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by scarmig 3y ago
Bias exists. But by removing the financial incentive from the definition of astroturfing, you make it useless when it comes to distinguishing from bias. Otherwise you turn it into "how many degrees of separation can I find to Waymos&qu
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by scarmig 3y ago
It's also worthwhile to point out that, although in this case the bad human driver was the immediate cause of the accident, at scale this will happen with some frequency, either from bad human drivers, bugs in the software or hardware,
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by scarmig 3y ago
Capitalism is excellent at local gradient descent, better at it than governments. But it gets caught in suboptimal local minima (and, worse than that, it tends to warp the space in its current local neighborhood to make escaping that dip ha
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Tyler Cohen's Generative AI Book(econgoat.ai)
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by scarmig 3y ago
KNX seems like a solid solution: a single shared bus that smart devices communicate with each other over, without any need for any kind of centralized server (either on prem or not). But unfortunately AFAICT there aren't any installers
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by scarmig 3y ago
Depends on the proportion of women in the hiring pool you're drawing from. If you have 5 employees and your hiring pool is 80% men, then in an entirely unbiased world, you'd still expect a third of 5-employee startups to have no w
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by scarmig 3y ago
Explicit quotas would probably be preferable to the current state of affairs. The fact that they're implicit means that, as soon as you bring them up, someone can play dumb and claim that they don't exist. It precludes having an h
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by scarmig 3y ago
It seems pretty limiting for a cult, though. You can't count all the members he left out of it.
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by scarmig 3y ago
This seems like a pointless back and forth; you all aren't going to be able to square the circle here.
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by scarmig 3y ago
In principal, at least, you could encode all those constraints in the birthday example into the type system. In practice, no one does, partially because existing type systems aren't ergonomic enough to express those constraints for dev
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by scarmig 3y ago
I don't know of anything. I think you could create something pretty solid using Nix, but no one (afaik) has put the effort into making a simple, user friendly OS built on it.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Fedora Silverblue is in some ways comparable. Unfortunately it uses Flatpaks. In the end, the architecture and security (against non-Google adversaries) of ChromeOS trumps everything else for my personal use. And when maintaining things for
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by scarmig 3y ago
CSAM markets will get flooded by fakes: no one will know what's real and what's not, and the fake abuse will be easier and cheaper to make. So real CSAM will have plausible deniability, but there's no reason outside of exhibi
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by scarmig 3y ago
> For years, deepfakes – highly convincing fake videos made using AI – have been used to put women’s faces into often aggressive pornographic videos, without their consent. The videos often appear so real it can be hard for female victim
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by scarmig 3y ago
Words are just a lossy inefficient stand-in for a vector embedding database.
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by scarmig 3y ago
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’
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by scarmig 3y ago
$22k * ($18.30/$0.04) = $10.065M
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by scarmig 3y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2018-07-25/mon...
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by scarmig 3y ago
Go directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $10M.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Even if a human expert responds about something in their domain of expertise, you have to think critically about the answer. Something that fails 1% of the time is often more dangerous than something that fails 10% of the time. The best way
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by scarmig 3y ago
My "recipe" is simply caiziyou and erjingtiao, hot flash method, and it works well enough. One thing the author misses about the oil choice: what makes caiziyou superior to other oil choices is that it has a high viscosity. That r
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by scarmig 3y ago
Taking a stab at a reasonable definition for me, if you receive resources X or less as financial or in-kind assistance, and you go from X to 100X through regular market transactions, you can say you're a self-made 100Xaire. 10X seems t
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by scarmig 3y ago
What counts as massive financial assistance? Howard Schultz, Larry Ellison, Oprah, George Soros all have reasonable claims to being self-made, though of course they all received support at times.
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by scarmig 3y ago
To see which cat, you pipe it through cat. which cat | cat
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by scarmig 3y ago
A job guarantee for software engineers.
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by scarmig 3y ago
Which "how" we're talking about depends substantially on context. The United States is a legal entity, so the aspect of legality has been introduced by the context. The duck is a physical entity, so it's physical. If som
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by scarmig 3y ago
I've always imagined RBI as something primarily targeting enterprise; thanks for making it clearer the advantages for a personal end user. Do many websites end up blocking traffic if it's originating from e.g. an EC2 instance?
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by scarmig 3y ago
It's only a matter of time until models can create that trail of incremental work, though.
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by scarmig 3y ago
So I guess here my question is why a GPU would perform accumulations in a nondeterministic way where the non-associativity of FP arithmetic matters. You could require that a + b + c always be evaluated left to right and then you've got
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by scarmig 3y ago
But why are there discrepancies in the floating point arithmetic? They have errors when approximating the reals, but floating point operations are all well-defined: even if 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3, it's still always true that 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.1

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