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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
I don't think anyone is claiming they're a shortcut to mastery. Personal tutors aren't a shortcut to mastery either. Both simply have the advantage of being able to deeply know where the student's knowledge frontier is,
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Not that I'm a professional mathematician, but I'm not seeing why people think definitions are somehow a blocker. LLMs have no issue making definitions (interfaces/traits/abstract classes) in programming, which is formal
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
We're talking about learning here, i.e., building that knowledge and context. People also refer to more than one source, and I think you overstate the degree to which LLMs make mistakes in current year. Human teachers also make mistake
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It's not to make AI training easier; AI training is already happening. It's perfectly easy for them. It's to preserve our heritage and knowledge. Automatic copyright is what causes information to be lost. I don't suppose
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
So? Of all the aggressive things the US forces upon the world (or just unilaterally does, ignoring agreements), undoing its own bad policy would be a drop in the bucket, and would be doing some good for once. I'm sure if we just did it
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Most domains have some kind of internal consistency/theory building you can do. A smart person can certainly notice inconsistencies when trying to learn something. In fact they're likely to be points of confusion that the smart pe
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Right, that's why I said we should make copyright require deposit and registration (like it used to). Publish your work without its copyright ID for people to use to reference the LoC database? It is now public domain.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It is not. We currently give ~infinite copyright automatically for nothing in return: > Neither the deposit requirements of this subsection nor the acquisition provisions of subsection (e) are conditions of copyright protection. https:&
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
I was literally working on an educational game for my kids last week where one of the activities is clock reading, and I ask codex to QA its Godot program via screenshots, so literally this exact scenario is something I was doing in a softw
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Wrong end of the pipeline; we should instead demand digital copies of media be sent to the Library of Congress in order to obtain copyright, along with a registration fee to pay for indefinite storage and other costs. Registration should be
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
The overwhelming majority of web pages are static documents, and it's a document format, so basic document primitives make sense. Same with something like line charts or pie charts. Bloat is things like USB APIs that present obnoxious
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
XSL has sorting, so kind of, depending on which document you're referring to when you say DOM.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
For software, if it already has the cloned source then it can just look at how the thing works directly and answer you completely. I should think they'd already be cloning all FOSS repos and that it'll eventually just do that.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Not necessarily; a building satisfied by its own rooftop solar should be roughly heat neutral since that energy was already there. The problem is with the power density these buildings imply, requiring energy movement. Everyone could run Qw
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
The referenced 169 MW location is literally across the street from a residential neighborhood, where the article indicates they measured temperature differences[0]. > This gap is significant because many facilities are sited adjacent to
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It's not hindsight though. The problems with the ad economy were always known. Page and Brin pointed it out in the pagerank paper. Altman said ads would have to be a last resort (so he knows it's wrong), and then they did it. The
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
All the same, if one generation completely fails to uphold their side of the generational contract, whether through malice or indifference, why would the following ones hold up their side? Their failure to build a world that the next genera
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Then your product is actually worse for the customer. It's nice that you want it to be better, but it's not in a meaningful way that you can't just handwave away. Risk carries a cost. Another possibility would be for the mark
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
You take the money you would've spent on ads and instead offer a lower price than the current leader to make up for the buyer's uncertainty toward your product. This lets a search algorithm organically decide that you are among th
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
If those 80k people are employed to harm the world then it's good that they stop working. Like if we had many people employed in the business of theft rings or spraying CFCs into the air for the entertainment value, it'd obviously
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
The complexity is in locating what is already a distributed database item (git is fundamentally already designed that way), just using a protocol meant for that. Basically just support `git clone` with e.g. IPFS URIs.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Ideally something like IPNS to have a mutable ref based on (repo, pubkey, branch) to resolve a commit hash, a DHT for who has what commit hashes, and then just p2p transfers. You could still have a github or gitlab for issues and CI, but co
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
If you have somewhere to put them, you can get 2 440W panels for ~$350 if you're okay with intermittent or mostly daytime use. Or for ~$130/kWh you can extend that with batteries. Then you need an inverter or some kind of regulato
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
How many running instances do you need though? e.g. Scala web frameworks should be able to do thousands of RPS on a single core without the application developer really trying to optimize anything, and I always hear that even Ruby, Python,
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
A neighbor of mine whose husband is a lawyer said it's already part of his regular workflows. OpenAI also already have HIPAA compliant offerings targeting healthcare uses, etc. Of course they already do these things.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Firefox works fine on Android, and supports ublock origin and playing youtube in a background tab/with screen off. Couldn't speak to DRM as I've never used it on any platform.
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
It's more than 2% when you condition on things like "lives in US" or "lives in EU" or "is using a desktop." e.g. among German desktop users it's apparently more like 20%. Most people probably aren&#x2
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Don't you just need to occasionally try n+1 for your current setting? Then record acceptance rates. The nature of the thing is that if you try n, you already have a good sampling of how well m works for all m<n, right?
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
Those companies have been developing hardware with exponential improvements for generations now. They wouldn't have stopped if not for youtube. Youtube and Whatsapp became possible because of them, not the other way around. Phone compa
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by ndriscoll 2mo ago
"Not at scale" is kind of the point; there's no need for one company to host everything . If I were so inclined I could host Netflix quality streaming off my home Internet connection to my entire neighborhood with a selectio

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