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by klyrs 3y ago
Meanwhile in reality, a truck got hit twice by automated vehicles because it was hitched to a tow truck and travelling in a direction the "ai" considered unrealistic. Proposed name change #4532: Accelerated Stupidity
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by klyrs 3y ago
FWIW I don't mind the sideways text, but the ant's-eye-view histogram is one of the strangest user experiences I've had in data science.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Yes, the headline uses a tortured phrase "fluid drawn during pregnancy," but this is hacker news. The technical term, present in the article, is preferred over inventing "pregnancy fluid" which sounds borderline puerile
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by klyrs 3y ago
The article also mentions a child's fingerprint surviving in a clay figurine. This comment section is pretty wild; the article is pretty clear that there is a lack of consensus and multiple competing theories, yet so many comments see
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by klyrs 3y ago
It is called amniotic fluid . Not "pregnancy fluid."
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by klyrs 3y ago
Pregnancy fluid???
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by klyrs 3y ago
Wait until they discover quantum gravity!
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by klyrs 3y ago
> Just sit down, relax and breathe, that's better than drugs. Not if you hold drugs up to your mouthparts whilst breathing, it isn't
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by klyrs 3y ago
Did we watch a different movie? He was dead serious
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by klyrs 3y ago
You're taking this quite seriously, it makes me think you missed a cultural reference: GP is sarcastically quoting a movie.
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by klyrs 3y ago
You're wrong about the left and right being in bubbles. I read commentary, thinkpieces, and yellow rubbish from both. This isn't the first time I've seen mention of that hiring goal, but I will note that comments like yours
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by klyrs 3y ago
They don't like the optics of directly calling women and minorities inferior anymore, DEI is just a dogwhistle.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Standard fare for reason.com
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by klyrs 3y ago
It's been a great many years since I've touched this stuff but two rules of thumb probably haven't changed in the meantime: 1. in general, algorithms tend to slow down on small problems in exchange for the asymptotic speedup
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by klyrs 3y ago
I'm having some trouble with the delivery, but OC seems to be making a joke that climate change didn't directly cause the paper to be written?
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by klyrs 3y ago
The AI safety we deserve
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by klyrs 3y ago
Life is attracted to gradients; I would expect the most interesting behavior at the twilit ring.
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by klyrs 3y ago
Come now, the fine won't exceed millions of dollars.
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by klyrs 3y ago
In this chicken and egg problem, the chicken is eating the egg
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by klyrs 3y ago
> The level of results does not scale well down to mass consumer hardware. For now. I'm pretty bearish on all things "AI" but of all things one can say about the future, today's hardware is yesterday's news. An
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by klyrs 3y ago
$9700 for 300km range? These should be selling like hotcakes but for you'd be a pancake thanks to megacar culture
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by klyrs 3y ago
Sometimes, I daydream about being a nameless drone in a cubefarm, taking home a nice paycheck and leaving my work at work. But, yeah, the dream passes quickly because I know I'd hate it with a burning passion.
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by klyrs 3y ago
> was he a recluse? I dunno, he'd have to get out pretty often to get vaccinated this many times, wouldn't he?
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by klyrs 3y ago
Yikes! I didn't want to understand the mindset after all! Thanks :)
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by klyrs 3y ago
As somebody who has only ever worked at places small enough for individuals to all roughly understand eachother's impact, could I even get a job at a big org like that? I don't even understand the mindset
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by klyrs 3y ago
Only... that's exactly what this is. Perhaps it isn't a "joke," but names in math are frequently chosen with whimsy.
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by klyrs 3y ago
A quick search surfaced this study: https://hechingerreport.org/why-your-toddler-cant-learn-from... GP said studies, plural. I cannot confirm that. But the linked study is consistent with what I observed in my child when
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by klyrs 3y ago
> Super slick demo, I'm on mobile and it's impressively fast nevermind functional. No kidding. As far as I've seen, it's the best open paint app on android
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by klyrs 3y ago
> Just on this point - can the right answer to dealing with indoctrinated people be even more indoctrination? What is doctrine? Wikipedia says, > Doctrine (from Latin: doctrina, meaning "teaching, instruction") is a codif
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by klyrs 3y ago
Units, dammit!

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