kpil

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by kpil 12d ago
I think this is a good point. We will most likely not get novel results, but a lot of connected dots. That is very useful but not the singularity. Which is probably good...
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by kpil 15d ago
The CMIP7 scenarios were just released. AR7 is not yet completed but it's the input for it. The "worst" RCP8.5 / SSP5-8.5-style futures (coal-dominated, ~4.4–4.9 °C) are no longer treated as plausible given policy alrea
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by kpil 15d ago
I spent 5 minutes just playing with the folding :-D
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by kpil 16d ago
There is a certain difference between activating all relevant memoized facts that's in the weights and stringing them together with the help of all the stored text in the world, or displaying genuinely emergent behaviour and generating
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by kpil 16d ago
Unless they just swiped the workbooks of the actual mathematicians that where working on the problem using AI and it's in the "next-gen" training dataset.
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by kpil 19d ago
The tree map folding is ingenious. I have never seen it. As a whole it's brilliant and humbling. Both the vastness and complexity of nature and biology on Earth, and also the absurd amount of work and human lifetime that has been spent
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by kpil 23d ago
I've had a glass of wine, but isn't it 3 half-hitches inside each other?
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by kpil 23d ago
No, yes it's backwards.
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by kpil 4mo ago
I guess there's always the risk for a rig failure. I looked a bit on doing the same, but came to the conclusion that it will be expensive to fulfil racing rules requiring the boat to be able to maintain speed for 5 hours ie around 25-3
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by kpil 6mo ago
How the f are you supposed to type? Ideally I'd like full support for my arms from the elbow to the wrist. In my first job - i think it was in 1997, I had my own small room with an L-shaped desk with a rounded corner. That gave a few i
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by kpil 6mo ago
I'm actually impressed by the amount of abuse our Oracle instances are able take from our developers. Massive amounts of parallel single reads and writes with millisecond responses mixed with mega-joins of incorrectly indexed tables th
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by kpil 6mo ago
The etymology is interesting - Pebble Voting was used in the early democracies in Greece from 500 BC. Black pebbles meant 'no' and white meant 'yes'. The tradition evolved to the black and white marbles used in the Roma
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by kpil 6mo ago
We don't "need a global reset" It's an apocalyptical mind-bug. All times have an eschatology - ours seems to be climate collapse. It used to be nuclear war. The media is selling a story. In reality everything is still ge
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by kpil 6mo ago
The 150€ is a reservation on your debit card before filling up, since the banks or the station doesn't want the credit risk. It's released when the actual sum is booked. I think it's just what a reasonable "full tank&quo
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by kpil 6mo ago
My internet provider didn't even maintain the ip-address. They have a pool of egress routes and seems to route round-robin. Basically every new connection can be from any address in the pool. I had to call them to make it stop since it
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by kpil 7mo ago
What's fast on Z platforms is typically IO rather than raw CPU - the platform can push a lot of parallell data. This is typically the bottleneck when compiling. The cores are in my experience moderately fast at most. Note that there ar
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by kpil 7mo ago
It takes some of the fun out of imagining eternal digital life, doesn't it :-)
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by kpil 7mo ago
Will put it in my list :-)
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by kpil 7mo ago
In Sweden and I think Europe, there seems to be quite much product development in apples. I think one of the reasons is that storage seems to have been more or less perfected so that the produce can be sold over almost a whole year. Using o
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by kpil 7mo ago
I think "MMAcevedo" basically nails it: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by kpil 7mo ago
I think that is Hofstadter grieving his wife, and reflecting on how we embed models or predictions of others in our own neural networks, more than anything else. We build models of the world in order to predict it. But I guess you could say
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by kpil 7mo ago
I'm thinking that the slopocalypse is almost inevitable outside pure tech companies and can't be ruled out there either. LLMs are a force multiplier. Clueless people will be able to produce tons of code that looks convincing but i
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by kpil 7mo ago
The truth is that there is a lot of hype. You need to be reasonably experienced and guide it. First, you need to know that Claude will create nonsensical code. On a macro level it's not exactly smart it just has a lot of contextual sta
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by kpil 8mo ago
"... HBR found that companies are cutting [jobs] based on AI's potential, not its performance. I don't know who needs to hear this - a lot apparently - but the following three statements are not possible to validate but have
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by kpil 9mo ago
Good question. There seems to be strong lobbying for insects as human food, in particular from companies that would be happy feed us with their own shit as long as it's cheap and they could get away with it The green-left seems to enjo
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by kpil 9mo ago
I'm assuming they mean the old way of signing each others signatures. As a practical implementation of "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", you could get an organic trust chain to random people. Or at least, more realistically, to f
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by kpil 9mo ago
Sometimes EU regulations isn't that bad. Poultry litter has been banned as cattle feed since 2001, partially due to mouth and foot disease and BSE and to some extent animal welfare.
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by kpil 11mo ago
I think that the important conclusion to make of this is that publicly available code is not created or even curated by humans anymore, and it will be fed back into data sets for training. It's not clear what the consequences are. Mayb
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by kpil 11mo ago
Old English looks more or less like old Norse to me. Or old Scandinavian as we say in Sweden...
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by kpil 1y ago
They where supposed to do it quicker. I think there was a limit of something like 60 days. At least my bank apparently refused all transactions that were settled too late. I had a job which involved a lot of taxi trips, and when I cross che

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