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by hansvm 8mo ago
Ah, the teachers union, famous for the $30-$50/yr it costs the average tax payer. If we abolished the union and rolled back everything they fought for, we could almost pay for a $10B privacy suit after a year of saving. The public scho
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by hansvm 8mo ago
Why not both? They also have insider information and aren't required to limit their trades to those which would hedge the crops.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
It seems smart to me. Our leaders are intent on burning it all down, and I don't think anyone should be shocked as the smoke starts to billow.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I've never heard of that. Is it standard?
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I think they could do pretty well just not adding bubble gum or whatever nasty flavors the prep has. Sure it'll still be unpleasant and salty, but burping up that nonsense all day really doesn't make it better.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
P-values assume something weaker than "all assignments are equiprobable." If the subset of possible assignments is nice in the right ways (which any good PRNG will provide) then the resulting value will be approximately the same.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
Maybe, but there's a human element that can make things worse too. Take prostate cancer as an example. Most men die with prostate cancer. Most men don't die _from_ prostate cancer. It isn't usually aggressive enough to matter
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I'm not the person you're asking, but I also have an MS in math and the same opinions. Most mathematicians see N as fundamental -- something any alien race would certainly stumble on and use as a building block for more intricate
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I'll take a look at that story later. I'm curious though, why is US metallurgy consistently top-notch if the processes are inferior? When I use wrenches, bicycle frames, etc from most other countries I have no end of troubles with
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by hansvm 8mo ago
This review [0] is a bit reductionist and overconfident with some of its adjacent claims, but it includes a decent overview of the studies we've done on the topic and references those for further reading. The effect is weak enough at a
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by hansvm 8mo ago
IIRC, violent crime is increased in people pre-disposed to it when they use outlets and substitutes (consuming violent media, etc). That might not translate to pedophilia, but my prior would be that such content existing does cause more CSA
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by hansvm 8mo ago
This was part of the training materials of one bus driver I knew. When people continually take that gap and you continually have to back off, it only adds a negligible amount of time to the commute.
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by hansvm 8mo ago
> both are M2 They have qualitatively different sounds and, without significant training or a bit of luck, a break as you transition between those qualitatively different sounds. Even if not a laryngial mode, is it not worth giving that
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by hansvm 8mo ago
I'm not sure Galois losing that duel proves your point.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
How did that work mechanically though? At YT we were banned from doing basically anything with pre-18yo data, even if we only suspected they might possibly not be an adult -- no A/B tests, no ML, no ad targeting, no nada. Did leadershi
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Not just a test set, but enough of a set to search through and compare against. Several pages of in-depth writing isn't anywhere near sufficient, even when limiting the search space to ~10k people.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
In CA it was cheaper and (far) easier to get a normal license and a passport.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
When I was there a few years ago, we only got CPUs and GPUs for training. TPUs were in too high of demand.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
At least blessed teams we used GPUs when we were allowed, else CPUs. TPUs were basically banned in YT since they were reserved for higher priority purposes. Gemini was almost certainly trained with one, but I guarantee an ungodly amount of
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Assuming the binary tree thing is the whole story, that still doesn't sound like a terrible choice on Google's part. Your first few years at Google you won't have enough leeway to do something like "make homebrew,"
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by hansvm 9mo ago
> legality Does patching out the license check not, in this case, fall under the "interoperability" or "abandonware" clauses of the DMCA?
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by hansvm 9mo ago
It's trying to, but "low" is still 0.5-1.5T.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Even the Rodney King riots didn't have as many deaths (gunshots or otherwise) as the worst EU football events. Guns are scary or whatever, and the US should definitely handle them better or ban them or something, but I still think I&#x
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Maybe. They have the potential for faster semiconductors, but only after adequate modifications. Graphene isn't a semiconductor, and it isn't obvious that we'll find a way to fix that without (or even with) rare resources.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Without a root of trust though, how much good is that? When I needed a copy of my birth certificate to get a CA driver's license, I just sent my home state $10-$20 and pinky promised that I was me. Getting utility bills or whatever del
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by hansvm 9mo ago
> Person who shows up to vote is legally allowed to vote How does that work though? What's the root of trust identifying me as me to a government who, at most, has a written record somewhere of my birth, and definitely not enough in
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Not just other bidders, but the engagement/SEO part of eBay's ranking algorithm.
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Some people don't though, and their referrals are much more valuable than dozens of additional applications. Much like many other decisions you're making in the job market, it's a polarizing choice that increases your overall
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by hansvm 9mo ago
Perhaps. Would you mind elaborating on what you're envisioning? In both cases (auto-regressive vs diffusive), you still have some process that's being followed, and the exact steps in the process are important to the result. If yo
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by hansvm 9mo ago
That misses the point though. Google and Meta have designed systems which capture nearly the entire surplus. In a non-monopolistic environment you'd expect somebody to be willing to step in at a bit less than Google's rates and of

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