katmannthree

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by katmannthree 4y ago
> trying to keep warm, gaseous hydrogen under high pressure Which of course nobody would do? Unfortunately, those are the circumstances in which H2 is made from fossil fuels and likewise the circumstances under which it is combusted in t
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by katmannthree 4y ago
GPT-3 can take even complete nonsense pretty far before decoherence with some light prompt engineering: INT. JERRY’S APARTMENT GEORGE: Somebody hacked my apes. They’re all gone. JERRY: All gone? GEORGE: Every single one! Funged! JERRY: You
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by katmannthree 4y ago
Yeah, now compare the macro situation of 2018 to what we've got now (inflation, high interest rates, war, liquidity drying up, etc).
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by katmannthree 4y ago
Counter-counterexample: Superdeterminism.
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by katmannthree 4y ago
Dropbox doesn't have any functioning contact points. I cancelled my yearly subscription a month ago the day after it renewed, they cancelled my premium benefits immediately but never send the $120 refund that the cancellation page said
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by katmannthree 4y ago
Seems more like 14 signs that the author is living in a bubble, they've missed that the US is currently in the middle of a fairly nasty culture war.
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by katmannthree 4y ago
> It is unfortunate that a science communicator would express her research preference in such a way. It is disappointing, and more unfortunately pretty much her personal brand now. There are, as she seems to have discovered, a lot of eye
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by katmannthree 4y ago
The root cause of the issue is cultural. If you find an issue like that and bring it up to the KDE devs, it gets fixed. If you bring it up to the GNOME devs, you'll get stonewalled.
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by katmannthree 4y ago
Probably an unpopular opinion here, but these aren't technical issues. They're cultural. Bounties won't fix it. In the case of the file picker issue, there have literally been third party patches that the GNOME devs could hav
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by katmannthree 5y ago
> What's with the orb gimmick - a spherical metal camera? How are you supposed to start a cult with a normal camera though? At least that's the vibe I'm picking up from how they revere the Orb in their copy.
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by katmannthree 5y ago
> I's a bit of a hard question in my opinion, because so much of our economy is interlinked with the world and even with history… Probably, some richness of the west is a legacy of colonial times, during which a transfer of richness
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by katmannthree 5y ago
To provide another data point, my experiences with ceasing the use of lisdexamfetamine are pretty much in line with heavy long-term caffeine use: if you quit it cold turkey (or miss a day or two due to the quirks of the doctor/Rx syste
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by katmannthree 5y ago
I think their argument is less that "hardship and poverty are real, everything else is fake" and more that for all the complexities of modern western society we're all still very much dependent on resources delivered just-in-
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by katmannthree 5y ago
Huh. Is the CA plate visibly distinguishable from normal state plates or is it some sort of flag that comes up when they run the number?
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by katmannthree 5y ago
> Before all this, I was sure I'd flee at the first sign of trouble; get my family and just move somewhere West. Now, as the conflict progresses, and I feel my way of life attacked, I feel a certain flame inside that I've never
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by katmannthree 5y ago
Tried that, it works well for simple equations but python's string escape character is the same as LaTeX's control character for math objects (\frac{}{}, etc). Doing anything beyond the simplest of equations becomes ridiculously t
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by katmannthree 5y ago
I tried to get into jupyter the other day, but there's no native way to reference python variables in markdown cells. This seems like an insanely huge oversight, being able to include the results of calculations within text and TeX equ
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by katmannthree 5y ago
No, they might make half of what a web developer does.
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by katmannthree 5y ago
There was a graph passed around when I was doing undergrad physics showing a weighted average of age at most impactful publication by field, with the results as I recall them now roughly in line with what one might expect: physicists peaked
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by katmannthree 5y ago
I'm pretty sure this is one of the bigger reasons why timnit gebru didn't make it at google, because she thought her job was to actually make progress regarding machine ethics when it was instead to give them the appearance of hav
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by katmannthree 5y ago
After browsing OpenSea one may reasonably come to the conclusion that for every competent artist selling NFTs of their art, there are approximately 40,000 low-effort mspaint primates.
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by katmannthree 5y ago
In your experience does the medication get more effective if you can find ways to work with it? I've been trying to make it work for a while now and it seems like it either does nothing or makes me lock on to some random tangential (us
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by katmannthree 5y ago
I don't believe GPT-3 (which is what I was using and commenting on) has access to the internet. It was trained on a large data set from the web, but for instance if you ask it about COVID-19 it has absolutely no idea what you're t
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by katmannthree 5y ago
That's more or less what I was trying to say. The expensive GPT-3 models do a remarkably good job of synthesizing structure which is readily parsed from the training data, and a very poor job with structure (particularly temporospatial
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by katmannthree 5y ago
> how absurdly far we are from anything even approaching actual intelligence, even the intelligence of a toddler I respectfully disagree, IMO we're past that point although not by much. You might enjoy conversing with one of the tw
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by katmannthree 5y ago
It looks like he ditched it on the hurricane deck, that's as close to a landmark as you'll get in that range. It's more or less the midpoint of a 20-mile wide mountain range, pretty sure he could've glided far enough to
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by katmannthree 5y ago
Well, as a "master engineer" with 25 years of experience, maybe he should just fix it himself instead of expecting unpaid volunteers to jump for him just because he's doing work for the government.
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by katmannthree 5y ago
I'd be curious to hear a rigorous definition of physical reality for the rationals, IMO only the ones that are also integers have that property. Even those are debatable, owning discrete quantities of things is dependent on human socio
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by katmannthree 5y ago
First conceived of then perhaps, but general acceptance came around Euler’s time where they found value (and anchoring in the real world) as a fundamental component of the representation of wave-like behavior.
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by katmannthree 5y ago
This is explicitly satire criticizing the concept of ownership of goods being derived from arbitrary tokens rather than defined by the extant legal framework in virtually every jurisdiction. From the end of the article: >Q: Is any of thi

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