zmgsabst

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by zmgsabst 5d ago
I’ve worked in a finance department — and this is a very idealistic view of how such decisions get made.
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by zmgsabst 6d ago
How would you observe that?
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by zmgsabst 6d ago
We have something like a spinor network in 4D space, where some portions are opposite others in parameters. Is this a diagram of particles interacting or a single thread weaving through time? Pick your metaphor.
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by zmgsabst 6d ago
Your criticism of LLMs also applies to humans and so implies humans don’t possess knowledge.
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by zmgsabst 7d ago
Obama worked with Wall St to promote Woke/ESG/etc in public-private partnerships to dismantle the class solidarity forming in 2010 around anger over Wall St bailouts. OWS itself fell apart when activists started with race and sex
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by zmgsabst 7d ago
Not really: engineering is explicitly empirical compared to other fields — and mathematics serves as ontology for that experience. There’s not faith involved.
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by zmgsabst 7d ago
Darwin submitted and presented his work to the Linnean Society of London — with papers by Darwin published by the society. Darwin wrote his book Origin of Species the following year.
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by zmgsabst 7d ago
To agree: In my experience, proof is the gym reps that allows you to harness strong intuition elsewhere. In practice as an engineer, intuition is far more useful, eg, being able to “feel” when something is off in our reasoning — but proofs
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by zmgsabst 7d ago
We must be reading different charts — the only one I can see has consistent numbers among Republicans (50%) but high numbers for Democrats (90%) except for Whites (20%). So your characterization is completely wrong: Republicans mildly think
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by zmgsabst 7d ago
Trump himself only happened because Ds abandoned the working class for grievance politics circa 2010 — forming “public private partnerships” to tear open old wounds while screwing the working class on behalf of corporations.
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by zmgsabst 9d ago
Obama -> Bernie -> Trump is real.
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by zmgsabst 9d ago
This is a direct stab at the US imperialist faction — not MAGA, who want the US to break up with the EU. I genuinely don’t understand this move through the lens of realpolitik: they’re mad at Trump, so they’re going to offend CFR et al who
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by zmgsabst 9d ago
Similar to say, humans collecting exotic viruses and conducting serial passage in humanized mice? Because we already do that. What about AI makes that more risky?
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by zmgsabst 9d ago
AZs weren’t meant to be disaster resistant, eg, an earthquake or hurricane could take out a whole region. Regions were always the scale of disaster isolation on AWS.
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by zmgsabst 12d ago
You choice of basis matters, eg, wavelet versus sinusoid.
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by zmgsabst 13d ago
To agree: If I ran Metasploit against HF and RubyGems because I “accidentally” misconfigured my lab sandbox, there’s a good chance I’d be prosecuted. I don’t think LLMs vs Metasploit being different software changes the law.
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by zmgsabst 15d ago
I don’t think it’s required, but my friends who do flights for remote mining operations in SE Asia use the same concepts — so it really is pretty standard for commercial flying, even down to remote private operations. A bad bump on a commer
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by zmgsabst 16d ago
You would conclude that storytelling is higher structures of some base unit, perhaps a few layers deep when considering features, eg: narrative -> trope + theme -> memes
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by zmgsabst 16d ago
Interpreting data is hard. Eg, if you have a bunch of airplanes returning from a war, you might be tempted to armor the areas where they were hit. But you want to armor planes where the holes arent because those are the critical areas. If
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by zmgsabst 17d ago
Icebergs are deep and visible. Deep here is similar to “deep web”, ie, there is depth to the institutions beyond their apparent surface layers. The elites need a deep state because organizations are made of people — and the administrators o
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by zmgsabst 17d ago
This doesn’t even show the family is better off economically — they only measure their earnings, but not lost labor while at home.
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by zmgsabst 17d ago
Of course it has positive GDP on the parents: if two women each care for each others children rather than their own, GDP goes up even though the impact on both families is negative (due to lost travel time, as the mothers swap roles).
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by zmgsabst 18d ago
They route through all kinds of intermediaries that handle the banking by proxy — eg, as we saw in the Panama Papers and similar leaks. Reporting $600 in CashApp isn’t about stopping cartels, terrorists, etc; it’s about harassing sex worker
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by zmgsabst 18d ago
In practice, KYC does little to stop any of that — but does do a lot to enable mass surveillance and oppression.
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by zmgsabst 18d ago
I suspect the argument is more the particular KYC required by American law, eg, as long as your bank can identify you as a particular customer, they shouldn’t be required to collect certain information by law. Though if I were going to rant
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by zmgsabst 18d ago
How do you synchronize the clocks and compute the measurement, without depending on the conclusion? You run into a similar problem with Michelson-Morley: because the apparatus and the light both get distorted by any motion, you can’t even
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by zmgsabst 19d ago
I’m American — I just view politics through form rather than propaganda. Eg, the concept of “left vs right” arises from USSR propaganda distancing themselves from fascists, who believed in similar practices. You should also respond to the s
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by zmgsabst 19d ago
You also have a self-selection effect: users willing to fill out more involved surveys may pair with each other at a higher rate than the overall background.
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by zmgsabst 21d ago
My understanding is that it’s on shelves in a shared vault and you relabel who owns that shelf/slot/bin.
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by zmgsabst 21d ago
I did an undergrad in math with a little research in number theory and recognized parts — eg, I myself worked through the proof for odd regular primes and that 37 is irregular, breaking the general case. Wiles-Taylor-Wiles was the origina

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