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by not2b 3y ago
Not the way I use it, which is very limited. If the similar things are kinda different I use something else, as well as design things to expose the differences where required.
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by not2b 3y ago
I only use inheritance for what the author calls ontological inheritance. For example, I find it useful to represent expressions and statements. I prefer composition if I'm trying to reuse data structures.
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by not2b 3y ago
Looks like we have R, S, and A of RSA to thank. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
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by not2b 3y ago
When the universe was dense, gravity dominated. As it expands, dark energy gets more and more important. From Ars Technica's article: "If dark matter gives rise to the gravity that holds the universe together, then dark energy is
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by not2b 3y ago
When I was first starting out a very long time ago, I wrote a lot of Fortran (mainly for digital signal processing applications), and a couple of times I had to work around the lack of recursion by building my own stacks for intermediate re
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by not2b 3y ago
Debian does things that way, their developers have to get their key signed by other developers, and a DD who signs someone's key is supposed to check ID. But there's no similar protection for their upstream.
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by not2b 3y ago
Jia Tan might be more than one person.
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by not2b 3y ago
I think that they are trying to scare regulators into banning truly open LLMs as too dangerous and instead trusting "responsible" people like Altman to keep things safe.
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by not2b 3y ago
This doesn't have anything to do with their liability or regulations, it's what their paying customers want. A company that pays them to provide a chatbot for their business doesn't want the chatbot to say controversial thing
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by not2b 3y ago
In some businesses, yes, fines are just considered part of the cost of doing business.
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by not2b 3y ago
I like Finland's approach to this problem: traffic fines are proportional to income. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/finnish-busine...
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by not2b 3y ago
Read it again. He didn't hear a "rumor". He got it direct from a manager involved in the acquisition. Nothing in business is certain, but he knew that the acquisition was highly likely. Then he used the account of a relative
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by not2b 3y ago
He'll need to get Congress to pass an appropriation, yes, this is his way of putting pressure on them to do it. I think that there are emergency funds already appropriated that he can immediately tap, but they would fall way short of t
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by not2b 3y ago
One thing I didn't understand before his piece was how often the person who is trying to defraud you is being coerced to do it, sometimes in slavery-like conditions.
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by not2b 3y ago
John Oliver did an excellent explainer about how pig butchering works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg (apologies if the YouTube link has geographic restrictions, don't know if it does)
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by not2b 3y ago
No, the aim is to have that one million people occupy a smaller area, so that there's more space for parks, open space, farms, etc.
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by not2b 3y ago
No, it literally isn't, at least, the plural of anecdotes isn't useful data. To be useful, data need to be collected in a uniform and systematic way. Anecdotes are memory, and it seems we are wired to remember the unusual and th
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by not2b 3y ago
If we can travel faster than light, that would blow up all the theories that say that we cannot. And FTL travel would imply time travel (if in your reference frame, something is traveling faster than light, there's another reference fr
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by not2b 3y ago
Right, but most deviations one can think of (like, changes over time to physical "constants") would have an observable effect, so ancient galaxies would look much more different from modern galaxies and spectra wouldn't look
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by not2b 3y ago
The article seems to assume that "AI OS" will work for the user, rather than for the owners. In practice, OpenAI and its competitors would just extort advertisers: pay us and we'll let your ads through even if the user doesn&
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by not2b 3y ago
He was pointing out that in the civilized West, you survived or not based on your immunity to diseases common in crowded places, and your intelligence had little to do with it, where if you lived in a hunter-gatherer society, a whole lot of
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by not2b 3y ago
But the second sentence is incorrect here! Sally has three siblings, one is her sister, so her brothers are not her only siblings. So ChatGPT correctly gets that Sally has one sister, but makes a mistake on the way.
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by not2b 3y ago
I'm suggesting that if the agent has the power to read and send mail, it won't solve the security problems by sticking a human in the loop before the email is sent, because sufficiently devious attacks will get around that, and on
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by not2b 3y ago
Your mail processing agent says it is going to send a mail, as requested by your boss, to a customer. You can see the text of the message it proposes to send. You can see your boss's email. But instead it is sent to a black hat with pr
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by not2b 3y ago
It isn't surprising at all that this can me done; I figured that as soon as people started building LLM based agents that can read and send email we would see these. There is no solid barrier to having the agent see something in an ema
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by not2b 3y ago
No disrespect to the folks at y_gy who are clearly doing their best. But link shorteners, even when used by good faith actors, are problematic because they hide the destination of the link, and of course that's an invitation for bad fa
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by not2b 3y ago
I agree that fuzzing is a very important technique, and as I said it's worth fixing any issues found, but I still think that many of the most common uses of curl are very problematic. As you can see, I didn't get any knee jerk upv
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by not2b 3y ago
As the old saying goes, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay liquid. So shorting a clearly overvalued stock can be a dangerous move.
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by not2b 3y ago
This could be a natural phenomenon. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_resonance
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by not2b 3y ago
They make it extra painful sometimes when it's time to refill, requiring re-authorization every year. My doctor has a woman working for his practice who spends almost full time battling insurance companies so that patients can get thei

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