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by not2b 4y ago
American cities almost all have far lower crime these days than they did decades ago, and SF has a significantly lower murder rate than many cities. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/06/us/san-francisco-crime-b
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by not2b 4y ago
SF isn't an easy environment for self driving cars. Steep hills, congested streets, sometimes thick fog. But Waymo is busy causing traffic jams because when the cars get confused they just stop, and block traffic.
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by not2b 4y ago
I learned how to use differential equations to solve circuits as an undergraduate in electrical engineering, and also how to derive the more efficient methods from the differential equations by assuming solutions are (possibly complex) expo
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by not2b 4y ago
I'm much more interested in whether it can provide a better way to deal with the strong force. QCD is almost impossible to calculate with in most cases because everything diverges.
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by not2b 4y ago
I read it, decades ago. I have to confess that i skipped some of the dryer parts, so I probably read 80% of it. There were parts that were just amazing, and other parts not so much so. It was well worth it.
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by not2b 4y ago
If this were the reason Ngo managed to get a lot of his critics banned you might have a point. But: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...
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by not2b 4y ago
You would think, but in China it doesn't seem that way.
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by not2b 4y ago
Except that Musk's Twitter in no way supports freedom of speech. For a while he banned any mention of Mastodon, or the ElonJet account, and he's banned a whole slew of antifascist accounts and journalists who report on the far rig
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by not2b 4y ago
The offset between local noon and time-zone noon is never that large, nowhere near what it's like in China, and it actually puts the center of the country closer to solar time. So it seems a reasonable thing to do, better than having t
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by not2b 4y ago
No, moderated groups weren't that rare; they were mostly unmoderated though. For a while, social pressure kept things under control, as well as killfiles (allowing users to block each other). It was the beginning of the end when a pair
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by not2b 4y ago
It makes perfect sense: the "natural" lines would give India two time zones; combining them into one half-hour time zone gives the whole country the same time. It did cause problems with the early Bell Labs Unix releases, which di
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by not2b 4y ago
Sometimes you do need to consider compute cost, say if you want a small but high quality model that can run on a smart phone to perform a task. For example, with camera input, identify a plant or animal, while in a remote area with no cell
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by not2b 4y ago
People are arguing about whether model weights can be copyrighted, and who knows how courts will eventually rule. But if a site gets a DMCA takedown notice, they are taking a huge gamble if they don't comply: if courts do decide that M
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by not2b 4y ago
The idea that a GPT-n will gain sentience and take over the world seems less of a threat than if a GPT-n with revolutionary capabilities and a very restricted number of people that have unrestricted access to it help its unscrupulous owners
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by not2b 4y ago
Some of the most productive and inventive scientists and artists at the peak of Britain's power were "gentlemen", people who could live very comfortably without doing much of anything. Others were supported by wealthy patrons
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by not2b 4y ago
You're assuming complete connectivity; no one builds networks of nontrivial size that way.
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by not2b 4y ago
Although he made it up, there's an argument that the value goes up more than linearly. But as the network grows, every node doesn't necessarily need to talk to every other node except in rare circumstances, or they can reach each
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by not2b 4y ago
Because if they don't allow these kinds of code contributions, and wait until products are shipping to accept code, upstream Linux will be a year or more behind when new chips get shipped, and users will have to run out-of-tree forks o
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by not2b 4y ago
Yep. They just lost 0.000347% of their market cap! Let's start a bank run.
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by not2b 4y ago
There are some sites running forks of Mastodon code that intentionally don't federate with other sites. Trump's Truth Social is one. They don't count because they aren't part of the network.
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by not2b 4y ago
It's not a big deal to take something built for CentOS7 and port to a later Red Hat (or clone) distro. It appears that they released a setup for what they use, which is CentOS7.
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by not2b 4y ago
You posted this six minutes before my post, but mastodon.social is up for me, and no mention of any downtime. If it isn't for you there may be network problems between you and the site.
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by not2b 4y ago
On Linux or BSD, the ptrace system call allows one process to take control of another process; it can then observe and control the other process. Breakpoints are inserted by replacing an instruction with a special instruction that traps; th
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by not2b 4y ago
Even Gigi Hadid (the real person) doesn't look like Gigi Hadid (the image you see on Instagram or in magazines).
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by not2b 4y ago
The article suggests that an std::vector allocates just barely enough memory to hold its elements. No real implementation (from GNU, clang or MSoft) works that way, because it would make a loop like for (const auto& value : some_contain
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by not2b 4y ago
The first really good image generators for faces (see for example https://this-person-does-not-exist.com ) used GANs, which were trained by having one model generate faces and another model saying bullshit, that isn't a fac
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by not2b 4y ago
I expect that this will be tried, and I worry about some negative consequences if it works well. It could be a way of generating very effective propaganda, that defeats the efforts of the opposing LLM to call bullshit. On the other hand, di
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by not2b 4y ago
Google could easily do more; at least they could rigorously check ads for the most popular open source programs, the ones that are downloaded the most, and they could make sure that official sites for popular programs rank highly. If that c
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by not2b 4y ago
But ChatGPT is not a person, it is a text generator. By asking it to generate a new puzzle, you are prompting it to find text in its training data showing someone describing a new puzzle, and it is going to speak in their voice. It's g
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by not2b 4y ago
This kind of thing is basically looting: public officials making sweetheart deals, often to companies that have made generous campaign contributions, and selling public assets for far less than they're worth, allowing private companies

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