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by magospietato 2y ago
I'm wondering if you could fine tune the model on an aggregate of a temporal slice of revalued weights? Something analogous to REM sleep's involvement in embedding the days events into long term memory.
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by magospietato 2y ago
Why not just not use JSON for config? In a sane world YAML wouldn't even exist and everyone would use something like TOML.
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by magospietato 2y ago
This is the smartest intentioned educational device I've found. https://microbit.org/ It's rough around the edges, but what it does well is offer a wide array of sensor inputs, and very simple text output. And wra
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by magospietato 2y ago
Unfortunately women's successes are a side issue here. Disenfranchised men are in a chaotic state right now, but it's only going to take one decently charismatic leader to coerce them into a globally connected league of brownshirt
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by magospietato 3y ago
If you've ever attempted to extract a meaningful few-shot response to a non-trivial coding question from an LLM, this shouldn't be a surprise. That said, I have worked with actual humans in the industry who perform this badly, and
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by magospietato 3y ago
I got some interesting results by feeding Claude 3 a very sparse primer for a conlang I wrote when I was 18. There is zero chance this is anywhere in the models dataset, and we were able to perform basic translation to and from English.
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by magospietato 3y ago
I get where you're coming from in a way. But speaking personally, the idea of people peeking at my creations before I'm ready for them to is anathema. Like, some fundamental violation of the self.
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by magospietato 3y ago
I wouldn't worry about the truth of the matter; there's a US-centric cultural axe to grind here.
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by magospietato 3y ago
Pragmatic reality vs ideological reality in action. In a world where Steam revokes my licence to a game I have absolutely no ethical concerns about using piracy to retrieve a backup.
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by magospietato 3y ago
As an aside its absolutely mad that the sole NYT takeaway from the whole debacle is putting people of color in Nazi uniforms.
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by magospietato 3y ago
Really impressed with the self-host setup. I've found these are usually a bit of an afterthought, involving a bunch of service dependencies and an arcane config process. Postgres 14 and a few tweaks to a TOML file and you're runni
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by magospietato 3y ago
...drinking 4 liters of black tea per day doesn't exactly strike me as the healthiest lifestyle to begin with. I'm going to assume you're not British then.
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by magospietato 3y ago
Institutionally empowered would have been a better phrase. While the PO doesn't have specific legislative powers to bring private prosecutions, they did have a significant amount of institutional holdover from when is was a public body
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by magospietato 3y ago
You are misunderstanding how much of a travesty this is. No government organisation (typically the Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales) was involved in bringing these prosecutions. The Post Office itself was legislatively empower
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by magospietato 3y ago
Amusing anecdote - I used to eat octopus whenever I could get my hands on it, but always as an ingredient in a larger dish - e.g. chunks of octopus in a stew or sauce. One day I ordered octopus tentacle from a tapas bar, and it arrived whol
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by magospietato 3y ago
A point I didn't notice in the comments is that Nestlé have replaced the previous biodegradable cellophane and foil wrappers with biodegradable paper, so this hack is no longer valid.
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by magospietato 3y ago
The convenience factor of the BezosBazaar can't be underestimated. I have no interest in maintaining a digital library these days, and the walls of the Kindle garden just aren't that impactful when you read maybe a dozen books a y
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by magospietato 3y ago
Well, you've beaten me here. It would probably serve me better to read the article before posting. But it's Christmas, and there is gin, so I hope I have your forgiveness.
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by magospietato 3y ago
While not polyamory, a locum nurse at my daughter's first vaccination spent a lot of time telling us about the weird inseminatory/co-parenting setup he and his husband had with a lesbian couple. Like, a lot more time than the actu
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by magospietato 3y ago
I don't think this anecdote nullifies the question. A thing being popular doesn't necessarily mean it is a successful approach.
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by magospietato 3y ago
It's Christmas, why do you have to be giving me panic attacks like this ;-)
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by magospietato 3y ago
Microsoft invented XHR for use in Outlook Web Access. The Gmail/GMaps teams developed that technology into AJAX.
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by magospietato 3y ago
Don't need to wait a decade, or even a half, for AI mental healthcare. It's already been tried. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/31/eating-di...
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by magospietato 3y ago
GPT-4: e composition of what's left in the container. There's a couple of scenarios, which depend on when you run out of blue balls: 1) If you draw all 50 blue balls first, for every blue ball you draw, you are adding 2 white ball
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by magospietato 3y ago
My concern here is that we've run out of low hanging fruit that can be managed by small teams. Everything is so exceptionally complex these days I just don't think it's feasible to bootstrap an innovative business from your g
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by magospietato 3y ago
There is a software company in the UK that is performing medical-jargon-to-simple-English translation on text emitted from speech recognition. They achieve this via a fairly complex set of regular expressions, which must represent a signifi
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by magospietato 3y ago
Well that's even worse isn't it?
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by magospietato 3y ago
My personal definition of end-to-end encryption, which I believe is widely shared, limits decryption to the recipient of the message. The protocol you have described is not end-to-end encryption by that definition. Sure, it's possible
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by magospietato 3y ago
Simply put, there's no coming back from a successful suicide, and generally people who attempt suicide are not in a normal/healthy state of mind. There are many liberal societies that allow euthanasia though - even for mental heal
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by magospietato 3y ago
I suspect these trades are artefacts of that way of thinking. Some people have a frequent flow of ideas they are compelled to capture in one way or another.

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