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by runarberg 2mo ago
I was exaggerating, but I did look at the selection at Powell’s before posting. Admittedly not your average bookstore.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I mean white noise generators are literally less then 20 lines of JavaScript. I wrote one (without an LLM) just now in less then 10 minutes: const audioCtx = new AudioContext(); const sr = audioCtx.sampleRate; const buffer = a
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Did you want to learn Mongolian or did you want to play a video game where you pretended to learn Mongolian. Because if it was the former, plenty of resources have been available for you for years. You could have walked into your local book
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by runarberg 2mo ago
When you tie money to power (i.e. capitalism) people will use money to buy more power, and their power the gain more money. This is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. The system is working as intended. Luckily capitalism is not the only sy
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by runarberg 2mo ago
This is just my hypothesis, but I suspect that at Chrome‘s engineering team there has been a culture of inaction for the past decade or more. That nothing gets done, no bugs fixed, unless some higher ups at Google sees a business interest i
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I am all in favor of a global revolution to overthrow capitalism with a solidarity of workers of the world. But I think we can have a non-corrupt FIFA without one.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I am not sure a replacement for Infantino is enough. It seems like FIFA has a culture of corruption and Infantino is merely the latest manifestation of said culture. Some serious reform and restructuring seem needed.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
“Looks like this is a card. He already has a yellow (sponsored by Qatar Airwaves), and may be looking at his second. YES! he is receiving is second yellow, this time sponsored by Universal Studio, and here is the red card. Sponsored by Red
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I think other people can explain it better then me, but here is my (extreme) layperson understanding. The story is from the 12th century BCE Mycenaean Greece. I think most scholars agree some of the people actually existed, and that some of
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by runarberg 2mo ago
> Nolan has a unique talent [...] amongst contemporary Hollywood directors for capturing and reflecting contemporary and near-future textures and preoccupations. Just to be clear. This is the same director who interpreted Occupy Wall Str
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I have not seen the movie (and will not because I oppose the occupation of Western Sahara), but I think OP was clear about this. She described the protagonist as someone who’s main quality is feeling bad about the stuff his done, but that’s
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I read this as a stylistic choice by the reviewer, she was clearly having a great time writing this awesome review, and decided to put this at the end of her conclusion to add flavor to to it, something she points out is missing in the movi
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Classism has a way to go for the overkill. I don‘t think the post-modern interpretation is 100% correct... I think this is more complex and nuanced, but your rebuttal is not very good. Higher classes have both the time and the space to read
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by runarberg 2mo ago
I‘m not super versed in sociology of education but I was always under the impression that over assigning was a real problem in undergraduate and collage setting (even in high school to an extent I heard last). My post-modern mind went strai
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by runarberg 2mo ago
It would not surprise me that the cost of lobbying rises exponentially as the policy moves left on the political spectrum. That pro-business, pro-austerity, neo-liberal policy is orders of magnitude cheaper to lobby for, then pro-worker, pr
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by runarberg 2mo ago
You are probably not going to read this, but this is bad faith argument. Giving me a difficult question which does not have an easy answer, and then when I am unable (or unwilling) to solve it, disregard my opinion about the easier problem.
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by runarberg 2mo ago
> How will you sequester carbon already out there with boring solutions? I don‘t care. First we need to address the urgent problem which is new carbon being released. Lucky for us that is also the easy problem. All we have to do is stop
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by runarberg 2mo ago
Please just stop. Capitalists have already caused way too much damage with your “risky ventures” . After a thousand of these risky ventures with each one of them making the climate disaster worse actually, I think it is time that you are j
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by runarberg 2mo ago
If they ever served such a function, they no longer do so. Today’s risky ventures are funded by venture capital and the results are disastrous. I propose an alternative system where you fund your risky venture by taking out a loan at your l
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by runarberg 2mo ago
There is no need for an alternative. Trading stocks is not a necessary precondition for trading goods and services. Most of mine, and probably your businesses are done without anybody holding stocks in the stuff you are buying or selling. Y
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by runarberg 2mo ago
That is not so simple. The lottery is gambling, but the lottery doesn’t trigger the dopamine receptors like slot machine or scratch tickets (also gambling) do. This is because the response is too far behind the behavior in time (hours or da
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by runarberg 2mo ago
> Do you also support abolishing the stock market? An anti-capitalist here: Yes... Oh heavens, yes. There are few things I desire more then to see all the stock markets in the world burn and never to be rebuilt. For me, people who make m
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by runarberg 3mo ago
Like I said, usually this is used to debunk false claims about LLMs being compilers. I personally think there are better arguments to be made to debunk that, but the probabilistic nature of LLMs is an obvious one, so it is not unsurprising
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by runarberg 3mo ago
That argument is mostly used against the misconception of AI-stans that LLMs are compilers, English is a programming language, and that prompting is a programing. There are many reasons for why that is false, and LLMs being stochastic is on
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by runarberg 3mo ago
My partner went to a carpentry school in Seattle 7 years ago where I learned about sawstops and I remember thinking the same. A pretty amazing technology exists that saves lives and limbs, and it is weird that we allow table saw without thi
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by runarberg 3mo ago
That would makes sense. This is how AlphaGo became better then the training data, and was the basis for Alpha Zero which used no human data and became even better. However the loss function (or the success criteria more broadly) for the gam
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by runarberg 3mo ago
The tool makes the food taste bad in ... say ... 20% of the cases, and in 5% of the cases it contaminates the food with salmonella. Yes you can have the chefs taste the food before serving, and test it for salmonella. But it would be comple
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I don‘t understand what you mean. Supervised learning is reinforcement learning, while not all reinforcement learning is supervised learning (e.g unsupervised learning is also reinforcement learning; i.e. reinforcement learning with unlab
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by runarberg 3mo ago
I assume RL stands for reinforcement learning, which just means that the weights are adjusted by evaluating some loss function. If the loss function uses the training data (i.e. supervised learning) then the original assumption still holds.
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by runarberg 3mo ago
One of the camps has all the money, hold all the power, and does indeed behave with impunity. The other camp has no power, has no way to affect anything, holds no political relevance, and NIMBY tactics is one of very few ways they can even

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