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by topaz0 2y ago
"Why aren't we polluting a poor disenfranchised population with the cheapest, dirtiest solution we can find?"
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by topaz0 2y ago
This is my knee-jerk reaction when people complain about wayland as well, and is often a correct reaction, but in this case the author really is talking about nontrivial wayland changes.
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by topaz0 2y ago
I have been mostly-wayland for a while now and rarely have issues. I think the major pain point remaining is the fragmentation of the compositors, so that bugs (and features) depend strongly on your choice of desktop environment. I found a
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by topaz0 2y ago
That's all well and good except that we look out and see all of the actively bad uses being hyped as the way of the future, at untold expense in both dollars and energy. The LLM is just a model that is what it is, bashing it doesn&#x27
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by topaz0 2y ago
You can choose to not be that guy.
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by topaz0 2y ago
This source is garbage. There are only two articles on the site, I see typos in both of them so it has likely not been checked by anybody, and it uses sources like the NRF that have famously been discovered to play fast and loose with these
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by topaz0 2y ago
The most pervasive misunderstanding about evolution is that it leads to "perfection". Sure it is a kind of optimization procedure, but a) it's optimizing on a loss function that is measured on the population scale, not the sc
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by topaz0 2y ago
Wonder if they use llms to write those puzzles
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by topaz0 2y ago
Yes, but they can go back for those words in future rounds
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by topaz0 2y ago
They know it's allowed. It's also terrible and non-sensical strategy in the specific cases that are described.
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by topaz0 2y ago
Except you also examine the rationalization as part of deciding whether to act on the impulse or not.
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by topaz0 2y ago
Gentle reminder that it's important to boycott this kind of thing.
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by topaz0 2y ago
Still an interesting direction of questioning. Maybe could be rephrased as "how much work is the grammar doing"? Are the results with the grammar very different than without? If/when a grammar is not used (like in the openai
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by topaz0 2y ago
Already boycotting.
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by topaz0 2y ago
GP is saying that they don't want that, not that it doesn't work.
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by topaz0 2y ago
But to your points. I think the problem with your analysis is that it forgets that the real driver of the junk is the advertising environment. The SEO links were profitable because the advertisers were willing to pay a few cents for space o
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by topaz0 2y ago
I wasn't even talking about the information pollution -- I was talking about boiling the ocean. Not that I'm not concerned about the former.
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by topaz0 2y ago
This is so wasteful it boggles the mind.
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by topaz0 2y ago
Now we get to see how OpenAI will do similar harm, more effectively and at much greater environmental cost.
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by topaz0 2y ago
The costs are too great. We can't go on like this.
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by topaz0 2y ago
That's not the web
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by topaz0 2y ago
Something for nonequilibrium statistical mechanics
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by topaz0 2y ago
More to the point, photoemission spectroscopy has been a workhorse tool for understanding the electronic properties of materials for quite a long time now (though perhaps not yet in 1921).
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by topaz0 2y ago
I would add to this that it had the advantage of something like 40 years of history as a field that was the basis for some of the biggest advances in instrumentation of that era.
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by topaz0 2y ago
ndiswrapper was a big learning moment for me as well
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by topaz0 2y ago
I'm on a framework 13 AMD edition since early this year, running arch. There were issues early on but seemed to be mostly on the firmware side and would not have been distro specific. After then April(?) firmware updates I have not had
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by topaz0 2y ago
Is .8 or .9 considered good enough accuracy for something as simple as this?
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by topaz0 2y ago
To reduce hydrogen, something needs to be oxidized, but it doesn't need to be oxygen. E.g. you could get more metal oxides. Not my field exactly, so I don't know either relative abundances of different stuff in early oceans or the
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by topaz0 2y ago
Omitting the "almost" from "almost none" makes it sound disingenuously more absolute than it actually is.
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by topaz0 2y ago
There is a big range of approaches out there for teaching linear algebra. I really enjoyed my quite abstract linear algebra course, but there were a lot of other kids in it that really struggled and did not get much out of it. Takes all kin

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