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by paulluuk 4y ago
What about Wakame? I love that stuff raw.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Unfortunately in many industries, companies are allowed to regulate/inspect themselves. Because they supposedly have more experience with it than the government, and it saves on government spending.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Most likely you technically get 0% interest. I'm currently at something like 0.05%. I remember back around 2005 I'd get 4% interest on my checking account. Feels bizarre now.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
It could be that legal requirements are a constraint, but I think that the lack of investors is the real issue. Because we're not really comparing Europe to "all of the US", we're comparing all of Europe to Silicon Valle
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I'm not sure this is entirely fair. Nobody elected the people who inspect nuclear powerplants either, but I still assume that they're doing a good job in protecting humanity. Even if they are possibly "highly priviledged&quot
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Honestly I think the best reason to use an altstore is to avoid the 30% tax that Apple and Google charge for using "their infrastructure". Both claim that users could use alternative stores and therefore charging 30% is not an abu
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I spent some weeks trying to make a GPT-3 D&D GM, but indeed it just won't work. I haven't tried GPT-4 yet but this post makes me want to test it for sure. The problem I had with GPT-3, most of all, was that it tries to "
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by paulluuk 4y ago
You're right, I'm not sure what I was thinking. I thought OP was hinting that being white was preventing them from going to college or getting a good job because of positive discrimination, but now I'm not sure how to interpr
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by paulluuk 4y ago
It was not my intention to present a strawman: I assumed that by "affect" you really did mean "prevent". I.e. being Asian-American prevents some people from gaining entrance to Harvard, in this case.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
> You can't go to college without your group affecting you. You can't find a good job without your group mattering. Do you have any evidence to back this up? Which "group-membership" prevents you from going to college
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by paulluuk 4y ago
People have been using this argument against me since I was a child: "this is good for you because the big bad world will crush you", but frankly I thought it was nonsense back then and I still do. The world is not filled with tea
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I agree that this is a much better metaphor. I've often worked with developers who want to build the foundation for a skyscraper just to build a dogshed.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
It might, I'm not sure. It depends on many factors: how much cloud discount are they getting, for example? And do you count the cost of training all previous models before chatGPT, or just the cost of training chatGPT itself? But you m
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by paulluuk 4y ago
In machine learning, generally the expensive part is training the model, not running the model.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
It was a pretty awesome (and creepy) prank, but I do agree that once he was accused, he should have come clean.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
It's fun! Are there any security considerations when allowing random CSS?
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I quickly grabbed the numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... , where I just copied the number from the "W-2 Median Wages" graph, however I have no idea what W-2 is so that
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by paulluuk 4y ago
> divide ~$4m (post-tax) by team of 2 for ~20 years So about $100k per year, per person (after taxes) I know that this is nothing out in Silicon Valley, but for reference, the median income in the US is $19k (net) per year, and about $15
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Indeed, it seems to me that a paper proving that nootropics are either harmful or helpful would be quite publishable, which is (unfortunately?) what modern science is all about.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
The 30% fee is being targeted in the EU as monopolistic abuse (or whatever the proper legal term is)
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by paulluuk 4y ago
After reading Edward Snowden's autobiography (Permanent Record, great read), I feel like Tor, end-to-end encryption and similar solutions/products are basically a dagger through the heart of intelligence services. As such, I find
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by paulluuk 4y ago
So, looking at it again I see that the audio corpus is available for free (openslr.org, 60GB for 1000 hours of speech), however I suspect that training the model on that amount of data would take insane amounts of time on a single GPU. Inst
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I wish they had included their training weights though. This can only be used if you happen to own a huge audio corpus and have a lot of money.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I've been voice-cloning using tortoise-tts and I'm very happy with the results, but it is indeed very slow. It's also free and open-source though.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
This makes me think that if it works one way, it might also work the other way. I.e. find a way to pay them in CAD and then refund in USD.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Most likely they'll use your recordings to enhance their own audio models.
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by paulluuk 4y ago
I assumed this was a fake website that was trying to get people to buy dodgy insurance "because Warren Buffet recommends it".
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Just want to point out that lists like these do suffer from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias >. Also: it's quite possible that luck and generational wealth is a huge factor to whether or not y
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by paulluuk 4y ago
Interesting idea! Seeing as my "should read" list is already hundreds of books long, can you give us a spoiler as to what he suggests (if anything) to fix this? Or is it simply inevitable and therefore not actionable?
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by paulluuk 4y ago
OP here: I don't see why you'd be downvoted for this, it's a fair point! I agree with each of your three points, and in response I'll change the requirements a bit: How can I get 1 dollar to as many people as possible, w

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