Flashtoo

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by Flashtoo 29d ago
> Some emerging research suggests Earth’s magnetism matters, as well. Being barefoot on the ground versus 30 stories high in a downtown skyscraper puts you in a completely different magnetic environment. Really? My instinctive reaction t
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by Flashtoo 1mo ago
The methane will eventually break down and be part of new plants, but in the meantime it will heat the planet much more than if it hadn't been there. Think of it this way: industrial scale cattle farming essentially makes and feeds bio
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by Flashtoo 1mo ago
> they maintain the websites for social status Are you implying that's a bad thing? Doing things for social status has been an integral part of society for millennia. It's a legitimate motivation that can benefit both the recip
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by Flashtoo 1mo ago
What do you get out of that? The utility of having the end product (a generated game for an obsolete console) seems pretty small, and personally I would think the fun is in learning about the inner workings of the time capsule that is 90s h
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by Flashtoo 3mo ago
One I've started noticing is the "quotation marks around a phrase awkwardly trying to bundle a concept" thing. Like all LLM cliches it's something that has been used in writing for a long time, but I've seen it so m
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by Flashtoo 3mo ago
> It's literally the free market at work--it's really simple, if you don't believe in whatever he says, don't speculate! This, too, is actually addressed in the article - the whole point is that you're being forc
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by Flashtoo 4mo ago
Same, but recently I discussed the LLM flood on Reddit with some friends IRL and they were surprised I had left Reddit, as they simply hadn't noticed significant bot activity. Mind you, these are very AI-aware people. I have little hop
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by Flashtoo 5mo ago
There is a danger in chronic abuse resulting in upregulation. Mixing the two at once is no problem for the liver, which is also why patient information leaflets for paracetamol do not contain a warning to avoid alcohol, only about chronic a
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by Flashtoo 5mo ago
This is correct.
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by Flashtoo 6mo ago
These are good practices to keep in mind when setting up GenAI solutions, but I'm not convinced that this part of the job will allow "data scientist" as a profession to thrive. Here's my pessimistic take. Data scientists
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by Flashtoo 6mo ago
What makes you think the desired effect is to have an LLM that speaks in an old-timey style? The training process is the whole point.
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by Flashtoo 7mo ago
> Prompts with more than 272K input tokens are priced at 2x input and 1.5x output for the full session for standard, batch, and flex.
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by Flashtoo 7mo ago
Then just post your opinions rather than the text the LLM dreamed around your opinions. Short posts and tweets tend to be well-liked on HN, there is no need to puff it up to a big blog post.
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by Flashtoo 7mo ago
This is true beyond software. It used to be that the proof of the thinking process was in the resulting artifact. No longer can you estimate from the existence of a piece of text and the level of polish behind it that the apparent author ha
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by Flashtoo 7mo ago
What exactly are you claiming here? That a handful of theorems about the limits of mathematics and provability somehow combine to show that the current LLM-based AI developments will inevitably live up to what is expected of them? And that
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by Flashtoo 7mo ago
Coffee grounds
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by Flashtoo 11mo ago
> Evolution by natural selection is not a deterministic process so 4 billion years is just one of many possible periods of time needed but not necessarily the longest or the shortest. That's why I say that is an upper bound - we kno
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by Flashtoo 11mo ago
The notion that the brain uses less energy than an incandescent lightbulb and can store less data than YouTube does not mean we have had the compute and data needed to make AGI "for a very long time". The human brain is not a 20-w
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by Flashtoo 2y ago
Right after that quote: "The key is ensuring that any future cuts at NASA are not indiscriminate. If and when Jared Isaacman is confirmed by the US Senate as the next NASA administrator, it will be up to him and his team to make the pr
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
It is a tax on an assumed return on assets, determined as a set percentage of wealth. "Vermogensrendementsheffing" means a "tax on return on wealth", not on the wealth itself. In name it is not a wealth tax, but in reali
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
You pay an annual % tax on the value of your investments less debt as of January 1st. This means you still pay taxes if your assets lose value, too. It's a wealth tax that pretends to be a capital gains tax.
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
Are there any specific podcasts you would recommend?
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
Paracetamol and alcohol is actually not a dangerous combination at all as far as the liver is concerned. That is why there is no warning against combining the two in the information leaflet that comes with it. Paracetamol is not toxic, but
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
When you evaluate an ML approach, you should use one part of the data to train your model and a completely separate part to evaluate it. Otherwise, your model can just memorize parts of the data (or overfit in some other way), resulting in
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
E.g. on Google if you search for "how to tie a tie", a little info box may pop up with step by step instructions. This content is taken from some website, but that website gets no page hits or ad revenue. Instead, Google gets to s
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
Amsterdam is #9 in the report (scoring 0.1 lower than Toronto), but not mentioned in the article for some reason.
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
This isn't exactly what you are talking about, but this art/concept for self-powered student housing came to mind: https://www.humanpowerplant.be/human_power_plant/human-power...
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by Flashtoo 4y ago
Travelling by train is more sustainable.
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by Flashtoo 5y ago
Thanks for sharing. I would like to add the Artistoo framework (not mine), which is an easy to extend implementation of the Cellular Potts Model in JS that you can also fiddle around with in the browser. It supports chemotaxis, movement of
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by Flashtoo 5y ago
There are in Europe i.e. the GDPR but not in the US afaik.

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