renjimen

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by renjimen 6y ago
I'd hoped so! Somethings are lost in text and you know what they say about assuming
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I was nodding along with your comment, wondering why it had been downvoted until I reached your last statement and couldn't tell if you were being serious or not.
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by renjimen 6y ago
Depends on who is suing you: OpenAI for using their model results, or the owner(s) of the data their model was trained on? Either way, it's a grey zone that copyright law hasn't come to grips with yet. See https://schol
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by renjimen 6y ago
I learnt a lot from Factfulness. Great book! My concern is mainly an ecological one, which I don't recall Factfulness really addressing. While human welfare continues to improve in most of the world, our sustainable use of natural reso
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Yeah, OWID is great, as is Hans Rosling's work (mentioned below) concerning human welfare improvement. The past definitely sucked a lot. My main concern with overpopulation is that we may have already exceeded the sustainable carrying
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by renjimen 6y ago
Overpopulation. It's the main source of humanity's current woes and will only get worse with time. We seem to be content with addressing the symptoms rather than the problem. The idea of population control is taboo but will help e
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I've also worked as a data scientist for a few years and have never heard or used the word "provenance" in a DS context. Some people used it in the oil & gas industry when talking about where reservoir sands came from, bu
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by renjimen 6y ago
Blog post below on how the hate5six creator made this algorithm. Boils down to using the lyrics and community listening habits from last.fm to build a similarity graph for artists, then community detection to group similar artists. https:&
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Pretty good! I tried it with some random cross-genre combinations of stuff I like and it found a bunch of other fairly niche bands I like. Looking forward to trying out the other recommendations. Works fine for genres other than punk &
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Spanking is just low level physical abuse. There's plenty of evidence and it's widely accepted among healthcare professionals and governments (the US included) that corporal punishment of any level (spanking included) causes devel
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Well, all of it was due to the lack of medical knowledge. The bubonic plague hardly kills anyone anymore. The point the parent is making is that we shouldn't compare the societal effects of COVID19 today with that of the bubonic plague
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Well, true. Emotional abuse is still abuse. I wouldn't say it's a justification for reverting to physical abuse instead, rather educating yourself as a parent on how raise your child in a supporting manner that guides rather than
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What do we have to blame for that, do you think? Encouraging independence? Expectation inflation from social media?
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If a child is old enough to understand (usually younger than you think, judging from my friends' children), they're old enough to deserve a conversation about why what they did was not a good thing. Will they act out again? Probab
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This is a large motivation of mine for reading fiction and watching good drama. The best of it can provide insights into my own life that {categorized mental dynamic} is too blunt an instrument to probe. The Crown springs to mind - the late
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by renjimen 6y ago
What about the other half of the population? It's an interesting quote but it doesn't explain why women also experience midlife crises. Could it simply be that a focus on career and modern nuclear families provide less satisfactio
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by renjimen 6y ago
Just moved to my wife's home country during COVID. I can attest to the fact that online gaming has one of my only ways to "socialise" since I can't go and make any new friends at the moment.
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Honestly, there is very little else as satisfying as a couple of Juan Deags in a crunch round of a CS match. I've spent time learning other, more respectable RL hobbies, but there's that deep sense of satisfaction they fail to cap
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by renjimen 6y ago
Different forms of individualism, be it self esteem promotion or perseverance promotion, are still individualism. It’s so rare to work in isolation in the real world, so why are collaboration, support and reliance not seen as more important
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by renjimen 6y ago
Ditto. Andrew (Blender Guru) is a brilliant teacher with a good Australian sense of humour that kept the series fun. Amazing that it's free, though he understandably plugs his textures website so it doubles as a good advert (and I ende
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by renjimen 6y ago
Yep, I totally agree there are ways to make social media competitive, and you’ve given some good ideas. I hadn’t thought about a UBI style fund for social media. Not sure it would work in practise with the global nature of social networks,
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It's not as simple as that. I'd like to delete my Facebook account but it would be impossible to keep up with all my friends and family who don't use other platforms. Equally, Twitter is the platform for political and academi
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Except no organism is born a blank slate. Parent is correct in that our prior was massively expensive to construct
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Deletion is one thing, but what about even turning off an AI? GPT3 cost 12 million dollars to train - I'm not sure how much it costs to run, but certainly more than your average human being. Who pays for that?
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How about the ol' nature or nurture debate? "Judge, I was trained on a biased dataset!"
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Douglas Hofstadter writes about intelligence being the reason behind his (almost) vegetarianism. If I recall correctly, he doesn't have any qualms about swatting a mosquito because on the sliding scale of intelligence they're some
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A good list, though I think human faces and general animation are okay when you compare with foliage, which is downright awful. A lot of the improvement in human features has to do with motion capture and 3D scanning, but getting transition
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Here’s hoping you don’t have carpets
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I’m pretty convinced that some games have made me smarter. It sounds daft, but I remember completing The Witness and felt like I had transcended somehow. Still haven’t found the right way to put it on my CV
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I should clarify that I’m not proud of myself for playing video games, but that they were an important part of my life which no doubt shaped the person I am today. I do think people can be proud of playing video games though. The amount of

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