wildermuthn

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by wildermuthn 5y ago
It is fascinating to me how quickly people reject the premise of Mighty, even after PG lists all the good reasons for replacing judgment with curiosity. I’ll admit, my initial reaction to Mighty was “I can’t imagine it ever being faster tha
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
His mistake wasn’t in taking the wrong amount of LSD. His mistake was testing it for the first time in an important meeting. But it seems this is a common type of mistake for him: taking unnecessary risks for himself rather than necessary r
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
Google search is technically the best it has ever been with its use of Bert and Passage Ranking. Ironically, this has had the unintended effect of forcing content-farms to produce more realistic content that resembles the babbling of GPT2,
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
I think there’s a difference between questioning if this was an accidental lab leak based of legitimate scientific research, as compared to conspiracy theories that blame China for intentionally creating and releasing a bio-weapon. There’s
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
Downvoted or not, my ps5 has been shipped to StockX and will be sent along to me soon enough. Scalping is a fascinating economic topic with ramifications beyond sneaker and consoles.
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
As I understand it, they are just using electron for some GUI elements like the toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, etc.
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
If you really want a ps5, then I’d recommend buying one off StockX. The seller sends it to StockX, StockX verifies it as an unopened ps5, and then StockX ships it to you. They’ve been doing this with sneakers and such for a while, and their
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
The book “Sapiens” does a great job of exploring how culture enabled us to evolve apart from changes to our DNA. I couldn’t agree more. On instincts: the neocortex is built on top of all the other more instinctual parts of the brain (vision
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
You might really enjoy the science fiction novels Children of Time and Children of Ruin, if you haven’t already. Or hell, based on your comments, maybe you wrote them! Either way, they are spectacular and thought-provoking.
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
Let’s assume for the moment that these are not erroneous sensors or secret domestic/foreign tech. Two facts to build upon: 1) We have seen them on Earth 2) We have seen them nowhere else. This means that although they have sufficiently
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
As convoluted as this comment is, props for pointing out that evolution (and the formation of the solar system) took billions of years to produce intelligence. Can humanity do it in less time? Because biological evolution’s is oriented towa
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
This is a really great point. The difference is between instinct and intelligence. But is the difference merely due to a greater amount of neurons between a spider and a chimp, or is there a fundamentally different architecture of those neu
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
To your point, Jules Verne imagined shooting men to the moon with a big gun. But to OP’s point, the vision inspired enough people that we eventually built rockets. There’s no dichotomy here. But there is a dependency: means for nowhere with
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
In the realm of ideas about possibilities, isn’t his bio is somewhat irrelevant unless his background is in science fiction? I wouldn’t underestimate the power of good science fiction in inspiring science itself, or in the case of this essa
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
The negativity here reminds me that there is a spectrum among engineers: between high-level and low-level thinking, between goals and means, between abstractions and operations, between simplification and optimization. Most sit somewhere in
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
A quick look over their docs, and I think this is a terrific product that needs a better landing page. They make it easy to build a custom task with a UI builder, and more importantly, they also automatically exposes programmatic means of a
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
Actually, the military teaches its soldiers and officers that war is won by making the other side surrender, not by being nasty. The greatest victory is one where they surrender without a single battle being waged (pretty sure that’s in the
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
One of my team members, and a long-time friend, committed suicide. We were a small team of five, then of four. Although we were a fully distributed team, we were close. I called each of the team individually, and broke the news. I will neve
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
It’s actually kind of impressive to me that so many people want to try and help though. Even if their judgment and advice is wrong (which is likely due to the fact that we really know nothing about this guy), it still gives me a little bit
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
Good point, but snakedoctor did set this in motion by asking for candid feedback. Ostensibly, he wants to receive and integrate feedback. Seems like the sort of thing a smart kid would aim for. Part of me feels like in a decade people will
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
Fascinating take on NPD. But it’s my understanding that narcissism is actually the hardest disorder to cure, as its very nature is to be in denial that anything needs to change — it’s the rest of the world that needs to change.
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
Well said! If you can’t turn around your life yourself (I couldn’t), you can at least delegate that task to an organization willing to spend ungodly amounts of money and time on making you a productive member of its society. Whether you lik
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by wildermuthn 5y ago
You’re young, inexperienced, and uneducated? College and good internships will improve upon all of that. If you can’t afford college, you’ll need to join the military (I recommend the Air Force if you want to take it easy, or the Marines if
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by wildermuthn 6y ago
This is quite the skeptical take, but then again, a few startups ago I saw things that definitely suggested you are right. I often find myself wondering how some startups raise so much money. It’s tempting to think that VCs and many co-foun
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by wildermuthn 6y ago
If I’d gone to the homepage rather than the repo I’d have answered my own question. Cool stuff, best of luck!
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by wildermuthn 6y ago
I love this. But this is also why I think using "false-confidence" as a metric avoids all these questions by being unambiguous about what is being measured.
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That's my point, though. A lie-detector tries to do the impossible. A false-confidence assessor only does what it claims to do.
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by wildermuthn 6y ago
Naming is both hard and important. Reading over the comments in this thread, one of the most up-voted of them reads, "Luckily, there is this one reliable method for detecting a lie, checking whether what the suspect says is true."
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by wildermuthn 6y ago
Actually, this happens all the time. Especially in business and relationships. Most of the time we don't know what is objectively true. When there is a disagreement about what is objectively true, we often accuse or judge one another a
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by wildermuthn 6y ago
I think we're saying the same thing. People manipulate one another through communication, not only in a criminal-justice setting, but also in business and relationships. Using "false-confidence" as a metric is simply remindin

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