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by tech_ken 1y ago
There used to be some darkweb marketplaces that were extremely reliable for psychedelics, for example "The Majestic Garden" was an old PHP message board which specialized in psychedelics and had a strict whitelist about what subst
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It's a bad idea to send darkweb packages to a PO box, as the USPS will require a lower threshold of evidence to search the package. As it is they can't inspect your mail without a warrant, which is exceedingly rare for them to pro
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After reading the blog post, it seems like there's two issues: 1. This type of question (return a desired emoji) requires a high-degree of "accuracy" on a single token. Contrast that with more typical LLM tasks which tend to
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Wow this is extremely cool/impressive, but if my manager asked me to implement this I'd quit lol. The "state" headaches alone seem like a nightmare, nevermind all the whacky linear algebra you're going to have hand-
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Yeah definitely! People still need to do statistical inference in 2025 (see ex. the field of econometrics).
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> I think it's insanely good for what it is. Oh totally! I think that the progress made in NLP, as well as the surprising collision of NLP with seemingly unrelated spaces (like ICPC word problems) is nothing sort of revolutionary. N
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In 2015 SotA models blew past all expectations for engine performance in Go, but that didn't translate into LLM-based Code agents for another ~7 years (and even now the performance of these is up for debate). I think what this shows is
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Science of Chess: What does it mean to have a "chess personality?"(lichess.org)
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Vomit AT BEST
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I'm not really familiar with this nomenclature, the left-anarchists I know generally consider themselves "libertarian" or "market" socialists (or just “anarcho-socialists””). I'm definitely interested to unders
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> Socialism by definition is where the means of production cannot be individually owned Possibly we're familiar with different strains, but my understanding is that it's less about what's individually/collectively own
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> Capitalism requires a free market with price discovery. Socialism != centrally planned/non-market economy, at least not in any political theory I've come across. Many socialist-ideologues of the mid 20th century landed on cen
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> How do you know that? Well you don't, and my reading of the article was that Nagle also recognized that it was basically an assumption which he granted to bats specifically so as to have a concrete example (one which was suitably
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> Are there methods that specifically apply this idea? Stochastic gradient descent is basically this (not exactly the sane, but the core intuitions align IMO). Not exactly optimization but Hamiltonian MCMC also seems highly related. >
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The way I understand it the second thing is the observer of the organism, the person posing the question. The definition seems to be sort of equivalent to the statement "an entity is conscious IFF the sentence 'what is it like to
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I dunno I can see an argument that something like IMO word problems are categorically a different language space than a corpus of historiography. For one, even when expressed in English language math is still highly, highly structured. Defi
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Looks really good
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I think they are way less separable than you do. Moreover, I would say that while the current stewardship has notable flaws they are far, far fewer and less grave than previous iterations. No iteration is worthy of the space it holds, but p
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Okay but when people in the academy do bring up the difficulty of settling on objective, ideology-free truths people get even touchier (like try bringing up critical theory to someone who supports these NSF cuts and see how far you get). I
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“Layoffs for layoffs’ sake” is cargo cult economics. DOGE is not “tightening the belt” it’s a slash and burn intended to bring the federal administration to heel for the current sitting executive. Tech layoffs yeah maybe a market correction
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Many things are both flawed and worth of preservation.
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It’s more complicated than you’re implying. University capital expenditures are rational decisions when they’re competing for a national pool of students backed by cheap debt. Parents care about the student success initiatives, students car
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Not sure I really follow your point. Why would a political bait-and-switch not be high profile?
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Yeah I think people are way over-indexing on culture war stuff when the simple fact is that massive inflation makes the sitting president super unpopular. 2024 was primarily determined by the price of bread and eggs, with everything else be
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> it feels a little good Revanchism typically does, but it's a highly destructive path. Hope you're enjoying the high now, the lows could be quite ugly.
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> If this really worked, you'd be making billions on the stock market That's kind of a weird thing to say given that the market cap for quantitative finance is well over a billion dollars, and this product clearly seems to be
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This is sales research, and after "CAGR in a GSheet" FB Prophet is what's going to be most recognizable to the widest base of customers. FWIW seems like the real value add is this relational DB model: https://kumo.
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Walking 2 miles home from the club at 1:45am is such a lovely recovery time for the soul, and it's sad to me that it's so unsafe for much of the population to experience.
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> does it mean that the average ride length is 1.8km? that seems kinda low..., like that's something I would walk if I didn't hurry.. Like 95% of the US is setup to actively discourage walking. As a result the average USian thi
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I think it's a mix of set and setting combined with people who have probably never taken any kind of drug aside from alcohol and maybe infrequent cannabis usage. People who take LSD "many times" usually come to it after alrea

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