beefield

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by beefield 2y ago
unless... the compute happens also in space? Given how dirt cheap solar has become, how cheap shipping stuff to space is becoming and how little there are clouds and nights in the space making solar power production intermittent, it sounds
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by beefield 2y ago
I guess GP meant to build a train from downtown NYC to JFK.
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by beefield 3y ago
I think ELI5 means that you simplify a complex issue so that even a small kid understands it. In this case there is no need to simplify anything, just explain what a term actually means without assuming reader understanding nuances of terms
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by beefield 3y ago
So it's just fancy words for safety (legal/reputational) for Stability AI, not users?
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by beefield 3y ago
You sound offended. My apologies. I had no intention whatsoever to offend anyone. Even if I am not diagnosed, I think I am at least borderline somewhere in the spectrum, and thought that would be a good way to ask people explain without ass
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by beefield 3y ago
I'd propose a compromise. Euros switch to decimal point and Americans to metric system. Win-Win.
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by beefield 3y ago
I get a slightly uncomfortable feeling with this talk about AI safety. Not in the sense that there is anything wrong with that (may be or may be not), but in the sense I don't understand what people are talking about when they talk abo
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by beefield 3y ago
This. Amartya Sen has claimed that two actual democracies have never been at war between each other. At least I find hard to find significant counterexamples in history. (Not sure about the Falkland war. And I think Finland was technically
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by beefield 3y ago
I offer one more alternative. Double the tax every year, and once the ip holder decides not to pay the tax, IP is released to public domain. No compnay has money to keep IP indefinitely in such a scheme.
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by beefield 3y ago
I don't think that the point was that there are no for loops in SQL. I think the point was that almost always using for loops is wrong and super inefficient and there is a much more efficient way to just use joins instead.
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by beefield 3y ago
> What kind of applications would this be useful for? What can you build with an AI data science intern that's right 75% of the time? I have written a bunch of more or less complicated SQL during my career. And I am pretty sure that
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by beefield 3y ago
I think of it with this kind of analogy: the original image is stored with 32 bit color scheme. You can reduce the color scheme to 16 bit accuracy and still figure out pretty well what the image is about. 2 bit is stretching this to a bit f
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by beefield 3y ago
But there are forces even in our 3d world that do not follow inverse square law (strong/weak nuclear forces). That kind of proves that all forces do not need to follow this intuition?
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by beefield 3y ago
I have never quite understood why there can't be stable stallites in dimensions above 3. I mean, I know the argument that gravity inverse square law becomes inverse cube law in 4d, but what I do not understand is that what/why enf
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by beefield 3y ago
I think it would be important to understand the distinction between two types of applications, I call them "utilities" and "tools" here. Utilities are things that should be designed with the current typical paradigm of s
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by beefield 3y ago
Because the owner does not typically sell with a market price but with a power purchase agreement where the buyer agrees to buy all electricity produced at the agreed price. (This is an educated guess, not knowledge, so take with a grain of
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by beefield 3y ago
Not sure if you mean difficult politically or technically. Politically I have no answers, but technically, I assume that you would not need that many fines that wipe out shareholder equity, most of corporate debt and all of board/C-s
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by beefield 3y ago
At least in europe there is a separate licence for glider flight.
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by beefield 3y ago
I have flown gliders when I was younger and occasionally thought about PPL. And I have thought sims as well. Given the glider backcround, am I going to learn bad things on a sim?
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by beefield 3y ago
This. And also adjusted on what you get for your tax money. (Say, median income after taxes, health care, student loans and pension savings.) And adjusted for the amount of holidays you have.
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by beefield 3y ago
Legacy? Unpopular? Can you elaborate a bit more. To my understanding all the rumors of SQL dying have been a bit premature so far.
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by beefield 3y ago
This is a bit of a rabbit hole. The right way is whatever is agreed, and there are many ways to agree it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_count_convention
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by beefield 3y ago
Could you elaborate a bit the "very serious skill" needed to store your bitcoin in e.g. Bitfinex or CuadrigaCX?
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by beefield 3y ago
> First, you gave to either understand the underlying technology, or someone you trust have to understand it sufficiently to be able to say "this is bullshit", or "this is a great novel idea that makes a lot of sense"
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by beefield 3y ago
To be a bit nitpicky, Internet is not free. The content may or may not be free/ad funded. And there are many problems. One of the major ones being that ad funded content is overwhelmingly often utter crap that I could live without. As
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by beefield 3y ago
I find it a bit hard to like the idea of letting professional manipulators try to manipulate me to do things that benefit them. Regardless if they are succesful or not.
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by beefield 3y ago
Sorry a small thread hijack. I may be considering returning to my previous employer who has since I left started using Snowflake. Is that unambiguously good or bad? If it can be either, are there some questions I should check? (As a backgro
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by beefield 3y ago
Are ther packs that support pass through charging robustly? I have tried with three different ones and two do this sporadically and the last one lenovo go, seems to support it only from the male plug, which is next to useless. Or at least I
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by beefield 3y ago
Why do you (or author of the book) think that post-singularity AI would have anything but passing interest (positive or negative) in how humans feel? If the answer is that it is possible, thus we need to worry about it, I'd like to arg
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by beefield 3y ago
Yep, if I recall my US history correctly, it was the GOP that was the progressive one wanting to get rid of slavery and Democrats were the opposing ones.

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