bobcostas55

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by bobcostas55 11mo ago
"The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project" https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
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Stripe Press – The Scaling Era(press.stripe.com)
1 points by bobcostas55 11mo ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 1y ago
I really like Immich, although recently their android app randomly decided to go out of sync with my library and stop backing up automatically :/
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by bobcostas55 1y ago
I built mine around an N150 board off of aliexpress. 6 SATA slots, 4x2.5G ethernet, 2x m.2 slots. Find a cheap second-hand case, a bit of RAM and you're ready to go. It's got hardware transcoding, handles 4K without breaking a swe
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by bobcostas55 1y ago
Theranos famously didn't manage to raise VC money, the funding all came from people like Rupert Murdoch and the Walton family.
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by bobcostas55 1y ago
It's bad on purpose to make you click.
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by bobcostas55 1y ago
I completely agree with this evaluation, I dropped it as well fairly early on.
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2027 Intelligence Explosion: Month-by-Month Model, Scott Alexander and Kokotajlo [video](youtube.com)
3 points by bobcostas55 1y ago|1 comments
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Notes on China(dwarkeshpatel.com)
2 points by bobcostas55 2y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 2y ago
People with aphantasia are actually _better_ at mental rotation tests! Lack of visualization is no obstacle to the brain, which of course has all sorts of interesting implications. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/
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by bobcostas55 2y ago
All psychological traits are highly heritable. See eg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4739500/
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by bobcostas55 2y ago
Everything search is the most befuddling one. The delta between Everything and the built-in Windows search can only be described as monumental. A vast gulf. They do not even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence. Just fucking buy the
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by bobcostas55 2y ago
Nature, uh, finds a way.
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by bobcostas55 2y ago
You know what, I _would_ download a car.
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by bobcostas55 2y ago
Seems like a straight-forward CFAA violation, no?
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by bobcostas55 3y ago
From Stella Maris: >Cantor, Gauss, Riemann, Euler. Hilbert. Poincaré. Noether. Hypatia. Klein, Minkowski, Turing, von Neumann. Hardly even a partial list. Cauchy, Lie, Dedekind, Brouwer. Boole. Peano. Church is still alive. Hamilton, Lap
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by bobcostas55 3y ago
Having read the Di Giovanni translations, I find them inferior to the Irby/Yates ones. Hurley is the worst.
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by bobcostas55 3y ago
Without a second offer in hand, you're always going to be in a very bad negotiating position when it comes to salary. Avoiding the stress of multiple interviews is almost certainly costing you tens of thousands per year. Over your enti
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by bobcostas55 3y ago
If a third alternative existed that would be a meaningful objection.
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by bobcostas55 3y ago
A ~1sd difference in average g at the national level is the difference between not having stable electricity, and being an uber-rich technological wonderland. That suggests that even if the curve is bending, it's not a very hard bend.
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SudoLang: A Powerful Pseudocode Programming Language for LLMs(medium.com)
2 points by bobcostas55 3y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 3y ago
Are you equally surprised that it's legal to go long and then talk your book?
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
The distortionary effect of VAT is much better than taxing income. If you're worried about its relative impact on poor people you can just redistribute more (which EU countries obviously do).
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The Waluigi Effect(lesswrong.com)
3 points by bobcostas55 4y ago|0 comments
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
It has trouble with the Caesar cipher (and other stuff like basic math) because of the BPE tokenization. The easiest way to bypass it is to ask it to write a function that does what you want it to do, it's obvious it understands the Ca
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
Sing, O prompt engineer, of the artstation anime waifus
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
>mandatory 1-3 days chatting This is not a real thing. In fact once you go above 2-3 back and forth messages your chances of actually going on a date start to go down.
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
I don't really understand on what basis they're making the claim that these differences are due to unconscious biases. The entire thing seems to be completely made up.
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
>One that he doesn’t discuss much but that is particularly pertinent to today, is the accretion of laws and regulations. Tainter does discuss this, and rejects it (incorrectly imo).
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by bobcostas55 4y ago
Well, it's a problem for the ideology.

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