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by mannykannot 10mo ago
I'm not saying we cannot do it, just that we cannot always get it right, and there is plenty of empirical evidence for that. The second point is that the distribution has a long tail, especially when we consider the possibility of mult
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
Fair enough, and I agree that regulation is often needed, but we cannot, in general, expect it to have only the consequences explicitly sought.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
Sometimes the cost is that there is no viable product.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
That is right (if rather exaggerated, and I will note that it was you who originally picked the figure of two percent), and in practice, we accept a certain risk that we will not always have all the capacity we want, even though (or because
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
There seems to be a tacit premise here, that anything an LLM can do is meaningless as an exercise for a student, but that is simply not true, and if it were, it would likely be the case that we would soon run out of pedagogically-‘meaningfu
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
There is a time- honored, straightforward way to deal with the last two percent problem, which is to overbuild by a couple of percent or so.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
Particularly with the development of fracking, natural gas production is no longer a just a byproduct of oil production, and can be (and is) pursued independently. Nevertheless, I agree that we developing renewables should be our priority.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
It is important to keep the pressure on even if it is not likely to prevail.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
The donor died from rabies, and then several of his organs were donated. Furthermore: "Doctors reviewed records about the kidney donor and learned that the Idaho man’s family had disclosed the skunk scratch to doctors when his organs w
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
I completely agree, and I will add one more thing: when you change how the product looks or works, make sure that users - especially inexperienced users - can easily find the documentation and tutorials that correctly describes the version
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
I have never owned or wanted a pickup, but now I'm wondering about getting a basic one (if that's still an option.) It is annoying and depressing.
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by mannykannot 10mo ago
Does that make a difference in this regard? If so, how, and is it an unavoidable penalty for PHEVs? I can see PHEVs having a complexity penalty from having an IC engine over and above the EV components, but that does not seem to be the sour
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
I had not thought much about it until now, but when I did, I guessed it was a cost-cutting move, as it seems to piggyback on equipment needed for other features (principally ABS). Now that you've mentioned it, I'm wondering if the
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
It seems that the author balked at a rather specific level of action: getting government agencies involved. I feel there might be more the author could say about this aspect of the event, though she is not, of course, under any obligation t
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
Yes it is, as it is about the semantics of type hierarchies, not their syntax. If your software has type hierarchies, then it is a good idea for them conform to the principle, regardless of whether the implementation language syntax include
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
Well said, and I suspect that the author's harrowing experience (in the first paragraph) was a preview of what surge pricing would look like in this market, post-Uberization.
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
True, but many languages now have words that were absent from their earlier vocabularies. Shakespeare did not have the option to use 'telephone', 'semiconductor' or 'entropy'.
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
I was struggling with it myself, but I think your reading of it is correct. The paragraph about the 1832 Prescription Act needs some work on its grammar.
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
Some runways have been extended with ‘engineered materials’ surfaces, often a form of porous concrete into which an airliner’s wheels will sink, absorbing a lot of energy and arresting the airplane without causing it to break up. It is very
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
Rotation does increase drag, but you need to rotate in order to achieve the necessary angle of attack. The only way to reduce the rotation angle is by going faster than the normal rotation speed for the given weight and airfield density a
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
There seems to be more to it than that - in my experience with LLMs, they are good at finding some relevant facts but then quite often present a non-sequitur for a conclusion, and the article's title alone indicates that the problem fo
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
It is video generation, but succeeding at this task involves detailed reasoning about cause and effect to construct chains of events, and may not be something that can be readily completed by applying "intuitions" gained from &quo
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
I'm breaking the commenting rules to say this, but this strikes me as a valuable insight. Thanks!
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
Ah, now we are making some progress on where the confusion lies (not that saying "you're confused" without justification was ever much of an argument.) The first thing to note is that it is not necessary to dispute the notion
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
You can phrase the same question thus: which set of traits is more likely to lead a person to stay true to prior form in a crisis?
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
Ben Franklin? He took a principled stand against kings that threatened to be extremely costly for himself. The irony here (given who the author works for) is not lost on me.
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
It's a fair question, but would you trust them equally in an unanticipated crisis, where doing the right thing might be costly in hard-to-predict ways?
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by mannykannot 11mo ago
Language was spoken long before it was written (or so it seems.) This article almost suggests that sound might be a superior input medium over either digital text or images.
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by mannykannot 1y ago
So, nothing to see here so far - I can't really respond to allegations that are imaginary. You also claim that I am begging the question. How do you justify that? It is not, of course, begging the question for opponents of Searle to su
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by mannykannot 1y ago
Then you will have no difficulty in pointing out where that happens. While you are about it, you can point out where you think I said people can read & interpret numbers by imbuing them w/ actual meaning & semantics.

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