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by wcoenen 4y ago
"Teragram" appeared in the original IPCC reports circa 1990, so this has been a thing for at least a gigasecond.
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That would be a "double exponential function". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_exponential_function
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We seem to be in violent agreement that Parisians don't care about the traffic rules.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> pedestrians can basically cross wherever and whenever they want The "code the la route" article R413-38 says otherwise: Lorsque la traversée d'une chaussée est réglée par ces feux, les piétons ne doivent s'engager
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> You are American aren't you I am Belgian. In the smaller Belgian cities that I frequent, pedestrians seem to wait for traffic lights. Admittedly that is not the case in Brussels. Maybe it is a big city thing.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Whenever I visit Paris as a tourist, I have another impression. Each time I stop, as a pedestrian, to wait for a traffic light to turn green, grumbling Parisians walk around me and cross the street with complete disregard for the red light.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Website for the Shasta District Fair Junior Livestock Auction, for some context: https://www.shastadistrictfairandeventcenter.com/junior-live... It seems to be some kind of event for kids to learn about the practice of rais
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> I cannot tell why I'm seeing this all over Hacker News I wasn't aware that others had made the same comment. But afterwards I noticed that there was an episode on the Odd Lots podcast (23rd of March) where they interview pr
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by wcoenen 4y ago
For the Fed, I guess it could be the same as the IORB, currently 4.9%. (But I am not economist, I don't know whether that would work.) https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reserve-balanc...
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by wcoenen 4y ago
This is a reminder that the economy needs a reliable store of value. A CBDC (i.e. everybody gets an account at the central bank) would make sense for this. Ironically, when introduced it might cause bank runs or other stresses for banks tho
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The article talks about 100,000 metric tons of solar panel waste generated in Australia over some unspecified timeframe. (They mention 2035, so I assume they are talking about solar panels that will serve their useful life in the two decade
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> Increase in temperature increase humidity Water vapor amplifies the effect of other greenhouse gases. https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3143/steamy-relati...
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by wcoenen 4y ago
And did you actually select GPT-4? It is shown at the top of the conversation page. I'm asking because I noticed that the default setting for each new conversation is currently still GPT-3.5, even if you are a subscriber and even if yo
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Since your comment seems to be strongly contradicting the blog post, it might be worth checking whether you are really testing the same thing. The blog post is about playing chess against GPT-4. GPT-4 (or at least, a version without image i
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by wcoenen 4y ago
I am not referring to tides, but to the tidal forces that generate them. Tidal forces are the result of a gradient in the field of gravity. When you are close to a black hole, the part of you that is closest, experiences a stronger force o
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by wcoenen 4y ago
I think tidal forces are a better analogy. As change accelerates, basically any pre-existing organisational structure will feel tension between how reality used to be and how reality is. Things will get ripped apart, like the spaghettificat
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Bing chat already hooks into a web search tool. It shows "Searching for: ..." when it does that. This is kind of the point of Bing chat. edit: a paper about how to hook up LLMs to any external tool https://arxiv.org&#x2
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Speaking of notes, I noticed that OneNote is absent from the list of products that will get Copilot.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Thanks for the correction, I indeed misremembered where exactly the margin calls came from. I guess the gist of the point I was trying to make still stands though. SVB was not the first fallout from rising yields on long duration assets. T
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> Everyone who have ever managed bond portfolio knows that he must hedge interest rate risk. Just a thought: the UK gilt crisis in December was related to pension funds holding long term gilts. And these pension funds all properly hedg
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> human thinking is not simply predicting the next word based on a past model Some evidence is emerging which indicates that the activations of a predictive system like GPT-2 can be mapped to human brain states (from fMRI) during langu
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Yes, the ellipse of the orbit would change a bit, while still passing through the point where the impact happened. Most of the change would be on the opposite side of the ellipse. However, I think that for such a small velocity change, it i
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Another way to quantity the effect on Dimorphos is the speed change. It was about 2 centimeter/second. So if Dimorphos would be an object orbiting the sun by itself, then its location in its orbit would be shifted by about an Earth rad
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Intuitively it makes sense that certain nodes only "activate" when the concept/feature that they have learned is actually present in the input. (Whether this is the correct interpretation, I'm not sure.)
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ReLU is always used now, because it performs better than the alternatives.
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Degeneracy pressure comes from the Pauli exclusion principle. There is no limit to how high this pressure can go, as there are always higher energy states to occupy. (Except that for electrons at a high enough energy state, they will disapp
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The solution, I think, would be to have redundant terrestrial communication links. A spiderweb of links between nodes, with routing around damage. And fallbacks to slower microwave or radio links when fiber gets cut. And developing plans to
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by wcoenen 4y ago
That source about GPT-4 is nonsense. It claims GPT-4 will have trillions of parameter, and at the same time links to another page which says that it won't be much bigger than GPT-3: https://www.datacamp.com/blog/wh
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by wcoenen 4y ago
I think these things would happen as a result of a process of escalations, not as a result of rational decisions. Perhaps one side temporarily blinds a spy satellite with a laser[1], to prevent it from observing something sensitive. Then th
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In a large enough war, space infrastructure would actually be very vulnerable. Imagine a cloud of a few tons of shrapnel, spread around in an orbit that intersects all the 550km orbits of the Starlink constellation. This shrapnel cloud coul

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