svara

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by svara 7d ago
It's the kind of thing where it's sort of expected that you wouldn't know, right? I think we don't really understand why deep learning works as well as it does, the thinking around that is, as far as I can tell, mostly a
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by svara 7d ago
I want to agree with this, but I have a hard time seeing how it can be done. Tao is speaking of a very particular kind of mathematics, that done out of pure curiosity. But maths, even at the highest levels, often finds applications sooner o
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by svara 10d ago
In animal welfare laws the principle is typically the capacity for suffering. The argument goes that livestock have a capacity for suffering, but killing them for meat without causing them suffering is ethical. You can disagree with the pos
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by svara 10d ago
That's too simplistic, since it is in fact very common to be concerned about animal welfare even among people who do eat meat.
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by svara 11d ago
> Apple has never had a strategic problem meeting the demand for Apple computers. The business that had those problems didn't become Apple.
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by svara 11d ago
Absolutely. It's the most visible in services shrinkflation.
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by svara 11d ago
Amazing, let's please do Japan and Taiwan next.
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by svara 12d ago
I don't think we'd be okay with that if it took a few years longer, right? I thought the Bengio blog post posted here the other day answered that question quite well (ignoring your timeline). The argument is that in training for t
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by svara 13d ago
I'm a bit worried that this line of reasoning is assuming its conclusion, in stating that mathematics is for human understanding. This is not something that's just true on its own; it's on us as a species to make sure that
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by svara 13d ago
This has a clear answer in systems theory; the ability to bang out code was never the limiting factor for Google et al.; large organizations are limited by coordination costs. It's the small teams you need to pay attention to, the orga
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by svara 1mo ago
Yes, but it's also building other skills. There's no friction to learning something new anymore, and that's really quite amazing. E.g. I've gotten pretty good at git thanks to AI because it forced me into more complex wo
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by svara 1mo ago
I was sure someone was going to say that. Culture can change surprisingly quickly, but it certainly won't change in ways you like if you're not doing your part. Already, young people and the ways they use online media are quite di
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by svara 1mo ago
> We're reading more words than ever, but instead of coming from books, they're coming from digital media. We're losing that same muscle for long-form reading and deep focus (...) Yes, true, but that's also very much
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by svara 1mo ago
A bit ironic that this is written in idiomatic Claudese.
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by svara 1mo ago
I'm probably going to be going against the grain here, but I think it's not as bad as it looks at first. I was similarly frustrated a few months ago, but have noticed I've started to learn the idiom. Its use of "dense ja
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by svara 2mo ago
AI company leadership are telling everyone, and that's paraphrasing only lightly, that there's a chance AI will destroy humanity, and will probably cause mass unemployment, so we need to put datacenters everywhere. So why do peopl
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by svara 2mo ago
Absolutely not. I've spent nearly every summer in the last 30 years in that region and it never was like this; it also wasn't that warm. Occasional fires, sure. But very clearly nothing approaching the current scale and frequency.
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by svara 2mo ago
People have not suddenly become deranged or simple minded. Two of the large recent fires in the Landes region, including the most recent, have started from poorly maintained, spontaneously igniting cars. Those also have not suddenly started
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by svara 2mo ago
> Le sujet, c’est l’aridification du milieu. Pour revenir à cet incendie, ce n’est pas un problème de culture, mais de climat. A bit of a distinction without a difference. The climate is not changing back, it's the new normal. In th
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by svara 2mo ago
The pine forest is the agriculture.
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by svara 2mo ago
You're not wrong, but there are levels to understanding. For example, when studying maths or physics, it is very common to feel like you've understood everything, until you get to the exercises, and need to apply that understandin
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by svara 2mo ago
Somehow all the with/without cookbook design examples look vibe coded on both sides to me. I'm not enough of a designer to be able to point exactly at what makes it so, but Claude does seem to have a somewhat limited repertoire of
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by svara 2mo ago
OK, but having read that section you'll see how > just writes off any improvement Is not what that section contains? There's a more nuanced point about capabilities improving in some ways but not others (ability to one-shot app
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by svara 3mo ago
Genuinely happy to hear you're successful here! But, why would you expect there to be no drawback to not knowing the local language when moving to a foreign country?
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by svara 3mo ago
You are (as am I) in the 30% of Germans (40% in major cities) with a Migrationshintergrund . At that point, it barely makes sense to call that a minority, it's just normalcy. If you find yourself in a pocket of unusual backwardness wh
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by svara 3mo ago
Thanks for actually giving a great answer to this versus the other knee-jerk comments! I will definitely look into this more. I think it's important to note that the cost of bringing a drug to market has increased a lot (about threefol
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by svara 3mo ago
It's not black and white- in pharma there are notable sources for investment that are not private, e.g. for orphan diseases that would otherwise not see enough investment due to lack of profitability. But here's a mechanism to mob
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by svara 3mo ago
Generics exist for drugs that usually someone did hold a patent for that has since expired and they're much less profitable than patented drugs. Not sure how that address the point. Again, the investment to get a drug to market is giga
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by svara 3mo ago
No, only a small part of this is publicly funded.
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by svara 3mo ago
You spend billions to get a drug from concept to approval - and then once you've invested all that money, someone else can just sell it too, free loading on all the studies you ran? Why would anyone invest in drug studies? I need a bit

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