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No one bothered asking this until basically the last ten years. Welsh people are Welsh. Hyphenated British people are...?
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The population of Britain has been broadly homogenous for about a millenia
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Into what are they integrated? Are you seriously saying that my reaction to the first languages I hear everyday being Arabic (outside my flat) and Hindi (shops) should be some dumb curiosity rather than wondering if this is a good way to or
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I'm not in Brazil I'm in the capital city of the United Kingdom. The staff in my local tesco and sainsburys do not primarily speak English to eachother, and have previously struggled to understand basic questions I've had. Pl
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I bet there are quite a few people out there who actually have a phone with a faster single thread perf than their laptop i.e. latest iPhone + a crappy windows laptop
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Many are racist but the deeper reason to be skeptical is that the current/dominant model assumes everyone in the world is basically fungible and can seamlessly integrate into the west without any particular guidance. That might have ev
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"I don't want my town/area to change demographically beyond my recognition" is a completely self-consistent position, it's just axiomatically taken as wrongthink by people who seem to think everything can be broken
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The "trivial" is slightly tongue in cheek. It must be trivial, I've just shown it!
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How would we know it was referencing an old paper versus almost everything trivial already having a derivation somewhere?
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The meta- part of that sentence would imply it's a different scale. And I obviously don't mean "everyone" or I wouldn't have made the distinction. There is almost zero distinction on social policy between most of th
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1) they also brought about net zero, do you think they're so different? 2) labour are absolutely balls deep on this. "If you use a VPN you are either Jimmy saville or worse Nigel farage" says Peter Kyle. https://ww
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Bluesky is the nesting place for basically every neurotic middle aged leftist who left twitter. It's sort of their team doing the OSA The porn and gaming fans are on Reddit Young versions of the above on Instagram.
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Replace "LLM" with "C". Runs
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Still a class signifier amongst a certain type of Brit (particularly if it's been disposed of as a climate sacrifice)
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Keep in mind that in industries where people code but aren't really programmers this literally does happen, sometimes very "big" people will be basically scared to share their code because it won't be very good. But anyw
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Doesn't work. People will include fake prompts, the real ones are way too personal. You can learn a lot from how people use these tools.
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That's not really how LLMs are used, unless we're planning on classing gitignores as IP LLMs are interesting because they can combine things they learn from multiple projects into a new language that doesn't feature in any of
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AWS is a very infrastructure intensive project with extremely tight SLAs, and no UI, makes a lot of sense.
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You basically want a cross sectionally standardised score
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Golds been rallying really aggressively recently
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I had a daydream about a DJ using Emacs once
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Good deal, search and YouTube are both pretty good
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"it depends on context" is a personality trait
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Employees of the bank of England used to be allowed an account there, as recently as 20 years ago perhaps.
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AI safety warriors will make safer models but build the tools and cultural affordances for genuine suppression Or at least it's very hubristic. It's a cultural and personality equivalent of beating out left-handedness.
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Anthropic are going to end up building very dangerous things while trying to avoid being evil
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It makes our macro forecasting a bit less dimensional...
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Now we only get to hear if inflation is "Aladeen" or "Aladeen"
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> Based in Hemel Hempstead Huh Hopefully they'd be unscratched if the big Kodak goes down (I assume they still have some equity?)
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Governments should do this, but as a but as a way to create value and do things that are strategic but not locally optimal. Not just because some lawyer writes in some extra funding for ffmpeg (or whatever). Small teams making software to s

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