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by mapmeld 11mo ago
I am on the other side of this problem and was surprised because it is very easy to contact me. When the other person with my name forwarded the emails, it was all careless and unwanted recruiter mail. Someone goes into work, types first.la
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by mapmeld 1y ago
An annual 0.1% chance of one casualty (so: a passenger jet less than 1 in 1,000 years) doesn't become significantly more likely in two years. Also I assume the FAA actuaries would have forward projections of Starlink launches. Maybe th
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by mapmeld 1y ago
Like LLMs, this isn't the sort of thing where a small group would make a sudden advancement and be made secret, and I doubt that the NSA can make theirs significantly faster than any industry team today. I think more likely you would n
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I agree this makes little sense for Cloudflare to jump on the crypto bandwagon now. Maybe they want to retain some talent by turning this into an official project. Is the premise that it makes more sense for an AI agent to pay in prepurchas
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I've noticed colorful houses in Greenland and Svalbard, too. I think it's to combat the bleakness, remoteness, and coldness in winter
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I really appreciated her speaking to young people, even riding the NYC subway for the first time to record "Subway Takes" last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAkwo6JPV00 She also was speaking on a panel jus
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by mapmeld 1y ago
Google Glass has been a thing for 12 years, Snapchat's glasses have been around for 9. And you rarely see someone using them. (I'm aware of reports of ICE officers wearing the Meta glasses, but this is probably an extension of nor
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by mapmeld 1y ago
As I understand it, Siri and Alexa could be plugged into an LLM, but changing it to an "open world" device that can tell your kid something disturbing, text all of your contacts, buy groceries, etc. comes with serious risk of repu
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by mapmeld 1y ago
And AlphaFold was validated with experimental observation of folded proteins using X-rays
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by mapmeld 1y ago
Everyone keeps asking this but AFAIK they're an alternative database host. If you're a company you can compare their pricing and availability to RDS and other companies. If you have an open AWS contract, or a hobbyist developer wh
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I was putting together an essay/podcast about a news event in another country, and I was able to collect multiple YouTube videos, search and translate their transcripts, and ask questions like 'is this the video where someone talk
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I think it's from people who are programmed from early e-commerce days to think using their credit card online is an extreme risk, and that Paypal is shielding them or insuring their purchase in some way. That said, I know some small n
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I work at a university and we do a lot of moving data around, inspecting the files and columns, scripting, etc. so we have everyone use QGIS. Governments and other major consumers have open-ended long-term contracts for whatever Esri produc
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by mapmeld 1y ago
'npm install' and 'pip install' can both run scripts on your computer. Both ecosystems have this risk and loose monitoring, so there are days where packages are messed up. I don't think you can avoid malware by pick
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by mapmeld 1y ago
There was a proof-of-concept paper about buying up expired domains in the LAION image dataset and poisoning multimodal LLMs that way (then LAION was just a list of image URLs). As I understand it, the paper was exaggerating its reach, and L
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by mapmeld 1y ago
Sandy was only a category 1 when it hit NYC. This was a wakeup call and part of why there's been years of rebuilding and hardening of NY and NJ infrastructure afterward https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I don't think enough people talk about how lucky we are that the International Date Line can roughly follow a line of longitude 180 degrees from the Greenwich meridian. If you were on a planet with more land, or we could only draw it t
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by mapmeld 1y ago
Some people thought that the birds flew to the moon in the winter!
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by mapmeld 1y ago
People are not reading and absorbing the longer pieces of writing. I worked at a company which would create information-dense, wordy PowerPoint slides for client updates, and at some point you see it has no point besides trying to impress.
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by mapmeld 1y ago
It is a command line tool "huggingface-cli", it's just installed with a differently-named pypi package. I wouldn't call this a full hallucination because anyone could make this mistake.
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by mapmeld 1y ago
Thanks for sharing it. Everyone who thinks their individual DNA data is valuable has yet to explain why 23andMe was going bankrupt.
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by mapmeld 1y ago
> it is equally naive to say with certainty that it has not “awakened” either Have to disagree. If someone says their dog "awakened" with superhuman math skills, or that my local LLM felt hours of loneliness while I'm slee
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by mapmeld 1y ago
Before a recent annual performance review, I looked over my stats in the company monolith repo and found out I was net-negative on lines of code. That comes mostly from removing auto-generated API code and types (the company had moved to a
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by mapmeld 1y ago
I thought the latest on this was that the journalist's number was in an internal email from spokesman Brian Hughes, and software or human error led to his phone number being associated with Hughes in Waltz's phone contact
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by mapmeld 1y ago
When I've seen discussion of these in the past, belief is often connected to fear or guilt stemming from how bodies react differently to exposure and/or infection. There's an element of randomness whether you breathe in enoug
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by mapmeld 1y ago
At scale, there are a lot of confused people who do unexpected stuff. The maintainer of cURL has people contact him when a notice shows up in car software or when they think he is connected to hacking: https://daniel.haxx.se&#x2F
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Cytogenetics: The Forgotten Prehistory of Genomics(blog.georeactor.com)
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by mapmeld 2y ago
I have a similar developer-without-college background and did a semester at WGU to see if that would jumpstart things First, you have to take several general education courses and complete them alongside your technical courses. If you get s
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by mapmeld 2y ago
This detail about the Smithsonian was news to me so I went reading up on it. Curtiss had been involved in supporting Samuel Langley as the key breakthrough in aircraft, and it happened that Langley had been director of the Smithsonian up u
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by mapmeld 2y ago
No, they're saying that the problems have been reviewed / play-tested by ≥2 humans, so they are not considered unfair or too ambiguous to solve in two attempts (a critique of some Arc-AGI-1 puzzles that o3 missed). They have a lot

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