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by mkmk 3y ago
Isn't cost typically a function of the value a product provides the purchaser, rather than a function of the inputs required to create it?
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by mkmk 3y ago
The most clever, if unsavory, way that I've seen someone solve this is by building a free adult website and requiring users to solve captchas to view the content. Once they had a regular stream of people solving captchas, they started
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Finding and Digitizing the Apollo 11 Moon Landing on NBC [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mkmk 3y ago|0 comments
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by mkmk 3y ago
> The former prisoner of war and U.S. Navy seaman Doug Hegdahl reports fellow U.S. captives in the Vietnam War would authenticate a new prisoner's U.S. identity by using "Shave and a Haircut" as a shibboleth, tapping the f
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MIT Special Lecture: F-22 Flight Controls [video](youtube.com)
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by mkmk 3y ago
They recently started releasing per-show viewing data. You can download a spreadsheet at the bottom of this press release. https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-... This is interesting becaus
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by mkmk 3y ago
Yeah, so coming back to my initial question – I wonder why there isn't more successful insider trading by congresspeople.
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by mkmk 3y ago
https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/174220728796677767... Judge for yourself – the data is public.
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Google's Bard shows big leap on LLM performance leaderboard(twitter.com)
132 points by mkmk 3y ago|91 comments
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by mkmk 3y ago
Pelosi is famous for her trading activity, but I always wonder why there isn't _more_ of this. Is congress constrained by their own sense of propriety, or have they reached the theoretical maximum alpha from their insider knowledge?
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by mkmk 3y ago
This lives on today in the questionable origins of the brand name Lululemon: > It was thought that a Japanese marketing firm would not try to create a North American sounding brand with the letter “L” because the sound does not exist in
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Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients(fda.gov)
495 points by mkmk 3y ago|411 comments
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by mkmk 3y ago
Mixtral is a mystery to me. How in the world is that team on par with/beating GOOGLE, who presumably have all the resources in the world to throw at this?
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by mkmk 3y ago
I also strongly endorse https://www.udemy.com/course/prompt-engineering-for-ai/ , if you're into the Udemy-style of learning.
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Large shares of consumers use social media out of a fear of missing out(bfi.uchicago.edu)
154 points by mkmk 3y ago|145 comments
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US warship and multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea(apnews.com)
67 points by mkmk 3y ago|86 comments
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by mkmk 3y ago
Can you share any advice on exporting? I used Evernote for years as my digital brain but also got fed up with the dark patterns. I stopped my renewal lately but thought I would still retain access to all of my old notes when I needed them.
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by mkmk 3y ago
You could ask ChatGPT for help, too!
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Scalable and Transferable Black-Box Jailbreaks for LLMs via Persona Modulation(arxiv.org)
3 points by mkmk 3y ago|0 comments
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by mkmk 3y ago
ChatGPT does quite well on the same task when you send it multiple inputs; I think you could probably do 10 of these at a time without degradation.
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by mkmk 3y ago
Have you tried telling it that it’s very important, or that doing so will save a kitten’s life?
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by mkmk 3y ago
One metric that comes to mind is the # of restaurants that have a health code inspection that detected presence of rats or mice. This out-of-date post I found seems to have disturbingly high % of restaurants with evidence of infestation, wh
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by mkmk 3y ago
Ok genetics are fascinating, but 23&me is a privacy nightmare. What’s the state of the art on safely exploring my DNA?
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by mkmk 3y ago
> Alternatively, L&S [lights and siren] response increases the chance of an EMS vehicle crash by 50% and almost triples the chance of crash during patient transport Wow.
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by mkmk 3y ago
It was normal, a large conference room table where the editors sat and then a ring of chairs around the room for guests and lackeys. My imperfect recollection is that guests were briefly introduced by their chaperone to the room so that edi
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by mkmk 3y ago
Ha! That's too perfect. Though I should add that I find twitter to be most helpful when you follow individuals, rather than company accounts.
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by mkmk 3y ago
A long time ago, I worked for a brand that bought expensive advertisements in the nytimes. The sales team invited me to be a silent attendee of the 'page one meeting', a meeting during which the editors decide which stories will b
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by mkmk 3y ago
This is incredible, thanks for sharing
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by mkmk 3y ago
I'm not as familiar with those cases, but yes, it seems to be similar for them. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133523740/cvs-health-agrees-...
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by mkmk 3y ago
It's less about carrying out their own personal screening on products, as much as not following the rules of what types of prescriptions you can fill for controlled substances. "“We allege that Rite Aid filled hundreds of thousand

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