MrToadMan

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by MrToadMan 8d ago
Didn't they say that they launched an effort to evaluate their model on all open Millennium Prize problems, and then narrowed down to Navier-Stokes as the most promising after seeing results on simplified versions of the problems?
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by MrToadMan 23d ago
Google also spent heavily setting up deals with other platform owners, invested in Chrome and Android to establish Google search as the default option which most users accepted. If integrations of good enough AI features are made within exi
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by MrToadMan 26d ago
People can also ask questions that it is unreasonable to expect people to know on the spot too and after a while the role of the questioner in the meeting can be questioned. :)
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by MrToadMan 1mo ago
Also worth watching John Oliver’s segment on this topic on Last Week Tonight ( https://youtube.com/shorts/BAEjOAe948k?si=Lfkw6prZxHk2R-I2 ) Includes an example of a Flock camera flagging a number plate that the police pu
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by MrToadMan 1mo ago
In some cases, aren’t the permits not even being sought? Eg https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unper...
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by MrToadMan 2mo ago
Much like his earlier work Westworld which was also scarily prescient for modern times. > These are highly complicated pieces of equipment. Almost as complicated as living organisms. In some cases, they have been designed by other compu
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by MrToadMan 2mo ago
The competence threshold can vary according to the model's complexity and cost to run, but the broader point remains that having a human operator of greater competence that can evaluate the output and understand potential harms that mi
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by MrToadMan 3mo ago
If only they had access to a world class translation system, they could auto translate between languages effortlessly :)
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by MrToadMan 6mo ago
I guess my point was that I don't see many algo changes in the commit history, which is a shame if this has been lost; library/* files are largely unchanged from the initial commits. But each time the agent runs, it has access to
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by MrToadMan 6mo ago
Not as many changes to the files under library as I expected to see. Most changes seemed to be under a single ‘add stuff’ commit. If some of the solvers are randomised, then repeatedly running and recording best solution found will continua
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by MrToadMan 7mo ago
Locking down children’s devices doesn’t stop adults sharing illegal content with other adults though, so there would still be pressure to monitor communications between adults.
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by MrToadMan 7mo ago
Conversely, buying pizza with MELANIA has left me with zero regrets.
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by MrToadMan 8mo ago
What if while you were eating a cheeseburger, McDonald’s was magically replenishing that burger so that no matter how much you kept eating there was still some left. Moreover you had little control over the ratios of fat and sugar used to r
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by MrToadMan 8mo ago
Isn’t the information flow being controlled by the few major social media players another form of centralisation where their algorithms decide which decentralised voices are heard?
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by MrToadMan 10mo ago
Worth mentioning the case brought by the DOJ against Meta with regards housing ads discriminating on protected characteristics in 2022. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...
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by MrToadMan 11mo ago
Or if they took my deposit and commingled it with company funds and bought some illiquid luxury real estate in the Bahamas for their staff to live in totalling $240m. If they’re upfront about that, probably nobody deposits with them.
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by MrToadMan 11mo ago
The swamp is now a protected wetland.
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by MrToadMan 11mo ago
And even funnier in that context: it’s called ‘roundabout technologies’.
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by MrToadMan 11mo ago
Is this as impressive as it initially seems though? A Bing search for the text shows up some Web results for Dvorak to QWERTY conversion, I think because the word ‘t.fxrape’ (keyboard) hits. So there’s a lot of good luck happening there.
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by MrToadMan 1y ago
Although PA was bundled in with two other organisations in the vote, the vote did pass 385 votes to 26, so it seems there was broad support across MPs, not just the cabinet.
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by MrToadMan 1y ago
From what I've read, about 1/3 of all asylum seekers over the last 7 years arrived via small boat crossings. Looking forward though, about 90% of those arriving in small boat crossings are currently going on to seek asylum and the
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by MrToadMan 1y ago
The UK did have compulsory ID cards, which needed to be carried at all times, during both World Wars.
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by MrToadMan 1y ago
Depends on if you are looking at this in terms of numbers of people or cost. The Home Office annual spend on processing asylum seekers has ballooned from just under £1 billion to near £5 billion in the space of 5 years, which is 1/3 of
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by MrToadMan 1y ago
Seems intuitive: the group passengers are likely to have to cough up another 5-10% more at the time of check-in, in order to sit together, so it all evens out.
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by MrToadMan 2y ago
You can explore the amount paid out to projects by month, region and partner projects in those regions here: https://blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-financial-reports-tree-planti...
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by MrToadMan 2y ago
It seems they are also diversifying their investments into other climate impact projects like solar (see some of the projects here: https://blog.ecosia.org/climate-projects/ ).