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by jampekka 2y ago
> You’re unlikely to be able to afford to live in the center of a dense Western European city on researcher wages, and most of the jobs aren’t in the city center either, so you’ll probably still need a car. Universities in Europe tend to
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by jampekka 2y ago
It's a lot more common for children of poor parents to stay poor in the US than in (most of) Europe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
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by jampekka 2y ago
Ending up homeless for failing is probably not the risk taking encouragement Europeans want. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31524645
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by jampekka 2y ago
It will at least greatly hinder LE's capability to do massive minority report type dragnets, targetted violence incitement campaigns, or grading workers or schoolchildren based on their facial expressions etc extremely nasty stuff. The
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by jampekka 2y ago
The cat is out of the bag. Latest gen chips are all the "moat" USA has left, and even that's gonna be cracked by China in a few years. Hopefully Europe will start closer bilateral dealing with China, and not hang itself to th
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by jampekka 2y ago
€50 million is about 130% of OpenEuroLLM's budget. And I'm very sceptical publishers will give training licenses for €5 per book. Especially as OpenEuroLLM intends to have an openly available training set. Copyright sucks.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Sure. And USA will follow once the dollar dominance wanes. I, for one, welcome our Chinese communist overlords.
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by jampekka 2y ago
> Train an LLM with text books and other legal books Without licenses to the books, they are just as illegal (and maybe even moreso) than web content.
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by jampekka 2y ago
What do you mean by relying on Google? Llama 3.1 and DeepSeek v3/R1 largest models are rather good at even a niche language like Finnish. The performance does plummet in the smaller versions, and even quantization may harm multilingual
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by jampekka 2y ago
The usage covering "unacceptable risk" is stuff that's either illegal or heavily regulated already in human operation too. > Also, this kind of laws would make Europeans to stay at the loser side of the AI competition as C
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by jampekka 2y ago
EV grade LiDAR is now under $1000 a pop. In retail. For car manufacturers it must be under half of that.
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by jampekka 2y ago
And it's surprisingly easy to find axioms that lead to your favorite conclusion.
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by jampekka 2y ago
A lot of the "rationalist" scene would be more accurately called "rationalizationist".
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by jampekka 2y ago
Such polling is done extensively. Norway ranks 6th, with 94.1% very happy or quite happy. Happiness vs life satisfaction correlates surprisingly little. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-people-who-say-t...
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by jampekka 2y ago
Self-reported happiness (or life satisfaction) is only a part of the ranking. The objective measures correlate strongly with the subjective ones (with some outliers like Israel). But as any metric, it's of course not perfect. "Hap
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by jampekka 2y ago
> They don’t have poor the way other countries do. And that’s down to culture. I don’t think people appreciate just how homogenous Scandinavia is. The good old dog whistle. It's down to politics. Nordic countries had estate systems
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by jampekka 2y ago
Free school lunches are coming in Norway next year. https://archive.is/20241129112123/https://www.thelocal.no/20...
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by jampekka 2y ago
In Norway the state owns over 50% of the country's wealth, and over 70% if you don't include home ownership. Over 20% of the government budget is covered using profits from ownership. Norway didn't follow the 80s/90s tre
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by jampekka 2y ago
You will always have problems in any country. Norway ranks at 7 in happiness, Sweden at 4. The top four places are Nordic countries. UK ranks 20. Having lived in Finland and UK, I definitely don't want to live in UK. https:/&#x2F
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by jampekka 2y ago
> I wish something was there that is more "batteries included" than them. There are e.g. Spacemacs and Doom emacs that don't only include batteries, but supercritical nuclear reactors about to explode at any moment. :)
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by jampekka 2y ago
> To help the poor, make it easy for them to climb the economic ladder. Someone still has to be at the bottom of the ladder.
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by jampekka 2y ago
An asteroid that size doesn't cause a very far reaching tsunami.
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https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=8000&lat=40.72422&ln...
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by jampekka 2y ago
Nitpick: normal to the surface.
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by jampekka 2y ago
Urban areas are only about 0.5% of earth surface, so rough approximation of a catastrophic hit chance is around 0.005%. The chance of you specifically being affected by this asteroid is vanishingly small. You should personally be more worri
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by jampekka 2y ago
The last (only?) language model OpenAI released openly was GPT-2, and even for that the instruction weighted model was never released. This was in 2019. The large Microsoft deal was done in 2023.
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And seem to be more actively fulfilling the mission that 'Open'AI pretends to strive for.
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by jampekka 2y ago
The model itself yes. The changes from previous architectures are often quite small code-wise. Quite often just adding/changing few lines in a torch model. Things like tweaking all the hyperparameters to make the training process actua
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by jampekka 2y ago
I'd guess vim has had this (the .swp files) since the 90's.
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by jampekka 2y ago
If you want to be truly secure, use a Bitwarden random password for your email and wipe your device!

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