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by truculent 2y ago
> well played Sam Is it well played if you simply decide to lie brazenly? Anyone can win at monopoly if they decide to steal from the bank.
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by truculent 2y ago
Parent poster is being unnecessarily smug and dismissive, but the point is that however close in time the events were, they are now entrenched in fallible memory.
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by truculent 2y ago
“Is using PaywallSkip legal?” is in the FAQs, but not “Is using PaywallSkip ethical?” Why do we feel so entitled to other people’s work as soon as it’s published on the internet? When Homer Simpson reads magazines at the convenience store w
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by truculent 2y ago
The most egregious ones were ubiquitous signs on the London Underground stating that travellers should take care on the escalators; there were 111 accidents on the escalators last year, after all. There are over 4 million tube journeys a d
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by truculent 2y ago
How does it make it more complicated? In my view, you’re moving the potential for failure to a different place (the constructor), rather than changing some fundamental property or introducing new complexity. Is it handling the construction
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by truculent 2y ago
I suppose it’s just to clarify that those choices are deliberate, with the trade-offs in mind. The README also suggests that the reason why people prefer native apps isn’t just the UI’s aesthetics, but: > Normal shortcuts, icon, its own
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by truculent 2y ago
If we want a system that produces safe and effective motor transportation with increasing automation, we should probably look at air travel, which is both remarkably safe and uses a large degree of automation. How would the air travel regul
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by truculent 2y ago
> The killer-app (that isn't porn) is going to be asking your phone to order food and it guesses correctly what you want while cross-checking availability, pricing, and discounts. Then a Waymo or Wing Drone delivers it. If this were
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by truculent 2y ago
> Long term temperature increase due to complex systems like AMOC could explain why we see measurable linear temperature increases starting in the 1880s, instead of the 1940s as CO2 forcing might predict What predictions would this hypot
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by truculent 2y ago
> All of those models show the AMOC is on track to shut off "soon." Presumably this means the AMOC is on track to hit its tipping point "soon". How long after hitting the tipping point would it take to "stop&quot
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by truculent 2y ago
I’m not sure where the article is getting this from, but it seems as though turnips and other root vegetables were available before the Columbian exchange took off: > The Old English word neep – a name now only seen in Scotland alongside
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by truculent 2y ago
There’s been DNA evidence for years: 2023: https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/new-dna-evidence-confi... 2022: https://www.nationalworld.com/news/uk/big-cat-sightings-wher... 2003, and 2005
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by truculent 2y ago
Yes, it sees tokens. Asking it to count letters is a little bit like asking that of someone who never learned to read/write and only learned language through speech.
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by truculent 2y ago
Okay, what if I put it like this: there is understanding (ability to reason about things), and there is knowing that you understand something. In people, these are correlated, but one does not necessitate the other.
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by truculent 2y ago
> truly understanding… when I explain something, I have understood it When you have that feeling of understanding, it is important to recognize that it is a feeling. We hope it’s correlated with some kind of ability to reason, but at the
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by truculent 2y ago
Not necessarily. For example: https://engineering.fb.com/2018/08/31/ai-research/unsupervis... > Training an MT model without access to any translation resources at training time (known as unsupervised
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by truculent 2y ago
> This whole movement of simply increasing compute or throwing in more data to hopefully attain AI results is just a dead end. Hopefully? The last 10 years of astonishing AI results have largely been driven by “throwing in more compute a
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by truculent 2y ago
> The articles can be summarized as Facebook bad, digital maps bad, Apple bad, Tesla bad and big-tech bad Even from the headlines, it’s clear the criticism is more targeted than that. To generalise so aggressively is either bad faith (ir
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by truculent 3y ago
I'm not sure this really stands up in a UK context: https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/sites/default/files/styles/...
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by truculent 3y ago
> who would likely fare very poorly in any political situation I think you’re probably right, but I think the point of these guidelines is, in part, to reduce or eliminate the need for political nous. This is, in my opinion, important fo
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by truculent 3y ago
> A direct, face-to-face conversation is usually way faster than a ping-pong chat on Slack or, worse You have both missed the point; you shouldn’t be having ping-pong chats in any medium. If you have some thoughts, write them up properly
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by truculent 3y ago
That includes other sources of revenue, I believe; although I could be wrong. Do you have a source?
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by truculent 3y ago
We’d have a totally new equilibrium. Where would the money currently spent on advertising go? If distributed equitably, you’d imagine we, as consumers, might not actually be worse off in net; instead of coming from advertisers, it gets sent
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by truculent 3y ago
Google makes about 200bn per year in advertising revenue (see quarterly figures here: https://searchengineland.com/google-ad-revenue-q4-2023-43704... ). The world’s population is about 7.8bn, with about 60% of people being o
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by truculent 3y ago
Yes, that change I wouldn’t call handicapping; although I’m sure Apple would. On the other hand, I think it’s reasonable to suggest that greater interoperability could result in some features being degraded or unavailable (maybe certain thi
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by truculent 3y ago
It would be interesting to know if there were ways regulation could promote new competitor businesses, instead of handicapping Apple. It seems to me that in a healthier marketplace, Apple could argue that consumers were choosing them becaus
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by truculent 3y ago
The problem is that the “stability” and invesment interventions from the USA has typically come with some rather unpleasant strings attached. I think it’s either patronising or ignorant to suggest that various Latin American countries polic
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by truculent 3y ago
Would we expect the oscillation to get smaller over time, like a pendulum, or is that stretching the analogy too far?
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by truculent 3y ago
This is notably looking at the Bolivian communities, not the Peruvian ones as in OP
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by truculent 3y ago
I think there’s enough pointed inclusions in the article to make that clear, to be fair. Although I agree it seems weirdly restrained, like half an article.

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