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by ordersofmag 6mo ago
Interesting alternative. Cloudflare (market cap $58B) buys La liga (market value $5 billion), drops suit.
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by ordersofmag 6mo ago
Not to be pendantic (but to be pendantic) 80psi is the correct pressure for 28mm tires ridden briskly on good roads. At least according to ye olde Silca tire pressure calculator. Back in the day when folks ran 23mm tires they would typ
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by ordersofmag 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure there are folks involved in doing drug testing for many sports so saying are doing nothing seems hyperbolic. Are there specific things you think the bodies in charge of drug testing should be doing but aren't? Gen
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by ordersofmag 7mo ago
Not sure how this helps. Olympic events already have relative rating systems that ranks all the participant: pretty complicated and sport dependent systems that determine qualification for the games and competition amongst all the competito
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by ordersofmag 7mo ago
Any tool that auto-updates carries the implication that behavior will change over time. And one criteria for being a skilled professional is having expert understanding of ones tools. That includes understanding the strengths and weakness
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by ordersofmag 7mo ago
Even if one-shot LLM performance has plateaued (which I'm not convinced this data shows given omission of recent models that are widely claimed to be better) that missing the point that I see in my own work. The improved tooling and ag
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by ordersofmag 7mo ago
Seems like the ability to distinguish LLM versus 'good human' writing depends on the size of the writing sample you have to look at (assuming you think it can be done). And that HN-scale posts are unlikely to be a long enough for
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by ordersofmag 8mo ago
Please expand more on the idea that LLM's are not trained on English to begin with. Not sure what you mean by this as clearly many LLM's are trained on data that contains a lot of English. For instance GPT-1 seems to have been t
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by ordersofmag 8mo ago
And there's 'nothing wrong' with just writing code with variables named 'a1, a2, a3'. But when some poor sod has to dig through your mess to figure out what you had in mind it turns out that having an easier to dis
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by ordersofmag 8mo ago
Isn't arstechnica that new site that replaced slashdot?
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by ordersofmag 8mo ago
Seems like if evolution managed to create intelligence from slime I wouldn't bet on there being some fundamental limit that prevents us from making something smarter than us.
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by ordersofmag 8mo ago
Price. For a given CPU and RAM the mini is cheaper. Why pay more for portability you aren't going to use.
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by ordersofmag 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure the Luddites judged the threat the machines posed to their livelihood to be a greater damage than their employer's loss of their machines. So for them, it was an easy justification. The idea that dollar value enc
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by ordersofmag 9mo ago
FWIW this is very common idiom in several languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_throw_the_baby_out_wit...
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by ordersofmag 9mo ago
Heard of google drive?
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by ordersofmag 9mo ago
I will find this often-repeated argument compelling only when someone can prove to me that the human mind works in a way that isn't 'combining stuff it learned in the past'. 5 years ago a typical argument against AGI was that
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by ordersofmag 9mo ago
Science is distributed. Lots of researchers at lots of different institutions research overlapping topics. That's part of its strength. In the U.S. most basic research is funded by federal grants. And as a results you'll find th
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by ordersofmag 9mo ago
Or you're free to use the output for commercial use if you can get someone else to use the tool to make the (uncopyrighted) output you want.
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by ordersofmag 10mo ago
The multiple meanings of many of the words in this sentence make it really poor at communicating what the site is about. "Endeavour" (with a capital 'E') is a proper name I associate with a space shuttle, and 'stel
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by ordersofmag 11mo ago
Or more likely the 'whole' accesses the stable bit through some interface. The stable bit can happily keep doing it's job via the interface and the whole can change however it likes knowing that for that particular tasks (whi
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by ordersofmag 11mo ago
Or it doesn't. Because "software as an organic thing" like all analogies is an analogy, not truth. Systems can sit there and run happily for a decade performing the needed function in exactly the way that is needed with no
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
LLM aren't retrained and released on a weekly time-scale. The data mining may only be reflected in the training of the next generation of the model.
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
If a hard drive sometimes fails, why would a raid with multiple hard drives be any more reliable? "Do task x" and "Is this answer to task x correct?" are two very different prompts and aren't guaranteed to have the
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
At the very largest universities there is a really really wide variety of programs and courses. For example here's a course catalog where a search for 'intro' returns 3500 different courses. https://classes.osu.e
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
Even in science there is not a 'requirement' that you have a controlled experiment in order to have evidence that a claim is true. Following your argument you can't substantiate that humans are the result of evolution becau
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
There's an entire generation that is evidence that your personal case is not the general case.
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
The journal appears to be published by an office with 7 FTE's which presumably is funded by the money raised by presence of the paywall and sales of their journals and books. Fully-loaded costs for 7 folks is on the order of $750k&#x2F
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
Here’s a place to start if you want to go down the rabbit hole of how search at places like this is approached. https://haystackconf.com/us2022/talk-12/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vCMFIJRiKk
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
There are plenty of situations where someone visiting a page once and someone repeatedly looking at that page over a period of days (even if it is pulled from their browser cache) is an important difference. Obviously it depends on what you
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by ordersofmag 1y ago
Matomo is an evolution of Piwik which was first released in 2007. So not 'quite new'.

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