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by wrp 3y ago
Wouldn't it be much simpler to have a "no phones" policy at testing sites?
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by wrp 3y ago
I find the article hard to respond to, because I don't think it has a coherent point, but I'll comment on some of its apparent assumptions. One is that all students go there for a quality education. Since the early 19th century if
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by wrp 3y ago
I once had an undergrad tell me directly that her strategy for financing college was to get through on loans then declare bankruptcy right after graduation. Good grief, what could I say to that?
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by wrp 3y ago
About 15 years ago, I spent a while on a project to train a language model on a corpus of math, with idea to create a math exploration assistant. The project foundered on my inability extract the typeset math and proofs from print materials
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by wrp 3y ago
IANAL, but the article doesn't appear to outline a legal theory to support the complaint. If you regard a private school as a business, then legacy admission is a policy of giving preference to children of previous customers. I would e
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by wrp 3y ago
I feel this example points to a key issue regarding LLM AI. I've read the work on AI story generation from early days to now, and GPT-4's output shows a jump in performance that leaves me both elated and dismayed. The fluency and
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by wrp 3y ago
I, too, was once quite interested in Bohm's work and dug up what I could on his personal life to understand his career trajectory from USA to Brazil to England. While I think he was genuinely brilliant, he seemed to have a personality
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by wrp 3y ago
I have a friend who is a senior electronics engineer at a fairly large company. A few months ago, I mentioned ChatGPT in conversation and he had never heard of it. I was quite surprised since I've seen ChatGPT become a major topic of c
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by wrp 3y ago
Well, if governments in 東京, 서울, and กรุงเทพมหานคร do, shouldn't we also? /s
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by wrp 3y ago
I'm afraid us older guys may not have a good sense of what military life is like today. I knew a lot of military families in the 1990s and they seemed satisfied. That contact ended for me about 20 years ago, so I don't know how th
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by wrp 3y ago
"Emergency! Everybody to get from street!" Probably my favorite movie line.
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by wrp 3y ago
I've read accounts from Americans living in post-WW2 Japan. Intestinal worms were nearly universal due to the use of human waste as fertilizer. In one account from a missionary, he noted that a Korean colleague of his didn't have
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by wrp 3y ago
Summary: Military kids traditionally are the majority of recruits, but America's military misadventures the past two decades have left veterans not very enthusiastic about their mission, and the current civilian job market is really go
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Woman’s leg amputated after being trapped in moving walkway(apnews.com)
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by wrp 3y ago
I've heard Costco makes their profits from membership fees. The retail operation just aims to cover costs. So I can see why they would try to prevent multiple people from using one membership account.
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by wrp 3y ago
OK, I think I see the problem with this conversation. When people talk about personality in communication, they generally mean the manner of expression. What you seem to want is a tailoring of the content to your needs. At the moment, I bel
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by wrp 3y ago
What do you mean, no personality? ChatGPT sounds exactly like people I know working in PR.
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by wrp 3y ago
Also grew up in Oregon. The comments on this are surreal in their misconceptions about what it's like. 1. Smelly hands is an issue. That's the thing I hate most about dealing with self-serve. 2. There is no tipping of gas station
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by wrp 3y ago
Thank you for the reference. I had not read about this before. The rapid cancelling leaves me wondering whether it's because people think it's irrelevant to the topic at hand or just don't accept that not only men's beha
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by wrp 3y ago
We need to lay to rest the idea that patriarchal societies arise just because men are physically stronger. There are known quite a number of matriarchal tribal societies where inter-tribal warfare was a significant focus of their society, s
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by wrp 3y ago
Now you raise that perspective, I'm reminded that Shoigu rose to his current high position because of his success in cracking down on corruption in government departments. I read he made a lot of enemies.
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by wrp 3y ago
Just so you appreciate how weird this is, my understanding is that Sergei Shoigu is possibly the least hawkish major figure in the Kremlin. I got the impression leading up to the invasion that Shoigu was the one who most wanted to continue
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by wrp 3y ago
He is complaining that the West does a poor job of elevating well-informed commenters to prominence. Having close association to the Soviet/Russia watching community since the 1980s, I agree. The problem is that the kind of people who
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by wrp 3y ago
I'm going on what I read many years ago, but as I recall, the story had more to it. In the 1930s, Germany was coming to the end of the Bauhaus period when the NSDAP came into power. The trend in German publishing at the time was toward
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by wrp 3y ago
A possibly related anecdote is one about Richard Feynman. When he tried and failed to write an accessible undergrad lecture about QCD(?), he told his colleagues that meant he/they didn't really understand it themselves.
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by wrp 3y ago
The article conflates two issues and I don't know the exact thinking within the Ministry of Education. One issue is the presence of super-tough questions that very few students could hope to answer. The other issue is questions on &quo
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by wrp 3y ago
TFA left me confused. I was at ASU briefly around 2000 and while it lived up to its "reputation as a party school for hot people," it also aggressively pursued being a major research campus. What did Crow do differently? From the
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by wrp 3y ago
> Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous. Is it likely the current tone of American political discourse is a result of so many taking this attitude and assuming their polit
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by wrp 3y ago
I see, thanks. You confused the Ukrainian case of 18 (unidentified) missiles in combat with the Egyptian case of two dozen (Igla/SA-16) in a test.
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by wrp 3y ago
Need to clarify here. GP appeared to be asking about computer vision based systems, which would involve object recognition. The traditional vision systems such as you referenced are based on contrast detection.

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