mwigdahl

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by mwigdahl 3y ago
We stripped MERGE out of all of our production code. Not worth the many corner cases and footguns that remain even after over 15 years of being in the product.
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by mwigdahl 3y ago
I like this way of looking at it also, thanks!
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by mwigdahl 3y ago
Interesting. The framework from the article mentions three independent axes (active/passive, internal/external, positive/negative) but doesn't explore all combinations of them. It seems like there are other clear actio
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by mwigdahl 3y ago
Then close it and wrap it in a couple layers of towels or something, stick it in your refrigerator under the leftover pizza, and/or block its access to wifi through your home router config. Physical controls trump whatever secret moni
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by mwigdahl 3y ago
Another example demonstrating that when functionality in your life is provided by ongoing, private subscription-based services, they can be disrupted at the slightest whim of the corporate behemoth providing them. At least this guy was abl
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by mwigdahl 3y ago
...in mice.
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by mwigdahl 3y ago
And you don't even need to go that far. Bourdain is talking in the context of running a successful restaurant -- serving quality food to customers that they want, on time. The artist can be everything GP said they were and still be i
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by mwigdahl 3y ago
I second the recommendation. It's a great book, and draws much more closely on historical fact than I was aware of when first reading it.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
There is a whole theoretical justification behind instrumental convergence that you are handwaving over here. The development of instrumental goals depends on the entity in question being an agent, and the putative goal being within the sp
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Even more so -- if this tech makes people 10% more efficient, then maybe there's a strata of business ideas that wouldn't have been profitable without the tech, but can be with it, and they'll be able to grow and hire to abso
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
What tangible harm did turning off the radio prevent in OP's case?
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Or, even more pessimistically, the introduction of oxygen into the atmosphere by cyanobacteria in the Great Oxygenation Event.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
There's plenty of evidence if you care to look. My severely disabled daughter has spent over 10 years on waiting lists for state assistance. If my anecdote isn't sufficient for you, the history of accommodation misrepresentation
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Because there were (and are) a lot of disability accommodations available for people diagnosed with autism. Expanding the definitions made those accommodations and resources available to more people, and fit easily into the trend of medica
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Just tuned a query like this today. Many chained CTEs, joined together at each stage to do range checking logic within subgroups. There were so many self joins that the row estimates (and requested memory grant) were through the roof. I l
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Same here. We have four and all have worked excellently for years.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Did they do something else other than just popping CTE queries into temp tables? In my experience, _just_ doing that doesn't affect readability much at all.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
I think this point is often missed. We live in daily contact with pet animals that think entirely differently than us, and even humans with special needs behave in radically different ways and value radically different things in their live
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Thanks for writing this -- it's very illuminating and made me think further about it (as someone who commented earlier taking the internalist position). I think there's going to be a lot of discussion of this as AI work proceeds,
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
If artistic value is not one-sided and tied to the transformations in the observer's mind, you get into situations where you invalidate the experiences of thousands of people because the "authentic human art" they were inspir
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
The same argument could be made about calculators, or slide rules for that matter.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Why wouldn't it? AGI is not going to be a digital human, with human drives for food, sex, and social domination. Humans have enormous problems imagining intelligence that is not made in our image, but AGI will be structured completel
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
You are not being self-consistent. If art is defined by the creative process, not the end product, why are you measuring its quality by the transformative power of the end product? I also don't think your (very strong) assertion that
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
I don't agree with this. The Lascaux cave paintings, for example, are moving pieces of art and yet we know nothing about the artist or artists. How many artists were there? What was the intent of each individual drawing? Were the a
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
We already have a great example of a group that has fought technological development of a synthetic alternative to their product -- the diamond industry. For years DeBeers and other diamond moguls have run extensive propaganda campaigns to
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
You're 100% correct. People will want FSD for themselves for sure. That won't stop them from blaming the tech companies when they read articles about the cars killing people. Ralph Nader's _Unsafe At Any Speed_ tanked Corv
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
No, those are not cheating. However, it's cheating when your kid types his math problems into Google and just enters them into an autovalidating document. If coding exercises are simple and working code can be acquired brainlessly by
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
A lot of people say that the model is "lying" when it returns incorrect facts. Generally when friends or family confidently assert facts that they are sure but also incorrect about, we call them "misinformed" rather than
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
I'm also SLS sensitive. I found "Verve" toothpaste on Amazon. Reasonable minty taste, cheap, and SLS-free. There are options out there but you really have to search hard for them.
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by mwigdahl 4y ago
Sounds like you have wise and kind neighbors. I'm very sorry for your loss but I'm happy they were able to help keep you connected to life.

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