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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
For anyone without the time: my biggest takeaway when I first watched this was: audiences certainly like the idea of practical effects, so both media outlets and productions are incentivized to talk up every practical element, right up to t
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
It's weird how consistent the 'ai art style' is for each medium. You really only need a glance at the right frame in these to know immediately. ( https://www.aventos.dev/our-work ) Not looking for errors or any
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
A few months after Andrew Wiles presented the proof for Fermat's last theorem, some mistakes were found that subsequently took him over a year to patch over. Imagine being 12 months into trying to put the pieces back together, after al
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
In medieval Europe they would do "recoinage". They would declare all the old coinage no longer legal tender (also outlaw hoarding and transacting with it or foreign currency). The mint would take all your old coins off your hands
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
Extremely similar to iRobot (Roomba). They both practically genericized themselves by inventing and dominating the product category, then just couldn't keep up with the competition. GoPro does feel more self inflicted though. Their dro
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
We are still so slow and have had space travel for so little time, we are almost certainly on the "wait" side of the wait equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wait_Equation
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
This is definitely the guy if anybody wants to peruse for themselves: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0F2RNXR5R The most reviews I could find for any book was 6, most with 0. They cluster around 'dad&#x
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
When the LLM decides to drive-by rephrase me when making a functional change it drives me up the wall haha. Woah woah woah human, you can't just say there are "far too many" pipes with similar names to abbreviate their labels
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
I wish they were just regular inputs. A significant portion of them I encounter have some kind of cursor navigation or paste bug. I think this mechanism is the perfect Goldilocks-zone control of simple enough that people rewrite it from scr
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
If a given paragraph gets encoded into twice as many tokens, that means the model gets twice as many matmuls to process it. The amount of compute thrown at the problem is increased (everything else constant), which may improve the quality o
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
I still don't like having explicit conversions everywhere like in rust. Either you're not thinking too hard about it and the explicit conversions are not really doing anything for you, or you are, meaning you need to be reasoning
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
I know the Three Gorges Dam added ~0.06 microseconds on its own, so the effect of reservoirs definitely is noticeable. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-details-earthquake-effect...
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
The encyclopedia of integer sequences can be quite useful: https://oeis.org/
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
Not necessarily. Looking before crossing the street is inversely correlated with getting hit by a truck. Getting trucked is inversely correlated with getting mauled by a lion (most places with wild lions are light on road traffic). Doesn&#x
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
I remember from moltbook, all AIs ever talk about is AI haha. I don't know if it's intentional or more that the fact that all the models are presumably system-prompted and post-trained to be cognisant of their AI-ness, so it'
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
I would consider it extremely obscure overall. A large majority of programmers would not be aware of its existence. At the same time there are clearly much less popular languages with articles so it is kindof weird to push to delete. (eg: r
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
The American average is actually ~$35,000 apparently. Though that comes from the wedding industry so they probably undercount small ceremonies and have some incentive to juice the numbers besides. I couldn't really find a good clean ta
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
People are pretty expensive (they're literally worth a lifetime of free labor). 1 slave would've been like 3 complete years income for an average free white southerner to purchase, plus ongoing expenses obviously. So they basicall
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
1000 people is what they usually do for political polls. I was taught that a sample size of 1000 is sufficient for pretty much any purpose. At some point what becomes more significant is the differences between the poll-answering population
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
100s of millions have definitely been exposed already. The best defence is probably to be a baby so your risk window is minimal. I haven't been able to pull that off personally, so I follow the other recommended piece of advice which i
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
If you have no requirements for accuracy, you can just advance 35% of applicants at random. If the first 50 people who apply are all bots, why are you reading resumes in order of submission?
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
Starcraft 2 has the same overall design. If you disconnected and rejoined in an online match you could watch it scrub through the entire game to get back to the synchronization point (not theoretically necessary I guess, but probably avoids
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
If you remember that hotel chain Sonder which went bankrupt last year, they had a zero-local-employees model: no front-desk, outsourced maintenance and housekeeping. I think they made the same mistake. Your typical interaction with the hote
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
Apparently the distribution of patterns (whorls, arches, loops, etc) varies by ethnicity, but not that much. So for an individual set of prints you can't determine anything reliably. It's not really genetic, rather determined mo
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by recursivecaveat 3mo ago
Given that 20-90% of people don't receive one across various modern countries, I think we have enough regular data. Otherwise like 80% of Germans would be champion athletes if a no-epidural birth really did that for you.
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
I believe this is the actual audit report here: https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/TTX_Business_Tax_System_P... Page 27 / exhibit 4 is the most interesting piece of evidence for steering to me.
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
It seems kind of silly to tout the 5% "not medically necessary" line when 7 times as many were denied for "a reason the insurer never specified". I wouldn't really describe claim denials for reasons like administrat
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
> To lend credibility to the false figures, Fairfull forged bank documents using PDF-editing software and uploaded them to the data room investors used for due diligence. Wait, when they're doing due diligence, nobody actually check
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
I mean, they claimed to be for browser diversity when it was not them on top lol. Underdogs want the race to tighten up, 85% market leaders want to stay out in front.
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by recursivecaveat 4mo ago
Magic the gathering has this problem. You have 2 types of cards, and drawing an imbalanced mixture is pretty detrimental. During play you tend to sort them into 2 piles though. Consequently it's a not uncommon sight to see people manua

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