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by not2b 4y ago
By comparison, collisions for human drivers are about 3.3 per million miles driven (higher for young drivers), and fatalities are about 0.01 per million miles driven. See https://www.friedmansimon.com/faqs/how-common-ar
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by not2b 4y ago
There's no shielding against tidal force, which will rip apart anything that gets close enough. It's gravity. It's proportional to the inverse cube of the distance. Get twice as close, eight times as much tidal force trying t
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by not2b 4y ago
Based on reporting of the oral arguments, it seems to show that the Supreme Court understands that they don't understand (other than Alito, perhaps), are worried about breaking the whole thing, and will probably do nothing and issue a
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by not2b 4y ago
I had a colleague who had founded a successful company, it got acquired and in the process of extending his very elegant work to handle many more cases it ... got worse. Adding features under time pressure to satisfy customers made it much
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by not2b 4y ago
The original Chinese balloon was completely different from these three tiny things that were shot down later, and that one was worth investigating. It was huge, the other three are tiny and probably hobbyist balloons.
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by not2b 4y ago
No, sovereign immunity.
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by not2b 4y ago
"No Thanks" isn't nearly as bad as "Maybe Later" as the only choice other than "Yes", where "Yes" means I agree to be spammed with marketing material, notifications, or accept a paid service I do
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by not2b 4y ago
This was in a test, and wasn't a real suicidal person, but: https://boingboing.net/2021/02/27/gpt-3-medical-chatbot-tell... There is no reliable way to fix this kind of thing just in a prompt. Maybe you
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by not2b 4y ago
How? She criticized some technology and was kicked out. She clearly didn't have power in the organization; she might have been at most a speed bump.
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by not2b 4y ago
AI experts aren't the only people or even the best people to consult on questions like this, and they have a bias. The right questions to ask are, what is the intended purpose of Google's chatbot and how well does it do, based in
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by not2b 4y ago
But then the GMO company patents the result, and it's not legal for a farmer to do what farmers have been doing for ten thousand years: save some of the seeds from the crop and plant them the next year, or give some to a neighboring fa
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by not2b 4y ago
They let each indie writer choose whether there will be no paywall, a partial one (for some articles), or a full one.
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by not2b 4y ago
As other commenters have mentioned, exploiting this will confuse other tools and debuggers. Also it tends to play havoc with branch prediction meaning that there may be performance penalties.
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by not2b 4y ago
Seymour Hersh's sources for My Lai gave their names and went on the record. The soldiers who revealed it went on TV and testified before Congress. I'm pretty sure that he had additional anonymous sources, but to get it published h
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by not2b 4y ago
Sure, they want their own con, oops typo, their own coin.
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by not2b 4y ago
If you ask an existing LLM for a stock quote, it will hallucinate one, or give you a price it found in the snapshot of the web that it was trained on. But the intent here is to build a system that knows it should call an external service to
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by not2b 4y ago
How does he know well that this is not the reason? No explanation has been given for Bing's very different treatment of the site than Google's. He says "probably not" because he isn't assuming guilt, but it may well
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by not2b 4y ago
You are arguing with your own straw man interpretation of the article. It isn't talking about all possible uses of LLMs, but focusing on specific uses now being proposed, to use ChatGPT and its possible successors instead of search. Yo
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by not2b 4y ago
There is no alternative license text that could protect against something like this if the UK courts really want cases like this to proceed to trial. The problem is not the MIT license, so suggestions for alternative license texts aren&#x27
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by not2b 4y ago
That's how standards organizations usually work. They can't dictate standards. They have more power when there are many participants, but when there are only a few players all they can do is formalize things big players (mainly Ch
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by not2b 4y ago
If a male engineering student chooses, say, a drama elective in hopes of meeting more women, that's fine as long as he takes the class seriously and treats fellow students with respect. He might even learn something. But someone with a
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by not2b 4y ago
For a company of Fox's size this is a small fine.
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by not2b 4y ago
Yes, authors of articles rarely get to choose the headline, at most, they can suggest one. The editors choose the headline and often their motivation is to maximize clicks. Ars Technica in particular sometimes uses A/B testing, randoml
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by not2b 4y ago
The key is that if you do this, different optimization levels produce different numerical results, and also some problems in the code become unfixable; you can't group computations according to their expected value ranges because the c
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by not2b 4y ago
It's a bad idea to scramble the order of floating point operations unless you can tolerate extreme inaccuracy, and in some applications accurate FP results don't matter, but the non-associativity of FP isn't just a technicali
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by not2b 4y ago
I think it works better to be on a well-run regional server if one exists, so that the Local feed actually mostly means "local". For folks in the SF Bay Area I recommend sfba.social .
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by not2b 4y ago
Almost no people. Lots of land.
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by not2b 4y ago
The US Constitution requires that, to move those counties from Oregon to Idaho, Congress, the Oregon state government, and the Idaho state government would all have to approve the transfer. Not only that, but they'd have to decide what
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by not2b 4y ago
Humans can echolocate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_echolocation
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by not2b 4y ago
I love this comment: PNG defines a "PNG four byte integer", which is limited to the range 0 to 2^31-1, to defend against the existence of C programmers.

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