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by jltsiren 5d ago
Finnish wild berry industry does not really make sense. Imported cultivated berries set an effective price ceiling, which isn't high enough to hire Finnish workers. The ones you could hire are not productive enough, and the ones who co
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by jltsiren 5d ago
His father was a farmer. Commoners usually didn't have family names at the time (except in Eastern Finland), but he needed one when he went to school.
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by jltsiren 6d ago
I think it's because people have different ideas of AGI. Some only expect general intelligence, while others also require weird speculative ideas, such as rapid self-improvement. Right now, what seems to be missing from general intelli
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by jltsiren 6d ago
Finnish W is inherently tied to Swedish W. Historically, V and W were the same letter, and they could be used interchangeably. W was generally preferred in Fraktur and V in Antiqua. In the 19th century, the orthography changed to use V ever
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by jltsiren 6d ago
Only in small papers. Once the project is big or multi-disciplinary enough that co-first and co-last authorship become a thing, it's quite common that no single person fully understands the paper.
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by jltsiren 7d ago
I think it's actually the opposite. Intuition is the only thing LLMs can do, which is why they are prone to hallucinating when they can't validate their intuition against reality. There is an idea that human intuition, expertise,
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by jltsiren 7d ago
That part didn't change. The deal will only be in force once it has been formally ratified by the US, Denmark, and Greenland. The constitutional status of Greenland's autonomy is somewhat unclear. If Danish parliament had the will
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by jltsiren 7d ago
Geekbench multi-core has been a single-task benchmark since version 6. The multi-core / single-core score ratio is supposed to tell how much you will benefit on the average when you use all available CPU cores. Some tasks parallelize b
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by jltsiren 8d ago
If you continue reading the article, it mentions that Russia had mobilized almost a million soldiers in the Far East by the end of the war, and that mobilization largely happened after the Battle of Mukden. Without the naval defeat at the B
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by jltsiren 8d ago
0.15% of world population was mobilized to fight in the Russo–Japanese war. That would correspond to ~12.5 million combatants today. Napoleon's invasion of Russia saw more casualties from combat, starvation, and disease, but it involve
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by jltsiren 8d ago
There was a major war between Russian and Ottoman empires in 1877–1878. And if you look outside Europe, there was an even greater war between Russia and Japan in 1904–1905.
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by jltsiren 8d ago
That "usually" was in a different world. Before the industrial revolution, there was almost no sustained economic growth and business was essentially a zero-sum game. Wars of conquest were high-risk business ventures that promised
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by jltsiren 8d ago
Finnish language doesn't have an actual word for "ocean". We use "valtameri", which means something like main sea or great sea. And both "valta" and "meri" are Indo-European loans. But in Livonia
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by jltsiren 9d ago
In my experience it's the opposite. AI tends to make interesting things boring. You spend less time building a deep understanding by doing the hard but rewarding work yourself, and you focus more on developing a more superficial unders
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by jltsiren 10d ago
Do you exercise because it makes you stronger and faster? Or because it's something you enjoy, and it also keeps you healthy? Many people get satisfaction from doing their job well. From their perspective, if they are already happy wit
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by jltsiren 11d ago
Architecture is about optimizing for people inhabiting the city. Cities with detailed human-scale architecture at the lowest few floors are nicer to live in. You can still have a city full of soulless luxury towers, as long as you avoid che
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by jltsiren 11d ago
Every visa type intended to bring in top talent will be gamed, if easier paths to immigration are not available. That's an unavoidable consequence of the idea that administrative decisions must be made by government officials with suff
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by jltsiren 12d ago
An oral defense is ultimately a meeting, with the same weaknesses as other types of meetings. In particular, if new information comes up in a meeting, you cannot reasonably expect to get useful responses from the other participants. First i
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by jltsiren 14d ago
Verification with Lean is a piece of empirical evidence that the proof is correct. The paper passing peer review would be another. But even together, those two would be insufficient to establish the claim. While it's a convenient to as
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by jltsiren 14d ago
Clay will award the prize (or choose to not award it) when there is an expert consensus that the problem has been solved and the solution is correct. The rules merely state what that would mean in some typical cases. There is always an opti
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by jltsiren 14d ago
It's possible that Clay Mathematics Institute will not award the prize at all. The spirit of the rules seems to be that the result can be attributed clearly to one or more individual mathematicians. If the attribution remains unclear (
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by jltsiren 15d ago
I prefer the SMBC version: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21
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by jltsiren 15d ago
That's the difference between a profession and a job. If you work in a professional field, other people in the field will judge you by the standards of the profession. Academic research is structured around people working under their o
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by jltsiren 16d ago
My point was that if someone is at fault, it's the individual OpenAI employees. Because they chose to engage in a professional field, they can't use "boss told me to do so" as a defense.
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by jltsiren 16d ago
I think it's better to ignore OpenAI here, because OpenAI didn't do anything. Academic research is a professional field in the traditional sense. Individual researchers are ultimately responsible for their actions. If some OpenAI
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by jltsiren 16d ago
Mercator used to be quite rare before Google Maps, at least in Finland. But it's an appropriate choice for online maps that can be zoomed in and out. Local and regional maps look as you would expect, and shapes don't change when y
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by jltsiren 20d ago
I meant that Vostochny is the one that is supposed to reduce their reliance on Baikonur, while Plesetsk is more like the Russian equivalent of Vandenberg. During Soviet times, Baikonur was the premium spaceport for all the big high-profile
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by jltsiren 20d ago
You are thinking about Vostochny in Russian Far East. Plesetsk was an early ICBM launch site that started doing orbital launches in 1966. It was the busiest spaceport in Soviet times, and the cumulative number of orbital launches from Plese
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by jltsiren 21d ago
The West is not a single monolith. Attitudes towards data centers vary from country to country. As does the perception of how much influence people have over the government. The actual issue, as far as I see it, is the financialization of c
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by jltsiren 21d ago
Nuclear power plants are ultimately not that different from coal power plants. Typical estimates for the capital costs of coal power are ~$4000/kW, which can be used as a lower bound for the costs of nuclear power. The costs are high,

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