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by tensor 3y ago
The Toronto (Canada) public library has been out since October due to a cyberattack. Maybe they went on a library attack spree. Awful.
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by tensor 3y ago
Also food causes heart disease, and cancer.
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by tensor 3y ago
Forcing people into your religion is highly unethical in my moral framework. Even though it's criminalized here in the west we still see people finding ways to do it.
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by tensor 3y ago
Murdering people does make them go away yes.
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by tensor 3y ago
Before I sold my previous company, a medium size ai company, it was already often an internal debate whether the EU was worth selling to for our size company. The reality is that the EU is a much much smaller market than North America, and
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by tensor 3y ago
I don't see how any of that is an excuse not to pay for youtube. If there is no ad-free version and no alternative products then I get blocking ads, I do too. But when I'm given an option to pay to remove ads, I generally pay. For
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by tensor 3y ago
I mean, WeChat is a great surveillance tool. I guess he was just more literal than we expected when he said he wanted Twitter to be WeChat.
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by tensor 3y ago
I'm not surprised at the defence of "prompt engineering" here. It's something easy to do with no real knowledge, and I'm sure having it dismissed hurts some people. But I 100% agree with the author, "prompt eng
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by tensor 3y ago
That's not quite what I imagine when I hear the term "gutting a team." Gutting a team is when then very significantly reduce its size and priority. Simply switching leadership of a project isn't gutting a team, it's
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by tensor 3y ago
Yes, and closely related are various forms of constraint solvers, things that LLMS are still fantastically poor at.
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by tensor 3y ago
Good old linear classifiers still solve many tasks close to optimally. Probabilistic AI is not just neural networks.
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by tensor 3y ago
Using fasttext as a first pass is probably the best idea for production work.
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by tensor 3y ago
I think the anti-science sentiment was already there, and the vaccine work for COVID being rushed was just an excuse for people who had already decided that science was inconvenient to become full on outspoken anti-science people.
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by tensor 3y ago
This is not answering that question. It is answering whether a specific large model with unknown training set can compete with specific small models on known smaller training sets.
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by tensor 3y ago
In Sutton's essay he's talking about more general techniques vs ones that build in expert knowledge. In the case of this paper it's the same technique in both the fine-tuned and "general" cases. So Sutton's a
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by tensor 3y ago
"Oh but why can't we think of the rich?" is what your response sounds like. The point of my comment is that whenever a topic like this comes up, the response here on hacker news is always WFH even though it only addresses a s
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by tensor 3y ago
Sounds like it would be good for solar thermal plants then. Also, burning fossil fuels will destroy a much larger ecosystem: earth. I think we can compromise a bit here. Besides, how many plants would really be needed to disturb the desert
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by tensor 3y ago
The vast majority of jobs can't be done from home as they require physical presence. WFH is an issue only for the top 10% of income earners in white collar jobs.
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by tensor 3y ago
I doubt it has anything to do with company size. Most likely it's due to what drives their products. In the case of Google, overall it's how many ads they sell, and if improving search quality doesn't lead to more ads, then t
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by tensor 3y ago
To be fair, this is probably more Google not caring rather than any improvement in SEO gaming. Kagi doesn't suffer from the SEO spam like Google does, and if a small company can do it surely Google could if they wanted to.
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by tensor 3y ago
Many subs did this and the mods got removed real quick. I did the only thing that I could do that actually hurts them, delete my data.
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by tensor 3y ago
They have a right yes, but they will also rightly suffer from their approach. I not only participated in the blackout, but because of the CEOs arrogant comments about how valuable my data is and how they deserve to sell it, while destroyi
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by tensor 3y ago
I don't believe we should shut down any of these places. In moderation they are all fine. Advocating for abstinence is a proven failed strategy and requires fairly authoritarian methods to make work. Educating people is the only moral
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by tensor 3y ago
What about sugars and fast food? Heart disease is a leading cause of death and diabetes in rising in most populations. We have sugary drinks and fast food to thank for it. Strange I don't see culture warriors going after these things.
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by tensor 3y ago
I really don't think this has been legally established, especially not in the case that AI is being used in conjunction with a copyright base image that it uses as a scaffold. It's incredibly hard to see the result as anything but
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by tensor 3y ago
While I agree with you that advances will come from being able to train with less data using as yet undevised techniques, I think you are jumping to a conclusion with this particular work. First, yes, bigger appears to be better so far. We
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by tensor 3y ago
Yeah I think youtube is well worth paying for. That said, there are other websites that immediately throw up anti-adblock gates asking for money before I've even read the site at all. I just instantly leave those sites. No, I will not
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by tensor 3y ago
Or "Linux users are mostly developers and thus are more capable of filing good bug reports."
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by tensor 3y ago
What are some of your favourites?
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by tensor 3y ago
I highly doubt they've rewritten even half the code. Of all the places that should know how long and hard "rewrites" are, it should be here, given all the developers.

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