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by tuatoru 1y ago
The challenge is, really, just that we are very early. I liken AI to electric motors in terms of their impact. The change from factories driven by steam engines, one per factory, to factories where each machine has its own electric motor, c
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Arguing from what most people do is a category error. Progress comes from the 0.01%. Always has.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
My two cents: If strings are a significant feature of your application, C is not the right implementation language for you. I say that as someone who likes C and these days writes more of it than anything else. C's niche is systems pro
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Knowledge of demography.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
The story here is not the decline in net immigration but the decline in "natural increase", i.e. births.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Private companies can do as they choose within the law. You can choose not to use their products.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I haven't done the math but I would expect that more than all of China's decline is due to two effects: population aging -- older people use less fossil fuel. reduced household formation, in part driven by increased youth unemploy
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Modern Russian Roulette, using LLMs for dose calculations.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
... and? Company finds business environment has changed and complains about it. More at 11.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Good. No-one yet believes in climate change, because everyone still flies. (Aristotle: "to know, and not to do, is not yet to know.") Maybe this will cause people to believe.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
80 percent plus of economic activity is domestic: all its inputs are entirely unaffected by tariffs. This is a Premier Cru Red Herring.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I read news media, and look at advertising. And I occasionally do some investigation. Have you not heard of Gell-Mann amnesia?
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by tuatoru 1y ago
There are a lot of jobs which don't require meticulous accuracy - coming up with marketing plans, press releases, writing HR policies, reading and summarising reports, etc. Even in accounting I am sure you could use AI at times to help
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I like this. I had a rule of three: figure out three qualitatively different ways to solve the problem - different in kind, not just in choice of tools. Once you have three you start to understand the trade-offs. And you can come up with
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by tuatoru 1y ago
If you widen "bloodshed" to include long duration imprisonment and mysterious disappearance from public view, I think China falls in the "other regimes" category.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
So.... what? LGB, etc., is bad now, because Trump supports gays? What??
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Democracy isn't really about the people having a say. Especially not having to be correct. That's window dressing on the core advantage, which is regime change without bloodshed. Under other systems of government, prominent suppor
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by tuatoru 1y ago
For a fully laden truck at 65 mph in ideal conditions stopping distance is 600 feet. Higher in worse conditions. A good LIDAR can range 1000 feet in ideal conditions. Less in worse conditions. No, it's not an easier problem.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I don't know why people are doing these kinds of studies. It's too early. The historical parallel, for me, is the transition from steam engines to electric motors for driving factory machinery. When factories were powered by steam
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by tuatoru 1y ago
>I remember when I was younger being constantly told that the earth was destined for overpopulation. Moral: Journalists are stupid and ignorant, and you should always keep in mind Gell-Mann amnesia, and go to the source papers.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
If only it were that easy. Austria and Switzerland have nerly identical birth rates, but in one, childcare is almost free and in the other, it is very expensive. South Korea and Hungary (among many others) have tried paying people to have c
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by tuatoru 1y ago
No, the Black Death is not a good analogy, because it killed all ages indiscriminately. Our "plague" "kills" the young and productive - by their never being born in the first place. We are headed for something we have ne
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Interesting that this is worthy of comment. The inference I draw from the use of the words "Google engineer" is that Google and/or the tweeter now have a culture of deferring to authority, the job title, not measuring merit.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I suppose remarkable in the sense of "worth marking" == making a note, but not in the sense of "interesting". We have always known they were closely related.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
1, Porn. 2 Military.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Word salad.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
On the other hand, it could promote the rise of objective measurement, as in the Objective Structured Clinical Examination tests for wannabe Emergency Department medical personnel. 1, https://geekymedics.com/what-is-an-osce&
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by tuatoru 1y ago
The actual paper (thanks, p_ing!) seems more measured than most, and consistent with what economists like Acemoglu have been saying - possibly up to 1% per year improvement in productivity, all going well.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I've been trending towards "C with namespaces" for Arduino on AVR-8. With namespaces you can have globals and few collisions. At the expense of more typing, of course. You do know about the "register" storage class&

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