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by sdenton4 3y ago
Counterpoint: Trauma is trauma. The brain doesn't care about relative measures to other situations - it responds to your own experience. https://youtu.be/JBvc7Ny4iUk?si=A-k0KSnNQbT7rB-L
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Laura Kampf and Jet Lag are the popular ones in my house...
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Today I learned I own basically the same set of cookbooks as Simon Willison.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
/using image magik to only store the difference between images/ Well, that's basically how video codecs work... So might as well just find some codec params which work well with screen capture, and use an existing encoder.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Compression is also of interest. A well-compressed file should resemble noise: if you can predict the next bit, you could have avoided sending it. As we've moved to digital formats, there's an increasing opportunity to save bandwi
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by sdenton4 3y ago
It's a great encapsulation of why Signal is not federated, and, unless you find the current CEO stating otherwise, is unlikely to change. Changes like the one detailed in the link simply wouldn't be possible to roll out efficientl
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by sdenton4 3y ago
It turns out that compression, especially for media platform, is trading off file size, quality, and compute. (And typically we care more about compute for decoding.) This is hard to represent in a two dimensional chart. Furthermore, it&#x2
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Did you not read the article? The premise is that the current tech giants are effectively only wanting to set up situations where they can extract rents. This is different from making sewing machines in a competitive market, or even in a mo
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To be sure, we only care about electricity usage because of externalities, most importantly CO2 emissions. Many of the big players have gone to great lengths to build out renewables capacity to power their data centers, which tends not to b
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Google wasn't the first, as all those altavista investors will unhappily attest.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Ever taught first year calculus to a batch of pre med students? They're under pressure to score high, and feel like their entire future rides on every quiz, so tend to argue every point deducted. It's an incredible time suck, and
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Did OpenAI buy a copy of every book in The Pile? Or did they all just fall off the back of a truck? Aside from that question, I tend to agree with the judge - LLM outputs are obviously not derivative works or copies in any sense that we nor
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Here you go: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03600
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There was a nice paper about five years ago that also found that the best hyperparams were in the bounty of divergence, even for 'real' imagenet models.
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"And honestly, people conflate that with crime, with street safety," she said. "One thing I'm starting to learn in reporting on public safety is that you can put numbers in front of people all day, and numbers just don&#
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by sdenton4 3y ago
The whole reason for the off by one error in the standard joke is that we forgot to use a mutex.
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You're in for a treat... Book two is the Empire to book one's New Hope. (And, spoiler warning: book three is, indeed, overrun with ewoks.)
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by sdenton4 3y ago
I loved Anathem, but also have a PhD in math, and legit dream of ways to think about hard problems without bureaucracy getting in the way. (The war of the flowers was brilliant...)
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You're not going to get much reform if the prison operators are making bank on the status quo.
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Because we tend not to like slave labor in the modern world. Using prisoners for slave labor creates perverse incentives to enslave more people, and keep them enslaved longer.
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Set Category 10 at the speed of light, then work backwards...
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The way this squares up is that the protein of the population that is urbanized is very low compared to many other countries. In lots of African cities the road infrastructure is underbuilt for the amount of usage, but also there's jus
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And Kern - arguably human, at some point in the narrative - is one of my all-time favorite characters.
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Truth. AI researchers need to work with actual scientists or they ended up with the same brain-in-a-jar problems that their models have...
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Flammable atmospheres are dangerous to live in...
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Assuming it lands right side up, of course...
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Or! They all produce garbage as they chip away at costs, and make bank telling people what they want to hear. The incentives are all wrong.
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by sdenton4 3y ago
Ha, true. Derp.
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A basic c maj chord is c4 f4 g4. Inversions move bottom notes to the top, like f4 g4 c5, or g4 c5 f5. They significantly change the flavor of the chord.
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Executive don't take risks, they make bets... It's more money, but less risk.

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