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by layman51 2y ago
This is a good point and it reminds me of a link to an news article someone had shared some weeks earlier about how AI-generated literature in the form of ebooks is already flooding public libraries that subscribe to certain lending platfor
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Gamification as a field of study also reminds me a lot of this video[1] of a talk about tips for game developers. It is very interesting because it is from 2016 which is close to the time period you mentioned. I’m pretty sure this video has
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by layman51 2y ago
Right, the other side is when you end up with rediscoveries of the same ideas. The example that comes to my mind is when a medical researcher found the trapezoidal rule for integration again[1]. [1]: https://fliptomato.wordpress.
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What do you mean by “statistically”? The end results would be like three orders of magnitude apart. Wouldn’t the desired sample size depend on the size of the population itself?
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The idea of transferring knowledge being a separate skill reminds me of the Wason selection task[1]. I first learned about this in a course on education and it felt pretty shocking to see so many classmates struggling with the logic puzzle
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by layman51 2y ago
Just playing devil’s advocate here, but this idea of having to invoke your fifth amendment rights reminds me of a “Silent Man” (David Hampson) in the UK who would be arrested multiple times for blocking traffic by standing in the middle of
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by layman51 2y ago
About the “Tok” suffix, I also think that while it has the algorithm connotations, it also has been used a lot to describe communities that have formed on TikTok. For example, BookTok (where some bookstores have started to pay attention to
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by layman51 2y ago
Some other commenters have offered the idea of an algorithm to steer the randomness of the articles. I wonder if an algorithm would help with this issue of having random articles be too technical for you even though you are interested in th
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I noticed that it thought that GoatInGrey wrote “openai is no longer relevant.” However, they were just quoting a different user (buyucu) who was the person who first wrote that.
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by layman51 2y ago
Can you elaborate more on this? I did not take psychology in high school, but I would imagine that such a course would focus on fundamental concepts where “replicating” wouldn’t even be an issue. There might be teachers who might bring up t
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by layman51 2y ago
There’s a setting on iPhone called “Erase Data” which will erase the data on it after 10 consecutive failed passcode attempts. That seems like a recommended setting for any smartphone to be honest, especially if it is used for business.
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by layman51 2y ago
I’m still a bit confused around how they sent him the email. Maybe they added him to the Google Workspace as a member?
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This is the same type of phishing attack described here[1]. It’s still surprising to me how the SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all pass. If I remember correctly, it’s because they actually have a clever way od getting Google to send an email to you b
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by layman51 2y ago
It would be better if your competitor made your app or project a popular hit.
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I agree with your analysis of how insurance works. But, wouldn’t the burden of calamities only spread amongst the insurance holders? I am not sure what the factors are, but if a lot more people go without insurance (because they are indepen
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by layman51 2y ago
I learned from this that there is something called “Errors & Omissions insurance” that professionals could buy. But in this case, it looks like the person who did the Tweet had hired a freelance software engineer through Upwork.
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by layman51 2y ago
They have a documentation page titled “Avoid surprise bills”[1] but I imagine it’s easy for some developers to skip over that. [1]: https://firebase.google.com/docs/projects/billing/avoid-surp...
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by layman51 2y ago
Salesforce’s product is technically is a relational database. Maybe it doesn’t perfectly fit the relational model that Edgar Codd theorized, but I don’t think any widely used database product does. A crucial aspect of the relational databas
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I think Salesforce’s customers typically sign an annual contract so not sure how the refunding thing works. Maybe they can ask Salesforce to do an “org swap” where they essentially start from scratch. (Some configuration options in the Sale
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by layman51 2y ago
I have experience working with the Salesforce platform via the “Power of Us” program where nonprofits can get a discount and some free user licenses. It is interesting how much the platform has changed from the perspective of an “Admin”. I
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by layman51 2y ago
This post is fascinating but I think it is more mundane than I realized. I thought everyone knew that when a cheap digital kitchen timer shows a time like “0 H 1 M”, that actually means you have exactly 60 seconds or fewer for its alarm to
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by layman51 2y ago
I had read of this attack back in September[1]. It seems very sophisticated because they spoof a phone number that at first glance is associated with Google, but is really just the “uncanny-valley” Google Assistant service that can check wa
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My first thought is the study must be capturing what they call “newbie gains” or “diminishing returns”. The sedentary experimental group can gain muscle so fast because they are just starting out on their journey. Also, it kind of reminds m
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by layman51 2y ago
I might be misinterpreting Leibniz’s central argument, but doesn’t the idea of the best of all possible worlds not depend on how humans (or any kind of life really) perceive it? This is similar to the idea that an unaligned AI agent could
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by layman51 2y ago
Well, there are chess problems that are specifically composed so that a solver can work out the right moves to achieve checkmate. For a lot of these composed chess positions, it’s virtually impossible for to get them in a real game but that
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I just checked the Lichess board editor tool and it won’t let you continue analyzing with an engine if you have an illegal board setup (like the two kings adjacent to each other). I haven’t tried this yet, but I think you can set up and ana
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by layman51 2y ago
Your point about the coin hitting other things to be more unpredictable reminded me of an interesting blog post[1] about generating cryptographically secure random numbers. The memorable part for me is the suggestion of using five coins of
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by layman51 2y ago
Agreed. I don’t understand how someone would be careful to not use biometrics and yet use a six digit passcode instead of an alphanumeric password.
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It would be really cool if someone could get an LLM to actually launch an anonymous game on Chess.com or Lichess and actually have any sense as to what it’s doing.[1] Some people say that you have to represent the board in a certain way. Wh
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by layman51 2y ago
I see how to build it now, thank you. I imagine for this automation to serve its purpose, we also need to make the Control Center inaccessible when the phone is locked so that whoever has the phone can’t just try turning it off again. Well,

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