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by ithkuil 2y ago
Indeed, it's a Presidential advisory commission. To create a federal executive department you need an act of Congress which is not very efficient. It's much more efficient to just use the name "department" and bet on the
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Yeah that's why the second half of my comment was the dimensionality of the space
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The genius would lie in planning that in advance. You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money, use it to influence elections or at least give the impression that you'd been instrumental in influencing the election so that t
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Or perhaps he just does it for ego and visibility. It's hard to tell which of these two options is more likely. 4d chess or simple billionaire egomania ?
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Unfortunately complex systems cannot be fixed by simply going full forward in the opposite direction of a bad direction. And yet we not only want to revert any decision that was made that we think correlates with an unhappy situation, we al
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It's more subtle than this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training,_validation,_and_te...
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There is a subtle difference between getting punished because you're standing out or being punished because you stood out and failed
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Jumping to a destination via pointer that changed value is a misprediction of an indirect jump and that's common. More uncommon but technically possible is to mispredict a unconditional direct jump. For that to happen the code itself h
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You're either bantering in a higher dimension or you're talking past each other. Anyway, perhaps a more down to earth "thinking outside the hypercube"?
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For the uninitiated, branch prediction roughly works like this: The CPU fetches instructions from memory well ahead of actually decoding what the instructions are. In case of variable length instruction sets such as x86 that also means the
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My take away from those kind of exchanges is that most people have no idea how other groups of people live
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It's again our limbic system: it's easier to assign all the blame outsiders
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The Democratic party indeed got entrapped by its fringe but the same thing happened to the Republican party. It's the result of the system incentives that favour such polarization. I think what's going on is that trump supporters
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If that's true then it means the statistics include people that sell their home to buy a new one. Not sure what lesson we should draw from it but perhaps it's not just that young people don't buy homes anymore (if that's
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perhaps it's possible to combine the two things and have a historical themed trattoria-museum ?
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It's useful to be able to profile on production workloads
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Fwiw the term "prompt engineering" begins as a joke or at the very least half-serious, along the lines of "naming engineer" etc. But it turns out that a) it's useful to know how to write prompts effectively b) it&#x
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Code Is data that expresses instructions to some processing unit for it to do tasks. Prompts fit that description very well so I don't find that provocative or controversial at all. The fact that traditionally the execution unit was ve
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Fwiw gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein himself (Einstein, Albert, Ueber Gravitationswellen, 1918) as a consequence of general relativity. The core idea is that when you move a mass, its contribution to the spacetime geometry ch
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Or perhaps that even for excellent engineers and complicated problems a quarter of the code one writes is stupid almost copy-pasteable boilerplate which is now an excellent target for the magic lArge text Interpolator
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AI will be useful with toasters and fridges but of course that doesn't mean it will have to run on the devices itself
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High availability story for AI workloads will be a problem for another decade. From what I can see the current pressing problem is to get stuff working quickly and iterate quickly.
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I think jaywalking being technically illegal allows law enforcement to use an expedient to arrest people they want to arrest for other reasons, for example, there is no law that would allow to arrest you for "walking while black",
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I don't understand. Why would it show an acceleration in deep space?
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Who made and maintained the stove?
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Funny. My first thought was: what? 40Mya? That's recent history by astronomical standards!
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Yeah you're right about nuance and the fact that it's hard to have a nuanced conversation nowadays. For what is worth I'm precisely trying to bring nuance to the discussion about institutions. Institutions do fail. That'
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If you built an accelerometer using only components that feel the electric force, would you be able to detect the acceleration caused by the electrical force? I.e. part of the reason gravity is fundamentally different is that it's univ
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The solution is better institutions, not less institutions. Good institutions have mechanisms in place to correct themselves. And most of the past failures of our institutions were discovered and corrected by ... the institutions (sometimes
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Oh yes that was surely a motivator for some but also an excuse for others. The political landscape of that time was truly complicated and chaotic in a way that is hard to truly capture in the image we have of that time period brought throug

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