Houshalter

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by Houshalter 4y ago
Terrorism didn't work after the civil war. The north was able to occupy the south indefinitely with minimal cost. >the number of shootings that involve misogyny, which is the enforcement mechanism for patriarchy Please translate thi
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by Houshalter 5y ago
None of these examples got away with it, or even acheived any of their stated goals. If terrorism actually worked, it would be a lot scarier. Also fortunately most political extremists don't want to kill just random people. Weapons of
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by Houshalter 5y ago
I love the idea we will soon have western and eastern open source projects. Even if internet isn't bifurcated, both sides will be too paranoid to install software from the other side. All software projects will have to pedantically vet
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by Houshalter 5y ago
Small NNs are very fast. This particular NN only has 4 inputs, 2 hidden, and 2 outputs. That's what, 12 multiplications per pass? If you can compress your input down to a few variables you don't need much computation. For an FPS y
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by Houshalter 5y ago
So far as I have heard, the UK went way harder into lockdowns and other measures than the US. And from what I saw, what happened to the US was insane. Everything was closed down for months (or longer depending on the industry.) Supply chain
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by Houshalter 5y ago
The UK is still under covid restrictions and went into a huge amount of debt during the crisis. The events are not remotely comparable.
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by Houshalter 5y ago
Just take the last thing in this article. It links to an obscure blog by some crazy person that hasn't updated in 4 years. What's the point of this? Cruelly mocking some mentally ill person's posts from years ago, as proof th
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by Houshalter 5y ago
Predicting the supreme court would become more conservative during a conservative presidency and senate was not a hard prediction. Ginsberg was known to be in poor health, but I guess you could count that as a successful prediction. But the
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by Houshalter 5y ago
Are we seriously going to criticize a tab completion engine because it doesn't perfectly calculate what the phases of the moon are? Can you? I'm amazed it even knows what that means and has a vague idea of what such a calculation
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by Houshalter 5y ago
>I seriously doubt that no one raised the concerns that are raised today during the development of Copilot. I would be shocked if they did. The common wisdom in the ML community is that training data is fair use. GPT has been operating f
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by Houshalter 5y ago
The pirate bay is very clear to not claim any responsibility for what people post on their site. That's how they get away with it.
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by Houshalter 5y ago
If you do get sued, the Copilot page is written in a way that would make Github legally responsible for it, not you. "Just like with a compiler, the output of your use of GitHub Copilot belongs to you."
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by Houshalter 5y ago
All of these issues have existed since GPT-2, maybe earlier. I remember the AI dungeon guys narrowly avoided a lawsuit from training on copyrighted novels. I find it amusing that the tech community was very pro GPT, but anti-copilot. Now th
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by Houshalter 5y ago
How do you know it's "just a code search engine"? Or "not AI" or "not learning and producing new things", or all the other claims people are making about it? All of these are essentially untestable stateme
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by Houshalter 6y ago
I fully admit that it is a back of a napkin estimate. I've yet to see a better attempt at an estimation, or any attempt really. If you have a better way I'm happy to hear it. I have a small dataset that breaks down COVID and nonCO
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by Houshalter 6y ago
I have been paid $3,232 to sit at home and do nothing the last month. Not including the stimulus check I haven't cashed yet. I would have made about $3,000 in the same time. That is completely insane to me. I do not see how that isn&#x
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by Houshalter 6y ago
Even in your extreme example all of the deaths would have to be extremely old people to work out like that. People that statistically have very very few years left. And for your extreme example to be true, it would have to be the case that
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by Houshalter 6y ago
US unemployment is extremely generous.
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by Houshalter 6y ago
The average age of death of coronavirus victims was about 10 months younger than the average age of death of non-coronavirus victims. So if you die it takes 1 year off your life expectancy. And maybe 1% of people will die that are infected
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by Houshalter 7y ago
Many would argue the kinder egg ban is uunconstitutional. And stuff like is supposed to be left up to the states. But who's willing to fight for the kinder eggs?
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by Houshalter 8y ago
>The account has falsely accused...The conspiracy theory..., has been widely characterized as "baseless",[11][12][13] "unhinged"[14] and "evidence-free".[15] Its proponents have been called "a deranged
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by Houshalter 8y ago
Rationalwiki isnt exactly an unbiased resource to put it lightly.
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by Houshalter 8y ago
The papers abstract is a bit more interesting than this summary. It looks like they compared 14 studies of reaction time over decades, not just Galtons: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S01602
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by Houshalter 8y ago
From my point of view most western nations are extremely liberal politically. Compared to how they were historically and compared to other countries.
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by Houshalter 8y ago
No there really was a time a few decades ago when republican professors and democrat professors weren't under or overrepresented by more than a factor of 2. Now it's something like 30 IIRC. And really a lot of the "conservati
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by Houshalter 8y ago
You couldn't argue with an alien that doesn't share your moral feelings. You can't reference any objective fact or point to where your morality is written into the laws of the universe. Maybe you could say humans mostly have
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by Houshalter 8y ago
The author's examples are all moral issues. There is no "right answer" to a moral question. Morality is all just subjective personal feelings, biases and culture. But even in politics, there's an entire world of question
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by Houshalter 8y ago
He wasn't charged with trademark infringement, so its irrelevant. If he had removed the logos entirely they still would have sent him to jail. And that's the precedent they've set to anyone who might want to try this in the f
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by Houshalter 8y ago
Well for one thing it's much easier for an automated system to detect pornography.
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by Houshalter 8y ago
Almost all of that is inner city gang crime. And looking at those reported incidents, most of them failed to kill even a single person. The big random shootings that make the national news are extremely rare and make up a tiny percentage

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