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by outlace 3y ago
I haven’t looked into the data carefully but this strikes me as implausible at first impression for a few reasons. One is that cultures with highly structured time for kids like China do not have the same dramatic rises in mental illness, t
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I think Julia solves the two-language problem within a range of project complexity. If I am writing a simple machine learning model to classify MNIST digits, Python and its libraries is still the easiest way to go (although Julia is fine to
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by outlace 3y ago
Tips in the U.S. are insane. I feel like there's now a social expectation to tip for everything, even if it involves no actually tip-worthy service due to credit card machines. And the low end is now 18-20%. I recently went to Europe a
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by outlace 3y ago
Something is seriously wrong with our culture the past 10-15 years to have contributed to such a dramatic rise in mental illness.
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Those are disanalogous in the case of theoretical physics where you don’t need access to any expensive equipment. There’s nothing in principle preventing someone from learning math and physics on their own or from a traditional university a
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Genuine question here, when was the last time a total outsider made a significant contribution to physics?
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I'll give her simple problems like "x + 5 = 0, what must `x` be to make this true?" (First had to teach her the number line and negative numbers) or "2*y = 6, what is y?" (Taught her multiplication as a copy-then-ad
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by outlace 3y ago
But that’s sort of the point I’m making- schools can’t fix drug-addicted parents and that’s probably going to make much more of a difference in a child’s educational attainment than how good their teacher is at teaching math. Unless schools
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I think we significantly overestimate how much school actually matters compared to family milieus. My wife and I highly value education, so regardless of when the school says children should learn algebra, I am already tutoring my 6 year ol
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by outlace 3y ago
I also noticed degradation in quality of GPT-4. I assume it's because they keep doing RLHF to censor GPT-4 in certain ways to avoid legal hassles and this bleeds into it's quality in general.
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by outlace 3y ago
Okay, assuming that’s true, I’m suggesting that if we paid these positions better, maybe more “normal” people would want to do these jobs. So maybe you don’t significantly change the incentives for existing corrupt people, but you change th
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by outlace 3y ago
Well, I found this: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/higher-government-wages-may-r... GPT4 summary: "Research suggests that higher government wages can reduce corruption, particularly in poorer countries. Howev
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by outlace 3y ago
I've always wondered if paying important government officials more would help. A supreme court justice makes less than many run-of-the-mill doctors, and is an extremely consequential person who could probably be making several multiple
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Tesla Insurance is a kind of small moat. But I think Tesla is really banking on winning the automotive AI race. They currently don't seem to be winning, but that does appear to be their main gamble. If they can be the first to achieve
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I don't know if there are any studies on this but the perception amongst EV users that I'm aware of is that NACS is a very reliable system (low rate of charging stall breakdowns) compared to CCS chargers that seem to break down qu
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by outlace 3y ago
Yeah I am surprised too, the top end is more than many surgeons get paid.
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This is focused on organizations but I will emphasize how moving from blame to accountability (or ownership) is a transformative stance for ourselves as individuals (as described in Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink). We often try to prote
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It is important to keep in mind that the subjects had to get their brains scanned for 16 hours to train the machine learning algorithm to subsequently "decode their thoughts." So this cannot just be wielded on any unsuspecting per
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by outlace 3y ago
I cannot find any other reputable news organizations covering this story
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by outlace 3y ago
Does sustainability or climate change matter if humanity goes extinct?
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by outlace 3y ago
GPT can learn things "in context" E.g. you can teach it something by chatting with it, but it will eventually forget it after its context length is exceeded. It cannot continuously learn and remember like biological organisms sinc
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by outlace 3y ago
As someone with young kids who recently bought a $70 Lego set, it’s not just the plastic blocks, it’s a whole design. My daughter built this awesome Lego tree house with over a thousand pieces. She followed the instructions and built it ste
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I agree but it’s hard to navigate out of it organically. The mental health crisis is quite similar in origin as the obesity epidemic. In the latter it is largely caused by the food environment and we could avoid the vast majority of cases o
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I mean, we're the ones voting for these people. Also, this is like one judge in the whole country, and apparently from this article the last time this happened was in 1975. I don't think we need to create new regulations for every
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In that case, wouldn’t that imply that we should figure out how to change people’s “behavior patterns” as the root cause of violence instead of blaming poor people for violence just by virtue of them being poor?
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Honest question here: How does poverty imply violent crime? I’ve been to impoverished areas of China and it was safer than any place in the US for example. I don’t see how when someone is struggling with poverty that will increase their pro
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My understanding at a high level is that an IQ test is basically made by generating a bunch of cognitive tasks that putatively test different aspects of cognitive functioning (e.g. verbal reasoning, visuospatial reasoning, attention, workin
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Ask yourself if the cost of having to look it up at a potentially inconvenient time (e.g. in the middle of a busy work day) is greater than the cost of memorizing it during scheduled less busy times (e.g. doing flashcards while eating dinne
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by outlace 4y ago
Like I said in the parent. I use this tool heavily every day for coding and non coding. The above was meant to be a tiny illustration. I have had long back and forth with GPT-4 trying to get it to understand some nontrivial useful code or g
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by outlace 4y ago
Here's an example of it failing to understand some very simple Python code that any human with basic programming knowledge would not mess up: ------ Me: What is going to be the output of this code when `x = 0` and when `x = 900`: ```py

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