DAGdug

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by DAGdug 1y ago
Is there a “hopefully Israel ..” version of this or is all the skepticism targeted at Islamic countries, and not USA’s “greatest ally”?
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by DAGdug 1y ago
What’s special about this treatment? It’s the 101 part of a 101 probability course.
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by DAGdug 1y ago
Yeah, that’s fair, but is implicit since I’m arguing against the “sample size is inadequate” POV, not the “there are distributional biases in data” POV. There are a gazillion ways to adjust for these biases (ex. propensity score matching) g
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by DAGdug 1y ago
This! (Thank you for the comment). There’s a reason a 1000 random samples is adequate to reasonably estimate what’s common metrics in a population the size of USA or India (or infinitely large).
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by DAGdug 1y ago
They search space for criteria is practically limitless. They have and would absolutely fish for precisely the criteria benefiting Musk. This playbook has been applied well by the crony capitalist class in the 3rd world, and is always a mov
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by DAGdug 1y ago
“ I don't think it was there when I commented” Yes, it was there.
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by DAGdug 1y ago
Yeah, there’s no objective and universal barometer for what is or isn’t immoral. I’m providing evidence (as opposed to pulling things out of thin air) for why it’s reasonable for many, or even most, people in the western world to find Guy R
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by DAGdug 1y ago
On 2, a few additional quotes from Wikipedia might help (they admittedly don’t directly implicate Guy Rosen, though you’d have to be extremely charitable in assuming he wasn’t party to these decisions): “ Onavo, which allowed the company to
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by DAGdug 1y ago
If everything that anyone cared to not see was censored, there’d be no content on the internet. Also, not smart to conflate (lack of) personalization with government-induced content moderation.
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by DAGdug 1y ago
Just want to call out that the head of the trust and safety/integrity division, Guy Rosen, is an Israeli citizen with a strong pro-Israel bias. He’s also a person of questionable morals. From Wikipedia: “ Guy Rosen and Roi Tiger founde
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by DAGdug 1y ago
The language of the corporate meeting room in America is also a lot more casual than in Europe. It has zero bearing on actual professionalism (defined, “ the competence or skill expected of a professional”) given the results of American cor
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by DAGdug 1y ago
How much of this is intrinsic to nuclear versus due to regulatory requirements (various taxes including subsidies for certain renewables, early decommissioning)? My sense always was that this was about the latter rather than the former, but
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by DAGdug 1y ago
Some about being pedantic, but what’s the value of I,C, R1-Rn here? Seems like a distraction!
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by DAGdug 2y ago
I actually see nothing from Liang suggesting that the work is motivated by or relevant for trading. Care to share your quotes? What I do see though are these quotes that mildly contradict your POV: “If we have to find a commercial reason,
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by DAGdug 2y ago
I personally support trimming bureaucratic fat, but the way the current administration is doing it is the worst way possible - with no due diligence - and will lose public support soon.
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Depends on how they weigh the cost of a false positive versus false negative decision. The former seems to often be the key focus of a bureaucracy, slowing down the rate of diffusion of new technologies even among willing adopters.
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Edit: Should be final training run, not final training.
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Bizarre understanding of what happened with Sam Altman and Deepseek. The question to Sam Altman was about whether $10 million would be adequate funding to build a frontier LLM. $6 million is the cost of the _final_ _training_ cost of the DS
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by DAGdug 2y ago
All the references to Jevon’s paradox fail to account for three things: 1. There’s no good forecasting model to account for how aggregate demand moves as a function of efficiency gains in this space 2. Aggregate demand isn’t the same as Nvi
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by DAGdug 2y ago
You’re suggesting violence as the only path to successfully oppose the US president? Wow!
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Can you provide evidence of this strong claim? It looks like you’re conflating his population genetics work with eugenics/race science (which in turn have significant differences that I won’t go into).
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by DAGdug 2y ago
I hope this doesn’t sound overly cynical or conspiratorial. My sense is that there’s panic about unfettered access to what’s happening in Gaza on TikTok, which is shaping Gen Z’s perceptions in a way that isn’t deemed acceptable by the pol
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Minimization of regulatory risk and lawsuits. Compliance was _always_ about that - if leadership truly valued human dignity you’d see Gaza get a few orders of magnitude as much attention as BLM in corporate America, rather than a few orders
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by DAGdug 2y ago
> They did to a degree Where? I’m fairly facile with causal inference; this is the crudest observational “study” without even qualitative heuristics to make the comparisons apples-to-apples. > and expand on why that particular quote o
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Did you click through to glance through the paper linked? I was hoping the author would posit a causal model, adjust for a few different factors, and have something robust. Nope, nothing - just a wall of text even quoting Derrida. Empiricis
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by DAGdug 2y ago
What a patently absurd POV! A phone doesn’t compensate for the inability to solve for basic needs - housing, healthy food, healthcare. Or being unable to invest in skill development for themselves or their offspring, save for retirement.
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Leisure time hasn’t increased in the last 100 years except for the lower income class which doesn’t have steady employment. But yes, I see your point that the homeless person who might have had a home if he had a (now automated) factory job
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by DAGdug 2y ago
What about non-text modalities - image and video, specifically?
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Not to be pedantic, but percentages can exceed 100.
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by DAGdug 2y ago
Okay, that’s pretty different from ad companies. I’ve worked in the ads space and what the poster mentioned doesn’t apply in any manner, AFAIK.

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