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by jl6 1y ago
It has long been recognised that the state of the art in data compression has much in common with the state of the art in AI, for example: http://prize.hutter1.net/ https://bellard.org/nncp/
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by jl6 1y ago
Have they explained anywhere what hardware resources it takes to run this in 720p at 24fps with minutes-long context?
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by jl6 1y ago
The lengths people will go to to cheat in sports is super interesting - sometimes more interesting than the sport itself! There should be a global all-sport annual prize for red-teaming (against the cheaters).
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by jl6 1y ago
Athletic performance is correlated with testosterone levels but also with a lot of other characteristics like height, weight, muscle mass, bone density, grip strength… you could define categories based on those too, but in practice it would
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It’s probably an alien escape pod that ejected from their civilization when their clickbait plague reached even their scientific journal articles.
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Tabs are the modern choice, because you can then configure your editor so that for every tab character, it calls an LLM with the buffer contents up to that point, with instructions to generate an appropriate number of spaces that can then b
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by jl6 1y ago
Those dozen banks cover about 99.99% of people who have a UK bank account, so in practice, sending money to other people in the UK is free and instant.
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by jl6 1y ago
It’s not giving up soft power, it’s gambling with soft power. The outcome Trump hopes for is that UNESCO fires whoever is setting its “woke” policies and comes back cap-in-hand, offering an agenda that is more to his liking. The risk is t
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by jl6 1y ago
Yeah, there’s a lot of exaggeration, but the kernel of truth is that margins in energy generation are thin and it only takes a small shift away from ideal conditions to make gas the cheaper option. Renewables+storage has to work in the bad
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by jl6 1y ago
> If Peep Show has any sort of singular thematic message, it’s that low self-esteem is the root of all evil. Interestingly this is a similar conclusion that the Unabomber came to in Industrial Society and its Future : https:/&#x2F
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by jl6 1y ago
Eugenics is any choice that influences the genetic makeup of your descendants in a way that you believe to be desirable. Choosing a tall partner because you want your kids to be tall is eugenics. Eugenics happens every day, in every country
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by jl6 1y ago
For all their failings, there is nothing catastrophic about democracies at the moment. Not compared to the actual catastrophes that autocracies commit. Lumping the two together as equally failed is ridiculous.
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by jl6 1y ago
On the other hand, I’ve worked in places where the total destruction of IT (so as to start again from a clean slate) was within the Overton window of options for how to transform the business.
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> industrial grade media physical math- dolphin motion market semiotics fetishism San Francisco A.I. assault. Coincidentally the pitch for my new startup.
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by jl6 1y ago
I fear this altimeter idea may be scuppered by local variations in the Earth’s density (it’s not an exactly uniform sphere of rock). Or maybe that just means the clocks could be great density-mappers!
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by jl6 1y ago
I don’t have a problem with chess.com existing, but if someone starts shouting loudly about how chess.com is going to be the future of everything, and that I’ll need to buy a bunch of expensive-but-still-kinda-crappy hardware to participate
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by jl6 1y ago
> Wood is basically polymers. Much easier to use that directly. Is there a (plausibly economic) direct wood-to-plastic process?
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by jl6 1y ago
I think an argument can be made that relations, schemas and constraints encode a kind of business logic that is intrinsic to the definition and integrity of the data, while other types of business logic represent processes that may hing
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by jl6 1y ago
A useful use of AI might be to simulate thousands/millions of user sessions (via generating mouse and keyboard inputs), with instrumentation/logging switched on. Run them in various shapes of VMs until you hit the problem. Fuzz te
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by jl6 1y ago
Or echoes of Douglas Adams: it’s been undiscovered by the archaeologists, because they couldn’t afford to stay there.[0] [0] https://wavel.de/
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by jl6 1y ago
English is evolving as a hieroglyphic language. That floppy disk icon stands a good chance of becoming simply the glyph meaning "save". The UK still uses an icon of an 1840s-era bellows camera for its speed camera road signs. The
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by jl6 1y ago
It seems weird to think there needs to be a major biological distinction to explain the idea of being outcompeted. Modern humans outcompete each other at various things all the time, right now (peacefully and non-peacefully) and it’s not be
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by jl6 1y ago
Most wacky things start with a kernel of truth, so yes, the real tragedy here is people with a genuine psychological issue getting drowned out by a wave of trenders. The trenders denounce medical gatekeeping as exclusionary, but it’s also w
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by jl6 1y ago
In the given scenario, it’s not the 9s you need to worry about, it’s the monthly bill. Unless you’ve trained your kids to be sysadmins and they have credentials and a handover plan in place, their dad’s S3 account is going to be the last th
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by jl6 1y ago
Out of the frying pan (DRM-free), into the fire (S3)? Would your dad’s book collection have passed as easily to you if its existence was dependent on paying a monthly bill to a bookstore that can’t be completely trusted?
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Of course, as a civil servant, the Chief Mouser is expected to implement government policy impartially.
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Wing Commander was released for the Amiga! It just ran absurdly slowly.
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Also missing from “no such thing as” discussions is the idea that it’s perfectly fine and useful to use the word tree casually when the general shape and appearance are what matters, and also perfectly fine to want to avoid that term when s
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Assuming it’s at the upper range of the size estimate above, and of average rocky density, the kinetic energy of the impact would be something like a 10 billion megaton nuke. If we could steer it to hit one of Mars’s poles, it might do a bi
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The race is on to find the cheapest/easiest decoy that can simulate such motion (because if everything is moving, then nothing is moving). A tube man in every corner?

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