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by seadan83 2y ago
Sorry to ask you to go through other threads, but would you mind picking out the ones that show your math? The link you did share, has this table: https://oldgrowthforestecology.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/0..
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by seadan83 2y ago
> Frankly, the claim, to me, seems incredibly intuitive and your skepticism sounds like stubborn environmentalist thought. I've travelled along lots of tree farms, on foot and on bike. That is good time to really inspect them. I&#x2
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by seadan83 2y ago
I appreciate the questions and retort. I somewhat agree, but I think when considering a larger context - it changes the equations. > Why would you be skeptical of tree farming leading to less carbon sequestering? Two primary reasons: (1)
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by seadan83 2y ago
"save the trees" is probably better re-labelled as "save the old growth trees". Would you agree? Would you consider tree farms as ecologically sound? (I'll note those are intentionally over-planted, homogeneous, and
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by seadan83 2y ago
I think you and parent comment might actually agree. The 3x trees is an indication of too much, too many small trees, too much fuel. Places that burn and recover lose their "excess" trees. The trees get more space and are healthy
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by seadan83 2y ago
Which 'deal' specifically, could you provide a link so we can read more?
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by seadan83 2y ago
Awesome script! I'm watching it run now :) Question, could someone explain the exact impact this would have for Facebook & a person's experience with ads? I kinda have a few guesses, but am curious if anyone can weigh in with
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by seadan83 2y ago
Multiple at once. Good pointer on `--update-refs`! I can think of quite a few additional concerns. Overall I think it comes down to how the team wants to handle code reviews. Personally, I do think if the team is at the level to coordinate
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by seadan83 2y ago
My apologies for not rebutting your original statements as directly as I could. I am trying to understand better why your comment gave me a relatively visceral reaction. I think the reason is that it feels somewhat common to see the realm o
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by seadan83 2y ago
I have never seen stacked PRs work that well in practice. Two reasons: - Namely there would be review comments on the first PRs that then cause a cascade of merge conflicts in the follow-on PRs - Somehow reviewers never seem to like the sta
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Geoengineering may be counterproductive in a warmer global climate(theguardian.com)
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by seadan83 2y ago
Guardian article: "Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds"
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by seadan83 2y ago
A key difference is humans can validate, perform orthogonal checks. We can prove things. A LLM that is essentially just a NLP, is picking a probability for "what should follow this word, when given a question that 'looks' lik
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by seadan83 2y ago
What use is associative memory for textual data without the ability to also validate an answer? Honest question. The answer I come to is "fancy autocomplete." If you know there is a significant chance (non zero) of a wrong answer,
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by seadan83 2y ago
> It's weird that we're dead set on making the comparison with these systems in particular. Maybe that's down to poorly chosen names for things like artificial intelligence and neural networks inviting the comparison. It
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by seadan83 2y ago
If I can paraphrase, you believe that humans are "intelligence level" 100, and AI is essentially somewhere at like 10 or 20, and is doubling every 2 years. First, is AI actually improving 2x every 2 years? Can you link to some stu
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by seadan83 2y ago
Given that life exists, and life requiring improbable actualities, those actualities existing are not evidence. We are very lucky, we live in a geological era at a specific location of the universe that has hit the jackpot of actualities to
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by seadan83 2y ago
Evidence and a clue are very different. Just because a scientific hypothesis us incorrect, or there is no explanation, does not mean that alternatives must be right. Eg: disproving darwinism does not mean creationism is correct. Just that d
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by seadan83 2y ago
We agree on that point! Though, is the AI baseline even worse though? Computers are nothing more than a set of persisted electrical 0/1 signals and a series of logic gates with intricate timing. There is no 'facts' in that wo
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by seadan83 2y ago
Could you elaborate on why that implication might be true? I can think of a counter-point: Humans can deal with 'error-cases' pretty readily. The effort of humans to get those last few 9's might be a linear effort. For exampl
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by seadan83 2y ago
> It is intractable for you to confirm every fact you believe A 'fact' that is not confirmed is an opinion. A 'opinion' sincerely held to be true without data is called faith. I do think humans are quite bad at recogn
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by seadan83 2y ago
Hallucinating has the implication of being wrong. The word further adds the context of being elaborately wrong. That feels pretty accurate to describe an AI going into detail when it is wrong.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Thinking of cats/dogs - euthanasia seems to also be a good fit for "kind, but not nice"
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by seadan83 2y ago
Second response after having thought about your question a bit longer, re: "any code base" First, VCS is a generic term. Saving files to a backup is a VCS, zipping and sending files via email is a VCS. What kinds of system use VCS
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by seadan83 2y ago
> I think the general pattern will be people sticking with the task longer when it fails, trying to solve it with persistence. This is where I quibble. Accurately detecting someone is actually still on the same task (indicating they are
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by seadan83 2y ago
Been programming since 98, professionally since 08. If a codebase has no VCS.. that seems almost ideological. I've done a git init on a linux file system to understand patch changes. With that aside, what does disaster recovery look li
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by seadan83 2y ago
At first a person follows a best practice because they dont know anything else. Next, a person learns why something is actually a best practice. Which, eventually is a way to also learn whdn something is no longer the best practice. They le
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by seadan83 2y ago
Likely a good development. My class of some decades ago was one of the first where it was an actual CS degree and not applied math. CS is an infant of a field. Not too surprising perhaps the degrees would specialize.
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by seadan83 2y ago
CS is an underpinning to software engineering. Knowing how code is translated to assembly to then machine language is helpful to engineering. It is helpful to know how to analyze algorithms, to have studied and implemented algorithms. Thoug
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by seadan83 2y ago
Computer science in the graphics space requires a ton of gnarly coding. If we consider post-doc computer science in particular, the idea you dont then need to be at least a semi-competent programmer is.. a surprising idea to have. Which is

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