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by mlyle 2y ago
> you're trusting software developers either way, whether it be at the app level, the language/runtime level, or the operating system level. I trust systems to do better based on observed behavior rather than a software enginee
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by mlyle 2y ago
I've thought a lot about this exact topic. You need both to do well. You need handwavy and vague versions of things to understand the shape of them and to build intuition. Then you need to test the intuition and build up levels of rig
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by mlyle 2y ago
I thought your point was terrible about aerospace. And since you're insisting I follow you further into the analogy, I think it's terrible here. LLMs may be a key building block for early AGI. The jury is still out. Will a LLM
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by mlyle 2y ago
I don't think so. I don't trust software authors to make the right choice, and the most tilted examples of where a core will usually need a bigger core can afford to wait for the scheduler to figure it out. And if you want to be
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by mlyle 2y ago
I feel like aeronautics and astronautics are deeply connected. Both depend upon aerodynamics, 6dof control, and guidance in forward flight. Advancing aviation construction techniques were the basis of rockets, etc. Sure, rocketry to LEO a
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by mlyle 2y ago
Hm. I didn't know me getting older could affect so much time series data. I must be really powerful ;)
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by mlyle 2y ago
There's a bazillion things we could be thinking about buying. Being able to serve yourself and figure out if there's any fit removes friction. Spending an hour on an initial sales call to find out that information isn't opti
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by mlyle 2y ago
But part of doing what's right is considering opportunity cost. If buying something would be a win for an org takes up too much organizational bandwidth because of how hard it is to procure, then it's not worth fiddling about tryi
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by mlyle 2y ago
> One person's short attention span is another person's intolerance for bullshit. If a student asks a friend a question, and then drifts off into space before the two sentence answer has been delivered, that's not great. &
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by mlyle 2y ago
Here is a blog that rolls up lots and lots of time series graphs from different research. https://www.afterbabel.com/p/international-mental-illness-pa... Time series data is always confounded in many ways; lots of stuf
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by mlyle 2y ago
On the other hand, kids don't seem to have great mental health, attention spans, or academic attainment right now, and this type of social media is one of the likely factors behind this change.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Having water artificially cheap for agricultural uses is a mistake. If you're concerned about food security, subsidize actual food that could go to people in some way, but let water hit a real market price. Else, we end up subsidizing
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by mlyle 2y ago
> > > gonna get you like 10-15 mph cruising speed max > That top speed is usually 26kph in Europe and Australia. So like 16MPH?
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by mlyle 2y ago
Yah, it is wrong. But most e-bike controllers have been engineered to have a top speed to comply with legal restrictions (or because of cost). Just because something provides 500W at low speed intermittnet cycle, doesn't mean that it
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by mlyle 2y ago
They're saying from a legal standpoint. As far as CPSC is concerned, they're not bicycles if they don't have pedals, and under many states' laws, pedals are a requirement to not be a motorcycle or moped.
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by mlyle 2y ago
Maybe. But for something like Rimworld++++, you don't need all that sophistication. You need a pile of relevant facts and a clear task to determine something about the game or write some text for the user. Sure, curating and retriev
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by mlyle 2y ago
His example: Rimworld is a great universe where we think about characters' stories, and there's really just like, a couple dozen attributes and straightforward ways they interact with the game. An LLM context window could easily h
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by mlyle 2y ago
> As I said, at what point or how much evidence is need to heed such advice. This is like a Pascal's wager. There's a bazillion things we could be doing that there's a little evidence for or a plausible explanation. And w
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by mlyle 2y ago
> It is more that they even thought this is an okay thing to do makes them moraly suspect in my eyes. Maybe you don't seriously consider doing really bad things, and even take steps playing with the idea of doing them. I definitely
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by mlyle 2y ago
What does "never find the right moment to do so" mean? As posited above: because of conscience? Because of fear of getting caught dropping a suitcase? And, of course, I suggest one go to more primary sources. The only one we real
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by mlyle 2y ago
I did look at the "article", and I've looked at the way the event has been described in other sources. I double checked before I responded to you, too. In the end, we'll never know why they didn't dump the suitcase
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by mlyle 2y ago
Clinton's claim was effectively that he believed the definition was not associative for that specific statement. There was also the later statement which he described Monica's statement about having not had a sexual relationship
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by mlyle 2y ago
> The part where Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apolliniare attempt to throw the ancient sculptures they have stolen from the Louvre into the Seine because they are scared of getting caught stealing them... Planning to do something bad and
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by mlyle 2y ago
> To be fair, that is somewhat the current scientific consensus on gravity. It just is. We can meassure it and determine a general constant and calculate with it (and even though some people claim to have understood way more, it is highl
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by mlyle 2y ago
> And things move down. It's not a bad way to look at it for a start. Things move down because it is their nature to move downwards. And this kind of empirical law is what we rely upon for most thought. It takes a lot of work to
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by mlyle 2y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/2440/
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by mlyle 2y ago
The big issue with public health is that everything is dangerous and people will only comply with so many rules and society will only work towards so many goals. Public health decided dietary fat was the big problem to focus on, despite i
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by mlyle 2y ago
We only really recently have evidence for sugar, on its own, causing diabetes. We had a lot of evidence for sugar causing weight gain. And higher weight is strongly correlated with type II diabetes. But from a public health standpoint, we
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by mlyle 2y ago
I mean, the "fat is bad" thing isn't completely wrong: it is definitely possible to overdo it. It's extremely calorically dense, and most fats are bad for us in other ways. But society didn't replace some of the fat
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by mlyle 2y ago
It's explicitly monotonic, except for apps that have a very fast ID rate, in which case there are recommended approaches (the word "SHOULD" is used in an RFC) to make it work. And PostgreSQL used one of these recommended app

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