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by qcnguy 1y ago
That's been done already for years. OpenAI were training on bulk AI transcribed YouTube vids already in the GPT-4 era. Modern models are all multi-modal and cotrained on audio and image tokens together with text. The AI companies are n
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Right. The objective is "correctly predict the entire training set", where that training set contains literally everything. So the objective becomes to speak every human language, every programming language, to understand every to
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It's extremely rare to find people who aren't criminals yet engaged in behavior that's genuinely detrimental to everyone else. The world isn't new and the obviously unacceptable behaviors have all been forbidden for thou
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All three of those links are claiming right wing people are mentally ill. Academics have all kinds of indirect theories for why people outside of academia don't agree with their politics. Ironically given the subject of the website, on
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by qcnguy 1y ago
This is a common problem with "your job is bullshit" rhetoric. It says a lot more about the speaker than the people whose jobs they're criticizing. The most famous example is David Graeber, an academic who wrote a whole book
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by qcnguy 1y ago
I did some random spot checks of the DoE report and this new rebuttal. The rebuttal is crap. If this is the best they can do, the new DoE conclusions should stand. Example 1. A dispute over the effect of pH on coral reefs. DoE: "De’at
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That's the one!
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How did past administrations ignore it? Trump 1.0 tried to build his Big Beautiful Wall and implement many other policies to get a grip on abuse of the immigration rules. Obama ran a relatively normal immigration policy with "deportati
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by qcnguy 1y ago
> This is why tech and business leaders should stay out of politics. Yeah but they don't stay out of politics, do they? Gemini painting black Nazis was a deliberate choice to troll the vast majority of the population who isn'
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> I don't know what he was talking about There's a bunch of ways AI is improving itself, depending on how you want to interpret that. But it's been true since the start. 1. AI is used to train AI. RLHF uses this, curricu
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Just click the x at the top right of the interstitial?
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The grid operator did release a report, and it stated that the problem was desynchronization of a solar farm, followed by more frequency destabilization as they tried to combat the first problem, followed by a panicked attempt to bring gas
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Fox News and friends pay their staff's own salaries. They aren't hosting entire cohorts of journalists who are paid for entirely by someone else and then presenting their output as neutral and unbiased. And you'll notice that
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The recent full blackout in Iberia was caused by renewables destabilizing the grid, and the fossil plants were cold so couldn't save the day. Having fossil plants is of no use if they were mandated by the government to turn themselves
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It's because renewables aren't what customers naturally want, that's why grids have to be forced to take their output using preference schemes and subsidies. The financial modeling also relies heavily on the assumption of gov
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What misinformation and lies? I made one factual claim above and linked to the AP themselves apologising for what they're doing as proof. I don't spread misinformation nor lies. Just truths that the climate lobby don't want p
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Nobody, of course. It would be nice if oil, gas, electricity and auto companies did in fact fund people like me to point out all the things climate activists say that aren't true. Pointing out misinformation is valuable on its own, and
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by qcnguy 1y ago
No it's not. Lobbying works like this: someone pays someone else to advocate for some issue rather than doing it directly. Lobbying doesn't work like this: someone donates to someone else for reason A, who hires a lawyer for some
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There's no equivalent of AppNap if I recall correctly and drivers often aren't aggressive at shutting down unused devices, or they don't do it at all. Linux has historically had a lot of problems with reliable suspends too.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
It's important but not relative to performance. Perf/watt thinking has a much longer history in mobile and laptop spaces. Even in servers most workloads haven't migrated to ARM.
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If I recall correctly Apple had to buy enormous numbers of CNC machines in order to build laptops that way. It was considered insane by the industry at the time.
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And the more relevant case for laptops is macOS, which is heavily optimized for battery life and power draw in ways that Linux just isn't, neither is Windows. A lot of the problems here can't actually be fixed by intel, amd, or an
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This is like the people who claim silence is violence or that everything is political. Not passing a law about something isn't normally a choice. There are infinity things you might conceivably not pass laws about, and you can't
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Don't conflate APIs with distribution. Devs love web-style distribution. App Stores can be convenient for discovery, but that only matters for a limited number of apps. What they didn't love was being forced into the JS/DOM s
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Disclaimer: it's possible XSLT got better over time, although I doubt it. I actually wrote a whole app that used XSLT back 25 years ago, even backed by an XML database! Super hip (tech stack wasn't my choice). XSLT is bad tech and
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Probably, mobile operating systems would work more like macOS where apps can be installed directly from websites with a layer of (possibly server side) malware checking and more reliance on code signing/sandboxing. There's no inhe
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You have the freedom to move to another country that is also ruled by the EU and where the same regulations apply? That doesn't matter in this discussion. In practice EU residents cannot easily leave.
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MagSafe is a superior power connector in every way.
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Yes, the default state of the world is unregulated. Why does that seem strange to you?

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