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by tovej 3y ago
There is no question that biology plays a role in gender outcomes, but the view that gendered outcomes in society are 100% explainable by biology and unavoidable is the bio-essentialist view, which is naive and simplistic. Why would Harari&
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by tovej 3y ago
It's gender essentialism because he makes a foregone conclusion that "there will be static gender differences across cultures" and then he implies that they are unavoidable and due to innate gender factors. He looks at an out
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by tovej 3y ago
Bio-esentialism and gender essentialism is not about "essential differences" as in "distinct and considerable", but about the idea of your biological gender being solely responsible for determining a persons psychologica
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by tovej 3y ago
Good analysis, but one point: you say that's not capitalism, but something else. I'd say that is capitalism working as intended. There is really no other end-state to capitalism than a winner-takes-all race to the bottom, where ev
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by tovej 3y ago
"We haven't fully understood why the model leans left" sure sounds a lot like "Reality has a well-known liberal bias". Life imitating art, I suppose.
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by tovej 3y ago
It sounds like the reason it took so long was that they had to decide whether this was a copyright claim or a breach of contract claim. Could someone more versed on license law clarify this, at first glance it seems like an obvious breach o
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by tovej 3y ago
Thanks for responding, and sorry for the snide remark, I see a lot of blogspam on this topic and my bullshit detectors are sensitive. My main gripe is that the blog post does not seem to explain any of the terms it's inteoducing. The t
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by tovej 3y ago
It is. A kernel is executed by a set of warps (or waves, AMD), the warps/waves define the SIMD-group that execute an instruction. Memory accesses that feed these SIMD instructions are coalesced into one operation, and therefore the opt
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by tovej 3y ago
Well this seems awfully surface level. This blogpost is essentially just dropping diagrams from AMDs and NVIDIAs documentation and reading the labels on them, with multiple mistakes that tell me that this person hasn't probably hasn&#x
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By definition, there's a deadline for preventing something from happening. We're already in an extinction cycle, extinctions are happening at a rate of 100 to 1000 times the natural rate. And as for absolutes, total extinction of
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by tovej 3y ago
Our World in Data is a thinktank touting the same old progressivist agenda that's keeping us from solving climate change through degrowth. Case in point, they've released a blog post saying that carbon dioxide pollution is beginni
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by tovej 3y ago
Hmm, so no legal responsibilities for companies spreading harmful propaganda?
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The ratio of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in water molecules. Both elements have two abundant and stable isotopes: one heavier and one lighter. The quotient of the heavier isotopes in land ice is a linear function of the temperature, becaus
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by tovej 3y ago
Propaganda is a powerful tool. With a loud enough megaphone and a big enough wallet funding it, a lie can easily replace the truth in the minds of laymen.
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by tovej 3y ago
We're talking about templating and generating files, but it seems like everyone has just collectively forgotten about M4? Yes, it can be unsafe if you're not careful, but if you need to bang out a quick prototype it's the bes
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by tovej 3y ago
I'd personally go with TOML over YAML for that
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Humans are a product of evolution, not a design to calculate similarities in vector spaces. There aren't any similarities in the way animal species and LLMs develop.
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It will get incrementally better at being a word calculator and looking up text, but LLMs aren't going to magically gain critical thinking skills or impactful intelligence capabilities.
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I have heard from colleagues that this has happened to them.
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by tovej 3y ago
C is very much also alive in games programming, binary security research, embedded systems, HPC, and as a target language for simple compilers. Oh, and as the lingua franca of all foreign function interfaces. And there's still a thrivi
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by tovej 3y ago
It's not exactly a synthetic brain though, is it? LLMs are more like lookup tables for the texts they're trained on. We will not have "AIs as capable as humans" in a couple decades. AIs will keep being tools used by huma
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by tovej 3y ago
Joplin's kanban plugin is quite nice: https://github.com/joplin/plugin-kanban
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by tovej 3y ago
It seems like this tool is creating a hierarchical document database, it reminds me of XML, but it's json! (or serializes to json at the very least) I don't know what to make of this. I do like the fact that it's a tree, and
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by tovej 3y ago
Well, if what you need is a flat file system, the json-as-database approach that penx is taking isn't really an improvement. I'm interested in what advantages you have lost. Joplin allows you to export your entire notebook as a di
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by tovej 3y ago
Please explain how agency is "just a matter of time". This is a pretty big statement you're just assuming to be true. I have seen no indication that current autonomous systems could achieve agency, or that anybody even consid
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by tovej 3y ago
The "you can use Teslas ideas" part of the contract is not what's being discussed. What parent is talking about is the rights you must give up in order to gain this right.
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by tovej 3y ago
I suppose if you're talking about consumer cards, I agree, support is often missing. But if we're talking datacenter GPUs, the software is there. Data centers is where most GPGPU computing happens after all. It's not ideal wh
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by tovej 3y ago
What exactly are you missing when hipifying your CUDA codebase? For most of the software I've looked at this has been a breeze, mostly consisting of srtting up toolchains. Or do you mean the profiler tooling? I hear everyone say that A
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by tovej 3y ago
this is a terrible idea, I can't think of a less efficient method with worse correctness guarantees. What invariants does the LLM enforce? How do you make sure it always does the right thing? How do you debug it when it fails? What kin
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by tovej 3y ago
By definition a Markov chain does everything step by step already, no need to ask!

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