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by lainga 2y ago
Now imagine an LLM trained on LLM web content. We call that an AIslop-squared.
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by lainga 2y ago
bathroomsAreUnisex || (bathroomTypesWithTable % 2 == 0)
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by lainga 2y ago
True, but IME showing your prototypes to people and getting ignored also seemingly leads to burnout (sample n=1)
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by lainga 2y ago
I guess we are coming from different worldviews. These were IIRC collectively referred to as "retaliation" by the incumbent firm and none of them sat very well with me as conducive to innovation. - lobby for regulation - poach fro
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by lainga 2y ago
I read a particularly disgusting book called "Competitive Strategy" by Michael E. Porter, that plainly explains how and when to carry out each of the monopoly-preserving actions you have listed
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by lainga 2y ago
> This itself is a trend that says the UN is overly optimistic here Who benefits?
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by lainga 2y ago
doesn't this suggest that the "zeitgeist" is an overtuned PID?
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by lainga 2y ago
Crying shame, I would have liked to have known you in another life
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by lainga 2y ago
When I'm reading articles on the BBC, it gives me a popover prompting me to log in "to continue". I can immediately close it to no consequence whatsoever. I have never figured out to what I would possibly be continuing.
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by lainga 2y ago
Allow me a bit of poetic license with the original statement and maybe it will explain my objection better. > but for some reason people really do not like to call marathon winners "Kenyans". Why might other marathon runners no
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by lainga 2y ago
> I still stand by my association of Weird Nerds with autism, but for some reason people really do not like to call Weird Nerds autistic. I'm sorry, what , even if they're preponderant you can't just call all of them that
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by lainga 2y ago
OT: I wonder if this company has ever had trademark trouble with Arianespace, and why/why not. They're even both headquartered in a suburb of Paris.
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by lainga 2y ago
unrelated: if you want to talk about that particular type of game shoot me an email (see profile)
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by lainga 2y ago
> What is “the underlying process”? IMO - The simple ones: advection, latent heat release/absorption from water changing phases, and the Coriolis force. If you need an AI for this, please take a course on differential equations. The
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by lainga 2y ago
Because we have well-measured inputs for CO2 between basically 250 PPM and $current_day PPM. Do you see how this statement > Eh, atmospheric CO2 (and other GHGs) is just another input parameter only works for CO2 inputs outside our measu
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by lainga 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_mapping
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by lainga 2y ago
> For example, deep learning weather models have proven to be excellent at forecasting the tracks of hurricanes. But while these models are better at predicting where hurricanes will go, they tend to be lower-performing on the intensity
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by lainga 2y ago
0.087 W/m^2. Compare to 340 W/m^2 insolation. [] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_energy_budget#Earth'...
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by lainga 2y ago
There is a certain type of tea that my mom would give me every time I came home from college, and I refuse to even try drinking it anywhere else
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by lainga 2y ago
Quickly thumbing through my product book for "gaining market segment by making yourself indistinguishable from competition"
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by lainga 2y ago
re. travesty - I could see it as An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation of the real work to be done
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by lainga 2y ago
Or else, if the post is talking about a "public-facing API resource", can someone tell me why the API wouldn't implement querying for multiple of the same record type at once? It just seems to me that choosing between getting
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by lainga 2y ago
See the 7-10 rule (of murky and apparently empirical provenance), although this is for fission products of a bomb, not melted fuel https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/336049/can-the-7...
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by lainga 2y ago
"Massimo Vignelli famously said at a meeting: Emigre is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. It's unbelievable the damage they have done. A total disaster. [Laughter] You laugh, but you should cry. " What in E
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by lainga 2y ago
I suppose if I kept seeing Ford Pintos not only driving down the highway, but replacing Ford owners' other models unannounced (for free, at midnight), and some Ford suit patiently explained to me that the gas tank was "a known des
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by lainga 2y ago
I stand corrected.
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by lainga 2y ago
The first result box looks like it links to Hacker News, but an Algolia search [] only returns this item. Have we just seen citogenesis in real time? [] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=africa%20beginning%20with%20K For what it&#x
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by lainga 2y ago
>If there exists mechanisms outside of your current understanding, there is no way to predict what is and isn't possible See Lord Kelvin on heavier-than-air flight (he was fixated IIRC on the theoretical maximum power-to-weight rati
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by lainga 2y ago
I am hijacking this thread to express my general displeasure at popular use of the word claustrophobic . "The room is very claustrophobic"?? Really? How else does the wainscoting feel today?
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by lainga 2y ago
Weren't these things ear-splittingly loud from the constant formation of plasma balls in midair? That's what I recall from a demonstration In The Day

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