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by halpmeh 4y ago
The issue with NaN equality is interesting, but is that really why they're adding a clear(x) builtin? What if you want to remove a single-NaN key from a map? clear(x) seems like a band-aid at best if the Go team is strictly trying to f
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by halpmeh 4y ago
What is better than a car for people who don't have access to good public transportation?
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by halpmeh 4y ago
We have models that accurate classify things, e.g. whether or not an email is spam. There isn’t a fundamental limitation into building something like a truth classifier into a generative model so that it optimized for outputting “true” stat
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by halpmeh 4y ago
“Hmm how should I get to work tomorrow? Normally I’d take the car, but after adopting a stance of distractive pedantism I realized that a car isn’t an acceptable solution to my transportation problem.” Like please explain what definition of
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by halpmeh 4y ago
"Solved" means having a solution to a problem. In context, we're talking bout whether or not neural networks can detect truth better than "decades of work by experts to reach consensus." So, in this case, solving wo
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by halpmeh 4y ago
But Meta’s employees aren’t uniformly distributed across the Earth so comparisons to the global population are irrelevant.
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Why “fundamentally unsuited”? Neural networks have solved tons of problems previously thought to be “too hard” for ML, e.g. playing Go.
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I miss contemplating the content I watch. The attention economy has really perverse incentives. No thinking, only consuming.
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One method of generating things via neural networks is called a generative adversarial network. It works by having two models. One that generates content and one that detects fake content. You train them both in parallel. As the fake dete
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Everything you said is spot-on, but, brining things full circle, the lack of “shit giving” could be due to cost cutting. People don’t have an incentive to care. The end result, vis-a-vis their personal situation, is unchanged whether or not
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Raw beans and lentils are poisonous when uncooked, as is rice.
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It’s energy intensive
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In general, I find it crazy that we allow legal documents to be so complex. And not just complex, but comped to the point of being less clear than something stated in simple, plain language. Legal matters, both civil and criminal, are so of
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I have a similar problem. I did a lot of psychedelics in high school and eventually developed a weird issue with anxiety. I don’t have panic attacks. Rather, I constantly imagine every possible thing that could possibly go wrong in my life
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Inflation wasn’t terrible in Korea and has likely already passed its peak. The decision to default on the bonds was clearly about servicing the debt and the impact of debt payments on the government’s ability to create a budget.
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It's unlikely that this politician explicitly believes in MMT, but the belief that you can somehow wish debt away in in-line with MMT. And of course, any philosophy exists within the zeitgeist of the times. After the GFC, a lot of peop
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I would like to stay up-to-date on this stuff because I find it interesting. I don't want to consume every single piece of financial news possible, but I'd like to get better at identifying important trends happening in the market
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Wow, this was so interesting. I always feel two steps behind when I read news like this? Does anyone who works in the finance sector have tips for staying up with the news? Like how do you find out that a random local government in South Ko
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Modern monetary theory, most likely.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I believe it’s regulated. Kids can only spend 40 mins / day and can’t use it between 10 pm and 6 am: https://www.cnet.com/culture/tiktoks-china-equivalent-limits...
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by halpmeh 4y ago
The information collected isn’t great, but a large part of the concern is related to attention. Attention allows influence. For instance, the CCO could use TikTok to push conspiracy theories that undermine faith in the electoral system.
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That only applies to personal income, right? Business revenue doesn’t need to be reported I believe.
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Anyone in their right might would also assume that depositors would vet the financial institutions holding their (billions of dollars of) capital, but alas here we are. Also, I think you underestimate the amount of effort it takes to uncove
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I love that they make an assertion that “Science is not a method, it is an approach to knowledge” and cite something from 2012, as if science didn’t exist before that. And the fact that they conflate “science” and “scientific method” is qui
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Where exactly are my notes supposed to be going?
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What’s the alternative? People enjoy reading predictions because it helps inform their opinion on a topic. An opinion on a topic as important as inflation is quite consequential. People use such opinions to decide whether or not to buy a ho
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Google clearly has a very dominant market position, but the recent events with Facebook / Meta have made me reevaluate my stance on supposed tech monopolies. A few years ago, Meta and Google looked like they had an unassailable duopoly
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Async await is way worse for serious async processing, mainly because handling cancellation sucks.
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It's not relevant to the topic at hand, which is whether or not most investors have lost money on Bitcoin for a very specific definition of "lost money". We can't talk about all things at all times. The discussion about
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by halpmeh 4y ago
The situation you describe is exactly the "Chinese room" argument. I don't want to get too far into the weeds here, but the DALLE / Stable Diffusion models are cool because they do what you ask, even if they do so imperf

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