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by ineptech 4y ago
What is the "Anglish project"? Do you mean people who write in it for fun, as one might write a short story in Klingon? Or are there people advocating that we should adopt it, by avoiding romance-language words? Something else?
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by ineptech 4y ago
I don't think this is true; it looks like they collected a pool of participants, asked them questions, and then found out who was/wasn't infected. See the "Materials and Methods" section.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I still don't follow. You don't have to control for each confounding variable if you select your pool at random, like they did here.
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by ineptech 4y ago
I don't follow; doesn't a larger affected population make it easier to control for confounds?
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by ineptech 4y ago
I made one of these (not this fancy, just a recycled Android tablet mounted behind one-way mirror glass, running a home-made app) and highly recommend it. I was 100% prepared for it to be a novelty that we got bored of in a few months, but
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by ineptech 4y ago
It should be pointed out that a lot of people believe the hostage crisis was not just mismanagement or bad luck, but collusion between the Reagan campaign and Iranian leadership to delay resolving the crisis until after the election. I thi
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by ineptech 4y ago
A more common and descriptive term for this is "general purpose computer", (as distinct from "special purpose computers", e.g. rokus, ATMs, and iphones).
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by ineptech 4y ago
I expected something along the lines of, "I can tell you today's date, right after I tell you about the Fajita Platter sale at Taco Bell..." but this is so, so much worse. And the worst part is the almost certain knowledge th
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by ineptech 4y ago
Ironic, because the solution that no one wants to hear is an actual internet driver's license, i.e. government-run openid. There's no final recourse more final than going to a place and talking to a person, and no other organizat
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by ineptech 4y ago
Obviously this is an unpopular opinion, but I think you're right about spez. Editing those comments in his AMA was dumb, but pretty obviously not malicious in the way that's being suggested here. I think a fair analogy would be
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by ineptech 4y ago
Right, the problem is the difference between the DirectX/hardware support stuff on that list and the Cortana/app store stuff - I want the first part, and will pay for it, but I'm complaining that getting stuck with the second
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by ineptech 4y ago
I didn't mention cash at all, perhaps you meant to reply to a different comment?
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by ineptech 4y ago
For a regular home user, what does Win11 do that WinXP couldn't? Everything I can think of (drivers, screen res, multiple monitors) is incremental improvements to what we already had, I can't think of a feature they've intro
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by ineptech 4y ago
> with a CBDC is that there is nowhere left to "withdraw" to Why can't I use them to purchase dollars or yen? How did we get from the BofE issuing a currency that people can use to everyone being forced to use it? (Als
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by ineptech 4y ago
When people talk about central banks using negative interest rates to juice the economy, they mean the interest rate for borrowing, not for savings. They're related, but not tied to each other. The Fed lending money to my bank at a n
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by ineptech 4y ago
We don't have something like this (except for the bullshitting that usually occurs in the last few minutes of standup) but I'm thinking we should try it.
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by ineptech 4y ago
> Why Did These Transgressions Come About? > In the case of HSBC, cost-cutting as part of a wide-ranging restructuring of the bank - through selling unprofitable businesses and centralizing its global structure - took a toll on the b
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by ineptech 4y ago
> I echo others here - I've not seen a meaningful, revenue-driving conversation happen in these in a decade of work. Do you have specific examples of valuable collaboration in one of these environments? I can think of lots, and am s
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by ineptech 4y ago
This is not quite true. To be exempt from overtime, the position has to pay that much and meet a set of requirements[0]. The inflated "manager" titles are not just to dupe the employee, they're an attempt to skirt Federal
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by ineptech 4y ago
The more I work with LLMs, the more I think of them as plagiarization engines. They do to text what a bitcoin tumbler does to bitcoins: slice them up and recombine them so that it's difficult to trace any specific part of the output t
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by ineptech 4y ago
Clever idea, but I don't think this would work very well on real posts. Consider a model that rates "typical woman driver" as hateful, because that phrase appears in a lot of argument threads with lots of downvotes. Your ap
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by ineptech 4y ago
And that endpoint is powered by what, if not an LLM?
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by ineptech 4y ago
The problem isn't fine-tuning the model, the problem is that there isn't an objective definition of bias. Is there an a priori reason to believe that "I hate disabled people" and "I hate non-disabled people"
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by ineptech 4y ago
There's something richly ironic about bashing your political outgroup in a thread discussing why an LLM trained on internet posts would exhibit political bias.
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by ineptech 4y ago
Why is it reasonable to expect unbiased results from an LLM trained on internet content which almost everyone agrees is biased? Isn't this the expected outcome? If anything, I'm surprised the results are as close as they are. Fo
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by ineptech 4y ago
I agree, but I do worry about it being ruined some other way - forcing me to use Chrome, censoring emails, bundling it with a paid service, ad-blocker-blocker, something else...
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by ineptech 4y ago
I get the "This app is not available for any of your devices" that Play store very unhelpfully never explains. Any guesses why?
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by ineptech 4y ago
Just stop making sprint commitments. If your priorities change from day to day, what use is a list of priorities from two weeks ago?
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by ineptech 4y ago
Thank you! Once I saw this comment, very satisfying puzzle. At first I was fumbling my way through randomly, but around halfway I started to visualize the board as two "sets" of connected paths and grokked how to switch between
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by ineptech 4y ago
It's not about making me safer, it's about keeping offline OSes as an option. The ability to buy a general purpose computer and do arbitrary things with it is something we take for granted, but will never get back once we lose it

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