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by jpk 3y ago
Defense contractors make heaps of money on big, drawn out projects like the F35. They probably stand to make much less if they pivot to compete with COTS drones carrying IEDs. So it's not surprising to me that the military industrial
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by jpk 3y ago
I think you're taking the question too literally. One can surely make the bet that two securities will move in opposite directions, with bounded loss potential, using things like option spreads.
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by jpk 3y ago
Laws, and more specifically their penalties, are precisely for fixing incentives. It's just a matter of setting a penalty that outweighs the natural incentive you want to override. e.g., Is it more expensive to respect privacy, or pa
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by jpk 3y ago
I assume you're referring to "rice". In the car scene, it stands for "race inspired cosmetic enhancement" and it's typically used to refer to things that make a car look fast without actually making it so. (T
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by jpk 3y ago
Do you have a sense of performance in terms of energy use? 2x slower is fine, but is that at the same wattage, or more?
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by jpk 3y ago
The only ones I know of are the ConnectPRO ones. I have a UDP2-14AP, but it's really finicky. It works great with some systems and monitors, even at high resolutions and refresh rates. But other systems (for me, my MacBook) involve
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by jpk 3y ago
Interesting guess, but citation needed.
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by jpk 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane
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by jpk 3y ago
But that's the thing about methane, it doesn't become "gone", it oxidizes into CO2. So not only does it trap more heat for the decade it's around, it also converts into CO2 to trap heat at the lower rate for centur
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by jpk 3y ago
Twitch also transcodes live, etc. There's much more to streaming infra than just egress costs.
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by jpk 3y ago
This reminds me of a class in college where one project was to make a waveguide WiFi antenna. You know the ones; often built out of a Pringles can. On the day the project was due, we each demo'd our antennas and the instructor recorde
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by jpk 3y ago
If your devs are just implementing whatever they want, with no strong design from your tech leads, and leaving no room for input from other teams, you'll find you have very unhappy customers who don't hang around very long... etc.
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by jpk 3y ago
> there's plenty of things that could replace them in cultural consciousness. Can you give a few examples of this?
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by jpk 3y ago
Isn't this precisely what leadership is for? If you've implemented an architecture that mirrors your org chart, then the interfaces aren't just in software, they exist between managers as well. System-level success depends
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by jpk 3y ago
The context of the fine article is scaling LLMs into AGI. It's not about whether the tool is useful or not, as usefulness is a threshold well before AGI. Some folks are spooked that LLMs are a few optimizations away from the singular
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by jpk 3y ago
> Ovens and stoves should have knobs I can turn with wet or oven-mitted hands Ooh, yeah this is a big one for me now. A few years ago I got a new range and the controls are all capacitive touch. Mitts are a minor inconvenience, but als
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by jpk 3y ago
I can't speak to broader study of this, but I suspect this is only doable with images because you can make meaningful changes to the pixel data that remain mostly imperceptible to the eye. I think there's less room for this sort
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by jpk 3y ago
Good point on intent. I have to think if an artist published poisoned images, with a notice like, "don't use these for training, they're poisoned, contact me for licensing of clean images", it would be hard to argue eith
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by jpk 3y ago
This article has some examples of output from poisoned vs clean models. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/unive...
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by jpk 3y ago
For context, Nightshade is a tool used to alter images in such a way as to poison a generative image model if the altered images are included in the training set. Poisoned models produce noticably worse output and the only way to fix them
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by jpk 3y ago
It kind of underscores the need to run training and inference on hardware you can trust, doesn't it?
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by jpk 3y ago
You seem to be arguing that we have a system where theft and bribery are necessary in some way, and therefore we shouldn't prosecute it aggressively. Wouldn't we rather reform the system such that it makes theft and bribery les
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by jpk 3y ago
Sure, but the company has an incentive to resist such an order. So there's a check there. I guess all I'm saying is there should be a check, and transparency about when that check is tested.
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by jpk 3y ago
Part of me likes this approach, but another part of me is hesitant putting the local government in control of all of the network infrastructure. It could conceivably allow local officials to turn it all off during a protest or something; s
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by jpk 3y ago
poetry add pyright :)
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by jpk 3y ago
Can you recommend some relevant reading?
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by jpk 3y ago
Most of the study around dark matter is in the context of galaxies because that's where the gravity/light mismatch occurs. The rotation of galaxies (as influenced by the gravity of the matter in them) indicates there's more
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by jpk 3y ago
You're down-voted because you kinda stopped short, but I think it's worth discussing: Many engineering disciplines deal with safety-critical stuff and often have robust process around validation of design and implementation as a r
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by jpk 3y ago
Would love to watch that talk (so please re-submit it somewhere!), but in lieu of that, is the paper available anywhere?
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by jpk 3y ago
Please elaborate!

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