vharuck

40 ms·

361.
by vharuck 3y ago
>I have yet to see a definition of "statistically guessing next word" that cannot be applied to what a human brain does to generate the next word. Here's one. Given a conversation history made of n sequential tokens S1
362.
by vharuck 3y ago
Counterpoints: 1. Lost and found stations at events. People find stuff, people nearby don't claim it and often don't care if it's taken, but the finder still makes the effort to give it to lost and found or staff. Everytime
363.
by vharuck 3y ago
>Schools in my area need to know which kids are living in poverty because they send home backpacks of food with them over the summer. What's wrong with just asking the parents?
364.
by vharuck 3y ago
It might have been a rabid wolf, which would explain the aggression. And the duration was probably exaggerated. If the fight lasted a while, like 10 minutes, then the knight could've died from exhaustion or heat stroke afterwards. If
365.
by vharuck 3y ago
The Canadian government worked with US intelligence on this matter: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-worked-closely...
366.
by vharuck 3y ago
The training data of written content, no matter the sources, will always be biased in one way: it doesn't contain thoughts people kept to themselves. Example 1: Mr. X is very popular author among a small group, who chat daily about it
367.
by vharuck 3y ago
>Honestly based on what I understand of science right now the biggest way generative AI could help advanced things is by assisting in the writing of grant applications faster. This matches what I was told earlier this year when looking i
368.
by vharuck 3y ago
Maybe set a once or twice daily alarm to check your email. As a person with ADHD, my life has improved a lot after I started using alarms and calendar events for everything. Much better than hoping future me will magically develop better
369.
by vharuck 3y ago
There's a lot more moderation on 4chan beyond that. Most boards trim excessively off-topic discussion, trolling, or flamebaiting. Half the boards also don't allow NSFW images. These rules are regularly, even if not strictly, en
370.
by vharuck 3y ago
This seems likely to me. When we recall memories, we "fill in the gaps" during the recall process. For example, paraphrasing a quote because you can't recite it verbatim: you'll express the ideas and emotions important
371.
by vharuck 3y ago
>2. How much value is added by feeding the search results through the LLM with the user's prompt, vs just returning the results directly to the user? These systems usually retrieve the "closest N " snippets. Which might
372.
by vharuck 3y ago
Right. (Probably in most states) nobody owns plain old dead bodies. However, Australian and English courts have held that people can own objects made with remains as long as skill was applied. Not sure if there's similar case law in t
373.
by vharuck 3y ago
I've downvoted you because COVID, while less likely to harm children than adults with comorbidities, was still a danger. I know because I had to take my 9-month old son to the hospital twice when he caught COVID. He developed a fever
374.
by vharuck 3y ago
>If enough people get another job, the industry they are leaving will adapt or die. That's essentially a union. A large group of people say they'll leave unless things improve.
375.
by vharuck 3y ago
It would also have the benefit of making supply chains more robust. Baby formula prices shot up during the pandemic because one factory had a contamination problem. My sister-in-law was asking friends on Facebook to look in their local st
376.
by vharuck 3y ago
Media could be owned by the staff. That's what the Hell Gate website does. https://hellgatenyc.com/about-us We could also restrict ownership by audience size. So any one person or non-media organization cannot own or
377.
by vharuck 3y ago
>A very rough trial, but many people were getting more money via unemployment than by a minimum wage job. >Most these individuals sat around hedonically watching TV, smoking weed, or drinking. Surely part of the pandemic in general, b
378.
by vharuck 3y ago
Soda cans also have a counterintuitive efficiency feature: concave bottoms. If a can with a flat bottom held the same amount of soda, it would be shorter and have less surface area, but its metal body would need to be thicker to withstand t
379.
by vharuck 3y ago
Elon has become known for mandating large policy changes at Twitter. These change the way the service works, what different features mean, and how much sway different users have on the communities. By now, business owners should know not t
380.
by vharuck 3y ago
You're not the first to think of something like this. But you're in for a world of cat-and-mouse. Which can be fun as a game: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
381.
by vharuck 3y ago
I'm not sold that it means "difficult to exist/rare", instead of "there is a difficulty." It makes sense to think of thanking somebody as also apologizing for having them deal with a difficulty.
382.
by vharuck 3y ago
A cynic would say Congress's actions, loading the USPS with costs while denying it control over prices, is so that people ask "Why is a government alternative better?"
383.
by vharuck 3y ago
I've been repeating this in my work with statewide health data. The answer to, "Is there a difference in X between group Y and group Z?" is always "Yes." No data collection or significance test needed. If you want
384.
by vharuck 3y ago
Possible explanation: swearing is more likely to be committed into code by people who either (1) own the code, or (2) know they're too valuable to be punished. So it self-selects. I personally have very different commenting styles bet
385.
by vharuck 3y ago
A news agency may legally publish leaked classified documents. In the past, this has even applied to documents that could identify active agents in other countries. Though it's not criminal, social media may choose to not be a part o
386.
by vharuck 3y ago
>Generally speaking I'm sharing with friends and family ... there's more to it than likes when it comes to human social activity IMO. I feel like this post boils it down to too little. Agreed. Referring to it as a "dopami
387.
by vharuck 3y ago
Then what would count as a book banning in a school? Nobody picks the books at random, there's always a justification. I think if the book is removed against the wishes of the librarian, that's an irregular ban. >But clearly t
388.
by vharuck 3y ago
>A sign on the lab freezer door explains the source of the alarm, and also had instructions on how to silence it, the Times Union reported. “No cleaning required in this area,” the sign said. Why not lock the door to the room with the fr
389.
by vharuck 3y ago
Every thread would be a few gems of info sinking in an ocean of "I don't know." It'd be hard if not impossible to include what people never write into the corpus.
390.
by vharuck 3y ago
I chose teleporter, silicon, and reincarnation. My view of a "person" is a continuous arc through time: unlikely to be constant, but you can see how f(t) is connected to f(t-1). The teleporter preserves physicality and behavior.

More ›