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by tech_ken 2y ago
Regardless of where you stand in the situation, this talking point always seems so asinine to me. Like do you actually believe that the protesters are simply ignorant of the social policies of Hamas (or support them)? Or do you just not bel
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Is it really censorship if the platform just isn't producing the output you requested? I understand "censorship" to be one agent blocking the ability of another (fully independent) agent to express themselves. In this case it
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Maybe more precise to say "not mutually exclusive with free market exchange", 'capitalism' (as a socialist would define it) is primarily an ownership arrangement.
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"What officer?? No way, this isn't gabber! It's simply an electronic composition at a nice, legal , 80 BPM where the bass and rhythm sections are in 4/8 to achieve a thrilling allegro feel."
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Can't find any specific history of EC2, but the concept of AWS as being a commercial offering seems like the idea from the outset: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/welcome/ Even if they dog-fooded EC2 in
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Because that administration needs red meat to activate their base ahead of an election cycle
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> This favors those with the most capital not the least. So does the US Supreme Court lol More seriously I think the issue is going to be whether it's executive overreach, not whether it's good or bad for a competitive marketpl
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AWS was built from the start to be a sold product, whereas it sounds like this massive charging network is purely internal. Seems like a very big difference between wiring up your warehouse lots for charging, versus building power infrastru
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Depends on the usage for me; I think the point of the article was that timbre isn't something that's orderable, there's lots of different timbres and processed vocals are their own thing. Sometimes their texture fits really
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> A vocal timbre can also reveal economic and cultural background. Some singers...were encouraged to either accentuate their timbre...or to abandon what occurred naturally for them Vocal timbre is a big identifier of different rap subgen
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Some types of saffron are fake I think. I don’t know the difference, but some cooking blogs I’ve read mentioned that “too good to be true” saffron deals always just are.
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by tech_ken 3y ago
The accuracy point is a provocative and interesting question. I'm used to it in the context of ex. medical imaging or autonomous vehicles. In the context of picking bomb targets (where even a "positive" classification is kind
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Money isn't speech and corporations aren't people. I'm fine with someone using Tor to circumvent like a national content ban, I'm not fine with someone using a shell-corp to evade trust regulation or hide their involveme
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I like this point, and I do think you're rightly pointing out that the issue is that selection of targets may be done badly, not that AI specifically is in the loop. With that said, I think an important detail you're overlooking i
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by tech_ken 3y ago
These things all help, but ultimately reduction of blunders is the result of consciously checking whether you're blundering something, not being a genius calculator. Most blunders in chess (outside of the higher-levels) aren't the
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> Play your advantages and play them hard. But don't lose sight of the big picture. Almost nothing is more dangerous to my winning chances than exiting the opening with a small material or positional advantage. Opponent is now incen
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> 12-year-olds will wipe the floor with you Was chatting with a guy who used to play pick up games at the Marshall and I remember him talking about how humbling it was to get your head kicked in by like a 7 year old. I think this is one
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> As I understand, you’d need to know all the confounding factors to account for variations? Not necessarily, the idea of these methods is to basically find natural ways to group your study pop such that confounders are matched 'aut
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Not familiar with the specific studies being discussed, but there are techniques available to infer causal relationships from observational data (generally referred to as “causal inference/statistics”). The specific method depends heav
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Very fun concept but wow maybe I’m just stupid but this is insanely hard. The battle rules are kind of complicated, so it’s really tough for me to predict which configurations of letters are the most durable. Moreover with enough tiles on t
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by tech_ken 3y ago
To me this has the flavor of adding ratings for a video game or movie, or having porn sites ask if you're over 18 before letting you in. I guess possibly it will do some good (assuming that the implementation isn't crap, which is
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by tech_ken 3y ago
> at this point in events it is certain that the algorithm builders have very fine control over human mental patterns IMO this dramatically oversells the power of recommender systems, and in a way which further serves their owners&#x27
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But this argument seems analogous to someone saying that average height is less “correct” than the full original data set because every individual’s height is different. In one sense it’s not wrong, but it kind of misses the point of averag
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How are you defining the utility of a metric here? It’s not clear to me why a locally-varying metric would be necessarily more 'useful' than a global one in the context of the manifold hypothesis. Moreover, if I’m understanding th
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by tech_ken 3y ago
Definitely agree that it’s likely a mix of factors, and certainly one that’s very difficult to untangle in a satisfactory way. Also it seems likely to be confounded by the usual “nature vs nurture” type issues. Like in the Star Trek TNG uni
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The academic job market is an absolute shitshow though. The academy pretty quickly realized that apprentices were cheap labor, while masters were very expensive but could train multiple apprentices at once (especially if they take on severa
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> how do we actually know it’s not just personal preference No studies on hand but having spent a lot of time in academia adjacent to CS you see a lot of departmental surveys and the like where women consistently report feeling pushed ou
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There proposal is actually that gradient descent is a bad representation of the NN learning behavior, and that instead this NFM tracks the “learning” behavior of the model better than simply its loss function over training.
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It has more than just the flavor of a metric, it’s exactly a metric because any “square” matrix (M’M) is positive definite (since x’M’Mx=y’y=<y,y>, where y=Mx). It could be interpreted as a metric which only cares about distances alon
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Full pub is up on arXiv here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2212.13881.pdf My 2c: The phys.org summary isn't great. The authors are focused on a much narrower topic than simply "how NNs learn", they're try

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