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by yorwba 2mo ago
Nowadays, a farmer who can't grow crops anymore doesn't necessarily have to find a farm elsewhere, but could also move to a nearby city and work in a factory. That option is enticing enough for many that they'll choose it eve
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by yorwba 2mo ago
I wondered where this article got the idea that "half the planet" would die "in 26 years or less" with 3°C of warming. It appears to be a misreading of the table in https://actuaries.org.uk/media/ni4
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Fairphone? https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6#f_slide_1 But also, I doubt any polity would have its sovereignty undermined if their general-purpose computing hardware doesn't fit into their pockets.
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by yorwba 3mo ago
There is no shortage of general-purpose computing hardware in the EU. If you need some general-purpose compute to make a car, an oven, or a phone, you can get it. That consumers mostly buy special-purpose devices that don't always allo
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by yorwba 3mo ago
The Crisis Group report is a very interesting read, thanks!
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Yes, since he said neither of these things nor the opposite, I decided to take the opportunity to ask instead of assuming. For example, is Guelmim-Oued Noun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelmim-Oued_Noun inside or out
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by yorwba 3mo ago
> Sahrawis on the Moroccan controlled areas basically enjoy a welfare state with free transport, no VAT, and many other benefits. How is this implemented? Do ethnic Sahrawis get special IDs that entitle them to such benefits? Or do they
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by yorwba 3mo ago
"Best" because of the irony that it was written by Claude? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901199
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by yorwba 3mo ago
If tractability could only be used to filter out literally intractable charities, it would indeed not be very useful. But you can also use it to compare different approaches and pick the best ones. Then you don't throw up your hands an
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by yorwba 3mo ago
"tractability = % of a problem solved / % increase in resources" does not sound like "you have to decisively and completely solve a problem or it's not worth supporting." You can only throw up your hands and sa
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by yorwba 3mo ago
What do you think the frequency of EAs committing mass fraud is? How many cases are you basing that on? What does that imply about the size of the EA movement? Does that number make sense? Like, if a church had 100,000 members, you would in
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by yorwba 3mo ago
There are other meanings that don't require the carving to be a form of writing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geoglyph
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by yorwba 3mo ago
"Modulation weights" here refers to weights used to adjust layer normalization depending on the task (adaLN). General-purpose LLMs generally don't have those in the first place.
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by yorwba 3mo ago
That graph features a completely-made-up superexponential AI growth curve coincidentally reaching 100% of US electricity generation in 2030, but even if you take the prediction up to 2026 at face value, it also agrees that AI is currently a
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by yorwba 3mo ago
The internet has certainly changed the composition of the economy a lot, so that a lot of services that used to be in-person are now available online. But GDP growth is about the difference in value production over time. Especially digi
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Why amplify the copycat spam domains?
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by yorwba 3mo ago
From the article: > Today, Seedance 2.5 is rolling out on Jimeng AI, Doubao Pro, and other platforms, with API access coming soon via BytePlus ModelArk. Jimeng is https://jimeng.jianying.com/ (I'm pretty sure, there
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Without anchoring on the group average it's hardly Group-Relative and without likelihood there's no Policy; that doesn't leave much of the original GRPO unchanged... Do you have a particular paper in mind that does likelihood
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by yorwba 3mo ago
GRPO increases the likelihood of samples that are better than average, not just the single best, and decreases that of samples that are worse than average. This method doesn't even involve an explicit likelihood, so it's a complet
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Why no qualitative examples? Based on the numbers, you should have some pretty pictures you could put in the paper.
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by yorwba 3mo ago
It probably doesn't help that much of the medieval liberal arts curriculum is now taught in high school using modern textbooks, much diminishing the value of learning Ancient Greek so you can study Euclid's now 2300-year-old Elem
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by yorwba 3mo ago
The author spent almost $50 buying junk on Temu just to try it out. Such profligate spending habits are why Americans' private data is worth so much in the first place, and Temu can tap into that directly. Hence also the constant remin
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by yorwba 3mo ago
From the article: > A person familiar with Moonshot’s procurement strategy confirmed that the company does indeed have a channel for accessing Blackwell processors via Southeast Asia. They didn’t specify whether this was a rental channel
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Having an unreleased research model really isn't some kind of brag. If you read some AI research papers, it's extremely obvious that there are a lot of research models that never get released, because of all the "we trained a
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by yorwba 3mo ago
It wasn't the point, but early LLMs would make mistakes so often that writing fiction full of hilarious nonsense was one of the only applications. Now that they make mistakes less often, you need some other source of high-entropy rando
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by yorwba 3mo ago
The difference is that some of those businesses might buy a lot more than just one robot. As many as they currently have employees doing robot work for a human salary.
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Using a crude nickname for someone is in fact a crime in Germany: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_st... If social media companies delete such content, they would ironically be guilty of destro
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by yorwba 3mo ago
There are many ways to hide text. Low contrast, small font size, image covering part of the text, too-small box cutting off some parts, custom font making certain words look like other ones... Alerting the user about such formatting issues
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Do you think law enforcement shouldn't exist like the mob shouldn't exist, or do you think they should've gone differently about enforcing the law in this particular case?
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by yorwba 3mo ago
Yes. I didn't vote for either of the parties in power, they implement many policies I disagree with, but this makes surprisingly little difference in practice.

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