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by jp57 4y ago
Shouldn't it be almost out of patent by now?
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by jp57 4y ago
Maybe, but the 117th Congress is over. If this is reintroduced it would be a new bill with a new number.
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by jp57 4y ago
This was a bill in the last (117th) congress, which is now over. Presumably it wasn't passed, since the only action under "Actions" is "Introduced in Senate" on 4/29/2021. Is this a thing still? Is someo
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by jp57 4y ago
2.5x would be going from around 3mph to 7.5mph. Unpowered, that's not walking anymore; that's running, or at least jogging.
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It's really not tl, tho.
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@paulg@mas.to is his mastodon address, FYI. He got banned for saying that it was on his website, without any actual links.
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The skills and talents needed to lead and influence a big organization are different from those needed to influence a small team. Once the team size surpasses Dunbar's number, a phase shift is required into a qualitatively different w
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by jp57 4y ago
Loved by strangely similar looking techbros, but not, apparently, women, black people, old people, or kids.
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But in fact, every student pays a different amount. The very high sticker price of tuition exists to let the schools charge each student a customized price by applying discounts (e.g. scholarships and aid) as they choose. They can compete
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by jp57 4y ago
There's a vicious cycle here: One must work on "important" problems in order to get funding that mostly goes to pay too many grad students whose work allows new grants applications to happen, which then reqires more grad stu
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by jp57 4y ago
A (tenured) professor told me he presents these ideas as a 2x2 for new untenured faculty: One axis is to work on what you think will be fun, or work on stuff you're not interested in, but that you think will get you tenure. On the ot
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by jp57 4y ago
Substack in particular seems to have pulled a bait-and-switch in terms of strategy. Their original line was "Each newsletter is a separate publisher and separate business and we're just a platform. You can take your list and lea
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> King Henry was said to have survived only because he sat in an alcove with a stone floor. I cannot stop imagining this event from his perspective and wondering what words might have been spoken just before the collapse.
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a.k.a. "The yips." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips
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I think the thing that makes sense here, assuming Mastodon actually becomes a popular thing, is for companies and other institutions to run their own servers and limit accounts to their employees or members. E.g. nytimes or wapo or nationa
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by jp57 4y ago
Everything he says about publishers and middlemen might be true, but it is not the reason why aspiring novelists don't make money. They don't make money because the supply of novels (including unpublished and self-published novel
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by jp57 4y ago
Sounds like a big MLops failure, a bad model or threshold combined with bad monitoring or controls.
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Since California is not a sovereign state, this whole line of reasoning seems disingenuous. It's really an arbitrary boundary when we have free interstate commerce, and a highly interdependent economy. Where would California's e
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by jp57 4y ago
I'm baffled by this debate. It seems like a massive bike shed. If you're writing markdown, or html, or latex, the renderer will decide how much space to put after the sentence. You can put one space, or two, or ten or put each s
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by jp57 4y ago
This seems like some kind of overflow problem, but 2^32 milliseconds is 49.7 days. Is it possible that the 51 day number came from a combination of rounding and an off-by-one error in the reporting?
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by jp57 4y ago
A lot of folks are commenting on the fact that "incognito mode" never promised that it would conceal your identity. I find it odd that everyone seems to be just ignoring that the word "incognito" literally means "wi
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by jp57 4y ago
What's weird to me is that this seems like a totally implausible accidental misspelling, which just shows how differently people type, I guess. I can see that 'i' and 'u' are adjacent on the keyboard, but if you tou
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PayPal owns Venmo.
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The ship was at sea, so presumably the full ship's complement? That's a bit over 300 people for an Aegis destroyer. Her point was that the accident wouldn't be knowledge that could be kept confined to the bridge/CIC and
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by jp57 4y ago
When the incident happened I worked with a woman who had served in the Navy at sea. Her opinion was that if the they had accidentally shot down an airliner during a training/practice exercise, hundreds of people on the ship would know
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Assume a spherical ant...
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Hm. I count six. Mary I, Elizabeth I, Mary II (joint monarch with Willam III), Anne, Victoria, Elizabeth II.
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by jp57 4y ago
I most of this thesis can be summarized with a few points: (1) A perfect ROC (100% AUC) on fraud detection is impossible, (2) false positives have costs in both lost revenue and customer insults, and (3) the operating point with 100% fraud
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I keep seeing articles reminding us how hard various things are for young people and keep asking myself, "Who ever said it wouldn't be hard? Being young is hard. Life is hard." But obviously someone is saying this or it
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So interesting that Adam and Eve are clothed. Of course this is easily explained if most of the training data contains clothed people and if the prompts don't explicitly say they should be nude. But I wonder, can DALL-E produce nude

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