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by nerdponx 1y ago
Don't fall into the trap of responding to the user's request to do Y a certain way. They are asking you to implement Y, and they think they know how it should be implemented, but really they would be happy with Y no matter how y
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The point is that the statement "LLMs should just cite their sources, what's the problem" is nonsensical, and the reason it's nonsense has to do with how LLMs actually work.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
It should be illegal, but this stuff is propping up the appearance of a healthy economy so nobody will touch it.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
There is an hypothesis that dinosaurs were already in decline before the Cretaceous extinction due to the evolution of blood-sucking insects: https://news.oregonstate.edu/news/insect-attack-may-have-bee...
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The likelihood function returns a probability. Specifically it tells you, for some parametric model, how the joint probability of the data in your data set varies as a function of changing the parameters in the model. If that sentence doe
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by nerdponx 1y ago
My guess was always that "probability" came first, and they needed a different word for "likelihood" when the latter concept became formalized.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The currency here is loyalty, not USD.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
That would be technically illegal rather than merely repugnant. It would not however be illegal if the criminal dropped a hint in the news that he would donate to, say, a ballroom that was to be named after the president. And even if it wer
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by nerdponx 1y ago
The irony is that rental markets are probably one of the better markets to apply Econ 101 principles. Yes you have problems with information asymmetry, but for the most part you have a huge number of relatively small buyers and sellers, an
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by nerdponx 1y ago
My guess is that it's part of the whole "department of war" rebranding. War is hell, toughen up! And someone out there is cheering for this, I'm sure.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I'm actually more surprised that they didn't abuse it, instead of removing it. Remember when Trump's first FCC commissioner ran a public comment campaign on net neutrality, and then heavily botted it to make it look like peop
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by nerdponx 1y ago
At least I get to feel vindicated. Many many people, including me, have long asserted that the so-called "conservatives" in the Supreme Court are anything but. Historically their decisions have appealed to a certain kind of conser
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by nerdponx 1y ago
"They" aren't that interested in PII. They're interested in assigning a unique identifier for you and building as detailed of a profile about you as possible, for targeting ads to you, and more recently tailoring prices
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by nerdponx 1y ago
> Few Open Source Developers want to work on this stuff which I get because it's tedious work interfacing with computer illiterate end users. I'd rather chug sewage then do this work for free. Or the government could pay people
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by nerdponx 1y ago
How long did you delay for? It's not like there's some tiny window of opportunity before 10 months or whatever. Consider that the Spanish conquistadors who literally never saw a peanut as a child and tried their first peanuts as a
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by nerdponx 1y ago
How did you construct the embedding? Sum of individual token vectors, or something more sophisticated?
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Is some kind of a browser microkernel possible? Could you ship, say, JS Canvas support in a separate optional module?
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by nerdponx 1y ago
When somebody incompetent is hired to do a job, do you blame the incompetent person, or the person who hired the incompetent person?
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Edit: I normally frown on restricted donations.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Consider not sending your doorbell footage to accompany that has no respect for user privacy, and is now actively partnering with a police surveillance company.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Pros: potentially greater safety for police and EMS when dealing with touchy people, obvious benefits for fire rescue (assuming it works in a fire). Cons: use your imagination.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I gave up on Firefox, sadly. I still use Thunderbird (which is apparently no longer part of Mozilla), but I couldn't deal with FF and Mozilla screwing around anymore. I switched to Orion which has been working great for me. I'm ha
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I think they're asking why you would build a rules engine and fact graph instead of "just" encoding it in Datalog.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
It's more than "stupid politicking". Follow the money.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I wonder if we should standardize on __array__ like how Iterable is standardized on the presence of __iter__, which can just return self if the Iterable is already an Iterator.
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by nerdponx 1y ago
Numpy ships built-in type hints as well as a type for hinting arrays in your own code (numpy.typing.NDArray). The real challenge is denoting what you can accept as input. `NDArray[np.floating] | pd.Series[float] | float` is a start but do
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by nerdponx 1y ago
> You must be then using history the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support rather than illumination. Why would I be interested in other time periods when talking about the similarities between our time, and a phenomenon that did no
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by nerdponx 1y ago
You are taking issue with the claim that US politics are "fascist" right now. I am asserting that the similarities exist as a plain matter of fact. Fascism didn't exist at other times in history, so I don't see the point
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by nerdponx 1y ago
I assume they're talking about how when multiplying by a matrix by a vector, it's more natural to think of the matrix as a collection of columns than as a collection of rows, and to think of the vector as a column vector. That lay
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by nerdponx 1y ago
You might want to pick up a history book because it's kind of just a matter of fact at this point. The only remaining question is whether you think it's a good thing or not.

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