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by perfmode 7mo ago
Being smart and fast doesn't help when the problem is that your training data has outdated GitHub Action versions, which was the exact example in the original post. You can't first-principles your way to knowing that actions/
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Check out Personalized PageRank and EigenTrust. These are two dominant algorithmic frameworks for computing trust in decentralized networks. The novel next step is: delegating trust to AI agents that preserves the delegator's trust gra
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by perfmode 7mo ago
No symmetric, global reputation function can be sybilproof, but asymmetric, subjective trust computations can resist manipulation.
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by perfmode 7mo ago
As you move toward the public commons stage, you'll want to look into subjective trust metrics, specifically Personalized PageRank and EigenTrust. The key distinction in the literature is between global trust (one reputation score ever
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by perfmode 7mo ago
The original claim isn’t that trainees are deliberately applying racist stereotypes. The study (Hoffman et al., 2016) found that people who endorsed false biological beliefs about race made less accurate pain assessments and worse treatment
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by perfmode 7mo ago
In emergency departments, Black patients are prescribed opioids for acute pain at a lower rate than White patients with matched chief concerns.4 Discrepancies in prescriptions for chronic pain therapies have also been identified in Veterans
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by perfmode 7mo ago
How do you deal with people who trust their discursive mind?
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by perfmode 7mo ago
https://github.com/antflydb/antfly/blob/main/src/store/db/in... Comment on the Pause method indicates that waits for in flight Batch operations (by obtaining the lock) but Batch doesn’t ap
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Curious why you decided to go with Go. Instead of Rust for instance.
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Curious if you’re using any SIMD optimizations for numerical calculations.
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by perfmode 7mo ago
what google papers?
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by perfmode 7mo ago
It’s hard not to wonder whether better technology could someday help stop tragedies like this.
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Short answer: several operators already do. The barrier isn’t technical, it’s proximity to a municipal wastewater source and willingness to invest in on-site treatment (pre-filtration, ultrafiltration, partial RO, ongoing biocide dosing). R
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by perfmode 7mo ago
It’s already happening at scale. AWS expanded recycled water use to 120+ facilities by late 2025, Google’s Douglas County GA site has used 100% recycled municipal wastewater for cooling since 2008, and Microsoft built a $31M water reuse uti
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Indirect evaporative systems average around COP 17.5 and dew-point systems can hit ~30, so your numbers check out for the best cases. Worth noting that direct liquid cooling with dry heat rejection is now achieving PUE 1.03-1.06 with near-z
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Vertiv published a 10-year TCO analysis for a 3 MW facility that found waterless systems actually achieved lower overall cost despite higher energy draw, because water treatment, legionella testing, RO filtration, and cooling tower maintena
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by perfmode 7mo ago
The data centers in WA cluster in Quincy and Moses Lake in the Columbia Basin, which gets 7-9 inches of rain per year. The town of Quincy (pop ~8,200) uses groundwater at rates equivalent to a city of 30,000, and during the 2021 drought the
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by perfmode 7mo ago
75% of Japan’s oil. 60% of India’s oil. 40% of China’s oil. is what i’ve heard.
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by perfmode 7mo ago
The bird analogy is actually a really good one, but I think it supports a narrower claim than you're making. You're right that the capacity to symbolize and formalize intuitions is a distinct and important thing, separate from jus
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by perfmode 7mo ago
I think what you're describing is vertical integration rather than the walled garden specifically. The walled garden is the App Store restrictions, iMessage lock-in, that kind of thing. What made the Neo possible is that Apple controls
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by perfmode 7mo ago
This is the most interesting point in the thread to me. Tolerance stack-up is the reason tight per-part tolerances matter at all. A single brick being precise is table stakes for injection molding. The hard problem is what happens when you
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by perfmode 7mo ago
The quality cliff question is the right one to be asking. There's a pattern in systems work where something that scales cleanly in theory hits emergent failure modes at production scale that weren't visible in smaller tests. The l
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by perfmode 7mo ago
There's something real in the impedance mismatch argument that I think the replies here are too quick to dismiss. The browser's programming model is fundamentally about a graph of objects with identity, managed by a GC, mutated th
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by perfmode 7mo ago
The distinction between effective and administrative fraud is useful and I think underappreciated. A lot of the conversation in these threads conflates the two, which makes it hard to reason about what actually needs fixing. I want to push
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by perfmode 7mo ago
This is a real pain point and I run into the same tension in systems where data crosses serialization boundaries constantly. The prototype-stripping problem you're describing with JSON.parse/stringify is a specific case of a more
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by perfmode 7mo ago
I think we're actually closer to agreement than it might seem. You're right that the Wason task is partly about a mismatch between how "if" works in formal logic and how it works in everyday language. That's a fair
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by perfmode 7mo ago
> Humans can produce new concepts and then symbolize them for communication purposes. Sure, but the question is how often this actually happens versus how often people are doing something closer to recombination and pattern-matching with
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Go for it!
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by perfmode 7mo ago
Humans are notoriously bad at formal logic. The Wason selection task is the classic example: most people fail a simple conditional reasoning problem unless it’s dressed up in familiar social context, like catching cheaters. That looks a lot
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by perfmode 7mo ago
When resources are finite and require precise guidance, why would they fire semi randomly when they can be strategic?

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