commenter, I don't think it's all that useful, since the tactility of the physical dice roll is such a big part of tabletop gaming (for many people at least). But to me, watch
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by halgir 2y ago
If you programmed a machine to flip a coin in the same exact way every time, would you not expect the coin to land the same way every single time? If you program some randomness into the machine to simulate human flipping, then you'd s
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by halgir 2y ago
I usually understand "dark matter" to be shorthand for the discrepancy between theory and observation. The explanation might indeed be matter that is dark, or it might be solved by entirely unexpected observations and/or chan
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by halgir 2y ago
It's an observation on what it takes to win for this particular "side", not a moral comparison of the two.
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by halgir 2y ago
I hate that my first thought was "why isn't the apple music button monetized with their affiliate tag". Thanks for doing something cool for cool's sake.
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by halgir 2y ago
I agree that for the act of learning, the tactility of paper is a huge benefit. But for preserving and recalling notes and highlights, electronic wins. I can have hundreds of books or papers on whichever device I'm on and look up notes
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by halgir 2y ago
Massive +1 to Zotero. And 7 is out of beta now! I recently went back to school and started using Zotero again. Reading and annotating books and papers on iPad, and then having access to all of my notes when writing on desktop is such a simp
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by halgir 2y ago
That part immediately made me think of a particular scene from Silicon Valley.
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by halgir 2y ago
This reminded me very heavily of the False Hydra creature from Dungeons & Dragons.
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by halgir 2y ago
If the salary is market rate for that person, I suppose it's by definition a fair deal. I've seen startups hire "founding xyz" two years after they started. Looks to be a vanity title in many cases.
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by halgir 2y ago
I think we used the solutions as a vehicle for discussion, rather than settling on a "correct" one. Though I can't recall for certain, it was well over a decade ago. Yours is a good supplement, whichever method is otherwise u
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by halgir 2y ago
Reminds me of a UX course I took many years ago at uni. As an exercise, we were asked to come up with a solution to help people navigate campus. There were so many suggestions for apps or interactive touch screens. Someone suggested install
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by halgir 2y ago
> extends to include Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish * cries in Faroese *
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by halgir 2y ago
That stuck out to me too. There is a (not universally accepted) idea that language itself determines our capacity for understanding, called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. While it traditionally relates to humans, I've been casually workin
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by halgir 2y ago
I want my regular drinking water to be as free of microplastics as possible, but is contamination from plastic containers dangerous enough to be of any concern during an emergency situation?
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by halgir 2y ago
On the other hand, the lack of synchronization might be a selling point for others, who militantly support "local only". Solid highlighting is important to me. Zotero does it fairly well, but doesn't support freehand highligh
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by halgir 2y ago
You can care about two things at the same time.
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by halgir 2y ago
This looks really good, thanks for sharing. Like other commenters, I use Zotero and will probably stick to that for the near future. The main feature for me in Zotero is sync'ing across devices. I usually read and annotate papers on iP
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by halgir 2y ago
More anecdotes incoming, but I'm regularly told that I share traits with my father, with whom I don't share DNA. To the point that people who aren't aware that we're not biologically related have remarked that we look al
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by halgir 2y ago
If they maintain that pace, it will start compounding incredibly quickly. If we round to 2 years vs 2.5 years, after just a decade you're an entire doubling ahead.
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by halgir 2y ago
Psychiatrists are called doctors. Psychiatry is something that a medical doctor specalizes into. Therapist is a meaningless word, because it's not a protected title. Anyone can call themselves a therapist without third party certificat
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by halgir 2y ago
For many things, yes. Local plumbers will often get most of their work via word-of-mouth, for which doing good work is necessary. In which case, being terrible at marketing to me signals that your work is good enough to stay busy without tr
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by halgir 2y ago
That's part of my evaluation process when I need non-technical services like plumbing. If the website contains the relevant information but is an eyesore, I feel that they prioritize doing good work over fancy marketing materials.
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by halgir 3y ago
> While ChatGPT can efficiently collect information on the internet, it can’t react to a change in temperature like a cultured cellular system can, he wrote. Is there a qualitative difference between an LLM looking up the temperature on
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by halgir 3y ago
Obligatory I have no mouth and I must scream.

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