phdelightful

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by phdelightful 4y ago
People who feel strongly that current procurement strategies are the wrong way to go about things should devote as much toil and treasure as they can to seeing their preferred solution materialize. In the mean time, I hope they will allow o
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I basically agree. I don't think the political mechanisms exist in the short-to-intermediate term to get salaries in government labs high enough. As you point out, the extent to which "civilians" will be willing to participat
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Can the US taxpayer tolerate (financially, politically) what it will take to get the best and brightest to do AI work for .gov and .mil instead of adtech? All you have to do is look at defense lab salaries to see there is going to be a prob
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by phdelightful 4y ago
This outcome from using a large language model to mimic reasoning isn’t surprising. What’s surprising is Yan LeCun’s childish and petty reaction to this entirely foreseeable series of events: > Galactica demo is off line for now. It’s no
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by phdelightful 4y ago
You don’t have to worry. There are physiological responses to pain and trauma that the anesthesiologist can observe, even if you are unconscious. Things as simple as heart rate and respiration all the way up to brain wave monitoring. This i
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by phdelightful 4y ago
As an undergrad I made a guitar tuner using a PIC32 microcontroller to do time-series correlation to figure out the frequency (FFT was too slow for real-time) and a state machine embodied in a stratix FPGA to control a stepper motor to turn
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Not the parent, but I like it! First sentence is unnecessary. It would be better if it disallowed taking data for a legit reason and then using it for another less scrupulous reason. Point 5 may mitigate this concern substantially however.
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Nice idea, but our current world except without US nukes is a much worse world. We’re sort of stuck in a local minimum of nuclear weapon danger for the time being. Also I think the main accident in the article was during research into conv
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Between OpenMP (older computers), CUDA (Nvidia), HIP (AMD), now SYCL (Intel), not to mention more interesting architectures, DOE is probably plently busy and has plenty of very fast computers that are hard enough to keep their codes working
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by phdelightful 4y ago
If you want to see this line of thinking taken a bit too far, check out the list of Trilinos packages on github: https://github.com/trilinos/Trilinos/tree/master/packages There's ~50, and nearly all
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by phdelightful 4y ago
> you cannot reason someone out of a position they have not been reasoned into Yes you can, that’s one of the best things about reason. I see this phrase pop up from time to time and I guess it’s just too cute to die
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Only if you also include instructions to decode it using the ten hundred most common words, I think!
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I wish those people over 40 hadn't put a US government in place that abolished the fairness doctrine. Then our news sources would probably not be so bananas.
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I like “from A to B” because B happens after A temporally and in the text. It also serves to emphasize A as opposed to B, which is nice because we usually wouldn’t leave A unless there was really a problem with it even if B is better in so
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Maybe the positivists’ antipositivism should just be “not everything demands an empirical explanation in order for us to continue functioning well in day-to-day life, and that’s just fine.”
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by phdelightful 4y ago
If you're asking why banks lend money to each other, it's mostly because banks need liquidity (e.g. $ in an account) in order to do transactions and meet legally mandated reserve requirements. If I'm a bank, rather than const
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I take your point. I think I was just reacting to various flavors of “he’s not crazy” as having a potentially normalizing effect but that may not be what was intended, or what other readers focused on.
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I know cold turkey works for some people, but I’d never recommend it unless it’s truly an emergency (immediate danger of harm) and you have a support system around you to hold you to it. The truth is, people are obstinate about change and a
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Don’t you have to be at least a little bit more detached from reality than the median person (“crazy”) to shoot up a supermarket? I don’t think crazy in a blank check to get away with whatever you want, you can definitely make yourself craz
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I want to see a fully-synthetic multimodal social media influencer that is nearly indistinguishable from reality. She does the same thing as the real ones except everything is completely artificially generated (housing, clothes, vacations,
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by phdelightful 4y ago
Is there a C++ library that implements static integer types with these ideas? In principle the operations don’t seem complicated, but there are probably enough edge cases that it’s tricky to get it all right.
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by phdelightful 4y ago
The word “formula” doesn’t appear in the article you linked. It seems to be about other baby foods.
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by phdelightful 4y ago
As an executive member of a nonprofit, this was exactly the kind of headache I hoped for. You can do as lot of good with $100K. Definitely worth the trouble.
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by phdelightful 4y ago
> In justified text, it divides into appropriate syllables a word that lands on a line break, a task that machines have not yet mastered Maybe I’m misunderstanding but Latex does this pretty well (“mastered” is a bit fuzzy I guess).
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I'd remove the collective action problem. That would empower humans to solve their big problems as they see fit!
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by phdelightful 4y ago
The counterpoint is that variable-length decoding introduces sequential dependence in the decoding, i.e. you don’t know where instruction 2 starts until you’ve decoded instruction 1. This probably limits how many decoders you can have. If y
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I wonder to what extent this is an early step toward walling off Reddit's content from third-party search engines. They probably recognize that without a functional search they'd take a big hit in such a scenario, but with search
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by phdelightful 4y ago
I'm currently in the "smart TV but don't connect it to the internet" crowd. I think there are three broad criticisms. Violating your privacy in unsurprising ways that provide no value to you: obviously when and how you u
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Since you don’t offer much to work with, I assume you mean: “I disgree. People at the cutting edge should be educating others both to help them make their ideas accessible and connect them with the future of their discipline.” I encourage y
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by phdelightful 5y ago
Doubly so because when someone says “who are you,” usually they mean “what’s your name?”

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