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by hnfong 7mo ago
I think it's so obvious that no testing is needed, but generally I don't disagree with your take. The thing is one really needs to understand what "real yields" mean when investing in bonds, i.e. it means your purchasing
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by hnfong 7mo ago
It's decent only if you believe inflation = CPI In actuality, the CPI is lower than inflation because technological advancement, automation, and economies of scale (due to globalization etc) are driving consumer prices low. In other wo
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by hnfong 8mo ago
That explains the 300 IQ attempt on claiming Greenland.
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by hnfong 8mo ago
You're arguing a hypothetical where the US stopped all emissions 100% and the rest of the world isn't doing anything. The reality is that China is aggressively pushing solar and electric vehicles, and the West is complaining about
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by hnfong 8mo ago
COVID proved that not flying barely made a dent in the global emissions. Sure, if we never fly again and reverted to living like a medieval peasant, maybe things will kinda work out.
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by hnfong 8mo ago
The irony of your WoW example is that "retail" WoW basically evolved by Blizzard adding features in response to player feedback where each step when viewed individually seemed reasonable. And eventually the situation got so "
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by hnfong 8mo ago
You had a great teacher. I learned something today :P But I think that affirms the GP's point. The jokes needed explanation, which is what you'd expect when the audience is from a different culture and don't understand them n
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Not saying you're wrong, but note that in general attorney-client privilege is kind of important as well.
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Not the GP, and I don't believe in the existence of "common facts" in general, but Wikipedia is indeed a good place to figure out what other people might agree as common facts...
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by hnfong 8mo ago
we're still talking about the MacBook, right?
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by hnfong 8mo ago
In China they link the ID to a phone number (via mobile carriers) and the online services require you to authenticate using the phone (SMS etc.) Unless the kids are able to secretly access the parent's phone there's no low-effort
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by hnfong 8mo ago
I don't understand what you mean by "prediction". Are you simply saying you're not using the AI tools out there and making a claim that they don't boost productivity at all? Otherwise, even if the existing tools are
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Yeah, imagine being a small phone manufacturer today, trying to secure RAM supplies.
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by hnfong 8mo ago
An analogy isn't an answer to "why", it's a literary device to make it easier to understand a concept. Even if talking to people is beneficial (I can accept that), you're also shaming people for being introverts. No
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by hnfong 8mo ago
I'm pretty neutral in this fiasco, but if a company is willing to consider *in principle* providing services to the *Department of War*, they'd better be OK with their services being used to conduct surveillance or kill people of
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Yes, but make sure you grab the latest llama.cpp release New model archs usually involve code changes.
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by hnfong 8mo ago
> black box optimizer This is admission we don't know how it emerges. Sure, we expect the behavior to emerge, but we don't know how.
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by hnfong 8mo ago
> but their banks/underwriters do not have a limitless appetite for risk. I'm trying not to be snarky here, but I really can't believe anyone can truly believe this. They almost blew up the global financial system. About o
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Every time computers master a skill that was previously thought to require a lot of intelligence/knowledge/ingenuity, people suddenly claim that it wasn't that hard after all. - Non-trivial arithmetic - Puzzles involving comb
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by hnfong 8mo ago
I don't know whether Terence Tao nearly failed because he spent all his time playing Civ. But surely you're not going to mention this as potentially factual, and then praise his dedication and work ethic... right?
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Even if you disregard the anecdote (n=1) thing, it's quite obvious that genius has a genetic component to it, and the father being a good chess player tilts the odds in his favor quite a bit. Also, the idea that chess is a good proxy f
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by hnfong 8mo ago
I don't disagree. That's why I qualified my statement with "ostensibly". But being really intelligent, at least for the top 1% or so, is often advantageous enough to offset any disadvantages from your class/cultural
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Agreed. It's been decades, but personally being acquaintances with IMO and IOI gold medalists made me rethink a lot of things. With our society being ostensibly meritocratic regarding intelligence, people generally don't like to l
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by hnfong 8mo ago
If you look carefully at the graph on the readme page, you'd see it compares Dijkstra's algorithm, a "DMMSY(res)", and a "DMMSY(opt)". Presumably the claimed contribution was the optimized version, but note tha
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Yes, you've stated the current social and legal rule we have to follow. But I don't think you've given any moral justification for the rule, and in particular, why LLMs (who are not humans and have no legal rights or obligati
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by hnfong 8mo ago
Why is "plagiarism" "bad"? Modern society seems to assume any work by a person is due to that person alone, and credits that person only. But we know that is not the case. Any work by an author is the culmination of a se
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by hnfong 8mo ago
> If you aren't going to read the article before commenting, at least read the comment before replying. The article was basically economists saying the way FDA is doing things is bad for business. Which is also what you said as well
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by hnfong 8mo ago
I have no stake in this FDA thing, but it's very amusing to read economic arguments of why FDA should approve something because a US company spent $x and should be entitled to get such thing approved... Very interesting when people c
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by hnfong 8mo ago
It seems you missed the point entirely once you saw the word "Chinese". The point isn't that the models are from China. It's that the weights are open. You can download the weights and finetune them yourself. Nobody is b
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by hnfong 8mo ago
The main issue with novel things is that they look like random noise / trashy ideas / incomprehensible to most people. Even if LLMs or some more advanced mechanical processes were able to generate novel ideas that are "good&q

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