scaredginger

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by scaredginger 3y ago
Do you understand that you've just linked the numbers that are being criticised without addressing the criticisms?
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by scaredginger 3y ago
I'll never get tired of seeing this oversimplification whenever affirmative action is discussed
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by scaredginger 3y ago
imagine the Soviet Union?
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by scaredginger 3y ago
For me, the discomfort is that Mr Beast's content relies on exploiting people's desperation due to the lack of social safety net. It's not his fault that they're in such dire straits to begin with, but he's nonethel
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by scaredginger 3y ago
To be fair, infighting is extremely common in left-wing circles
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by scaredginger 3y ago
https://archive.ph/MY5Dv
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by scaredginger 3y ago
I don't know if it is that different. Darwin and Wallace still came up with the same radical theory within decades of one another, quite a coincidence. The natural explanation is that the theory was a result of other human developments
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Yes, you were complaining that mathematicians weren't providing you with practical examples. I explained why that complaint is stupid. Does that clear it up for you?
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by scaredginger 4y ago
From a pure mathematics standpoint, why should a mathematical concept need a practical application to justify its existence? 'I have never done anything "useful". No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly
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by scaredginger 4y ago
They may have realised they're playing a bad bet and won't let you play again. I kid of course, but the implicit aim of these exercises is always to maximise expected value. The underlying assumption is that you can make a lot of
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by scaredginger 4y ago
The first problem is much simpler framed around Bernoulli sequences, each concluding when one gets another distinct toy. Then, it's just the expectation of the sum of four geometric random variables If you have zero toys, the probabili
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Yup, it's a terrible idea, even if theoretically possible
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Wouldn't seriously suggest doing this, but rationals with big integers would have exact results for all the common operations
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by scaredginger 4y ago
...or we could find a real solution
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by scaredginger 4y ago
This sounds much more like a case of awful design than destructors being problematic
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by scaredginger 4y ago
People must have a lot of faith in management to assume they have any idea who the good employees are
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Is there a need for software engineers in developing direct air capture tech? I'd be interested in working in the field
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by scaredginger 4y ago
With the apparent link between tech and EA, I think the article is correct in saying that this harrassment is a reflection of the same problem in broader tech circles. We still have a lot of work to do if we want everyone to feel comfortabl
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Please explain your reasoning here
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by scaredginger 4y ago
You pay through the nose for vol when buying puts on anything that looks like it should blow up
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by scaredginger 4y ago
I didn't intend to be taken literally, I was more commenting on the habit of trying to find technical solutions to social problems while ignoring the underlying causes
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by scaredginger 4y ago
We may need some business model innovation here, like when multiplayer games all went free-to-play
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by scaredginger 4y ago
I find it hard to imagine a future without oil and gas, it seems like these companies have absolute power. It's difficult not to feel hopeless
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by scaredginger 4y ago
There are far more social problems in the world than technological ones
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Running a gigantic model across multiple GPUs isn't cheap either
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by scaredginger 4y ago
I've read estimates of $0.02 per query
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by scaredginger 4y ago
If the article is accurate, this may be stupider than the Australian anti-encryption legislation. https://proton.me/blog/australia-anti-encryption-law
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Is his strategy to appear stupid beyond malice?
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by scaredginger 4y ago
In the land of C++, we have a sparse standard library and no standard package management solution
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by scaredginger 4y ago
Yes, we're all aware it's common practice to open source code. However, if the weights aren't provided and the data is unavailable or the compute is expensive, the code is worthless.

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