AndrewDucker

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Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now(autism.org.uk)
2 points by AndrewDucker 3h ago|0 comments
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The EU Bans Social Media for Under-13s(wired.com)
11 points by AndrewDucker 7h ago|4 comments
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A preview of the future Intel Architecture documentation(intel.github.io)
3 points by AndrewDucker 5d ago|0 comments
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by AndrewDucker 6d ago
An LLM, as the name implies, only has access to words. It can only model things about those words and the relationships between them. It never has access to the actual things the words represent. So it absolutely has experiential knowledge
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by AndrewDucker 6d ago
Does it have an internal model of what a prime is? If so then it's not parroting. If it doesn't then it is. The whole point is that either they have internal models of the concepts, from experience of those things, or they don&
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Nudge or tax? At last, some data(timharford.com)
2 points by AndrewDucker 6d ago|0 comments
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by AndrewDucker 6d ago
Happy to go with the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_parrot
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by AndrewDucker 6d ago
The answer to both is "No".
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
The idea that non-pregnant people shouldn't also get to use the toilet seems baffling to me. Maybe just let people use it when they need it.
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
You are not just a stochastic parrot. Your speech is not just "next likely word", but a product of your internal model of the world.
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
Having had two kids go through nursery from an early age, they absolutely had a better time there, with more friends and a higher quality of entertainment, than they would have had at home with either of us.
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
To me "art" is the communication of something from the artist, through arrangement of reality, to the person experiencing the art.
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
I'd be delighted to replace the current Iranian regime with a less awful collection of people. I have seen no plans which looked like they might make this happen.
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by AndrewDucker 7d ago
Actually, I do. I want dozens of them. And then I can play the one with the best reviews. Of course, without copyright meaning that people have to pay for the games, the chances of those games being made is pretty slim.
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by AndrewDucker 9d ago
How is the USA making any of that any better?
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by AndrewDucker 10d ago
People are choosing to be on instances which block certain things. That's their choice. I want to be able to have a conversation without filling it with racist screaming. Choosing to be in places that don't allow that is my choice
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by AndrewDucker 11d ago
We are not "dealt a hand". There are many possibilities, and the idea that you have to take the simplest, most obvious, one is largely false. There are other people in this thread talking about how they did things differently.
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by AndrewDucker 12d ago
People do not believe big companies when they say "I'll deal with the externalities a little later."
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by AndrewDucker 16d ago
Futures are zero sum, but can also be a win for both sides, because what they gain is stability. "I will buy y tons of corn from you in April for £x" - now I don't have to worry about how much my corn will cost and you don&#x
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by AndrewDucker 16d ago
Give it time. It is hard work, but it gets easier as it goes along. I'd brace yourself for about 5 years of it being relentless but slowly getting easier. By which point, although it will still not be easy you should at least be r
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by AndrewDucker 19d ago
There's a financial incentive to invent teleporters, and yet...
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by AndrewDucker 20d ago
Nothing yet. This is incredibly preliminary, with lots of this being tested in frogs. It hopefully gives hints which will be tested,better understood, and show actual mechanisms in humans. But probably not for years.
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by AndrewDucker 21d ago
Absolutely. Buy multi-GB game, watch it download quickly at gigabit speeds, be able to play it two minutes later. Can't do that on 80Mbps.
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Spain wants data centres on 80% renewables every hour, or no grid connection(thenextweb.com)
4 points by AndrewDucker 21d ago|1 comments
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by AndrewDucker 21d ago
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446422
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by AndrewDucker 21d ago
Google Maps is excellent for bus planning for me. Depends on your local bus company feeding times in to them though.
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by AndrewDucker 21d ago
Sadly yes. Some bus companies are very reliable (traffic jams permitting), but there are definitely times when they aren't, and I've used rural routes where the hourly bus might just not turn up, which makes them completely infeas
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by AndrewDucker 22d ago
They lock their sight on it, anything else is irrelevant including mother. Its like watching a...person watching TV?
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Enabling the next-generation trait solver on Rust nightly(blog.rust-lang.org)
4 points by AndrewDucker 23d ago|0 comments
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by AndrewDucker 27d ago
Their outcome might be improved by them feeling more amused and less grumpy.

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