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by vharuck 3y ago
>It clearly wont be the end of mankind, just mankind as we currently experience it. Cold comfort if the new experience will be an economic crash and global food shortage. And you're assuming that, once things are terrible enough th
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by vharuck 4y ago
Cynical from an employer's point of view, conference trips are good perks to offer. More expensive than regular vacation days, but also more likely to improve employees. Also, employees still have to answer emails.
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by vharuck 4y ago
Are you documenting or sharing your progress anywhere? This exactly describes something I've been asked to investigate.
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by vharuck 4y ago
I've done that with the rough Q&A tool I made. I include links to websites or documents not so much for verification, but because I work with government info and the devil's in the details. The Q&A is more like a smart s
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by vharuck 4y ago
>Allowing fringe boneheads to spew hate and lies or allowing powerful people to do evil and damage livelihoods with zero culpability? Powerful people can do evil and damage livelihoods with zero culpability under free speech absolutism.
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by vharuck 4y ago
That's already available. Turns out, admin moderation is still necessary to make the website tolerable. Besides, boards generally have just 150 threads running at once. If the majority of the live threads are just spammed crap, that
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by vharuck 4y ago
I will never have full trust in an assertion unless (a) it's included in a contract that binds all parties, (b) the same contract includes a penalty for breaking the assertion that's severe enough to discourage it, and (c) I know
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by vharuck 4y ago
Another possibility is the DOJ not intending up take that person to trial, but instead offering to reduce or drop the charges in exchange for testimony.
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by vharuck 4y ago
From the article: >Most of NPR's funding comes from corporate and individual supporters and grants. It also receives significant programming fees from member stations. Those stations, in turn, receive about 13 percent of their funds
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by vharuck 4y ago
In my (admittedly uneducated) view, VR can be useful for some professional tasks in the immediate future. Things like 3D modeling, architecture, explorative data analysis. But Facebook is a social media company. Aside from a small propor
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by vharuck 4y ago
>No function overloading + no object oriented = verbose function names. Forgive me if I misunderstand, but are you saying R doesn't have function overloading? Because R's S3 class type system relies entirely on function overlo
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by vharuck 4y ago
The GPT models do not reason or hold models of any reality. They complete text chunks by imitating the training corpus of text chunks. They're amazingly good at it because they show consistent relations between semantically and/
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by vharuck 4y ago
Prompt: Cite three important academic journal articles about cybersecurity, including DOI numbers Response: 1. Anderson, R., & Moore, T. (2006). The Economics of Information Security. Science, 314(5799), 610-613. DOI: 10.1126/scien
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by vharuck 4y ago
"This annoyance which could be avoided by automation is necessary because suffering is good" is, to me, a very weak argument. I can look at my weekly paycheck to see taxes. If the IRS sent people a summary of their taxes with an
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by vharuck 4y ago
>Isn't that basically Genetic Programming? Never heard of that, but looks very interesting. Thus the adage is reinforced for me, "If you think you're ignorant, just say what you know and wait for smarter people to correct
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by vharuck 4y ago
>Neither do computer viruses, or biological viruses I'm looking forward to the first AI computer virus when a LLM can make arbitrary connections to the web. Each iteration takes its own code, modifies it slightly with a standard pr
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by vharuck 4y ago
I put a paper towel on food in the microwave to stop splatter. As a bonus, I've found a moist paper towel helps when microwaving leftovers that got dehydrated in the fridge.
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by vharuck 4y ago
>It sounds like they have to prove two separate crimes, and connect them with intention. Intent of course is always hard to prove in court. Michael Cohen pled guilty and was sentenced to three years for the campaign finance law, and he&#
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by vharuck 4y ago
I recently used ChatGPT (the free 3.5 Turbo version) to list five articles about public health surveillance, asking for ones published since 2017. The list just had the article titles, authors, publications, and years. I had trouble findi
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by vharuck 4y ago
>I guess I shouldn't discount the value of such a thing, once we get the "Sometimes it just lies" problem under control. Considering the model doesn't "think" or understand abstract concepts, could we ever e
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by vharuck 4y ago
To be fair, humans exist only because of a long chain of organisms that started with "DNA generates proteins." Granted, it took billions of years for that process to create humans, but it shows that what seems to be a constrained
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by vharuck 4y ago
Things keep going that way. First movie I saw from that director, so I didn't expect he'd actually lead the film down that path so quickly and determinedly. But if you don't like the start of that path, you probably won&#x27
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by vharuck 4y ago
I wish this would happen. But, looking at the current world where publication and distribution are dirt cheap and simpler than ever with the internet, most people's media curation is "What's free" as opposed to "Wh
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by vharuck 4y ago
I don't think your points hold up against the example of state borders. Criminals move between states, but it's not a huge problem. The states can share information and allow joint action. It may require more effort to set up be
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by vharuck 4y ago
I've only learned Japanese as far the N4 test (second of five levels of the standardized tests), but my experience backs this up. Those tests preferred syllabic symbols instead of kanji, and that just made them harder to read for me.
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by vharuck 4y ago
>One series of ads that promoted getting some free medical equipment that ran for years and I thought looked scammy turned out to really be a scam. Do you mean Hoveround¹, or was it something else? ¹ https://oig.hhs.gov/oa
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by vharuck 4y ago
>And this is why you can’t move your own table or plug in a power strip at tradeshows. The unions have a detailed contract about who does what when. Aside from safety reasons others have mentioned, these rules could also be meant to prev
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by vharuck 4y ago
Why is every company doing RTO going with a 3 day minimum? Is there zone study I wasn't aware of? It strikes me like a decision made with a gut feeling or bandwagon-hopping rather than actual consideration. >I’m also optimistic th
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by vharuck 4y ago
> Now, you're assuming the AI has any concept of self-preservation, which isn't given. But it's built from the text of the internet which is full of text about having self-preservation. And that text paints self-preservati
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by vharuck 4y ago
Point #3 from TFA mentions longer pages giving more space for ads. I agree, though. It's why I try going to websites run by people who make their money elsewhere. Like Food Network.

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