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by lovecg 3y ago
Huh not sure where I read this long time ago, but yeah it appears to only have a vague connection to SRI at best. Here’s the president of SRI saying it was a pure coincidence: https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-
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by lovecg 3y ago
Most people have heard of Siri though that was named after SRI!
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by lovecg 3y ago
In the current world Apple is not actually able to compromise your iPhone, warrant or not, by design (remember the whole FBI debacle?). Encryption is done through separate hardware on the phone that they can’t remotely bypass. In the world
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by lovecg 3y ago
The cool thing about technology is it works both ways. If backdoors are mandated it’s only a matter of time until all texts, location history, etc. etc. of those in power become public - we already learned that those people don’t have the s
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by lovecg 3y ago
If you think of Leetcode and similar filters as just veiled IQ tests it makes way more sense - of course those problems don’t have much to do with actual day to day engineering. If companies could just administer IQ tests they would happily
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by lovecg 4y ago
It’s amazing how one can found a nonprofit with a goal of conducting “open” research and then end up publishing something like this a couple of years later. Greed is good I guess.
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by lovecg 4y ago
I haven’t seen a clear answer on this actually - there was some confusion if the training data contained solutions for older problems, and if it underperforms on previously unseen ones. Plus it still seemed to underperform on medium and har
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by lovecg 4y ago
In related news, all chess and Go competitions have been shutdown permanently.
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by lovecg 4y ago
Well the other side of the equation is it would be very very tempting to do something with all that cash. Like “let’s fire the CEO who doesn’t go for it” tempting. I don’t see this working without regulation.
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by lovecg 4y ago
Any bank that tries that would have to charge a fee to cover costs and will quickly lose business to the other “banks” that don’t do that. The fundamental lie here is allowing banks to tell you you have “cash” deposited and “available” with
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by lovecg 4y ago
I do wonder about the Polgar sisters case. By any measure their parents were also pretty exceptional individuals - just read the Wikipedia page - which is a huge confounding variable. Maybe “being laser focussed about raising a child genius
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by lovecg 4y ago
If Wikipedia or Snopes are to be believed on the matter (and I really don’t know anymore), this is way overblown. Mines (emerald, not diamond btw) are cheaper than you think. If my dad buys half of a tiny mine in his retirement I’ll start w
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by lovecg 4y ago
I’ve had some experience with it in a close relative. Interestingly enough, the whole seeds are usually fine as you don’t digest them, the protein in question is inside the seed (unless you go out of your way to chew them). Most sesame oils
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by lovecg 4y ago
If they’re so smart, they better figure out the complex geopolitical realities we have to deal with!
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by lovecg 4y ago
Another function of the UN is to make diplomatic relations between all countries more legible. When everyone is forced to vote yes/no/abstain this information leaks out in a coordinated fashion. Whether that’s good or bad for worl
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by lovecg 4y ago
This whole line of thinking strikes me as emotional reasoning: “I feel bad, therefore the world must be bleak”. People like to look for rational explanations for something that’s not very rational. These feelings of anxiety and depression a
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by lovecg 4y ago
That’s got to be an outlier? Small remote town + over aggressive cops with nothing better to do. This same exact story comes up in these conversations repeatedly. One would think that if there was an epidemic of parents being arrested we wo
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by lovecg 4y ago
This is your regular reminder that the front pages for VLDB and SIGMOD conferences have more space dedicated to their stance against racism than to less important things like databases. https://www.vldb.org/ https:/&#
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by lovecg 4y ago
This argument is a strawman though. Reasonable restrictions are fine, but in practice you get neighbors arguing about what kind of tile you’re allowed to put on your porch roof. If you ever listen in on local city planning/design meeti
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by lovecg 4y ago
Devil’s advocate: they did. 50+ years ago they moved to a sleepy suburban town that through no fault of their own became a center of a worldwide tech revolution. Things change, sometimes dramatically. A place in the country you move to toda
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by lovecg 4y ago
Some people learn language primarily by sound. Most native speakers learn that way. They’re more likely to swap their/they’re or horde/hoard as for them the scribbles on paper are secondary. Some people learn language primarily th
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by lovecg 4y ago
When was the last time NOTAMs went down? It seems remarkably resilient actually.
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by lovecg 4y ago
Thankfully we have a professional police force to avoid all these problems.
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by lovecg 4y ago
It’s delusional to think that a lot of people from those countries you mentioned wouldn’t want to swap lives with one of those oppressed NYC workers in a second.
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by lovecg 4y ago
Does peer review actually catch a large number of these mistakes, making this an unfortunate rare incident?
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by lovecg 4y ago
I strongly suspect no place would pay 800k otherwise. The reality is these companies cannot simply have 800k positions with well defined criteria - these compensation levels are reserved for people that would be especially painful to replac
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by lovecg 4y ago
Humans benefit from billions of years of pre-trained hardware. It will be interesting to see if we can match that somehow.
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by lovecg 4y ago
It boggles my mind that people are now dismissive towards technology that would have been literal science fiction _a year ago_ while at the same time being pessimistic about future progress.
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by lovecg 4y ago
That would be a third, distinct state from each. Dreaming while knowing that you are is quite a thrill!
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by lovecg 4y ago
Fascinating - makes me think of the distinction between dreaming and being awake. Only in the latter state one can tell the difference.

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