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by logifail 4y ago
Going from almost zero to some small number may present a rate of increase that appears huge. Going from very large to even larger still may be a much lower rate of increase. Never let the facts get the way of a good headline?
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by logifail 4y ago
> AI doesn’t have the capacity to think critically Many current "journalists" have this issue too. Whether it's a feature or a bug depends on whether you agree with their output.
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by logifail 4y ago
> an AI trained on previous data Trained to do what , though? It feels like ChatGPT has been trained primarily to be convincing. Yet at the back of our minds I hope we recognise that "convincing" and "accurate" (or
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by logifail 4y ago
> send a message [..] to improve morale or get out The saying "the beatings will continue until morale improves" is supposed to be a joke, not a guide for management.
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by logifail 4y ago
> Allowing a single covid-positive kid go to school means contaminating a significant portion of the class's students and students' parents To a first-order approximation based on data from my three kids and their classes/
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by logifail 4y ago
> if you're diagnosed with some contagious illness, it's probably not a bad idea to try to curb the spread This was always true, and we never sent an obviously poorly child to daycare/preschool/school. I've lost
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by logifail 4y ago
Our state-run testing facility always did PCR tests using a throat swab, and since I was the one who drew the short straw and took each of our kids there for mandatory tests, I've observed this being done a couple of dozen times over t
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by logifail 4y ago
> People who recovered from C19 many weeks ago and are no longer contagious can still test positive on a PCR test Which is why the EU issued the "recovery certificate" and put it on the same basis as a negative test, and why ou
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by logifail 4y ago
> Something between “almost nothing” and “nobody leaving the house” would be nice. Based on who tested postive (and indeed negative) when, it appears our 8 year-old gave it to my OH, but not to his 12 year-old brother (with whom he share
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by logifail 4y ago
> Does the existence of this protein explain asymptomatic infections? I wonder what percentage of the population have it. Our [unvaccinated] 8 year-old had Covid last Spring and his symptoms lasted exactly one entire morning. PCR swab te
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by logifail 4y ago
> It probably depends on what you mean by "grocery store." In dense urban areas, bodegas, chain convenience stores, and pharmacies with a small grocery section are pretty plentiful. Supermarkets a lot less so. That's pro
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by logifail 4y ago
> They're called food deserts and they exist all over the United States. Even in big cities. Wiki (sorry) appears to define that as "an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food" I appreciate their poi
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by logifail 4y ago
I'm sorry, but I've read that article twice and I'm still not sure what they're actually saying. Are we talking about neighbourhoods not having a store selling fresh fruit and vegetables, or not having a grocery store
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by logifail 4y ago
> a High School (This is going to sound like we're playing Sim City 2000) but don't forget to add a hospital (a proper one, with an emergency room), a fire station, a police station... > a grocery store Are there many neighb
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by logifail 4y ago
> excess of middle managers [and/or] too many poorly conceived and managed product and R&D adventures My OH works for a big multinational, has had a variety of roles, at a variety of locations, and despite the fact that she&#x27
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by logifail 4y ago
> though you have to admit in basically all situations the employer has more leverage than a single employee This depends on how happy/able the employee is to leave to find an alternative. A while ago I was at a trade fair in German
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by logifail 4y ago
> Was it an adjustment? For sure. Did we adapt? Absolutely. Arguably, we thrived [..] I think that last claim is missing data to back it up.
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by logifail 4y ago
It can be hard to believe the FDA is sufficiently independent when one reads about the revolving door straight to Big Pharma[0][1] [0] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/09/28/4956945...
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by logifail 4y ago
> You may have recovered quickly regardless. I never took paxlovid and my covid symptoms lasted 2 days and i recovered quickly. Well, quite. Of the four confirmed Covid cases we've had in our immediate family in the last 12 months
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by logifail 4y ago
> Someone who is understood to not have money by default — like an artist [...] I'm sure we can all think of a few counter-examples to that one! Rihanna: net worth: ~ $1.4 billion Paul McCartney: net worth: ~ $1.2 billion Bono: net
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by logifail 4y ago
> the ramifications of the public questioning and examining the fundamentals of ownership "The public"? Which public? No politican from Kier Starmer rightwards is seriously doing anything of the sort. https://www
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by logifail 4y ago
> I find it pretty unsettling how many people are raving about travel by train Last August I travelled from Paris to Innsbruck by train with my 6 year-old daughter. Despite a misconnect in Germany after a delay to our TGV and then a can
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by logifail 4y ago
> instead they made a statement What does that mean? I mean really mean? Follow-up question: did they achieve anything .. other than (even more) notoriety?
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by logifail 4y ago
> The problem is that they've let people have access and build upon their free API and pulling the rug from under them is going to annoy them [..] Yup, although we all know that Twitter just the latest example in a loooong line of c
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by logifail 4y ago
> AWS's hard disks are a physical thing that is offsite Taking tapes to a secure offsite location means they're air-gapped from the source data, so even in a situation where an entire network is compromised, remotely-stored tap
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by logifail 4y ago
>> The problem is not: how to quickly and cheaply create content which is marginally less mediocre and marginally more accurate than what we currently have > this sounds like exactly the arms race that content creators are engaged
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by logifail 4y ago
> Just reconfigure your backup software to use this new virtual tape device and you're on your way Isn't the whole point of tape that it is a physical thing, and may be taken offsite in a truck / stored in a vault, and all
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by logifail 4y ago
> I would be impressed if more than 1 in 1000 people could describe it Q: What use is it attempting to measure ChatGPT's capabilities on something vs the average person on the street, or vs the average user with access to google.com
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by logifail 4y ago
> It can be very creative and insightful in such uses I once worked with a very smart woman who at that time worked in marketing for the airside retail stores at a large international airport. If anyone from outside her immediate sphere
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by logifail 4y ago
> you'd be bypassing their advertising. Right. So back to where we started: what's actually wrong with Twitter deciding to insist on eyeballs on twitter.com instead of scripts pointing at their free API?

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