ZooCow

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by ZooCow 6mo ago
I still haven’t seen a convincing exoneration for how to avoid UBI warping politics. It seems politically impossible to lower (see Alaska’s challenges [1]) and too attractive for politicians to promise to increase in order to easily win v
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by ZooCow 9mo ago
I had that same issue, and to solve it, I connected to the TV with ADB and disabled the default launcher.
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by ZooCow 9mo ago
I agree. My Google TV with Projectivity Launcher shows zero launcher ads unlike my Apple TV. As a bonus, it lets me install SmartTube and use DeArrow and Sponsor Block. I just wish I could get something similar as a native iOS app. Altho
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by ZooCow 1y ago
This post unfortunately isn’t drawing the necessary distinctions between utility models, published applications, and issued patents. And it isn’t focusing on the claims. Patent law is complicated and it is easy to draw the wrong inferences.
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by ZooCow 2y ago
They could benchmark the price against comparable countries/regions. Pay no more than, say, 110% of the average cost of the drug in Europe.
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by ZooCow 2y ago
Right. If it were trained through August 1939, how much prompting would be necessary to get it to predict aspects of WWII.
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by ZooCow 2y ago
I had a similar thought but about asking the LLM to predict “future” major historical events. How much prompting would it take to predict wars, etc.?
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by ZooCow 2y ago
A plausible alternative explanation for asking Johansson: (1) They cast the current actor to test the technology and have a fallback. The actor sounds somewhat different from Johansson but the delivery of the lines is similar. (2)
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by ZooCow 2y ago
I’m not sure of the meta factors have driven it recently, but at least in some large US metro areas, it became enough of a problem that some coffee chains have recently switched from having in-store seating and restrooms to pick-up only wit
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by ZooCow 2y ago
I wonder how much this has to do with LLMs making the essay portion of college applications (and even high school grades) somewhat useless at distinguishing among students. Having a tightly controlled exam without the possibility of AI assi
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by ZooCow 3y ago
The article is light on the actual allegations, but at least they link to the complaint [1] (so few articles do). The claims are: Public Nuisance, Negligence, and Gross Negligence. The special damage they claim to have suffered seems to p
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by ZooCow 3y ago
> In other words, and I'm hardly the only one saying this: ChatGPT is not a replacement for people. It's an augmentation. It's a bicycle for the mind, to steal Steve Jobs's famous metaphor. This is the analogy that ju
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by ZooCow 3y ago
The vaccine was the shingles vaccine and it was administered in 2013.
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by ZooCow 3y ago
How do we know that these are the actual confidential rules it follows rather than text it “made up” given the prompt?
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by ZooCow 3y ago
The opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-468_c0ne.pdf
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by ZooCow 3y ago
It's also a way for them to save on credit card processing fees by trading the fees of multiple (relatively) small drink purchases for one fee for the gift card purchase. An often overlooked innovation of iTunes was delayed billing, wh
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by ZooCow 3y ago
Here’s the decision being referenced: https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/myvmojgodvr/...
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by ZooCow 3y ago
>The swift expansion of generative AI is driving the transition from a Social Graph to a Content Graph. . . . The core principle that Facebook was built on is gradually crumbling. Arguably, the proliferation of cheap generative AI conten
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by ZooCow 3y ago
OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManual/page/n... Pages 28-32 are the most referenced but the rest is interesting too.
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by ZooCow 4y ago
> The intuition is that if a paper or patent is disruptive, the subsequent work that cites it is less likely to also cite its predecessors This intuition seems to overlook the culture of citations in the patent space. There, the incenti
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by ZooCow 4y ago
Have there been any UBI plans designed to avoid warping politics? It seems politically impossible to lower (see Alaska’s challenges [1]) and too attractive for politicians to increase in order to easily win votes. [1] https://ww