sdenton4

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   by sdenton4 1y ago

   Man, Marvel Crisis Protocol is really blowing up lately.
2. 362.▲
   by sdenton4 1y ago

   There's two kinds of ignorance which come into contact when people work across disciplines. In my own work helping ecologists, I see plenty of CS/ML folks who think they'll change the world by throwing a transformer at the pr
3. 363.▲
   by sdenton4 2y ago

   Selection is handled by asynchronous events which populate the is_dead() boolean. Critiquing my own code, though, it should really be a check against 'can_reproduce()' rather than 'is_dead()'.
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   by sdenton4 2y ago

   this should do the trick... while creatures: c = get_random_creature() if c.is_dead(): creatures.pop(c) else: creatures.add(c.mutate())
5. 365.▲
   by sdenton4 2y ago

   The author did fine in another field, but might have picked biology instead if they had gotten the switch flipped earlier in life. That some people get through bad classes isn't a proof that those classes are good; you get those few wh
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   by sdenton4 2y ago

   Well, this is incredible: "The gene sequence had a strange repeating structure, CAGCAGCAG… continuing for 17 repeats on average (ranging between 10 to 35 normally), encoding a huge protein that’s found in neurons and testicular tissue
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   by sdenton4 2y ago

   I tend to think of state machines as becoming important when you're forced to deal with the unpredictably of the real world, rather than just pummeling bits until they repent. You've got some complicated Thing to control which you
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   by sdenton4 2y ago

   I think the post talks about exactly this? The method is combining hashing the keys and finding a position in the target range. There's a bit where he talks about how Knuth uses the term 'hash function' as the combination of
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   by sdenton4 2y ago

   I expect that xAI is already doing something adjacent to this, though with propaganda rather than ads.
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Here you go... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025#:~:text=Project...
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    "someone"... Or lots of people looking at US stupidity and deciding that their long term bonds were suddenly looking like a bad investment.
12. 372.▲
    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Hold on, I've got a great pitch for an AI startup...
13. 373.▲
    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Imagine if the parable of King Solomon ended with, "So then I cut the baby in half!"
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    It's likely that they're drumming on the gutter because the metal is loud. Drumming is both a way to get at food by digging under the bark and a way to signal for territory+mating. The signaling is the main reason that the drummin
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Yeah, that's an idiotic take... The US has benefited massively from soaking up the best brains globally. That's not going to keep happening; I have plenty of colleagues already who are refusing to travel to the US. We may well eve
16. 376.▲
    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Well, given that 90% of stuff on Amazon is relabeled crud from Ali Express...
17. 377.▲
    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Maybe it's helpful to find the right point in the long context, but then have easy access to the local structure around that point. eg, yes, the magically relevant point is the third word of the fifth paragraph on page 183 of the docum
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Some kind of governor module to keep our security cyborgs in line...
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Using this method repeatedly to guess how far you've moved over the course of days is, historically, a fantastic way to crash into the side of France in the middle of the night.
20. 380.▲
    by sdenton4 2y ago

    We lose a dollar on every sale, but we'll make it up on volume!
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Sure, I could do that. But I would learn where to put my join statements relative to the where statements, and then forget it again in a month because I have lots of other tihngs that I actually need to know on a daily basis. I can easily o
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    This morning I was using an LLM to develop some SQL queries against a database it had never seen before. I gave it a starting point, and outlined what I wanted to do. It proposed a solution, which was a bit wrong, mostly because I hadn&#x27
23. 383.▲
    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Lots of models are trained with dropout, which is kinda like bitrot at very high rates...
24. 384.▲
    by sdenton4 2y ago

    I'm not actually talking about ubi here: it's subsidizing labor for some class of essential jobs.
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Tax the rich, and use the funds to pay a portion of the wages in targeted jobs, reducing the amount that the business has to pay to hit minimum wage. Then businesses continue competing on prices, but have substantially lower labor costs, br
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    More like a labor subsidy, backed by taxes... Which would need a minimum wage law as well. This seems like a great idea to me! Making it cheaper for businesses to hire people for these jobs would lower prices for everyone, improving accessi
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    78 percent of statistics are made up on the spot.
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Only if you get into the right place at the right time and use your tools well...
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Basically, Murderbot.
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    by sdenton4 2y ago

    Because the landlords use price-fixing software. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...