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by wyager 2y ago
> The government needs to step in actively to keep a free market from collapsing into one of the natural end states. Which is what, exactly? The US is per capita richer than almost all EU countries by a huge margin (with a few small exce
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by wyager 2y ago
Yuji looks quite good, thanks. I need to see if I can integrate this with my DMX/Zigbee lighting control.
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by wyager 2y ago
If you're patient, it's crazy how much money you can save off of new pricing. I frequently see discounts north of 75% off new price for stuff in pretty good condition.
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by wyager 2y ago
Craigslist. I just have a bunch of alerts for various cinema lighting brands (among other industrial goods I like using in my house, like pelican cases). For mounting, it depends. Some things, like Pavotubes, come with screw-in mounting so
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by wyager 2y ago
While the color temperature situation has improved, the actual spectral quality of most consumer LED lighting still leaves a lot to be desired. CRI makes an effort to measure this, although it's a low-granularity measurement. I persona
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by wyager 2y ago
For anyone interested in a "not-so-simple" CPU design, I have a couple old college assignments from a CPU design class that may be fun to peruse: This one is a 4-stage pipelined CPU: https://github.com/wyager/
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by wyager 2y ago
Insane Stockholm syndrome on display here. "My unnecessarily degraded conditions are actually a good thing"
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The temperature in LLMs is a parameter of a regularization step that determines how neuron activation levels get mapped to odds ratios. Zero temperature => fully deterministic The neuron activation levels do not inherently form or repres
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by wyager 2y ago
> except ... it doesn't. Until some political weirdo recently went and defaced the wikipedia article on cargo cults, you could just google "cargo cult" and understand the analogy within 5 seconds.
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There's no a priori reason you would expect student expenditures to become less effective per dollar in richer countries, except the fraction spent on labor.
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by wyager 2y ago
"As a percentage of GDP" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Why would we normalize this to GDP?
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by wyager 2y ago
If you condition on race, American students do better (e.g. on PISA) than almost any other country with a few exceptions like Hong Kong. American test cores are (slightly better than) what you expect given our demographics, which are by far
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by wyager 2y ago
> Sexism and racism are both very real and objectively quantified Outcome differences are real and quantified. Your preferred explanations for the differences are not. Racism and sexism are not the most parsimonious explanations for the
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by wyager 2y ago
> the US education system because of how underfunded the system is as a whole. The US spends more per student than any other country, by a lot. Money is very clearly not the problem. BTW, if you condition PISA scores on racial groups, a
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by wyager 2y ago
Extreme examples like this provide a nice attention-grabbing narrative, but they're not responsible for driving the central 99.5% of the workforce distribution
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by wyager 2y ago
America spends more money per student, in almost any school district, than any European country. The problem is not "resources and support". We've tried "resources and support" for 50 years, so the (a priori entirel
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by wyager 2y ago
> I don’t think anyone thought the laptop wasn’t real though. I heard nominally credible commentators claim the laptop story was a "russian disinformation" campaign at least 50 different times.
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One of the most useful features of the "early" internet, which has been steadily diminished over the last 30 years, is that internet usage was sort of an implicit IQ test. The entire system was "semi-closed". Now that th
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-led-us-house-pan... There was a long period where people were getting banned from Twitter and Meta platforms for posting (true) claims about the Hunter Biden laptop stor
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And yet 95% of novel IP...
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> would you let an LLM manage your financial affairs (entirely, unsupervised)? I wouldn't let another human do this.
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At the very least, one should use `expect` over `unwrap` so the error is useful.
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You will live in a pod and eat fava-bean-based "chocolate". You will own nothing and you will like it
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> it will never be as fast to find some definition The fastest definition is the one you never need to look up. In the absence of "coding aids" like function lookup, people (are forced to) write code that is inherently better-o
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by wyager 2y ago
"Peer review" has been next to useless in most fields for the last 50-100 years at least. We need a new epistemic benchmark.
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by wyager 2y ago
I agree, but most programmers unfortunately are not good, so this is the reality we must deal with
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I think one of the most promising pitches for rust adoption is that it borrowed as much as possible from Haskell/ML without treading into the territory where it becomes "scary" for broadly-C-family language monoglots. A C++ o
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Looks like the author is now working on Glean (the AI docs/search tool) at Meta, which is also Haskell-based.
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Because prices are determined by supply and demand
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Gun manufacturers could add pointless and customer-hostile complications to guns just like apple can add customer-hostile complications to airtags. The case against Apple is even stronger, because at least apple's complications have a

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