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by smitty1e 1y ago
> The Wikipedia process is created to manage bias. LLMs are created to repeat the input data, and will therefore be quite biased towards the training data. The perception of bias in Wikipedia remains, and if LLMs can detect and correct f
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by smitty1e 1y ago
Grokipedia might have a better present-tense understanding as it hoovers up data. One great feature of Wikipedia is being able to download it and query a local shapshot. As a technical matter, Grokipedia could do something like that, eventu
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by smitty1e 1y ago
> At a basic level they’re happening because Republicans want them to happen. At a basic level they're happening because 9A and 10A have been cheerfully ignored for a very long time: https://grokipedia.com/page/
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by smitty1e 1y ago
+1 The Dying Earth Pretty much anything by Jack Vance is a win.
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> Software keeps iterating on solving the same soluble problems because the remaining challenges are really difficult to solve with technology. Communication and coordination are full of nuance and subtleties that defy digitization. Soft
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by smitty1e 1y ago
> Conrad also pointed out that if one accidentally applies permanent markers on a whiteboard, then the board would be “instantly dead,” a nightmare not applicable to chalkboards. Not so. Like dissolves like. You take a dry-erase marker a
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Librephone(irreal.org)
5 points by smitty1e 1y ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 1y ago
Fair point. Thank you.
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For a sufficiently large market, over time, one would expect the Central Limit Theorem to kick in and filter the noise. The "Efficient Market" can be seen as an Eternal Steady State, neglecting all transient signals.
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by smitty1e 1y ago
For this paradox to function, information would have to be static, unless I'm missing something.
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Stand by for Elon and Grokipedia: "We are building Grokipedia @xAI. Will be a massive improvement over Wikipedia. Frankly, it is a necessary step towards the xAI goal of understanding the Universe." https://x.com/e
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by smitty1e 1y ago
Rx is possibly the last Egyptian hieroglyph in use. https://www.history.com/articles/where-did-the-rx-symbol-com...
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by smitty1e 1y ago
> what an outsized role is played by luck There is no luck; there is only free will interacting with destiny in some context.
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What Is the Forced Organ Donation Hypothetical?(betonit.ai)
4 points by smitty1e 1y ago|2 comments
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Leaving the GDAL Project Steering Commitee(sgillies.net)
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by smitty1e 1y ago
As a theoretical matter, this is some nifty stuff. Hats off to everyone involved, as a simple matter of engineering. As a practical matter, this feels too Orwellian. I don't want necessarily want to emit that much information (he said,
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by smitty1e 1y ago
Answer: simplicity may not scale.
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Do Markets Believe in Transformative AI?(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by smitty1e 1y ago|0 comments
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The Brilliance of UTF-8(irreal.org)
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by smitty1e 1y ago
I tell my two young lads that, like English and History and Math, some knowledge of tech is great for the hip pocket. But knowing something fundamental like plumbing or carpentry or electrical as a primary skill seems prudent.
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Whatever Happened to ¡No Pasarán!?(powerlineblog.com)
2 points by smitty1e 1y ago|0 comments
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One possible starting point is offloading the plural. What am "I" doing to solve this? For both me and my children. Taking responsibility for my continuing education, for one. Locate interesting curricula and pursue them.
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by smitty1e 1y ago
And then the natural disaster hits and we're all: "What about those fat piles of cash I paid in taxes? How about some relief?" And the government is all: "You wanted to be left alone."
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by smitty1e 1y ago
"Bias for action" is fine, but, with age, the "measure twice, cut once" adage acquires some gravity.
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Technologies have lifecycles. Film at 11.
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"right now" is working hard here. But this gets at why precedent is such a cautionary thing.
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Had read somewhere that Julius, too, claimed this.
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> Clearly, the company with fewer lines of code is better off. Well, there is some dimension pertaining to how well the code is understood by the employees of Companies A & B. The theoretical advantage of a smaller codebase is of sca
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Among the Emperor's titles was "Pontifex Maximus", a pagan title still in use today.
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> OP was referring to regulations rather than debt or entitlements. One can clearly offer these differentiations, but it's all so much Utopian Progressivism that has simply not withstood the test of time, if we're being honest

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