Tarq0n

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by Tarq0n 15d ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gold_standard
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by Tarq0n 22d ago
Being aware of Simpsons' paradox doesn't even help. There's no way of knowing what the right level of aggregation is without a theory.
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by Tarq0n 22d ago
In regulated industries and government they aren't going to be allowed to process your appeal with just AI, so there's a cost asymmetry there that favors the "ddos"ers.
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by Tarq0n 22d ago
It's not really about the dollar amount of fraud, but maintaining public support for benefits schemes. If people feel that benefits aren't going strictly to the intended recipients the sense of fairness that underlies the system i
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by Tarq0n 24d ago
Right, just like companies don't use SAAS. In reality, enterprises are happy to offload even risky tasks to others as long as they get some contractual guarantees about their data. Would they like more choice in who to buy from? Yes, b
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by Tarq0n 29d ago
There are deïdentification firms that service primarily the medical industry. Over here they call them trusted third parties.
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by Tarq0n 1mo ago
You're not wrong that there's an element of self-defense. What makes it harder to accept is the lack of effort or willingness to de-escalate the conflict.
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by Tarq0n 1mo ago
Where is the information going to come from though? LLMs aren't primary sources, they consume and regurgitate.
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by Tarq0n 1mo ago
There's still inequality in someone else receiving a false positive approval from the AI while another gets rejected. Equal treatment and stochastic systems don't mix.
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by Tarq0n 1mo ago
That's a fine philosophy on a personal level, but if the labor market is shocked for entire sectors there's not enough slack in the system for all of those people to adapt at once. That's how you end up with lost generations.
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
Sometimes the medium is the message though. Especially in literature, prose matters. It's not just about what is said but also how. This applies even in "low" art. AI generated imagery from mainstream models tends to be so ug
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
I don't think the extra production cost, for the Odyssey at least, is likely to be offset by extra box office income. If you read about it, the massive cameras and limited running time of one load of film (less than five minutes) sound
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
This is out of my area of expertise a bit, but digitization quality loss often depends on whether you quantize things, at what level of fidelity and also what kind of transformations you apply (stepped discrete or continuous for instance).
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
You can't prove a negative. How would such a log be convincing in any way?
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
I'm very interested in their anonymization and classification processes. Traditionally, conversational writing is too complex to anonymize automatically without false negatives, and remaining PII might be very personal in nature. >
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
Have you ever done research? It's very difficult to construct your measurements in such a way that they measure what you want them to. So in just your quoted statement there are many sources of uncertainty. * what's a typical job?
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
You can still get your session cookies stolen. If you have good password hygiene passkeys only protect you in extremely niche scenarios.
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
OK now say you're on a work/library/friend's computer and you want to look up an account in 1password on your phone so you can type in the password. Passkeys don't support this very basic and common workflow. Meanwh
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
Wrong hands? The model did this on a benign instruction. We're going to get paperclip maximized once these things get capable enough regardless of whether bad actors are involved.
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
Ignoring patent law has done great things for 16th century continental Europe and more recently China. Rent-seekers and ladder kickers shouldn't always be respected, they'll slow down societal advancement to a crawl if you let the
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
Ethics are probably internalized long before someone commits to an engineering career. I'm not sure they can be taught later.
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
That's a very mercenary attitude. If less than 2% of your (potential) users had a particular disability, would you implement accessibility features for them without being forced to? I'd argue that it's the right thing to do.
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
Or it's self-dealing from these funding parties, and the hiring is business continuing as usual. My understanding is that one of the advantages of being VC funded is that sales among sister companies become easier, sometimes going as f
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
That's positively incoherent. You can't even interpret an instruction without relying on prior knowledge. Not to mention LLM's are in essence made of knowledge.
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by Tarq0n 2mo ago
Relaxation isn't really a goal of meditation. When you do it you cultivate a kind of meta-cognition, an awareness of - and control over - the kind of invasive thinking that usually dominates our awareness. As a fellow ADHD person I did
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by Tarq0n 3mo ago
Exactly, this is called a marginal effect and it's very relevant for our bodies which basically need their homeostasis disrupted to be prompted to adapt.
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by Tarq0n 3mo ago
That's what swap is for.
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by Tarq0n 3mo ago
In the past with harmful refrigerants and lack of renewable energy AC simply was not justifiable in most of Europe. Progress on both fronts plus global warming is changing that only recently.
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by Tarq0n 3mo ago
There is a more nuanced argument against deportation as a policy. First of all it causes migrants to destroy their documentation and to be less coöperative with the immigration process. Second, some migrant countries refuse repatriation, wh
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by Tarq0n 3mo ago
Rising demand induces inflation because more money is chasing the same goods.

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