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by jprete 2y ago
The GP is saying that IQ tests are deliberately calibrated and normalized to produce a Gaussian output, and that the input is not necessarily a Gaussian distribution of any particular quantity. This doesn't say anything in particular a
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by jprete 2y ago
So...copyright theft then?
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by jprete 2y ago
That's a hyperbolic misstatement of the situation on the ground. Poor people use free emergency rooms as primary care instead of paying for primary care physicians. That's a cost disaster no matter what you think should be done ab
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by jprete 2y ago
The endorsement and verification would need to be continuous, or else the anonymous users will sell their accounts for the value of the accrued positive reputation. I.e. what people already do with Reddit accounts that accrue a lot of karma
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by jprete 2y ago
Not the GP but I think a foundational skill is naming things. If you can't give a simple name to a function/class/etc., it's probably not well-defined. It should be adjusted to make it easier to name, usually by moving r
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by jprete 2y ago
Touche.
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by jprete 2y ago
I take it you've never heard of Poe's Law?
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by jprete 2y ago
Efficiency and lowered costs are not universally good. They strongly favor easily-measured values over hard-to-measure values, which in practice means preferring mechanisms to people.
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by jprete 2y ago
The first thing I saw on the page was a phone-screen-filling disclaimer that everything they said was opinion. I didn't read any further.
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by jprete 2y ago
I guess it depends on whether the crucial mutation that flipped the organism from "non-chicken" to "chicken" happened before or after fertilization! Or alternatively we can say that the germ line went from 49% chicken to
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by jprete 2y ago
The GP was clearly talking about dancing as a social activity. TikTok dancing isn't social, it's a performance for an invisible audience.
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by jprete 2y ago
There are many benefits to a therapist. Understanding a problem is not the same as solving it, and many problems are not cognitive dissonances.
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by jprete 2y ago
If Perplexity can substitute for the NYT's staff for an essential news story, then it can substitute for their staff for almost all stories. However, I don't think that's even the attack Srinivas was going for - he's ind
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by jprete 2y ago
There's another thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044956 with 13 comments.
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by jprete 2y ago
Videochat therapy is OK as a stopgap, and it saves travel time, but it puts a barrier between the person and the therapist. If the patient doesn't need that barrier to go to therapy in the first place, then that distance may make the t
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by jprete 2y ago
I had the same question! For other readers, Ai Weiwei is an artist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei
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by jprete 2y ago
Was the Fool article stealth-updated? It's not particularly positive at the moment.
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by jprete 2y ago
If the court order specifies that it be taken down worldwide, and the court order isn't definitely illegal according to Indian law, and the Wikimedia Foundation has operations in India that they want to preserve, they may not have a ch
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by jprete 2y ago
This article might be more informative although I can't say how accurate it is: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/wikipedia-suspends-ac...
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by jprete 2y ago
It's relevant on the margins. WaPo not endorsing Harris would be a very negative signal about Harris for fence-sitters and lukewarm voters - this is the paper that hated Trump so much they changed their motto to the apocalyptic "D
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by jprete 2y ago
A* is faster in practice if the heuristics used by the specific implementation are accurate and if the graph is "general" for the problem space. I'm being very loose with the word "general" but essentially it should
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by jprete 2y ago
That's effectively an answer of "no".
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by jprete 2y ago
Top comment at the time I looked: "There seems to be a ton of confusion about the purpose of these ads. These are recruitment ads, not product ads, hence why "no drama" is the driving message. I'm sure these were all tak
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by jprete 2y ago
We've been in the mid manufacturing era for quite a while, when every part is engineered to fail the day after the warranty expires. Maybe the idea of a bicycle that can last seven decades is interesting to people.
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by jprete 2y ago
It's generally bad writing to use the same phrase structure over and over and over again. It either bores or distracts the reader for no real advantage. Unless they really could not find an adjective clause other than "familiar wi
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by jprete 2y ago
I think that's the whole house, not just bedrooms.
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by jprete 2y ago
This probably isn't backed by an LLM but instead some kind of geometric shape model.
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by jprete 2y ago
At least they're publishing it!
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by jprete 2y ago
Businesses are interested in AI so they can fire employees and do the same amount of work with much cheaper AI instead. The whole point is to scrimp.
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by jprete 2y ago
Ozempic seems to have a large number of positive effects for virtually everyone. It's a little premature to think everyone will be on it "soon" and there are plenty of people who won't take something even if it's un

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