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by mcguire 4y ago
As AlgorithmicTime (now dead) wrote, American home ownership rates peaked in 2004 at 69%, fell to 64% in 2016, and are back up to 66%. ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat... ) In Californi
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AI Incident Database(incidentdatabase.ai)
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Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?(thehill.com)
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by mcguire 4y ago
Yes, and? I'm not seeing what you are trying to say here.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Out of curiosity, more or less offensive than referring to you as Latina?
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by mcguire 4y ago
I live on County Road 24. But if I'm talking to someone who has lived around here all their life, they often won't recognize that; I have to also use the local name, Boy Scout Road (there is a Boy Scout camp at the end).
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by mcguire 4y ago
What strong evidence do you have that AGI (1) is possible in the foreseeable future, and (2) will be more a threat than any random human?
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by mcguire 4y ago
From Jon Bently, the history of Unix spell checking. [PDF] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3532.315102
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by mcguire 4y ago
If the things I've seen are right, most of the smaller farms like this are side-gigs: the household adults have day jobs.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Or possibly a more programmatic Synfig.
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by mcguire 4y ago
It looks like the source editor pane (which was in the intro video?) has gone away. It's using the code from https://motioncanvas.io/docs/quickstart .
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by mcguire 4y ago
Most animation software (i.e. Synfig) have that keyframe thing. For example, if you want to synchronize an animation sequence with audio.
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by mcguire 4y ago
It is, in fact, so thoroughly banned that it's available with free shipping from Barnes & Noble.
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by mcguire 4y ago
The most cogent analysis I've seen is that the changes were made by the owners of the books in order to sell more books.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Because it's reflecting us. When a human asks it a question, the response is a statistical summary of what other humans have written.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Unfortunately, ChatGPT is not able to do that X. It's trivially easy to find limits of its capabilities, either in terms of its data set or in terms of what the model cannot do.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Yeah, well. Some of us are kind of fond of evidence and not just vibes.
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by mcguire 4y ago
"We cannot disprove it. Therefore, it must be true." :-)
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by mcguire 4y ago
As any Tesla supporter will tell you, Autopilot != FSD. (Is Autopilot still limited to divided, limited access highways? Those are significantly safer than other roadways.)
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by mcguire 4y ago
No, really, this is true. It has nothing to do with how the defect is fixed. https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/14218-... https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text&#x
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by mcguire 4y ago
Well, that and the manufacturer has to notify owners of the recall, which is (or should be) tracked by the vehicle's VIN. https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls
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by mcguire 4y ago
Why? It still has to be tracked and follows the same NHTSB regulations. https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/documents/14218-...
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by mcguire 4y ago
And hydrogen chloride.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Also, https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-de... https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-de...
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by mcguire 4y ago
Back in the '80s and '90s, many computer vendors like Sun and IBM shipped their systems with radically broken security configs, not to mention holes in their software. Often, the only way to get them to fix their problems was to m
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by mcguire 4y ago
Teach your mother to suck eggs. :-) The thing is, in the absence of someone (like an inspector) specifically checking, you can assume that anything that isn't immediately visible uses the cheapest possible materials and the fastest, sh
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by mcguire 4y ago
"* There are people who are killed or hurt by overzealous code who you don't know about.*" So you cannot name anyone. This is a completely hypothetical argument.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Can you name some?
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by mcguire 4y ago
By "rework the design" you mean move one outlet six inches closer to the sink?
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by mcguire 4y ago
This is the fun part about buying a house in a rural area with no real regulation enforcement. Part of the house is 70 years old. Another part is an addition built by a previous owner. Every maintenance item is a journey of adventure and di

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