mcbits

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by mcbits 3y ago
It depends on the types of bugs and inconsistencies that show up in practice. If a page (or worse, the whole browser) crashes, that's a problem. If a column of ads doesn't scale right and gets bumped down to become its own lonely
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by mcbits 4y ago
15 years of management experience. Oversaw the reduction of personnel expenditures by 90%. They'll do fine.
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by mcbits 4y ago
Is there any sort of encryption scheme that would make it possible to generate a key on-demand to decrypt only the data that was encrypted within some arbitrary interval of time? The idea being if 100 terabytes of someone's private lif
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by mcbits 4y ago
It's definitely valid (e.g. "public fora"), but it could be considered archaic or formal.
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by mcbits 4y ago
In 2019 I thought that by now I could buy a bunch of 8GB Raspberry Pi 4s (or equivalent) for $20 apiece, install them all over the house and car for various purposes, and occasionally use them as a cluster for video editing or whatever. The
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by mcbits 4y ago
The syllabus doesn't include those potentially taboo topics. The knowledge of chemistry leads to knowledge of those topics. Sure, a teacher with zero knowledge of chemistry can follow a syllabus, read the textbook out loud, make sure
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by mcbits 4y ago
Maybe make the windshield from smart privacy glass to turn it into a projection screen (being mindful of what people will see from the outside), controlled with voice and sign language instead of a keyboard and mouse. With head and eye trac
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by mcbits 4y ago
PsychGPT listened to my concerns and referred me to DocGPT who prescribed an IV drip of Xanax and Thorazine. Everything is going to be fine. Just fine.
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by mcbits 4y ago
Have you reached the point of dogfooding your own models to augment work that would normally be considered engineering? If so, I wonder about the implications of black-box models helping to study and develop solutions for interpretability.
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by mcbits 4y ago
As long as there is enough randomness to generate novel features, and there are still humans in the loop to select the ones with desirable mutant features to survive and guide the next-generation model's evolution... pretty far.
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by mcbits 4y ago
I think those neurons are what give me an icky feeling every time I eat certain things that have been associated with getting sick in the past, even though the foods aren't what made me sick.
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by mcbits 4y ago
> Balancing chemical equations, Arrhenius acids and bases, basic lab work, and ... ... oxidation, exothermic reactions? A teacher who never actually studied the subject and only has knowledge of the pre-filtered material from the textboo
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by mcbits 4y ago
Well, let's put it another way. How much chemistry or physics education can you get from a teacher who has never learned enough about their own subject to figure out how to build something like a pipe bomb? I think if you go into class
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by mcbits 4y ago
You can't train a language model capable of helping a high school student pass an introductory physics or chemistry class if the training data was filtered to the extent that the same language model can't explain how to build a pi
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by mcbits 4y ago
Considering who said it and their track record, I don't need a machine to predict that I might (or might not) be fined 1% of the swimming pool full of solid gold coins that I'll be swimming in thanks to my false claims, to deter o
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by mcbits 4y ago
There are people I know that I can recognize by the way they walk, so the idea is at least plausible. I think the main problem is/will be from using the analysis inappropriately. It's one thing to narrow down a city-sized populati
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by mcbits 4y ago
Another similarity with financial debt is that a large enough entity can just keep marching on, taking on more and more debt to fuel growth for a surprisingly long time before it all collapses.
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by mcbits 4y ago
How about if it mysteriously, spontaneously fell down and you just retrieved it? Normal private property like someone's quadcopter, I would assume the owner still has rights to it (and possibly liability depending on how/where it
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by mcbits 4y ago
Unless they're legally obligated to show proof of copyright registration for the takedown notice to be a valid, it would be risky to assume they didn't register it just because they didn't show proof.
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by mcbits 4y ago
Are they still required to report those losses to the public under the new structure? Or can they wear a facade of success until a sudden "Our Incredible Journey" at some point?
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by mcbits 4y ago
The value for Twitter depends on who uses/used the client, what value they were providing to Twitter, and whether they'll stick around to continue providing that value.
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by mcbits 4y ago
> Thankfully, it’s almost unpossible to buy a telescreen without telemetry (and always has been) Are you sure about that? I'm pretty sure I recall being able t&%@ ^01 58 NNNNNNNN@*^& NO CARRIER
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by mcbits 4y ago
Supreme Court decisions can sound like sovcit stuff when they reference English common law, the Magna Carta, etc. Warrant canaries are just intended to exploit a technicality. There are a lot of technicalities in law that authoritarians don
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by mcbits 4y ago
Lunar stationary orbit is around 88,400 km, which would be unstable for a satellite due to the Earth's gravity, but might allow for a space elevator pointed right at Earth to efficiently launch crates of helium-3 or hydroponic grain ba
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by mcbits 4y ago
If we ever get to the point where thousands of people are moving to Mars, thousands will also be moving to the Moon, and vice versa. I don't see it as being just one or the other because the problems that need to be solved are approxim
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by mcbits 4y ago
There's only so much sunlight that reaches any point on the Earth throughout the day. You could build something really tall to collect more light from the sun at more angles, but that will cast a shadow and reduce what's available
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by mcbits 4y ago
Yes. But it requires nuclear power, ideally compact fusion reactors on site.
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by mcbits 4y ago
I already use TTS to listen to e-pulp fiction books, which is something a lot of people wouldn't put up with, but I could easily listen to books narrated by any of those sample voices, especially if it switched between distinct styles
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by mcbits 4y ago
> Note that masking is only part of the strategy. Never said it wasn't. > Plenty of countries managed to effectively flatten the curve regardless of the availability of N95 masks "Flatten the curve" is a post-failure st
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by mcbits 4y ago
> AFAIK countries that effectively masked ... ... don't exist. There is still not enough production of the types of masks that are known and shown to be effective. > even if you don’t wear it and are near someone with COVID you’r

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