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by vintermann 26d ago
It may be bad at recognizing it, but if all arms are equally good, that doesn't matter.
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by vintermann 26d ago
Talking about this in terms of exploration/exploitation may be a bit misleading, because from a pure exploration-exploitation perspective, biases wouldn't be a problem if the groups were secretly all identical. If they are, you ar
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by vintermann 27d ago
Probably not any 23andMe haven't already told you about. They test a limited set of SNPs, balancing between ones thought useful for genealogy, ones useful for ethnicity estimates and ones thought useful for health-related things (the l
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by vintermann 27d ago
> LLMs generally only debug systems by reading the code with whatever information you give them in a prompt. Oh, I wish. "This call doesn't return, how strange! Let me fire off a bunch of small test script one after another, wi
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by vintermann 27d ago
Point is if humans need to struggle with something to build neural pathways, character etc. then getting better at playing an instrument is as good at that as anything, even if it has very little economic utility (I thought that part was ob
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by vintermann 28d ago
> High-speed images of splash events generated by flow from an anatomically accurate nozzle They had some fun writing this.
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by vintermann 28d ago
It's a very strange algorithm completely different from most compression methods, that's what makes it interesting IMO. But it's probably not realistically competitive, since one needs to do more after the burrows-wheeler tra
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by vintermann 28d ago
I think it's a lot about which country you live in. I live in Norway, and went to a music oriented high school (I'm not terribly talented myself, but only half the places were set aside for people doing well on audition, the rest
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by vintermann 28d ago
Conservatory kid parent reporting here too. At least I live in a country where there is likely a job for him, even if he shouldn't win out against all the other extremely determined classical piano students.
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by vintermann 28d ago
I don't think fully employed opera singers, and professional orchestra musicians, tend to have side gigs. But it's also extremely difficult to get full employment in such jobs, and I think they're pretty intense: of the few p
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by vintermann 28d ago
Fair enough, but I don't think that's something fundamental. Agentic AI hasn't been around for many years, and many of its most enthusiastic adopters have, shall we say, attention issues, so I don't think it's odd t
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by vintermann 28d ago
Advertisers may be the reason we got this problem, but the security state is the reason we can't fix this problem and it only gets worse.
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by vintermann 28d ago
> the cost of suing you is nowhere near the damages they will be able to prove in court. The problem is, the one advising them whether to sue or not might not care about that at all, and might personally profit from a lawsuit. So they&#x
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by vintermann 28d ago
What are the hard things AI can't do yet, then? Are you sure we shouldn't rather spend time getting better at, say, playing the piano? Assuming we're allowed to prioritize that in a world where the rich have all the money. (L
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by vintermann 28d ago
I didn't say it did. Might still matter for people trying to tame or fight these beasts from less miserable places.
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by vintermann 28d ago
Feels like it to me too. Not only is it clearly extremely vibecoded, but the human author seems to have failed at (or not tried) restraining common agent impulses such as writing huge, sprawling stream-of-artificial-consciousness "docu
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by vintermann 28d ago
They could, but will they get the chance to? My most commercially valuable skills - software wrangling, figuring out what went wrong, explaining how to do things in software - are rapidly getting obsoleted by agents. But I'm not too sa
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by vintermann 28d ago
I think it's true that NATO is for most practical purposes an instrument of the US. But it's also true that there's a distinction between NATO and the US, and some other NATO members do have influence on NATO policy - most
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by vintermann 28d ago
It depends on what you count as "revolutionary". There have been at least two high-profile politically motivated murders in the US after that.
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by vintermann 28d ago
Citizens? Surely you mean taxpayers? And through some impressive legal magic perversity, illegal immigrants in the US pay plenty of taxes. "No taxation without representation", wasn't that a phrase?
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by vintermann 28d ago
Do you believe that? Do you also believe most people are in favor of ending prison gerrymandering? Maybe they are. But that doesn't mean it will get ended. If "improper allocation" problems are selectively addressed, expect d
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by vintermann 29d ago
It sounds like you're halfway to gas town already... Not saying that is definitively bad, but I have avoided this myself since I don't want to get bogged down in trying to figure out the optimal multiagent setup.
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by vintermann 29d ago
As I understand this is something similar to "anchors", tools to let agents avoid reading whole files.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Yes, intrusive thoughts are common, and are fairly independent from actual self-destructiveness. You can have intrusive thoughts without being especially self-destructive, and you can be self-destructive without thinking much.
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by vintermann 1mo ago
I also feel like they don't understand what self-destructive impulses are . Forgetting your wallet on your car and driving away? Seriously? I think it's better captured by this line from a Tunng song: When I see land you wi
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Agreed, pages on pages of fruitless discussion on "AGI". Shut up damn it, let's see something useful, let's have that pelican!
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Were those roll-ups though? I see a poster below says the private equity fund was only involved for the last acquisition, but no one can deny Muse Group/Ultimate Guitar went on a shopping spree. They looked like they were trying to g
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by vintermann 1mo ago
Yes, Tantacrul. Pretty weird story, a composer and programmer who absolutely roasted the UIs of well known sheet music dinosaurs Finale and Sibelius in hilarious diss videos on YouTube. Then he conceded a bit reluctantly that Musescore was
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by vintermann 1mo ago
That's a qreat discovery by these three qirls. But what IS it with websites that use a font with utterly weird g's? Do they think they need it to stand apart?
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by vintermann 1mo ago
That's a pretty cool discovery in its own right.

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