levocardia

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by levocardia 3mo ago
I was actually waiting for it to pull out a butcher knife and reveal the landing page is actually a promo for a techno-horror film.
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by levocardia 3mo ago
Real answer: how many animals can you think of with three legs?
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by levocardia 3mo ago
I have a startup idea: I will make the robot that ferries your laundry robot up and down the stairs.
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by levocardia 3mo ago
3.5 days to escape the permanent underclass ;_;
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by levocardia 3mo ago
I'll take the opposite side of that bet. My prediction is that Fable 5 Re-Release will have safety classifiers that flag much more often on mundane front-end and back-end coding tasks.
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by levocardia 3mo ago
I sense a business opportunity: a web app that de-sloppifies real estate, airbnb, and vrbo photos! See what it really looks like, thanks to the power of AI!
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by levocardia 3mo ago
This article is 100% AI generated slop
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by levocardia 3mo ago
The craziest part is that a game theory expert can't see the problem here!
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by levocardia 3mo ago
Yes, you really need "dollars per amount of RAM you need for standard computing tasks." Windows 11 requires a bare minimum of 4 GB of RAM, Window 10 only needed 1 GB.
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by levocardia 4mo ago
"The real problem with this package is that it makes things easy, instead of hard"
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by levocardia 4mo ago
|> works too
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by levocardia 4mo ago
...which is why there are no emerging far-right-populist political movements in welfare-heavy societies like the UK, France, and Germany, right?
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by levocardia 4mo ago
Conversely: the self-help nonfiction book existed because it was the only practical way to monetize "good advice" or "good ideas" at scale. Now you can do a podcast or a youtube series and try to make money from adver
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by levocardia 4mo ago
So are you short the market?
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by levocardia 5mo ago
There is a footnote discussing this point; he uses 5% as the risk-free rate.
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by levocardia 5mo ago
The intentional parallels are hard to miss: - Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum; current Pope Leo XIV chose his name as an explicit gesture to his nominative predecessor - This encyclical is a return to the earlier tradition of latin names
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by levocardia 5mo ago
>As it turned out, the online version of MIT is not a substitute for the actual thing. More precisely, the people motivated enough to actually do the online MIT version were often already on a high-performance trajectory, and for the peo
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by levocardia 5mo ago
Not even prestigious ones. The school needs to sound like it has strong penalties against cheating, so there are really strict-sounding policies ("zero in the course"). But also, so many students cheat that actually enforcing thes
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by levocardia 5mo ago
Probably the worry that the jump from "we defend against slaughterbots" to "we built a better slaughterbot" is just around the corner
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by levocardia 5mo ago
Who do you think would be deserving of an outside-the-window Pulitzer?
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by levocardia 5mo ago
The actual "sharing" was using the Meta pixel and TikTok's equivalent, presumably so the healthcare exchanges could do retargeting or similarity-based marketing to get people to sign up for health care coverage. Which, narrow
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by levocardia 5mo ago
Would have been even more classic EU to not add the exception and have all Europeans stuck with a slower, bulkier, and more expensive "EU edition" of a phone.
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by levocardia 5mo ago
(which electric cars and trucks also reduce, because of regenerative braking)
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by levocardia 5mo ago
Agreed, it's insane to me that in an era of Google Colab (et al) schools still require students to shell out >$100 for one of these. I'm sure there is some backroom arrangement with schools of some kind.
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by levocardia 5mo ago
I noticed this phenomenon a few months ago. I often "chat" with blog post excerpts that use language or references I don't understand, and while I'm waiting for the model to finish thinking, I like to read the reasoning
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by levocardia 5mo ago
Goes to show how much consumer surplus you're getting for that $200/mo subscription...
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by levocardia 5mo ago
Indeed, I found this part extremely interesting. The more general vision of "testing a vintage model on something invented after its training data ended" seems like quite a strong test of "true cognition" (or training da
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by levocardia 6mo ago
Elaborating a bit - brain is hard to study since you can't easily take a biopsy of it (from a living person at least), and various brain scans are not great at identifying the stuff we care about. The slow acting nature of it means als
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by levocardia 6mo ago
So you're looking forward to a $2000 iPhone 18e?
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by levocardia 6mo ago
I share your pain. You might enjoy Plotnine for python, helps ease the pain. The only bad thing about ggplot is that once you learn it you start to hate every other plotting system. Iteration is so fast, and it is so easy to go from scrappy

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