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by jebarker 2y ago
I don't believe you can choose to make good (whatever that means) things. You can certainly choose not to try, but choosing to try and believing you'll succeed is a recipe for disappointment in my opinion. All you can do is make a
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by jebarker 2y ago
I hear they're going to start adding electrolytes to the plant water though.
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by jebarker 2y ago
I live in the US and my daughter has/will have less than 1 mile to walk to every school she'll ever go to before college. Just an existence proof though!
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by jebarker 2y ago
I think we're actually in agreement with respect to the needs of AI in music and graphics. When I say "AI researchers" I'm talking about people in industrial and academic labs. I consider the hobbyists you describe to be
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by jebarker 2y ago
I did my PhD 2004-2007. I'm not sure whether it was the subject (pure math), my particular advisor or just being two decades ago but I was never aware of any pressure to "publish or perish". I didn't end up continuing in
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by jebarker 2y ago
> why would they be replicating it if they didn’t want it? Who is "they"? Most AI for math work is being done by AI researchers that are not themselves academic mathematicians (obviously there exceptions). Similarly, most AI fo
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by jebarker 2y ago
The problem is that mechanistic interpretability is a lot like neuroscience or molecular biology, i.e. you're trying to understand huge complexity from relatively crude point measurements (no offense intended to neuroscientists and bio
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by jebarker 2y ago
> The thing that makes me sad about these conversations is that the people I talk to sometimes don't seem to have any appreciation for the thing they say they want to dismantle Yes! This is what frustrates my about the pursuit of AI
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by jebarker 2y ago
That's gold. Thanks for sharing.
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I like the idea of this approach. But how do you form a theory for what is going on in the US, for example, right now where it seems to be unpredictably chaotic? Although I suppose that's a theory too.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> newly invented security guarantees This just isn't true. He had been publicly stating that there needed to be security guarantees for weeks before the meeting. Also, perhaps if Ukraine had been involved in the prior "peace ta
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by jebarker 2y ago
Ah, yes, that's a good argument for property definition. I agree that it seems excessive to use armed force to enforce this, I was more questioning how to differentiate the two situations in law so cops don't have to exercise that
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by jebarker 2y ago
I honestly don't see why the cops should arrest someone that burgles an office building (say of a film producer) and not someone that gives away the content they paid to make for free. In what way is it different?
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by jebarker 2y ago
I'm AB+ and try to donate plasma regularly. But in the city where I live there is a single place to donate and, frankly, the experience is not very pleasant. The center itself feels more like an abandoned warehouse than a medical facil
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by jebarker 2y ago
> The most important piece of the language Python in docs is... Asking as an intermediate python programmer (in my assessment!): what is the importance of knowing this? Is it essential to know to _use_ python correctly or to _understand_
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by jebarker 2y ago
Ah, now it makes sense, thanks! I was misinterpreting "of" as "for".
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Looking at the table of contents, this seems like a really odd title. In what sense is this practical and a foundation for mathematics?
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by jebarker 2y ago
I always wonder why more people don't use wildlife photography as a more challenging alternative to hunting.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> + health insurance In the US at least, this immediately makes it not cheap
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Wouldn't publishing results showing your methods offer benefit attract future funding?
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by jebarker 2y ago
Novice question here: What use is there in adding a term like that to the Drake equation? It seems like it's value would be completely uncertain (like other terms in the equation) and so you have overwhelming uncertainty in the output
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by jebarker 2y ago
I haven't personally experienced that problem. Updates on Mac have always been smooth for me. But I'm a sample of one and it's probably workflow dependent.
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by jebarker 2y ago
This isn't a hill I want to die on, but isn't it the case that even if the problem is in MS software compatibility with Linux that still results in desktop Linux being a less reliable platform for day to day use?
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by jebarker 2y ago
MacOS is definitely not perfect. I'm being snarky. But it has been my anecdotal experience as both a user and observing colleagues that MacOS is more reliable and stable for desktop use than Linux. This is unsurprising since it's
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by jebarker 2y ago
Nope, I came directly from an MS Teams meeting where the desktop linux users had no audio.
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by jebarker 2y ago
> desktop Linux provides a superior experience aside from the rare times you need to compile an iOS/Mac specific application or reliably use peripherals
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by jebarker 2y ago
Because that's totally fine and in no way suggests guns are problematic.
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by jebarker 2y ago
I don't have 15M, but I know that once I had a decent amount of money in investments I suddenly became more risk averse. The prospect of not having to work forever and/or monitor spending too closely is very alluring. The instabil
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by jebarker 2y ago
FWIW there is a "fat-FIRE" community that takes this approach. But in the end that just boils down to requiring a huge income for some period of time.
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by jebarker 2y ago
When visiting the UK last summer we tried to go to a train museum. There were three public parking lots around with different app based parking systems. We were unsuccessful in using any of them due to various issues relating to poor cell s

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