ds_opseeker

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by ds_opseeker 16d ago
Initially received funding, later in the war they turned it off as "not war worthy" You might be surprised how many UK and US scientists of that time supported eugenics, see for example https://nautil.us/how-eugeni
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by ds_opseeker 20d ago
Technically it is not a reasoning machine. If it was a reasoning machine then we would not see results like this: > To systematically investigate the role of end-user semantics of derivational traces, we set up a controlled study where w
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by ds_opseeker 23d ago
> But these days we do know better and to still insist on rituals that lead to the spreading ... Thus explaining why RFK has his current position.
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by ds_opseeker 24d ago
Sounds like you want an orchestration. Let's assume handoff happens when one "agent" finishes its work on one task, i.e. "submit a PR". At that point you want to exit the agent/clear context etc (any context th
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by ds_opseeker 26d ago
Love your "on average" qualification. Like the cartoon where the water temperature is fine on average, with one bucket boiling and the other ice. The interesting question is how to define 'average'. Over what probability
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by ds_opseeker 28d ago
The Nazis relied heavily on IBM technology for national census data (to identify jews), military logistics, ghetto statistics, train traffic management, and concentration camp capacity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
> Driving a car uninsured should have some extremely stiff penalties. I want to agree with you, but wonder if you have ever been poor? When you need the car to get to work so you can feed your kids, but you can't afford all of - fee
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Beaglesses, insofar as there are sides to take here, I like yours. I would hope only that you had the option to include your children in some of the building activity-- your comment suggests you did. Building the family's house alongsi
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
All of which is strong argument in favor of replacing all income tax with land tax. The idea starts to make a lot of sense once you look at its framing. This includes the argument you make above (why can't you hire help out of pre-tax
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Bertone seems to still be offering cars https://bertone.it/ price point is a little higher than the cybertruck, but hey, probably worth it.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Dunbar told me it grows by approximately tripling. And yes, when you cross a Dunbar bound the old tools and techniques fail in surprising ways. 15 45-50 150 450/500 1500 5000
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Humanity went through a genetic bottleneck about 70K years ago. As a result, there is more genetic diversity in a troop of chimpanzees than in all of the employees of Google. So it depends how you define "diversity". I can see how
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
[Submitted on 24 Mar 2023] Double Descent Demystified: Identifying, Interpreting & Ablating the Sources of a Deep Learning Puzzle Rylan Schaeffer, Mikail Khona, Zachary Robertson, Akhilan Boopathy, Kateryna Pistunova, Jason W. Rocks, Il
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
I'm really hoping your comment is sarcastic. If it is serious, you could always set a timer.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Yes, a stepped attenuator.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
"computers getting cheaper to under $1000." maybe not that one :)
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Another theory-- there are lots of places in Africa where people cannot live due to disease (without modern medicine). This creates refuges for wildlife.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
> goal seeking and planning, apparent emotional responses, awareness of context, decision making, pattern- and repetition-based learning, some argue (using data and experimentation) that trees and/or other plants express all of thes
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Just discovered this and got the test project up and running... but wondering how to enable CSV import? The "upload csv file" box does not show up in the test project.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Bit of a difference between "hard to hit" and "impervious"
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
I wonder how much of this is just a feedback loop; were people taught both tools and then chose the one that works best, or was one more heavily promoted than the other, so people went with what was easiest to get started?
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
It hit "delve" on the penultimate point.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
Reminds me of an observation from a podcast done by a successful creative (sorry, can't remember who, I think Rick Rubin was interviewing the person): Our society thinks it is normal to have a creative work evaluated by accounting, but
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
> the same can of soup at a health food store can easily be $6 while costing $3 at a regular grocery yes, maybe because the regular store can buy in much higher volume, and will have faster turnover of stock?
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
I'll second air gradient. Founder is really cool and supportive. Tech works. I bought some boards from him a while back, ordered the parts of off alibaba, and had a working ESP32 setup in short order.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
In the long run, the side effect of HIV is death due to total collapse of the immune system.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
This is one of the traits I admire the most about German culture; awareness that government can abuse its power. In the US, by contrast, I see one political power eager to give powers to their candidates which they would hate to give to the
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
fasttext failed for me with numpy2.0. reverted to numpy 1.26.4 and it was fine.
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
> a system we use to ask questions expecting truthful answers. yes, I still wonder how LLMs managed to generate this expectation, given that they have no innate sense of "truth" nor are they designed to return the most truthful
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by ds_opseeker 2y ago
which killed the ...

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