jkhdigital

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by jkhdigital 1y ago
This is about assisted suicide. You can argue all day long about how you have the right to end your own life, but the real issue is whether you have the right to grant another person immunity from charges of homicide for facilitating your d
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
I would argue that banning it is not an “easy solution” but in fact the hardest solution.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
There’s no bright line. Suffering is a subjective experience. Lack of prohibition is tantamount to encouragement.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
How many “legitimate” assisted suicides are worth one questionable case? There are no foolproof guardrails, and you’re inviting moral hazard.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
Hard to take seriously a paper that begins with a statement that the “uncritical adoption” of combustion engines was a “blunder” by scientists.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
About 20 years ago I failed out of the undergrad CS program at UIUC because I thought I was smart enough to skip most lectures. I did manage to get an A in the C++ Data Structures course because the lectures were recorded and I just binged
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
I think the plastic food displays are due to high uncertainty avoidance, so patrons can see exactly what their meal looks like before ordering. Yes you could use real food but the hassle of periodically filling the display case with freshly
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
Japan’s fairly simple urban zoning scheme seems to work quite well. There’s essentially a sliding scale from light residential to heavy industrial, but “lighter” uses are always allowed in “heavier” zones.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
The current war was initiated via a sneak attack by Hamas militants from Gaza who committed rather unspeakable atrocities against Israeli civilians. Not justifying their actions but as an uninvolved third party I’m going to at least acknowl
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
Your Panglossian description of the purpose of publicly-funded research shows very little understanding of reality.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
Intolerant theocracy? And you’re using this phrase to refer to Israel?
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
This is the salient point that is glossed over without so much as blinking. To get 1J of biofuel-based fuel, how many J of fossil fuel is burned? If it’s like 0.9J then you really have to ask how much carbon is released when turning carbon
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
Except that industrial-scale agriculture in general requires quite a bit of exogenous petrochemical inputs—not just the fuel to power the machines that do the work, but also the fertilizer.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
My PhD research is in steganography. I was familiar with those papers because I’d read them before.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
I’m going to assume the savings were accumulated after you got sober? ;-) Just wanted to say hello to a fellow class of 2014 “graduate”. I failed out of CS @ UIUC in 2003 because I just skipped class and got high most days. Now, after 11+
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
Not trying to be argumentative, but mirror writing is neither encryption nor steganography. The concept is not there.
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
Can you give a specific example? The term “anamorphic encryption” was used in a paper from EUROCRYPT 2022 and I don’t see any prior formal study of the subject. A follow-up paper from PoPETS 2023 establishes that most of the widely-used cry
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
I ran into this a bit while working on my PhD research that used LLMs for steganography. The output had to be deterministic to reverse the encoding, and it was—as long as you used the same hardware. Encoding a message on a PC and then tryin
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
No the hardest problem is teaching CS undergrads. I just started this year (no background in academia, just 75% of a PhD and well-rounded life experience) and I’ve basically torn up the entire curriculum they handed to me and started vibe-t
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by jkhdigital 1y ago
I started a PhD in 2020 and I know exactly why you created this app because I tried like half a dozen different tools that didn’t fit. I needed a workflow to 1. collect and prioritize relevant research papers 2. make notes and synthesize id
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
Yes. Not all business models utilize public advertising. For example, MLMs like Amway and LuLaRoe. Advertising didn’t exist for most of history because mass media didn’t exist. Advertising is part and parcel of mass media.
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
I hate to paint with such a broad brush, but I’d venture that “creatives” are not primarily motivated by profit. It is almost a truism that money corrupts the creative endeavour.
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
That most likely explains the slow creep of grade inflation, remedial courses, etc. which has been going on for decades. This article touches on that but mostly describes an entirely different phenomenon.
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
Exact same experience—first pair from 2008 lasted over three years of heavy use (running on mostly pavement) and each replacement has barely survived one or two years.
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
Hah! I had a more or less identical experience after getting my first pair in 2008. Went out to the track, jogged a single lap, and that was enough. Calves were absolutely wrecked the next day. Four years later I ran my first marathon (3:54
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
I think your analogy about logic gates vs. CPUs is spot on. Another apt analogy would be missing the forest for the trees—the model may in fact be generating a complete forest, but its output (natural language) is inherently serial so it ca
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
The author mentions being deeply inspired and influenced by Jose Valim; I guess this means (approximately) that KC3 is to C as Elixir is to Erlang?
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
Why LLM? Isn’t this what AlphaZero is good at? There are many more kinds of useful ML models than LLMs!
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
This is exactly what I’ve been thinking as I see LLMs being applied to all these complex problem domains. Humans did not conquer the world because our intelligence can solve every problem, we did it by using our intelligence to (1) break do
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by jkhdigital 2y ago
Why would you ever want an LLM that is a perfect calculator? Humans invented calculators for a reason. A good LLM should respond to arithmetic questions by executing a cheap and efficient calculator program instead of wasting cycles on it

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