jhawleypeters

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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
It’s comforting to think of medical professionals as competent and trustworthy, but it’s simply not universally true. Medical mistakes are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
Assuming the pool of engineers is growing exponentially, I’d expect a very small population of seasoned engineers.
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
What are some good examples of countries with a different healthcare policy and more entrepreneurship, small businesses, and/or craftspeople than the USA?
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
Oh nice! The one thing that confused me about this article was what search space the author envisioned adding to language models.
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
I think I understand the game space that Leela and now Stockfish search. I don't understand whether the author envisions LLMs searching possibility spaces of 1) written words, 2) models of math / RL / materials science,
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
If it did that, it’s not intelligent, not “AI”. Let’s agree to stop abusing the term AI, for the sake of people like this.
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
Thank you, that’s parsimonious and makes sense.
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
This study focuses on adolescents because they have data available for a large cohort. I’m curious what one would find with adults. I’m morbidly curious what the world’s various intelligence (espionage) outfits have attempted, studied, and
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
Introducing novel ideas and making strong statements will almost always generate some anger and denial. https://paulgraham.com/useful.html
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
What's the invisible cost when cigarette advertising is banned, eliminating the arms race to out-advertise the competition?
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by jhawleypeters 2y ago
The map may be mislabelled, it appears to indicate countries where people aren't dancing enough
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
I am! In my experience, you need to keep a human in the loop. This implies that you can't get the technology to scale, but I'm optimistic because LLMs have rapidly gotten better at following directions while I've been using t
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
I have two friends. One lives by “Don’t be a drip, ‘real artists ship’”. He’s got ~20 products shipped. The other friend drips hard, with a comparable number of projects abandoned over a comparable timeframe. Both spent about two decades li
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
Not really, unless one believes such extracts and tea leaves* are equivalent. Edit for pedantry reasons: *prepared as a beverage
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
Since this is so longwinded, here’s a language-model-generated summary from kagi.com: - Being anti-mimetic means having the freedom to counteract negative forms of mimetic desire that lead to unhealthy obsessions and never-satisfied strivin
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
Goodheart’s law may not precisely capture what you’re getting at, but seems closely related https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
My position is that large vehicles can be accessibility tools. It's okay for people to need and use such things. The way you react to that is pretty rude.
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
> Seek medical assistance, immediately. It's not a medical problem. I'm just tall and small cars are the wrong size for my body. Like choosing a piece of clothing, the solution is to choose a vehicle that fits my body. I mean,
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
> Humans without cars should feel even more anxiety and panic! I mean, pedestrians do, right? I guess it depends on the local driving culture. My best friend is blind, and this is precisely how he feels trying to navigate the world. But
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
I'm tall. The doors are too low to the ground and small, so I injure my back getting in and out. Edit, more context: I've routinely gotten in and out of small sedans all my life. When I was younger, this wasn't much of a prob
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
> A giant car is probably the most harmful-to-others luxury indulgence you could pick Some people are simply refusing to harm themselves when they choose a large vehicle. Getting in and out of a "regular" sized car routinely in
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by jhawleypeters 3y ago
The linked site speaks in absolute terms, perhaps that's where they got the idea
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by jhawleypeters 4y ago
https://archive.ph/I6mJI
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by jhawleypeters 4y ago
I don't disagree, with one caveat. I'm still curious about your opinion on your own question: > Why are people reading mediocre content with questionable accuracy? How would you answer this? I don't believe bad incentives
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by jhawleypeters 4y ago
> Why are people reading mediocre content with questionable accuracy? For most people that consume content, accurate information is not a priority. Being entertained, belonging to a group, or satisfying some immediate need or want matter
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by jhawleypeters 9y ago
This project was inspired by the days when I used to stay up all night researching Magic the Gathering decks I wanted to build on Gatherer. I'd always wanted additional ways to discover cards there though. So tunnelweasel.com allows yo
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Show HN: I made a Hearthstone site for finding synergies and 'hate' cards(tunnelweasel.com)
2 points by jhawleypeters 9y ago|1 comments