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by nerdponx 2y ago
Brands with reputations for being in category 1 are increasingly eager to provide products on par in quality with category 2 (or marginally better), basically sucking what value is left of the brand reputation until there's nothing lef
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I like to see more focus on the input embeddings. It's basically the same as feature engineering in pre-deep machine learning: constructing features with high information content can significantly reduce the amount of data and computat
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by nerdponx 2y ago
IMO the intrusive nature of the opt-out should be considered as well. It basically requires you to broadcast to your neighbors, friends, family, guests, etc. your personal beliefs about data privacy, and then of course makes you identifiabl
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Like poor people spending 3x commuting compared to rich people is not a problem, right? Market cleared, deadweight loss minimized, freedom from serfdom achieved, mission accomplished. Just because someone is maximizing their (ordinal) utili
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> If it has utility, then it will give the farmer the budget and the willingness to pay. That's not how it works at all. Farmers are rational and the price system is behaving efficiently here. The waiting time is part of the price
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Huh? Willingness to pay is always a function of utility and budget.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It seems like it would be pretty easy to use PyPI for this, because packages can contain arbitrary non-Python files. And you can also do things like base 64 encoding your files in strings in Python code.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Budget constraints. Farmers don't have the cash, so they pay in waiting times instead.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
And both things are true. Both parties do various bad things, and their supporters hide behind the "well the other guy is bad too!" argument. The best candidate is the one who has the lowest expected badness; and yes, their chosen
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Discoverability by the masses is a tough problem to solve because there is really no way to monetize it. Does Discord just rely on Nitro subscriptions? It's a gold mine of data for things like market research, ad targeting/fi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That requires a little more effort than an employee casually browsing training data and jotting down passwords on a notepad.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
My 5-person team got almost 1000 applications for a job opening recently. We'd need AI summaries to have even a chance of sifting through all those 6-pagers, in which case we're better off if candidates just submitted a resume tha
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is a document with an overt political agenda and should be taken with a bucketful of salt.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
If one party's election-year pandering is legalizing marijuana and enforcing antitrust law, I'll take it.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Usually people don't type in passwords in a way that's visible Zoom calls. Most password fields obscure their content.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Most people (me included) will instinctively reach for the class structure where Natural is the base class, and Integer extends that base. Huh? Why? That's mathematically nonsense, so why would you encode it in your type system?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
FWIW I think that's the essence of the complaint here: "is a" can mean various things in various contexts, but Liskov substitution principle and OOP design generally requires it to mean something specific, and using "OOP
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The burglar case of course is silly, but there are plenty of personal injury cases for things like slip & fall on private property, a reckless driver damaging a parked car, etc. where a reasonable person might think "that's
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Actively shooting trespassers with a gun is different from booby-trapping your property.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> set something up on your property that harms someone, intentionally or otherwise, whether they are legally allowed to be on your property or not in the US, you are liable for whatever happens to them up to and including homicide I know
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The generated code already looks kind of insane, I can imagine it would only be worse without the benefit of Bash features.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Or they downvoted you for being unconstructive and obtuse.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I came to post the same comment. I was confused by the lack of "t+1" or "t-1" nodes, and then it took me a while to realize I had to connect the "ht" node to itself.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, but this is also a core limitation in the transformer architecture. You only have very short-term memory (context) and very long-term memory (fixed parameters). Real minds have a lot more flexibility in how they store and connect pie
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> I often wonder why tech people think so positively about companies they idolise who are Uber-ing their way through regulations. Where do they think it stops? Because they don't think about the consequences, and don't want to
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Making it a crime allows you to accumulate crime stats for it, which allows you to report on how bad the crime rate is, etc.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Yeah, but real worms are also a lot simpler than humans, and yet do all kinds of surprising and sophisticated and complicated things that humans can't do. A tool built for a specific purpose can accomplish its task with orders of magni
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, that this can happen should be obvious from the transformer architecture. The fact that these things work at all is amazing, and the fact that they can be RLHF'ed and prompt-engineered to current state of the art is even more am
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I suspect it's a matter of context: one or both agents forget that they're supposed to be delegating. ChatGPT's "memory" system for example is a workaround, but even then it loses track of details in long chats.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The compensating benefits are jobs for constituents of key members of Congress and big contracts for their friends. But those are compensating benefits for the legislators specifically, not for the American people (who are paying for all of

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