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by pstuart 2mo ago
Let's not ignore the money spent on killing people in different countries, funding cartels, and ensuring that climate change hits faster and harder.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
As you should -- it's fucked up. I remember the movie made about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Dolphin
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Rereading what I wrote -- I think I misspoke in my haste to respond, but yes, I agree with this.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Sure, the same intention is to not hold refuted or refutable beliefs .
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Considering the state of the federal government under the current regime it's a challenge to identify safe government and business relationships.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Here's One Weird Trick™ to avoid being an ideologue: be ok with being wrong. Flipping that over: aspire to be correct in your beliefs, not in "being right". Karl Popper (the man behind the Intolerance of Intolerance "p
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by pstuart 2mo ago
He was obviously a brilliant man but the hubris that comes from that often leads to folly. As to the dolphin communication -- it seems like LLMs would be the perfect tool to study that now. A search came up with these active projects (court
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Your assessment is depressingly reasonable. I have a thesis that people need stories to inform and inspire them. I also believe that this problem is technically solvable, and that the stories we have today are either backwards (the woman
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by pstuart 2mo ago
If things don't change, those in power in the US will succeed in making the second a reality. There is a "replacement" crisis but it's being addressed by pearl clutching and those advocating for forced birth. Having chil
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by pstuart 2mo ago
And at the turn of the century it was all about dot coms.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Upgrading would make that a nice to have. 8 years or so and battery tech should have an affordable higher capacity unit that could give new life to it. I got a refurbed Nissan Leaf with a 40KWh battery (replaced the original 24KWh battery)
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by pstuart 2mo ago
It was never about saving money. It was about sabotaging programs they were ideologically opposed to, stealing data, and possibly messing with internal investigations into Musks "unsavory" business practices. There already is a &q
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by pstuart 2mo ago
The cartridge could be a small mac-mini type unit connected and powered over thunderbolt. If it included like an m5 or m7 with 64GB of memory and a PCIe5/6 4TB Nvme it would be amazeballs. Hopefully when the bubble corrects and hardwar
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Do you think there's room for reducing power requirements? Obviously shrinking the process is a win, but is the existing implementation a "just make it work" phase that has opportunities to increase computational efficiency?
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by pstuart 2mo ago
This was does. It's great for stress relief and a change of scenery.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
I'd say library builders are focused on specific capabilities and doing so as cleanly and efficiently as they can. App builders just want to build stuff and make it work and move on to the next app. Nothing wrong with that but a differ
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by pstuart 2mo ago
TIL -- dear god that's terrifying. I get that there's likely a lot of valuable and legitimate work that could come out of it, but I wouldn't trust Zuck as far as I could throw him out a window.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
What's a president? King Trump II has been our leader as long as I can remember!
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Same, but it was a video diving deep into the recent news about the surge of refugees into Spain -- very enlightening. Found it. It's Cody Dahler who is a cheeky commenter on "current events" -- he's worth watching. Coul
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Too many people will see this type of thing and go "I don't smoke weed so this is not a problem for me"
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by pstuart 2mo ago
It's a fascinating proposition but I see a couple of issues with it: 1. Most of us do not have the volume of training material that gwern has 2. Most people likely would not need this functionality (as I understand it to be) For #1 I&#
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Getting a usable PRD is often the bottleneck.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
The press operates at two distinct tiers: owners/editors and reporters. The former leans towards the oligarchs, the reporters tend to lean the other way.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
What every admin in this century has done is to avoid declaring what construes "winning" -- which is rather convenient to them as far as how they are to be judged on waging that war.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
We had to destroy the village to save it.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
That's silly! Everybody knows it's the shape that shows the intelligence, not the circumference!
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Born a bit earlier. I remember growing up in the shadow of possible nuclear war and remember having nightmares about it. And it would have happened for real if not for one man's refusal to push the button: https://en.wikiped
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by pstuart 2mo ago
It would be a mistake to confuse simple for dumb. His comment about making it easy for junior engineers was about pragmatic software engineering and being able to deliver product at scale. There's plenty of far more advanced programmin
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Likely but it may be asking too much to condense copypasta into generics -- but the tooling does improve on each release.
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by pstuart 2mo ago
Yeah, I amended that note on another reply in this thread.

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