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Historic Flooding in Nigeria(newrepublic.com)
4 points by koyanisqatsi 4y ago|0 comments
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Not really looking good for holding things below 2C degrees of warming. It's likely the limit will be passed so it's time to start thinking about mitigation strategies and not pie in the sky solutions with fusion energy. This is a
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Very cool.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
You'd think so but the reality is probably a little bit more complicated for a legacy software codebase like Twitter.
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Mountain Village Broadband experiences extended town-wide internet outage (2021)(townofmountainvillage.com)
2 points by koyanisqatsi 4y ago|0 comments
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
What would happen if Twitter had an extended outage because of these cuts? Or is he not planning to reduce the number of engineers?
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
I now see you're confused about how exactly co-pilot actually works. I recommend learning about statistical machine learning and not getting wrapped up in AI hype. Brains don't work like co-pilot and that argument won't work
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the point here. The point is that co-pilot is not "fair use". Co-pilot can not exist without ingesting entire codebases to encode their aggregate statistics which Microsoft then uses to recomme
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
If information wants to be free then information belongs to the commons and not corporate entities that obfuscate the real source of value so that they can profit from it. Making code more accessible is great, profiting from it and not givi
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Very cool.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
That makes sense. Thanks.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Very interesting architecture. Article mentions XGBoost but what if I want to run another kind of algorithm? How does PostgresML support that use case?
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
That's usually how history works. An abstract definition of progress is the accumulation of cultural knowledge that informs the next generation of past mistakes and errors. I don't know much about Aristotle but I'd guess he w
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Mostly because it is an academic exercise and lacks obvious incentives for profit but it's good to know there is such a project. Seems like my idea was right on the mark. Thanks for the reference. It says that the project was started i
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
It's surprising that no one has applied ML techniques to historical documents like these. Scanning the documents to uncover some text that was overwritten would be a very useful technique for historical research. Written documents have
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Does anyone have tickets I can buy?
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Invitation-only event about academic freedom at Stanford(cli.stanford.edu)
1 points by koyanisqatsi 4y ago|1 comments
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
This is a very informative comment. Thank you for your contribution.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Are you sure about that?
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
"What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” — Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958)
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Building and deploying provably secure communication software(microsoft.com)
2 points by koyanisqatsi 4y ago|2 comments
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
OP is right. Functional programming is more secure and reliable than imperative programming. There are no buffer overflows when code is formally specified and verified. It's next to impossible to do this for imperative code but very ea
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
I'd settle for software that could reasonably save and restore its own state. Half the time when I close the laptop lid I have no idea what will happen when I open it again. More often than not some application and its state just disap
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
That makes sense. Thanks.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
What kind of direct value are you thinking of? I don't think most data scientists and ML engineers could write compilers or tensor algebra frameworks and gradient based optimizers.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Curation is the main problem. Google's promise was automatic curation based on the link metadata created by people but that's starting to fail as they try to infer intent from other signals fed into large ML models. I'm not s
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
We could argue about the definitions of "mundane" and "alien" but I've observed the same thing about HN comments and it's not specific to PG essays so that's why I said it is a mundane fact of human psycho
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
I think you have the right idea. Most human truths are contingencies of our evolution and the evolution of life on earth. It's very hard to extrapolate from this to universal and alien truth.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
That wouldn't be an alien truth, that would be a mundane fact of human psychology.
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by koyanisqatsi 4y ago
Right but I can ask the same/similar question. Why would they have particle physics like we do? There are several degrees of freedom in existing mathematical theories of physics and I don't think there is a good reason to expect t

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