jprete

52 ms·

901.
by jprete 3y ago
One way to see wordiness: When you’re speaking, whatever your thoughts are have to come in the order that you think them, because people are used to being interrupted and therefore don’t want to stop talking to pick the right wording. So th
902.
by jprete 3y ago
People on low incomes often pay very little tax, maybe 10-12%? There are good reasons for saying that the poor have an unreasonably hard time, but I don’t think income taxes are specifically where they get hit. The people who I think pay th
903.
by jprete 3y ago
I don’t know if that matters unless you think about things that require action. My own experience is that if I think something needs to be acted on, and it’s very quick or very urgent, I just do it and go back to bed. If it’s neither, I wri
904.
by jprete 3y ago
It also might be a response to the apparent chaos of generative AI.
905.
by jprete 3y ago
> That doesn’t sound right. For all of human history bullies who were bigger and stronger made the rules. The weak were ostracized. That requires more than a little bit of backup before using it as a basis for claiming that homeschooling
906.
by jprete 3y ago
This is not at all what happened. \Rutherford, Geiger, and Marsden ran an experiment. The data was totally incompatible with a solid blob of atomic mass, but instead suggested that the positive charge of the atom was concentrated into a tin
907.
by jprete 3y ago
A fuzzy boundary doesn't make the two sides equivalent.
908.
by jprete 3y ago
If the feat you mean is to perfectly recall disparaging information they see about people on web sites, we already have people with quite good memories. Irrelevance usually keeps them from bringing up the details of strangers' lives on
909.
by jprete 3y ago
> I can run art models and llms on cpu/gpu now. I've tested out opensource models with quality better than chatgpt3.5turbo, and I can even fine tune them on my notes and books for better results. It's all so easy with so m
910.
by jprete 3y ago
The Web also has had a lot of downsides that weren’t clear at the time, particularly when paired with smartphones and Skinner-style behavior reinforcement.
911.
by jprete 3y ago
I had a similar reaction. But my read of the post is that rockets, space science, and other planets are now the mid-game, so cliff explosives are probably still mid-game tech, not end-game.
912.
by jprete 3y ago
The symbolic differentiation appears to be embedded in the algorithm, based on reading the article and skimming the algebraic expression trees.
913.
by jprete 3y ago
Nobody would ever mistake such a pasted face as belonging to the actual model, so most people wouldn’t care aside from the inherent creepiness of it.
914.
by jprete 3y ago
That image is really off-putting. It looks wrong in several ways I can identify and some that I can’t.
915.
by jprete 3y ago
IANAL, but I think this would very much qualify as misrepresenting the purpose of the trip.
916.
by jprete 3y ago
This particular Claire Boucher is cited in the story as 21 years old. I don’t think this is Grimes.
917.
by jprete 3y ago
Changing habits works poorly because one’s body and brain fight it every step of the way.
918.
by jprete 3y ago
I tried this for the happy-birthday example and it was an improvement but still gave bad text - “hhappy” and others. The best was an artistically nonsensical orange box that managed to spell “happy” correctly but otherwise didn’t fit the im
919.
by jprete 3y ago
Are you by any chance a paperclip factory? /s
920.
by jprete 3y ago
Set phrases aren’t consciously created, they’re the accumulated contextual/cultural meaning that people remember for the phrase, until people no longer use it to point at the literal meaning. If some group always drinks coffee and neve
921.
by jprete 3y ago
The perks of FAANG are there, IMO, to pay the employees with a feeling of high-class status. Meanwhile, from an economic-class perspective, engineering is essentially blue-collar - it’s mostly about things and not (directly) about people. I
922.
by jprete 3y ago
Being an RA, at least, is very skilled labor. I’d say the job is 80% work and 20% learning academic process and social mores from your advisor.
923.
by jprete 3y ago
Researchers get nothing from the paywalls and generally would prefer that they don’t exist.
924.
by jprete 3y ago
Nice catch, thanks for pointing it out.
925.
by jprete 3y ago
I think it’s much more likely you would get the book equivalent of crap SEO sites spammed out to satisfy numerical measures of quality.
926.
by jprete 3y ago
I’m thinking specifically of generative AI’s fair use claims. I thought the book site (and all of your extension examples) was clearly fair use.
927.
by jprete 3y ago
I think the site had a better claim by far than AI training does.
928.
by jprete 3y ago
Software people are intensely susceptible to the McNamara Fallacy: “But when the McNamara discipline is applied too literally, the first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. The second step is to disregard that which can&#x27
929.
by jprete 3y ago
I did in fact read the article. The author isn’t concerned about the book project. The author wants to use it as a springboard for complaining about AI fear, and his argument fundamentally hinges on the claim that AI training is fair use. H
930.
by jprete 3y ago
What do you even mean by this comment? Have you considered the possibility that people are smart in ways that you are not considering, rather than just labeling it “dumb”?

More ›