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by ozr 3y ago
I simply don't like a speech-based interface, but I think it's unfair to compare STT tech from even a few years ago to something like Whisper. It's dramatically improved in both accuracy and speed.
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by ozr 3y ago
Not much faster tbh, but it's a bit of virtue signaling you're often required to do with generative AI.
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by ozr 3y ago
This is what I mean by the (imo) unfounded cynicism about SpaceX. Failed 3 or 4 times, kinda sorta got one. That's a bad record for a certain type of engineering; but not for SpaceX, who is intentionally trying to launch fast, fail f
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by ozr 3y ago
I don't understand why so many people are so cynical about Starship being able to fly reliably when SpaceX has repeatedly demonstrated that they can build rockets. It feels like if a prototype Toyota had a wheel fall off and everyone i
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by ozr 3y ago
A supermajority of the wealthiest people on the planet came from middle or upper middle class backgrounds.
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by ozr 3y ago
He didn't 'mess up'. This wasn't an accident. Wire fraud has an intent requirement. The government has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendent acted with the intent to defraud, specifically, the 'in
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by ozr 3y ago
It's prosecutorial discretion. Generally speaking, they want to charge things that are a combination of big and easy-to-prove. There's nothing beyond convention that would stop them from _also_ charging for creating companies und
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by ozr 3y ago
You and the parent are both correct, which is the problem. Spamhaus is notorious for inconsistent behavior, driven largely by the personal whims of individual employees.
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by ozr 3y ago
The main element of the crime here was creating imaginary people to 'sign' the affidavits submitted to ARIN. Phony companies, phony people, etc. Then the jail time is calculated based on the value of what was taken as a result of
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by ozr 3y ago
This looks like a decent non-paywalled summary: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/artific...
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by ozr 3y ago
> Way back in 2014 or whatever it was I was really questioning the decision Fog Creek made to spin out Trello and Stack Overflow. It seemed to only benefit investors and I wondered how the companies could diversify their income streams w
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by ozr 3y ago
DJB has a historical record of being correct on crypto. His 'tantrums' led to Bernstein v. United States, which established source code as speech.
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by ozr 3y ago
There's been innumerable runtime errors, both tiny and world-altering, as a result.
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by ozr 3y ago
Ubiquitous is a good guess.
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by ozr 3y ago
The silliness has been dying down lately, fwiw. This feels like a bit of a time capsule from a few years ago.
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by ozr 3y ago
And, of course, now they aren't accepting crypto anymore to reduce their environmental impact. Too much authority being given to people that aren't doing things.
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by ozr 3y ago
This isn't the least bit shaky to well-adjusted adults.
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by ozr 3y ago
I use a a chrome extension for it. Otherwise when I hit their wall on another device or browser, I just skip it. Reddit seems fine with killing themselves off, I'm not going to any great length to mitigate their mistakes.
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by ozr 3y ago
The AI safety cult has some true believers. It's still fundamentally a grift.
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by ozr 3y ago
This is simply wrong. Information that did not exist in the model can be added to a model by finetuning, both full and PEFT. It has been repeatedly demonstrated in practice and in multiple papers.
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by ozr 3y ago
Fwiw, unpublished testing on LLaMA-1 13B showed that it was able to learn a new word and it's meaning via PEFT with <50 examples. Finetuning can unquestionably add new data to a model. Jeremy Howard has written a bit about how quic
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by ozr 3y ago
Reminds me of when the RIAA and MPAA were able to end piracy. Dark days.
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by ozr 3y ago
Modern models are increasingly trained on synthetic data.
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by ozr 3y ago
Ok. Now convince everyone else of that.
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by ozr 3y ago
I don't think so. I'm not suggesting the use of violence as a deterrent[0]. My point is that the human urge to enact violence in response to wrongdoing has to be satisfied. If it's not satisfied by the state, it'll le
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by ozr 3y ago
> How does the (in democratic societies) generally accepted principle in dubio pro reo fit into this? By creating a society that, on balance, trusts the state and it's institutions to enact justice (apply suffering, in context). It
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by ozr 3y ago
The alternative is for individuals to inflict suffering on each other, which is just vigilantism and mob violence.
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by ozr 3y ago
The point is to avoid exactly that. If we can (mostly) agree that the state will punish someone sufficiently and appropriately, there's no need for vendettas.
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by ozr 3y ago
> That’s right, I think that inflicting suffering on vicious wrong-doers is morally praiseworthy even in the absence of any deterrent effect. Aside from the morals, it's essentially for a functioning society. The intrinsic urge to
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by ozr 3y ago
Football, not soccer, of course.

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