jordanpg

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by jordanpg 9mo ago
> Posting online literally is political activity. This guy's book convinced me otherwise: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/political-... "Political hobbyism" is things
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by jordanpg 9mo ago
Stated differently, if things really are so bad (and I would be the first to agree that things are pretty bad), then why are so many comfortable people (like me) not out on the street every day? There are a lot of reasons for that, of cours
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by jordanpg 9mo ago
More to the point, it's the collapse of the carefully balanced entente around things like WMD and war crimes that will be our undoing. Recent events have brought this into sharp focus. This is really the glue that holds it all together
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by jordanpg 9mo ago
FTFY: Eat Real Food -- if you can afford it and have time to. But I'm sure the Administration will accompany this release with various programs to boost access for the bottom 50% to fresh produce, meat, etc. right?
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by jordanpg 9mo ago
I'm guessing this is post-patent expiration innovation happening at LEGO these days to counteract the growing number of generics.
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by jordanpg 9mo ago
And let's not forget that the stated rationale in this case, drugs, is very obviously pretextual.
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by jordanpg 9mo ago
I agree it's something of a bummer, but why is this surprising or "bizarre"?
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by jordanpg 9mo ago
This weird obsequiousness and the fact that it never updates are beginning to make me wonder if this is some kind of prank.
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by jordanpg 10mo ago
My point is that citations are constantly making headlines, yet at least at first glance, seems like an eminently solvable problem.
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by jordanpg 10mo ago
Does anyone know, from a technical standpoint, why are citations such a problem for LLMs? I realize things are probably (much) more complicated than I realize, but programmatically, unlike arbitrary text, citations are generally strings wit
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by jordanpg 10mo ago
Organizations above a certain size absolutely cannot help themselves but publish this stuff. It is the work of senior middle managers. Ark Fleet Ship B. I work in a corporate setting that has been working on a "strategy rebrand" f
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by jordanpg 10mo ago
> Once an alternative way to educate children, homeschooling is now an increasingly popular and mainstream option. TFA does not even begin to grapple with the single most important issue, which is who is actually doing the homeschooling
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by jordanpg 10mo ago
What is Gemini 3 under the hood? Is it still just a basic LLM based on transformers? Or are there all kinds of other ML technologies bolted on now? I feel like I've lost the plot.
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by jordanpg 11mo ago
Man, I wish that the modern internet -- and great stuff like this -- had been around when I took GR way back when. My math chops were never good enough to /really/ get it and there were so many concepts (like this one) that were
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by jordanpg 11mo ago
Remarkably, they don't even ask for money anywhere on the site. Now that is a rare thing on the modern internet, especially for high quality writing.
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by jordanpg 11mo ago
One barrier to adoption is that big URLs are just ugly. Things are smooshed together without spaces, URL encoding, human-readable words mixed with random characters, etc. I think even devs who understand what they're looking at find i
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by jordanpg 11mo ago
This is often described in terms of adherence to democratic norms, but I like your framing better. If we have to distill the problem down to its simplest essence, it's the political parties. In particular, it's the existence of th
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by jordanpg 1y ago
This sounds like something I would have written before I was a parent. And please remember: not everyone's family situation is the same. There are single parents, all kinds of employment scenarios, chronic illnesses or disabilities,
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by jordanpg 1y ago
Indeed. It is a calibrated, lawyer-defined behavior called executing their fiduciary duties. In other words, they are behaving as necessary (and as advised) to avoid later being exposed to a lawsuit.
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by jordanpg 1y ago
Maybe, except that doesn't explain the deliberate kneecapping of R&D, health, and academia. I'm pretty sure that if the curtains are pulled to the side, the people who are behind these policies are not seeking wealth and power
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by jordanpg 1y ago
But Kamala Harris was not perfect in every respect. In fact, she had several policy preferences that don't align perfectly with my own. In a lot of ways, she was just like Trump. Also, she was not a very good public speaker. /s
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by jordanpg 1y ago
> But I also have no doubt these decisions aren't being made for the long-term benefit of the US as a whole Then why are they being made? That is the real question that in my opinion is not being discussed enough. A lot of react
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by jordanpg 1y ago
I agree that he's not the best messenger, but in this case, he's right about Hossenfelder. I think the interviews with the 6 physicists stand alone. For the most part, Dave just lets them talk.
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by jordanpg 1y ago
Sure, academia is the worst system except for all the other ones. Academia is what she is criticizing, btw, not the "scientific enterprise," even if she doesn't say it all the time. You know what else she doesn't say? Wh
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by jordanpg 1y ago
She has gone way beyond this. She is actively undermining the entire academic scientific enterprise, even as she makes money popularizing it. It's unclear why she does this. She portrays herself as speaking truth to power, but -- m
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by jordanpg 1y ago
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipI5TQ54tA "Professor Dave" interviews 6 physicists regarding Hossenfelder including one guy whose name you particle physicists in particular might recognize.
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by jordanpg 1y ago
Only briefly touched on here, but just as important as what's happening in the US, is why it's happening. This does not get enough attention. The stated reasons, such as to "coerce universities to change their internal pol
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by jordanpg 1y ago
Of course, your opinion may be subject to selection bias (i.e., you are only judging the art that you became aware was AI generated).
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by jordanpg 1y ago
> This challenge was fully developed from an iPhone Sounds exhausting.
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by jordanpg 1y ago
https://bsky.app/profile/librarycongress.bsky.social/post/3l... > It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov

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