mcmoor

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by mcmoor 6mo ago
Ive heard someone saying that, Microsoft or Oracle already has hundreds of those 10x engineers for decades now, and what they produce is... current Microsoft and Oracle.
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
If the first 5 layers are translator to "universal language", now I'm curious, if we repeat this layer several times, would it converge?
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
I tried it when it has the most extensive free offering, and it definitely answers my worldbuilding questions in more detail than I expected and compared to Gemini or Chatgpt. Can't say anything about hallucinations tho.
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by mcmoor 6mo ago
Is it unusually rich for any region that big? I don't actually know, but it'd be interesting to see a comparison to another similarly sized country.
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by mcmoor 7mo ago
Ah thanks I missed that part. So it IS deterministic and (pseudo-)random.
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by mcmoor 7mo ago
Wait, deterministic? I thought it shuffled random cards and then have LLM construct narrative out of that?
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by mcmoor 7mo ago
This same blog really chastises that statement and tries to debunk it. I don't really see anything wrong with that article so until then, I guess I believe airpower can never win a war https://acoup.blog/2022/10&#x
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by mcmoor 7mo ago
I mean looks like booth capture can only capture a booth at most and to capture more you practically need armed rebellion. But if we automate it, then you only need to capture a location to capture all booths in the region.
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Against the Survival of the Prettiest (2022)(worksinprogress.co)
3 points by mcmoor 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mcmoor 8mo ago
I thought it was getting increasingly disadvantageous and on the way out, then cotton mill suddenly make it advantageous again, recementing slavery.
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by mcmoor 8mo ago
From the article, it seems like even if we only consider one dimension, there'd be ~70% of pilots that are uncomfortable. I'd have thought to at least cover 1 standard deviation, thus covering 68% of "average" pilots. Bu
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by mcmoor 8mo ago
For all the grievances people made against food pyramid, this is actually the real reason why it was instituted. Meat has always been expensive, and with limited money people had, they'd rather spend it all on grains and save the money
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by mcmoor 8mo ago
> even the metric people are not so crazy No, they were absolutely that crazy [1]. Luckily the proposal fell through. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
Yeah I suspected something to do with CDN cost efficiency.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
There has been way less terrorism in general too. I'm always curious whether the war on terrorism is that effective, or there's major socioeconomic factor that matters most (or there's just less lead in the air).
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I really appreciate this article. It continues some series of introspection [1] that emphasizes a part of game that's ironically very underrated, gameplay . A game can be good not (just) because of its visuals (you can just see painti
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
Yeah I thought the point is not necessarily safety but to organize things so everyone can move faster. In some of my intersections everything runs fine without traffic light but once it gets crowded, someone comes down and organize things.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
It's always ironic seeing Arab Spring in hindsight. I've seen western observers celebrating Arab countries society upheaval, when the very same thing will also happen to them in less than 10 years.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I feel the same. I found that blog from SSC/ACX and I still much prefer SSC/ACX despite gwern discussing topics that are much much more relevant to my interests (sw dev, Haskell, anime). I can't formulate why but your analysi
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I wonder how correlated is this to how (un)contested California results are (?). I think the main test will be whenever a case like Bush vs Gore happens.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
Yeah I think the funniest meme about impostor syndrome is "Am I even good enough to have impostor syndrome?". This is why I don't really subscribe to the Former Gifted Kid Syndrome myself despite having the symptoms (I think)
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I mean it sounds like they're firing tons of people, competent and incompetent. If it's the only way to do it, no wonder the incompetent doesn't get fired.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
Other has mentioned it, but I think it's worth quoting it directly for easier reference > I previously felt bad for writing this essay after Adams’ death; it seems kind of unsporting to disagree with someone who can’t respond. These
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I heard that there's so many variants of string theory. All theories that have interesting low-energy predictions have lost to standard theory (see: SUSY experiments at LHC). Now we're left with high-energy ones which may actually
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I actually am convinced that it does make Satan worshipping more popular or at least normalized. See: Tumblr. You can say whatever about whether it's good or bad or ironic, but it did happen.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
ELO is relative. There's no reason why a GM ELO should be 2800 or 280 or 28000. So it's all decided by ELO of every other person. So if the ELO gain/loss calculation and audience of Lichess and chess.com are exactly the same,
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
Now I wonder why Israel didn't built something TSMC-tier. It doesn't really seem out of their capability and it'll gain them a lot of advantages especially geopolitically.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I'm sometimes still curious if EIC ever had a chance to take over UK. It's because I've heard someone claiming that they never had that chance. And this is used as a basis for an argument that corporations can never win again
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
I heard it's never intended to be the same since initial rating for Lichess and chess.com respectively is 1500 and 1200. So they should have 300 rating difference on average. Quite fitting with what the other commenter claims actually.
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by mcmoor 9mo ago
Funnily I've heard that one reason why obesity is prevalent is that we have too many variations of food. Seems like our hunger controller suspends satiety when we eat a food too much, but when we eat few of lots of different foods, i

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