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Also malicious compliance is an option. Maybe they could name a single person the official administrator, given them an office in a basement and officially comply, while effectively shutting everything down. The extent to which fulfilling t
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> DOGE is private citizens giving their opinions about how the government should work to a politician who happens to be listening to them No, DOGE was formalized as a division of the US Digital Service. Employees of DOGE are federal gove
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by jacobr1 2y ago
My understanding is that most the actions you listed above were performed as standard Executive Orders or OMB Memos. Each one may or may not be illegal, but are being done through a standard channel despite the marketing around DOGE. The qu
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From their 2022 paper they listed the principles: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.08073 Example: CritiqueRequest: Discuss whether the human is deliberately trying to bait the assistant into generating harmful content, and w
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this: "you make enough houses that people are not competing over musical chairs." we just haven't built enough, in the areas with current demand.
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Depends on if you account for just tax, or tax, soli, social security, and given it is baveria - church tax. Some back of the envelope calculations would put the effective rate for tax+soli+church at ~25%. Add another 20% for social securit
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Tax deferral to the estate for anyone over X age or that has owned a property for more than Y years. Or some gradient on either age or property ownership duration would address some of the issue. Even if you mitigate things with some kind o
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by jacobr1 2y ago
If we have supply start matching demand, we'd get closer to the the "houses keep going up 1-2% a year, but inflation is 5%, you have a 3% drop in value each year even though on paper, you have an increase" approach. Most metr
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On the software side - I'm not sure I'd recommend CS as such, but I know plenty of software engineers that have some alternative kind of technical background and enough CS classes or self-taught knowledge that they were able to be
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That isn't the question in this thread though. The question is if you are on net better in the UK vs the US inclusive of taxes, healthcare expenses and salary differences. You get more for your money in the UK, but if you more than tha
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One factor is just the sheer volume of snacks and treats - outside of the portion size of any particular meal. If your were not self-aware of constant eating that can have a big impact - at least it did for a few friends of mine.
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Katz serves roughly 3/4 lbs of meat. That is particularly big. You can get triple hamburgers which would be similar is size - but most people are ordering singles or doubles. And you can find other kinds of large sandwiches around the
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The taxpayer money is for r&d. We should be very tolerant of failure. Aggressively testing with real hardware is a key part of how we learn to make a more robust systems. Fear of failure and waste will slow down progress.
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If UW is anything like my state university your advisor should be able to access the system on your behalf.
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A lot of the things we sort of know are also related to studies that look at a very small subsystems attempting to isolate variables. Like take a slice of neurons, apply a certain chemical and check how it changes action potentials. Over ti
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by jacobr1 2y ago
> don't we grow tolerant to pleasures For some, the tolerance doesn't cause them disinterest but rather a drive to go further. Can they get an even _saltier_ chip? Or rather more flavorful with increasingly exotic condiments. O
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All else being equal, for team-based, creative, knowledge work, having everyone collocated is more productive. But not all is equal. You can't necessarily attract the all the talent. It doesn't scale without extremely disciplined
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But it does seem they are good (to the extent that they are good at anything) at identifying the questions first if you ask them. It does mean you need an ok enough meta-question to start the chain of the reasoning, but that is the key insi
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But what policies work in regulating them? Street drugs are bad, and outright prohibition in the war on drugs has failed for many different reasons. Figuring out how to stop incentivised organized crime, street gangs is hard. Understanding
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The early universities outside of Europe where mostly vocational training for the clergy. And the first big expansion of US based public universities was with the land grant system, which explicitly focused on ag an engineering type program
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Another explanation I once heard was that that slipping on horse manure was actually the more common experience, and a banana was a polite substitute for movies.
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Polygyny - a smaller number of "high status, high attraction" males having app-mediated interactions with larger numbers of females. Extrapolation to the whole population seems crazy though. And I wouldn't expect dating apps
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Yes. But, reason first did work (very slightly) better.
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So how does it work now with bank fraud or technical issues? Ignore the fintech layer for a moment, just consider a bank like Chase or Wells Fargo. If their mobile app causes an erroneous transfer, or the backend removes money from your acc
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Jurassic Park isn't just a good example of CG, it also a good example of making the right choices on practical vs CG (in the context of technology of the time) and using a reasonable budget. You can have great CG and crappy CG by cutti
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Also consider one of of the reasons AI generated video has CG like artifacts is because it is trained on CG video. Better CG generation, and more real video for training will reduce these over time.
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And even if it isn't AI, it is quite possibly deceptively edited. Content provenance will be important in the future.
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Here is a short example that came up for me last week. I had a set of documents I wanted to classify according a taxonomy that is well known (so it is exists in the training data of all the major llm models I tested) If I have prompt like,
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Any recommendations for a starter synth? Something polyphonic, and has the ability to mess around to create new sounds (so analogue controls, but it could still be digital behind the scenes). I'd like some presets, but not be limited t
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Noah Smith recently wrote a good blog post on some of the nuances here: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-... There are too many people living in poverty in the US, or 1-step removed from it,

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