riwsky

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   by riwsky 3y ago

   *inluned
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   by riwsky 3y ago

   I have some bad news for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology
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   by riwsky 3y ago

   lmao that u felt qualified to advise on non-threatening communication, dude
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   by riwsky 3y ago

   It is. The percentage is wrong; the “only two or three every forty years” is right (by construction, IQ has a mean of 100 and stddev of 15).
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   by riwsky 3y ago

   “Neither image elicits a cat-like response” is a special case of both pictures being equally cat-like, and still gives you the 50/50 prior. And “not really, sure, kinda” is not a possible response to “which of these two copies of a vas
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   by riwsky 3y ago

   The null hypothesis is 50/50 for butterfly, as well. From our conscious perception, it’s two copies of the same picture of a vase.
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   by riwsky 3y ago

   The null hypothesis is that the participants are just as able to find those cat-like features in either perturbation of the image, and would pick the “right” one only 50% of the time.
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   by riwsky 3y ago

   This is different because you’re not asking if one picture is feline, you’re asking which of two (basically identical) pictures is more feline; you would expect the pareidolia to be just as strong for each version.
9. 279.▲
   by riwsky 3y ago

   Huge fan
10. 280.▲
    by riwsky 3y ago

    this hertz to think about
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyblade
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    this exploit chain involved a browser vulnerability; your premise is flawed
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Sounds like da Vinci wins, by dint of being both an apple and an orange
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Is this not how the generation before us felt about our inability to repair our cars and radios?
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    I just found out it gets worse: turns out GPT-4 isn't processing images so much as arrays of pixels! And worse: turns out GPT-4 isn't processing pixels so much as integers representing in a position in some color space like RGB! A
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    They were comfortable risking user security by making everyone’s IPs visible to the other viewers (for P2P streaming); Twitch wasn’t.
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Software engineers are very often empowered to do so—and those few years of people switching jobs for better ones is what it looks like.
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    This isn't about taping a key to _your_ front door—you're taping a key to Apple's.
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Or well, not until wegovy drops beneath 1000/a month at least
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Finally; I’d always wondered what the buzz is all about
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Reminds me of one of my favorite games of all time: The Mountain and the Motorcycle: https://achewood.com/2004/07/13/title.html
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Americans have always had a math phobia. How is this news?
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Nah dude they just need to give baby the iPad and let it watch literally all of YouTube
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    One is reminded of how the percentage of women in symphony orchestras shot way up once they started doing blind auditions
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    Ah yes—as the saying goes: “keep your friends at the Bayes-optimal distance corresponding to your level of confidence in their out-of-distribution behavior, and your enemies closer”
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    “I’m going to define generalization such that my thesis that GPT-4 can generalize reversals is true—and lo, my thesis is true!”
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    “Quick” means “done in a short time”; the sentence you call out is still using time to describe work. > When anyone measures in time, there's no guarantee that you'll get what you want in that amount of time, and then what? Wel
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    There was a Visual Studio for Mac?
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    “If you’re so smart, then why aren’t you rich?”
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    by riwsky 3y ago

    God, I feel like such an idiot. All this time I’ve been making fun of Google for having Google Talk, Hangouts, Allo, Duo, Messages, Spaces, Wave, Buzz, Plus, and Meet, I’d never realized that it’s simply a necessary SRE measure at their sca