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by wisty 3y ago
8 bytes of new data but 8x28 = 224 bytes = 200 data + 8 date + 16 for id. The 28 is a factor (×).
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by wisty 3y ago
Patents are written by lawyers to cover this, generally speaking. Also a court case will have a judge to apply some "common sense" (to lawyers) rulings, like whether in this context a strap could also be a clamp. Then the lawyers
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by wisty 3y ago
If you're only paying a small amount for the materials, most people will be a lot more price sensitive on installation, so there's a race to the bottom.
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by wisty 3y ago
This is kind of like blank slate thinking though. Not all topics are equally easy to teach and assess in a deep way, with limited time and resources. Statistics is IMO a lot like security. Unless it's at a very high level, just follow
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by wisty 3y ago
That would probably be commercial. The term NC is actually a real can of worms. Either genuine non commercial work (government or non profit but they can be commercial) or as an evaluation/ prototype licence.
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by wisty 3y ago
People used to say that this will never be accepted, especially in high stakes areas like driving a car, but then we saw how it works in the real world.
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by wisty 3y ago
There is a middle ground, in that maybe ChatGTP shouldn't help users commit certain serious crimes. I am pretty pro free speech, and I think there's definitely a slippery slope here, but there is a bit of justification.
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by wisty 3y ago
I think Max Tegmark said there's 3 main camps of people talking about AI: 1. The people who think AI won't really work (at least in some fundamental way - it might make some stochastic melody but it won't have any creative sp
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by wisty 3y ago
I think China deciding to dig itself out of poverty is a big factor with both good and bad effects (and absolutely staggeringly big effects).
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by wisty 3y ago
Setting a good example shouldn't be the only tool in the toolbox, and it's possible to not set a good example and still do OK, but it's probably the best single thing you can do.
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by wisty 3y ago
Maybe in a family the guess mode is more common while at work the ask mode is more common.
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by wisty 3y ago
Cognitive dissonance. Knowing stuff is (generally) smart. Not knowing stuff is dumb. If someone's superior knowledge in a field makes you feel dumb, you assage your self image by saying you're not dumb, you're just not a try-
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by wisty 3y ago
If that's still the case, I can imagine why they'd want a customer who knows exactly what they want to walk to the store next door to get the item elsewhere. A customer who already knows exactly what configuration they want is pro
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by wisty 3y ago
I think a major problem is that most education "experts" (the type policy makers listen to, not practicing teachers) are upper-middle-class kids who had their parents teach them the basics of phonics and times tables. Who else wou
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by wisty 3y ago
If the GCC compiler has an issue, I'm in a lot of trouble too, even though it's open source. I guess I could scan the code and figure out any minor problems (or figure out why I was misusing it) but I'm not an expert in compi
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by wisty 3y ago
> Conformists do what they’re told and don’t look for ways to skirt the rules. They’re more likely to assimilate into corporate culture and are easier to monitor, motivate, and predict in a wide variety of circumstances. When it comes ri
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by wisty 3y ago
It could just be a parts issue. A lot of mechanics will work on pretty much any car, if they have the parts, but if it's not a popular model then they don't want it sitting in their shop for a week while they order parts. I guess
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by wisty 3y ago
Schools of education have a very poor reputation for a reason. There's analysis done on the "teacher quality" (based on student results) and the amount of teacher training (at these schools). There's basically zero diffe
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by wisty 3y ago
How do people feel about the submarine disaster? I think they sailed too close to the wind, but there's always going to be an element of risk in some things. Saving thousands of dollars by using a PlayStation controller might be smart,
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by wisty 4y ago
Human instincts only apply to the systems that they're "evolved" to handle (or the systems we can readily observe and learn from). Think about big systems. The moon is a ginormous rock that's so big it is visible from th
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by wisty 4y ago
The stats are still pretty bad. Prostate cancer kills more people than breast cancer (though it's usually men in their 80s, so the QALYS is not as bad). A prostate cancer diagnosis is not terrible (since it's so damn common) and a
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by wisty 4y ago
There's two books reviewed. The second one in the review (Smith) is more looking at the science-adjacent fields that had an influence (like paper) rather than arguing that Newton relied on colonisation because he used a little data fro
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by wisty 4y ago
> Recent advances in AI, and less recent advances in computing in general showed that a lot of the things we consider “cognitively hard” - from symbolic manipulation to arithmetic, “drawing” and even reasoning - can be reproduced by comp
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by wisty 4y ago
China had heavy lockdowns. Changing the policy could be seen as admitting they made a mistake. There's one party, but multiple factions, and some factions pushed lockdowns harder than others.
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by wisty 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" SAT is a rugged system that performs well while withstanding concerted efforts by hackers to un
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by wisty 4y ago
As far as I can tell, there's way more accountability in science now, just like there was more accountability in a Soviet factory than an American one in the Cold War. It just doesn't always achieve its intended results.
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by wisty 4y ago
Just as often, arts gets the short shift. Art in a "STEAM" program is likely to be more like design (Photoshop, logo design, etc). I think it's a bunch of enthusiastic education administrators who don't spend much time i
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by wisty 4y ago
Note - this is not intended as an attack on the poster above. I'm just a bit suspicious about this "guilt / shame" idea. I feel like this "guilt / shame" distinction is not driven by people who understand
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by wisty 4y ago
Economists talk about "the theory of the second best" - that the second best global minima might not be close to the best minima. The classic example is a union and a monopoly is better than either a union and a free market of emp
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by wisty 4y ago
I'm happy if you want to pay to shower with hot water. I'm not going to pay you to shower with hot water.

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