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by jl2718 3y ago
How can you internet in {current year}, and seriously think we need more content writers? We’re not talking about top-tier investigative journalists blowing scandals open and speaking truth to power. We’re talking about the meaningless bant
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by jl2718 3y ago
There is a rigorous definition of bias, and that isn’t it. That is called ‘variance’. It doesn’t matter if there is structure to the variance. It doesn’t matter if the model is consistently wrong for one type of input. It is not bias unless
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by jl2718 3y ago
Forgive me if I missed the objective quantitative measurement the article suggests to replace it. GDP is kind of like measuring spending in your family when you should be measuring saving. It’s not meant to track personal well-being, but ra
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by jl2718 3y ago
You forgot taxes. 500$ each.
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by jl2718 3y ago
People respond well to financial transparency. If you have a donation button, show real-time stats on the amount it costs, and the amount that’s been donated. Also because internet, expect 90% of cost to be from abuse, and likewise 90% of y
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by jl2718 3y ago
What % of that cost was the zero-value-added gatekeeper? Here is a list of prices: https://dhhr.wv.gov/bms/FEES/Documents/Clinical%20Diagnostic... Testosterone is $46. Toxoplasmosis is a shockingly common and
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by jl2718 3y ago
There’s a website that can pass the test to become a doctor now. Why can’t I order my own diagnostics?
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by jl2718 3y ago
Such statements confuse me. Let’s go point by point on this: 1. How does one “buy” a government? With bond purchases? With campaign contributions? With voter fraud? And in the chosen case, what powers would they gain to “fix their habitat”
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by jl2718 3y ago
I think there is a heavy quantitative induction mechanism in the markets, that is, a positive feedback mechanism from index funds trying to minimize divergence, or hedge funds trying to font-run those algorithms. So it doesn’t take much to
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by jl2718 3y ago
“Danksharding” is named for a person, “Dankrad”, who has been their expert and champion of elliptic pairing-based cryptographic mechanisms.
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by jl2718 3y ago
Right. My high school rhetoric teacher used to label essays as “garbage” for not following structure or convention, often even for straying from expected narrative, while I was only interested in forming a unique or strong perspective. We m
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by jl2718 3y ago
He taught this class long ago at Lincoln Laboratory, tests, problem sets and all, to a bunch of adult learners, often science and engineering PhDs, that realized the importance of the subject only after leaving school. It transformed the cu
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by jl2718 3y ago
The AI-generated essay will be the new baseline. If you can’t argue beyond what an AI can or will generate, you haven’t broken through the NPC threshold.
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by jl2718 3y ago
> crypto Please stop using this prefix by itself.
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by jl2718 3y ago
$500k is not just enough to hire builders, it’s way too much for a builder. They’d be forced to do everything but build. In the beginning, it was just enough for a team to survive the summer, and that seemed generous. The tech startup formu
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by jl2718 3y ago
Smells like fodder for a lawsuit that benefits nobody but lawyers and bureaucrats. Frankly, there’s nobody in the system who has any incentive to defend the taxpayers against these things. Imagine what it would be like if they could sue any
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by jl2718 3y ago
A good rule of thumb is that people or institutions fabricate evidence because they are making claims that are both false and harmful. Another good rule of thumb is that the evidence which is proven to be fabricated is not the only evidence
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by jl2718 3y ago
You mean like Venus? Why is this interesting? Is it because of the water, or because of the technical capabilities of the instrument?
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by jl2718 3y ago
I think this is more accurate for non-emotional reasons. The GPT models have actually been trained to lie in the sense that they will tell you something convincing not just about the topic, but also how they are getting the information, e.g
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by jl2718 3y ago
No amount of propaganda can defeat what’s been implanted by teachers in school. It takes almost zero technology to require a child to believe a lie as a condition of their freedom. Don’t bother with AI; just put it on a test. Belief of anyt
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by jl2718 3y ago
Computer programs follow the same Darwinian principles as living organisms. Intelligence is just one dimension of ‘fitness’, but it’s an inefficient solution to a problem, and thus nature prefers adaption toward ‘dumb fitness’ once the prob
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by jl2718 3y ago
Massive paper, but a quick scroll to several random statistical tables shows a very clear and indisputable gender preference in hiring.
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by jl2718 3y ago
Auction > lottery.
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by jl2718 3y ago
700 is monstrous. I only know of one computer scientist to hit that level. Famous in several worlds. You must be in graphics.
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by jl2718 3y ago
Title should be “to his charity”. Seems all billionaires are doing this. I understand the tax strategy, but, beyond that, is there something they see coming that we don’t know about?
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by jl2718 4y ago
There is one sentence about this in the article, stated without support, possibly as a joke. The rest of the article is about replication failure in social science studies.
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by jl2718 4y ago
I would really like to know how you came up with that observation. Are you from a fundamentalist religious group? Small agrarian tribe? Billionaire yacht club? I think 99% of Americans recognize the opposite as overwhelmingly obvious. http
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by jl2718 4y ago
The fertility rate in Chad has hardly changed at all over the last 70 years since it’s been tracked despite massive reduction in infant mortality. Meanwhile, infant mortality in the developed world hasn’t changed at all and the fertility ra
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by jl2718 4y ago
Great. Now let’s have a pre-registered replication study. Also, the article claims higher blood glucose in the LC group and I didn’t see that in my skim of the paper, nor what I was looking for, which is how the levels compare to healthy or
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by jl2718 4y ago
This is the only essential fact of the matter. No need for the rest of the article. The reader can self-editorialize.

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