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by xpe 6mo ago
Explore help in all the forms you can find. Feel free to contact me if you like. I'm happy to meet people and do a phone call or video call. I'm not hard to find with a little digging. I've been through a fair amount of situa
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by xpe 6mo ago
> More opportunities will be posted here in the coming months. Click here to sign up for updates to stay informed when new roles open. Which links to: https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/sKWkWfp Would anyone like
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by xpe 6mo ago
I understand the spirit of this comment (and I get it), but we want the opposite to be true. Let's find ways to support good people who step up. Edits (in case my meaning above is not clear): 1. When I write "but we want the oppos
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by xpe 6mo ago
These job postings opened today on April 17 and close in four days (on April 21). This is highly compressed and highly unusual. Being no fan of the current administration and its hangers-on, my brain quickly jumps to less flattering reasons
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by xpe 6mo ago
This. / Who remembers the "birth" of crowdfunding? Why did so much seem to happen at all once? The most likely explanation imo is that it was "in the air" -- we share culture and ideas. These ideas don't have t
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by xpe 6mo ago
The human brain strikes again. It is built into our cognitive machinery to look for patterns and naively ascribe causation. We're not rational beings that sometimes mess up. We're a clusterf--k of cognitive biases all the way down
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by xpe 6mo ago
We cannot trust identity like we used to here on HN (even pre-LLM-AI I thought we seemed naive.) Unfortunately, we live in a world or anyone or any AI can claim almost anything plausible sounding. Where do we go from here? (This is not an a
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by xpe 6mo ago
Please don't forget that OpenAI's leadership has shown the world what it is really made of.
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by xpe 6mo ago
Think about all the possible explanations carefully. Weight them based on the best information you have. (I think the most likely explanation for Mythos is that it's asymmetrically a very big deal. Come to your own conclusions, but don
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by xpe 6mo ago
Thanks for sharing that! Carry on :)
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by xpe 6mo ago
A quick meta-take here: it is hard to assess the level of expertise here on HN. Some might be just tangentially interested, other might have degrees in the specific topic. Others might maintain a scientific computing library. Domains vary t
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by xpe 6mo ago
What are some of your favorite sources to dig into this field as a whole?
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by xpe 6mo ago
> but there's a reason that all approximations are done using series of polynomials (taylor expansion). "All" is a tall claim. Have a look at https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel.muller/FP5.pdf for e
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by xpe 6mo ago
> just look at voting results "Just"? How would you build a predictive model that inferred aggregate individual qualities such as "% atheists" based on voting results? That would be a rather indirect and distorted pa
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by xpe 6mo ago
To be pedantic: construction with an interconnected complex set of durable goals is hard. The general rule is that optimization over a constrained space is expensive. But standing up a house of cards is pretty cheap. Examples include: shell
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by xpe 6mo ago
> As doom and gloom as things are generally, I do think things have gotten better. The question isn't "are companies making some security improvements?". That's one-sided. The question is "are companies making se
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by xpe 6mo ago
> Quite soon these accusations will nearly always be accurate. /headscratching They don't have to be, do they? It is possible that some people will build identity systems with norms that e.g. humans type with their own hands. T
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by xpe 6mo ago
I thought it would be weird to replace (b) with something, so I decided to search for characters from other languages.
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by xpe 6mo ago
Reminds me about schools of thought on rates of change: > ## Accelerating Change [One School] > > Our intuitions about change are linear; we expect roughly > as much change as has occurred in the past over our own &g
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by xpe 6mo ago
What is the correct pronunciation of serde? Fight amongst yourselves. /s
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by xpe 6mo ago
While there is often a "normal" (bell-curve fitting) distribution for individual factors, putting them together can be counter-intuitive. > Even when considering just three dimensions, fewer than 5% of pilots were “average” in
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by xpe 6mo ago
Invasive species removal, bird identification, trail running, mountain biking, audiobook listening while walking. All are best done out of doors. :P Most are teh opposite of the posture and brain patterns that intensive computer usage encou
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by xpe 6mo ago
Also known as an inertial mass dampener for your sit-stand desk. I appreciate++ the design except for the too-perfect rebar and the exposed wire directly _in_ the concrete. Pros would use a conduit methinks.
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by xpe 6mo ago
My one experience with Ultraplan has been not good. It took too long to figure out how to comment on the plan. The overall process feels sluggish to the point that I wonder "is this thing on?" I also don't understand the unde
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by xpe 6mo ago
Though the above exchange felt a tiny bit snarky, I think the conversation did get more interesting as it went on. I genuinely think both people could probably gain by talking more -- or at least figuring out a way to move fast the surface
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by xpe 6mo ago
Unfrozen caveman lawyer here. Did "talk like caveman" make code more bad? Make unsubst... (AARG) FAKE claims? You deserve compen... AAARG ... money. AMA.
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by xpe 6mo ago
> Can't you know that tokens are units of thinking just by... like... thinking about how models work? Seems reasonable, but this doesn't settle probably-empirical questions like: (a) to what degree is 'more' better?;
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by xpe 6mo ago
Pro-tip from unfrozen caveman lawyer: "Your honor. My client want hide thing from t-rex lang mo-del. He have big brain. So he not put thing on Al Gore device with series of tubes. (Unlike many on modern-day BBS called Haxer News.) T-re
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by xpe 6mo ago
And the haphazard bin stacking (see photograph) is a knolling knightmare
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by xpe 6mo ago
Weird and inscrutable can be good: think genetic algorithms [1] such as antenna optimization for EM radiation [2]. But I like my source code on the intelligible side. [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-35470

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