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by _Nat_ 3y ago
It's funny because I was just starting my job-search today and, at the top of HackerNews, there was this article that seems to suggest that prospective employers look for applicants like me. I wonder what sort of prospective employers
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
How could someone find a recruiter like the author? I mean, I'm just starting a job-search and the top HackerNews story's about how prospective employers ought to be looking for applications like mine! I'd love to talk to su
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
So you'd see applicants like those that the article describes as being very desirable?
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
It's difficult for me to appreciate how works in such fields might be " intellectual ". I feel like they're doing LLM-like opinion-pieces and acting as though the results are deeply meaningful. But the mechanics and res
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Seems inevitable enough that we may have to accept it and try to work within the context of (what we'd tend to think of today as) mass-spying. I mean, even if we pass laws to offer more protections, as computation gets cheaper, it ough
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Title looks like misinformation. Sub-title says something different (and more plausible). Title: " Meta will enforce ban on AI-powered political ads in every nation, no exceptions ". Sub-title: " With several nations expecte
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
What makes some folks so attached to particular browsers? Personally, I'm using a mix of Edge, Firefox, and Chrome. While in theory I could just use one of them (which would probably be Firefox), it's kinda like having 3 differen
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
The IPCC's reports might be a good starting-point. [" Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change "]( https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-g... ) appears to be the most recent
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
> From what I know, carbon capture over a field is not exactly a solved problem. Doesn't appear to be capture-capture over a field. Instead: > Navigator’s project would have laid pipelines across five US states—South Dakota, Neb
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Yeah, the idea to use random-selection instead of keeping track of generation-history seems reasonable. The idea of guardrails from perfect-balancing seems less obvious to me. For example, say someone wants to generate a " US Presiden
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
> (Is there some kind of universal law that you're citing, that claims that it's impossible to build a useful, unbiased system?) Usually it'd be a trade-off, where you'd give up some quality at doing the main job to g
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
The comment I'd responded to seemed to have thought that StableDiffusion picked what the sex of a person would be according to some internal odds that could be modified. My point was that it doesn't actually think like that. For
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
> Wouldn’t something like isMale*P(male=.66) work fine? It doesn't think like that. If it did, they could've just done `P(hasFiveFingersPerHand)=0.99999`. But it doesn't even necessarily draw what you ask it to. Instead,
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
> For example, Carrefour said a bottle of sugar-free peach-flavoured Lipton iced tea, produced by PepsiCo, shrank to 1.25 litres (0.33 gallon) from 1.5 litres, resulting in a 40% effective increase in the price a litre. That's only
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Just skimmed it quickly, but from [their paper]( https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.200566 ): > Participants were recruited through a number of mailing lists, Twitter and blog posts. [...] For
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
[This PDF]( http://media.wix.com/ugd/bbfb8a_2ea66bffc09b40d099237bb83813... ) appears to provide information about their methodology -- noting it was linked from [this article]( https://www.macrumors.com/
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
I'm not even sure what they mean by: > MnO: 2.109 (Mn: 0.6355) I mean, given that they were listing relative-abundances (by mass, count, or what?), it'd seem like they were giving the abundance of Mn alone, as a subset of the a
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
That study doesn't claim causation.
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Yeah, looks like you're right: [waste-heat recovery systems]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat_recovery_unit ). Guessing that there are two main scenarios there: 1. A leaky house where positive-pressure cau
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Have you explored the effects of a localized positive-pressure system? Like, say the positive-pressure system has a duct that pumps outside-air directly to locations where a resident spends a lot of them time -- like their bed, a work desk,
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Seems like the big drawback of the positive-pressure approach would be flushing the heating/cooling out, too (as you've said in the article). That drawback would seem to be proportional the flowrate of the positive-pressure airfl
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
> why use multiple 1" thick filters to build a box, when you could just use 1x 4" filter. Probably uncertainty over how effective fans are when immediately obstructed, and maybe concerns about particles possibly getting deflect
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
I guess that they're currently focused on trying to raise awareness?
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Got it: [" Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies "]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintelligence:_Paths,_Dang... ), by Nick Bostrom (2014). Guess I saw the title, " Superintelligence: An idea
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
What was the overall point of the talk? I get the sense that the talk was meant as a rebuttal to something, but I'm not exactly sure what. Some of the points come off as disconnected.
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
> Has science ever observed speciation via natural selection amongst a sexually reproducing cohort? Theories of speciation do seem to lean toward asexuality. I mean, at an extreme, we can consider asexual-reproduction through cloning --
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
It's nice that they explicitly state the meaning of the author-order. For a while, [StackExchange.Academia]( https://academia.stackexchange.com/ ) (like StackOverflow, but for questions about academic life) seemed to be
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
> numerous open source audits have shown that KeePassXC is far and away more secure than KeePass. Could you link some? I mean, that sounds like a major claim, but it doesn't appear to be mentioned on either of their Wikipedia pages,
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
[This link]( https://incidentdatabase.ai/apps/discover/?classifications=C... ) appears to filter for " Severe " incident-reports. Seems like [the " Incidents " page]( https://incidentd
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by _Nat_ 3y ago
Tangential, but I'm surprised to see a paper published in a Nature-affiliated journal that misuses the notation " dT " like that. It's like they've combined 3 different conceptual-errors into one, where there'r

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