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by tomp 1y ago
It's not about beliefs. It's about slippery slopes. As we've seen with incandescent light bulbs and plastic straws, "free market" is only temporary, until the "bad" thing simply gets banned. They're j
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by tomp 1y ago
German salaries are not bad, nor amazing. I actually think they pay their workers too much though - for not working. I think standard unemployment on full salary is 2 years, even if you quit your job yourself! Generous benefits invite a
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by tomp 1y ago
Well, obviously. “Too liberal” just means “racist” these days. It’s an evil ideology, the fight against it is righteous.
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by tomp 1y ago
"nice, correct numbers" end somewhere between 1/3 and sqrt(2) so in reality, it's just "pick your own poison" to various degrees...
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by tomp 1y ago
> I see some people campaigning against European green energy or the renewables and it doesn't make sense whatsoever unless you are aligned with Russia or USA. No, you got this exactly the wrong way. In fact, it was Russia who initi
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by tomp 1y ago
> If he's that competent, he could hire/mentor juniors and just use his skills to run a contracting business and keep making big bucks while not having to lie all the time? Much much easier said than done. 99% of companies th
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by tomp 1y ago
You're a bit wrong here, aren't you? - US is special because it is by far the richest and most entrepreneurial (big) country in the world; it gets the creme of the crop of the world, and corresponding economic growth, which no oth
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by tomp 1y ago
Wouldn’t all those fears apply to printing as well?
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by tomp 1y ago
What if you just block out text in PDF, then Print to PDF - does that retain the text behind the black block? If it does, then Export to PNG almost certainly removes it (while also removing all other selectable text)
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by tomp 1y ago
You’re right, I misinterpreted it.
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by tomp 1y ago
Key point: The model is considered fair if its performance is equal across these groups. One can immediately see why this is problematic, easily by considering equivalent example in less controversial (i.e. emotionally charged) situation
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by tomp 1y ago
I recommend anyone interested in this to check the work of Lionel Parreaux, in particular SimpleSub, which is equivalent to MLsub but substantially simpler. As it turns out, Dolan's main contribution wasn't the algorithm (which
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by tomp 1y ago
https://huggingface.co/spaces/hf-audio/open_asr_leaderboard
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by tomp 1y ago
I've been looking for a cheap 7 DOF arm. The only reason I haven't bought SO100/101 yet is that it's 6 DOF (and that delivery to Europe is hard to find..)
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by tomp 1y ago
The best summary of the situation I found on Twitter: The most important part of marketing and PR is lying to your customers.
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by tomp 1y ago
Massive amount of "world" data - enough for Google to successfully train Veo3, a "video generation" model that is extremely good, and evidently includes a decent "world model" i.e. a model that can generate o
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by tomp 1y ago
Maybe, but so far we don't really have any examples of good AI (or even barely working AI like GPT4o) that wasn't trained on massive amounts of data. Is data enough ? Maybe not, there's a lot of progress on RL now that
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by tomp 1y ago
You simply have no idea how AI works. The key ingredient is data - the bitter lesson . It's not about better algorithms, but simply about algorithms that can process more data efficiently (e.g. transformers). Tesla is one of the f
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by tomp 1y ago
Do they? 0-25 education, 25-67 work, 67-82 pension, it's almost equivalent (42 working, 40 not working)
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by tomp 1y ago
I mean, I literally said "economic theory", the basic idea is that you simplify the assumptions to make a point. That's literally what most of economics is! In the real world, the assumptions are weaker and the dynamics are m
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by tomp 1y ago
> why taking care of the elderly, something humans have done since before recorded history Well yeah, but before government-organised pension, it was your kids taking care of you when you get older, so the system was much more balanced
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by tomp 1y ago
Pension is a Ponzi scheme. Explained in terms of economic theory, if everybody works and saves in time period 1, and retires and receives pension in time period 2, then... their pension is worthless, because there's infinite inflation,
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by tomp 1y ago
You're just repeating anarchists' talking points. None of them considers that "the system" gives them food, water and energy, and that procurement of these in the absence of system means literally toiling from birth un
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by tomp 1y ago
Who are you gonna take money from, pensioners? Congrats, you've now just destroyed the stock market as an idea! A better idea that is both far less extreme as well as sorely needed , is simply... drumroll... charging employees (exec
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by tomp 1y ago
We're definitely there, there's just no "ready-made" apps yet. But the technology is possible, go to e.g. vapi.ai to test it.
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by tomp 1y ago
There's mostly drawback of having exceptions, I'm not really aware of any benefits of not having them. People often complain about: - performance impact, either speed (most languages) or binary size (C++); this, however, is
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by tomp 1y ago
Did you ever actually program in Rust? In my experience, a lot of the code is dedicated to "correctly transforming between different Result / Error types". Much more verbose than exceptions, despite most of the time preten
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by tomp 1y ago
If your model is fast enough , you can definitely do it. That's literally how "streaming Whisper" works, just rerun the model on the accumulated audio every x00ms. LLMs could definitely work the same way, technically they&#x
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by tomp 1y ago
> They are opposed to any social progress and want to go back. I see it as exact opposite. The "left" parties have long abandoned social progress and are now regressing. Support or racism (affirmative action), terrorism, viol
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by tomp 1y ago
All those are awesome features, and I use them all the time. But that's no reason to prevent them from being opt-out. It should be possible to not use OAuth, integrated billing, social media tracking etc.

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