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by nerdponx 11mo ago
> Essentially you add random noise to the inputs and train by minimizing the regular loss (like l1) and at the same time maximizing the difference between 2 members with different random noise initialisations. I wonder if this will be ap
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955979 this sibling comment says it best
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
"I how I'm not late" is a bad mix when operating heavy machinery like a car around places where children are supposed to be able to walk safely.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
Having grown up and gone to school exclusively in the USA I always thought it was crazy how many parents preferred to drive their kids to school instead of having them take the bus. By high school I would guess that less than half of kids a
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
My understanding is that cloud seeding has been going on for quite a while over Texas and the rest of the southern Plains. It's hidden in plain sight, and the only people who ever seem to talk about it are total wingnuts who also belie
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
Interesting, the GNU Grep manual describes both character classes as behaving as if you are in the C locale. I shouldn't have assumed it was the same as in the C standard!
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
A charitable interpretaion is that it's because they all got big and popular because they disrupted their respective markets with new technology. I'd agree with Tesla (legitimately new car technology) and Uber (lots of innovation
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
There's also [:blank:], which is just space and tab. Both I think are perfectly readable and reasonable options that communicate intent nicely.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
> the gambler has higher chance at generational wealth And a symmetrically higher chance of ruin, and in the process the "averaged out" gain might actually be worse than the index investor after taxes, fees, and inflation are f
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
> this means that if you write non-trivial Awk code, nobody on your team will be able to read it. Sort of! A lot of AWK is easy to read even if you don't remember how to write it. There are a few quirks like how gsub modifies its ta
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
If you have genuinely interesting and valuable results to report, but you ask AI to do the final writeup for you and it comes across in that generic AI slop style, is it slop? Kind of a gray area for me. It certainly feels lazy and disrespe
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
It didn't stick out to me because "corporate success story" articles already tend to sound like that, which is at least in part where I imagine the popular LLMs get it from. (The other part being pop nonfiction books.)
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
I agree with you that the headline really needs to be qualified with these details. So there's an aspect of being unsurprising here, because that particular set of details is exactly where LLMs perform very well. But I think it's
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
That's fair. I know a lot of generic drugs are imported too, so maybe there isn't much pressure within the USA there. Unless the big domestic pharmaceutical companies are still making a lot of money on it even if generic options
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
Yeah but again, none of that is inevitable, it's merely convenient. We have seen justices go through astounding contortions of logic to design a case along certain ideological lines, many times. The availability of a chain of reasonin
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
> It’s way too frequent and runs at random times in the middle of a movie so I always choose Accept. This is deliberate
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
There is a financial incentive not to look.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
No need: campaign financing, low turnout, and incumbent bias are all substantial barriers to entry.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
Synema is a particularly fun example because you can tell where her loyalties laid from her voting record.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
The individual bribes aren't the whole picture. The bribes are statements of loyalty. If I am reliably donating to your campaign every couple of years, then I am probably not donating to your opponents' campaigns. And loyalty seem
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
I'm nothing close to a scholar on the topic, but that CAP article does not at all make it sound like Citizens United was inevitable. It does make it clear that the ruling builds on other old and bad rulings, but it's still quite a
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
One could imagine a world in which taxes are paid only to the states, which then must all pay to fund the federal government. Not saying it's a good idea, but it would certainly be different from what we have now.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
The point is that what ICE does could already be handled by other agencies. Whereas the IRS is the only agency that can do what the IRS does.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
That would require the US government to prioritize the interests of the American people over the interests of a few corporations and the wealthy individuals with a significant financial interest in those corporations.
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
Follow the money
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by nerdponx 11mo ago
Once you learn to recognize corporate advertisement journalism, you see it everywhere.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Enough to pay for everything DOGE and the Trump admin cut in 2025, assuming a big chunk of that is US taxes.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Looks like a honeypot to me.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Bob saying "you should use Z end of story" it's just as a hardheaded and unhelpful as Bob saying "X doesn't do that end of story".
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by nerdponx 1y ago
If you tell the mechanic "my car is making a noise, fix the belt please" and then they just fix the belt, that's on the mechanic as well.

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