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by topaz0 1y ago
There's a conspiracy theory that Biden wasn't competent enough to sign stuff, at least for some period at the end of his term, with the implication being that none of those presidential acts are valid. Anybody who believes this is
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*je ne sais quoi
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> Humans "hallucinate" in the AI way constantly This is more and more clearly false. Humans get things wrong certainly, but the manner in which they get things wrong is just not comparable to how the LLMs get things wrong, beyo
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LLMs by contrast love to admit their mistakes and self-flagellate, and then go on to not correct them. Seems like a worse tradeoff.
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> to grab and keep eyeballs yes, but also to manufacture consent for the priorities of the rich and powerful
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Seems like maybe not the only instance of self-aggrandizement in this blog... the sidebar shows posts about things like the quantum mechanics of consciousness other such quackery.
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Depending what domain of cellular automata you're talking about this might be trivial -- just redefine the state space of the cell to also include which cells it is connected to, then all that information is available to use in update
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Nobody is making you use LLMs at all... Just using them is already choosing to be on the hedonistic treadmill
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> if we slice the data up three ways to hell and back, /all/ we see is unexplainable variation It's certainly true that you can go too far, but this is a case where we can know a priori that the mfg date could be causing
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by topaz0 1y ago
Somebody posted the up-to-date leaderboard up thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603113
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Given that they're restricting to very simple situations I'd expect accountants to score 100%.
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Or just "discomfort over comfort", and truth has nothing to do with it.
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Survivorship bias is real, but is missing the important piece of the story when it comes to software, which doesn't just survive but is also maintained. Sure you may choose to discard/replace low quality software and keep high q
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why would you need a password to view a blog
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Nvidia market cap has increased about 10x since the crypto-shortage years. It wasn't small before, but there's a big difference between ~1% of the market and ~10% of the market in terms of systemic risk. Also, as of last year ab
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That's a subset of "shares becoming more valuable"
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AI slop and influencer peddling can both be bad at the same time. The answer is to get off facebook/instagram, not to replace one awful thing with another awful thing that also happens to boil the oceans.
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I stand corrected.
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You're probably thinking of NO2, which is indeed a pollutant that results from overly hot combustion in air. N2O is in fact used in engines, but it is not the fuel -- rather it is a supplementary oxidizer, which allows you to burn more
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They're going to need gigawatts worth of datacenters just to hold all the posts with that title.
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Just because it says compostable on the container doesn't mean it will actually break down in a reasonable amount of time on your home compost heap, or that they don't leach some environmentally harmful chemicals in the process.
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Hard to know without more context. It depends a lot on the trust between you and the asker. You'll be confident if you can tell that you are fulfilling their expectations on the whole. If that's not the case, it may be because the
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FWIW the second part does not address my concern (which was about omitting literal parentheses that are present in the markup, in some cases), though it is related. Personally I think it's already a mistake for bare/unescaped word
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The programming parts are very tempting, but I find the philosophy of the math mode input simplification to be questionable. E.g. automatically generating fractions from "/", or removing parentheses depending on whether they
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LWN is one of the most important journalistic outfits of the open source software world, not just some guy's blog. As the other commenter noted, it also dates to the '90s.
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Or he saved them more than anyone by limiting their losses when it does finally crash
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Faster is the enemy of taste
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Hey, they need that $200 to postpone their inevitable bankruptcy
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I've seen nothing convincing along those lines -- just people fooling themselves with simulacra. But to be clear, even if I'm wrong about this, it's not worth the other costs.
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If they get mad it's because you're saying this explicitly to be an asshole. The essence of art doesn't have much to do with the mechanical skills for assembling pieces into a whole, though that part isn't trivial. Rathe

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