wanderingbit

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by wanderingbit 3y ago
Thank you! I have been reading these QLoRa posts in the hopes of training it on my notes stored in Notion, but then you do it for me! Nice product ;).
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
I went in to this article hoping for some evidence on why harm reduction isn't always the right choice. Instead it is tone-deaf (as if fentanyl users and heroin users are in the same category as those who choose to use alcohol or pot!)
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
Problem (1) can likely be addressed by restricting the number of iterations to some small constant, like 3 to 6 (which they suggest in the article). You can also restrict the number of peers-of-peers you fetch during each iteration to a sma
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
It is detailed comments like this that make me feel very fortunate for the community here. Thank you!
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
Maybe one day there will exist a happy medium between centrally-planned Zerg economy and a free “Ebay for organs” market.
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
That’s now how I understood the quote. I thought of it more like if you went to go hire a doctor, then the best people to review that doctor would not be the university that gave the doctor their credential, or even the doctor’s patients; i
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
I think at the end of the day we want both perspectives. We all benefit from having people from both inside and outside the system critique the system. Certainly, the person who walks the walk and talks the talk deserves more street cred, b
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
Your comment primed me for some wikipedia shenanigans, but when I looked up and translated the 1919 original, it’s more or less exactly the same as the Wikipedia summary. http://web.tiscalinet.it/regno76/testi/mani
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
This was a great in-depth exploration of some of the ideas from Banks' books that I thought deserved a deeper drive. Even though he was writing in the 80's Banks has a lot of foresight into how modern tech such as AI could result
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
> combat is once again dominated by the kind of melee encounters that were also historically the domain of a trained warrior caste Correct me if I'm wrong here, but does Herbert ever give a reason for why the characters in Dune do n
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
I’m not sure why the academics are discouraged , but there are non-technical reasons to discourage you (and all of us) from trying to use Internet-based voting systems for important elections: https://engineering.stanford.edu&#x2
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
There was a recent post about an open source tool for indexing Discord content and making it available for Google search: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36383773
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
Me too! I am trying to build a Discord-based remote course and am excited to read through the code here and see if it matches my needs, or can be tweaked to so. Once I do that I'd like to DM you with some questions mid-kid. Nice job on
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
Is this using steganography to create un-tamperable watermarks (which would allow downstream users of possibly-AI-created material to prove that it is indeed created by an AI) or, is this for something different?
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by wanderingbit 3y ago
To those who dismiss with "correlation is not causation", you should share with them Haidt's in-depth article showing multiple experimental studies regarding social media and mental health, and how more social media use cause
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by wanderingbit 4y ago
Upon reading the OP's blog, I had the same idea! It's cool to see others are hungry for this as well. My basic approach to implementing it in Notion (my preferred knowledge manager) is: 1. build some block template in notion that
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by wanderingbit 4y ago
For those discussing what it looks like for a polity to have a widespread ban on types of certain types of advertising, look no further than the great state of Vermont! We have not had billboards for as long as I've been alive, and it
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by wanderingbit 4y ago
Context: I've been working in the cryptocurrency space for a decade. One of the most interesting technologies the crypto space is working on are the SSI (self-sovereign identities). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se