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by mjhay 4y ago
I know rational representations (with bignums) can work better for some purposes (albeit not high-perf numerical ones), but the rub is, like you say, you're trying to represent an uncountably infinite set with finite memory, so everyth
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by mjhay 4y ago
One of the many problems you get from assuming that floating point "numbers" are a field (or ring for ints), when they aren't even associative, let alone commutative. I hope in 100 years we have a practical representation for
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by mjhay 4y ago
Generally speaking though, any work created by such models does not copy any original work closely at all. Of course there could be slip-ups, but the same could be said of human generated works, which violate fair use on a regular basis.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Human artists/writers are influenced by each other all the time. I really don't see how it is fundamentally different. Most of Harry Potter is derivative of previous fantasy work itself. Nothing is made in a vacuum. https:/&
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by mjhay 4y ago
I did read somewhere that in some tests, ChatGPT-generated MBA papers got better grades than average MBA students.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Hadn't heard that one before. Radium's incompetence was really something.
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by mjhay 4y ago
There were absolutely no pre-modern climbs of K2. That's like saying we can't say the Apollo 11 astronauts were the first on the moon because the Incas might have had a space program we aren't aware of.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Long covid is real enough to take seriously (in the literature and self-reporting even in this thread). Similar long-term symptoms can be caused by other viral diseases as well. Vaccination greatly reduces the risk of developing long covid,
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by mjhay 4y ago
You don't hear about it because it is only shades of illegal and/or hard to investigate, and most importantly, benefits powerful people (it is no coincidence that financial laws do not prevent this kind of rich people crime). It&#
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by mjhay 4y ago
Haha, interesting!
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by mjhay 4y ago
No, regular qwerty. Is there a tell from how I was writing?
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by mjhay 4y ago
Not at ice divides (like hydrological divides) where ice cores are taken (ice cores are almost always taken at divides because the ice flows apart, so the stratigraphy is not as disturbed). It's too cold to melt out there anytime soon.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Personally I think aircraft safety regulations do plenty of good.
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by mjhay 4y ago
This became a bigger deal with COVID, because crashing O2 levels could occur even when someone is subjectively feeling relatively fine - e.g., they think they've got mild COVID and then are all of a sudden at deaths door with little wa
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by mjhay 4y ago
Of course they didn't do it to specifically disadvantage black people, but they clearly did not do their due diligence to make sure it worked properly with black people. That's the issue. You're doing semantic quibbling over
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by mjhay 4y ago
It's marketed as being accurate. It's not for large segments of the population. This is clearly a serious problem (and with all pulse oximeters). How is that absurd?
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by mjhay 4y ago
No one, really, except for the judge (who has training in law, not science).
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by mjhay 4y ago
This and other forensic "science" doesn't need to be good science. That's literally not the purpose at all. The purpose is to convince a jury of the guilt of the defendant that the police and prosecution have already dec
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by mjhay 4y ago
Sure, it's not an ideal situation, but one that just kind of arose. Non-research focused liberal arts schools pretty consistently give higher-quality undergrad educations, but they are also a lot more expensive. Many professors suck, b
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by mjhay 4y ago
That's a dumb thing to say, because it sounds like striking worked in this situation. By this same all-caps libertarian logic, any strikes would be ineffective because the workers need "The FACTORY" or whatever. The "uni
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by mjhay 4y ago
You have a bizarre idea of how this works. I take it you have never done grad school research? You can't just independently get research grants, you basically have to be in an established university or research center. The lab equipmen
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by mjhay 4y ago
That's what I meant by "soft money." By administration, I am talking about more stereotypical bureaucracy, such as the ever-expanding number of various kinds of deans. I worked with soft-money people, who were called "re
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by mjhay 4y ago
It sounds like you are quite ignorant of how research happens - the situation is precisely the opposite of what you describe. The research money comes almost exclusively from external grants, and the universities take a large chunk, often &
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by mjhay 4y ago
Are you not aware that grad students teach sections, grade, and do most of the research work that brings in grant money? All for near-poverty wages. It's astounding how so many people are so ignorant of how universities operate, despit
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by mjhay 4y ago
They taught your sections and did your grading, for 7/11 clerk wages. You are apparently very ignorant of how your university operated.
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by mjhay 4y ago
In scientific disciplines, professors and grad students just write their own code. At least that was the case in my department, other similar departments at my university, and people in my field from other universities. It's very bad c
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by mjhay 4y ago
There are staff researchers, but at least at my university such people were mostly soft money and were responsible for bringing in their own funding, which the university then proceeded to take 56% off the top for overhead. At any rate, the
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by mjhay 4y ago
Ideally it would come from cutting the bloated administration that leeches off of research funding that professors and grad students attract, while impeding their work, but that's not going to be what happens.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Greenpeace is an anti-science group that does harm to what they claim is their cause. This sort of thing doesn't surprise me.
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by mjhay 4y ago
Noctilucent clouds are the only natural-occuring ice on the planet that isn't hexagonal, instead having mostly cubic crystals, which are stable in the low temp/low pressure environment. Cubic ice is very similar to hexagonal, unli

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