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by dspeyer 3y ago
Eliezer does not curate any web forum. He says he is not planning to bomb any data centers, but he's also said that if he were planning to bomb data centers, he'd lie about it in public, so...
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by dspeyer 3y ago
The author and most of his associates generally qualify as techno-utopians, and speak routinely of the "glorious transhumanist future". Smarter-than-human AGI really is different from all previous technologies, in much the same wa
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by dspeyer 3y ago
Off the top of my head... * A plan exists * The plan itself predicts non-obvious results in smaller systems, and those tests have passed (prediction written *before* running test) * A bunch of smart people have looked at it an
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by dspeyer 10y ago
I have yet to see a large static typed program that didn't -- somewhere -- run into the limits of static typing and contain a set of workarounds, using void* or linguistic equivalent. That's code a dynamic language doesn't n
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by dspeyer 10y ago
This isn't a question a non-engineer phone screener can ask. Coming up with first pass filters that don't require an engineer to interpret is harder.
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by dspeyer 10y ago
I zoomed the image in and out a bunch -- no change. When I zoomed in enough, I could see the checkerboarding in A, but the overall color stayed the same as B.
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by dspeyer 10y ago
I also had trouble calling either "more even". The first one has greater division at the darker end, and the second at the lighter, but they about balance out. The extreme for me was figure 12. A and B are so similar I can'
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by dspeyer 10y ago
Last time I manually packed structures I was doing GPU programming. I forget the details, but the CPU and GPU had different alignment requirements so anything other than a manually packed structure broke in weird ways.
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by dspeyer 10y ago
Is there a good reason for making day 42 (out of 84) the primary endpoint? Did they at least decide to do that before looking at the data?
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by dspeyer 10y ago
Because passwords are terrible. Lots of users pick guessable ones unless you have extensive password rules to stop them, and those rules are a huge pain to your users. Lots of users have terrible password hygiene, leaving them all sorts of
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by dspeyer 10y ago
I suspect most people who don't use a password manager reuse passwords. A lot. If you get the password to one of my unimportant accounts, you get the password to most of them. They're unimportant, but still...
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by dspeyer 10y ago
Not so easily. If you're trying to learn really difficult things, classes are a huge help.
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by dspeyer 10y ago
Often they don't. Maybe by nominative tuition, but not by median.
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by dspeyer 10y ago
They don't mention Researcher Allegiance Effect. Therefore I suspect they did nothing about it. Given the nature of the study, I feel comfortable ignoring the results on that alone, without bothering to find specific methodological f
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by dspeyer 10y ago
Rename doesn't always do what we want. The one serious investigation I've seen [1] unhelpfully states that "[W]hen a file is appended, and then renamed ... many file systems recognize it and allocate blocks immediately.&quot
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by dspeyer 11y ago
The timeline: 1934: This is predicted 1997: This is done http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/16/science/scientists-use-light-to-create-particles.html 2014: We will "demonstrate the feat withi
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by dspeyer 11y ago
First thought: The usual pattern is that only one X chromosome gets transcribed in any given cell.[1] This keeps the dosage of all those proteins correct. Otherwise there would need to be a separate set of dosage controls for XX and XY
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by dspeyer 11y ago
When those senior doctors are out of town, are risky-but-necessary procedures performed by less senior doctors or delayed until the senior ones return?
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by dspeyer 11y ago
Actual descriptions of medical tests routinely give both rates. They often call them "sensitivity" and "specificity". Good luck remembering which is which. But if only one rate is given, that indicates they're equ
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by dspeyer 11y ago
The question is can disrupted comets or oorts block over 20% of the light from the star. A comet nucleus is a lot smaller than a star.
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by dspeyer 11y ago
From the article: > I’m angry, and I’m a little upset with myself because I want to be useful. I'm thinking the same thing. What I'm wishing is that I held a position of influence at a private high school, so I could offer him
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by dspeyer 11y ago
The case in Boston a while back involved a white victim. Granted, that was TSA, not the school, but it seems like a pretty similar group of idiots. https://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
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by dspeyer 11y ago
As I understand it, eigenfaces require preprocessing to orient and align the images. That doesn't seem to have come up here. Maybe Amazon is really consistent about centering models in dress photos?
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by dspeyer 11y ago
That's there. Search for: > The misclassifications are interesting too One problem seems to be that it concluded she'd dislike anything the exact opposite color from her favorite shade of red. A common flaw in linear models.
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by dspeyer 11y ago
What do we know about Sundar? It sounds like he's really taking over Google. Is he likely to be up to it?
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by dspeyer 11y ago
Bored and overwhelmed. At least a few years ago Larry really wanted to understand everything Google did. It wasn't possible, and the attempt was distorting things. This is a better solution.
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by dspeyer 11y ago
Or so that once there's good news from a spinoff, they'll be able to announce it. A small profit there would get lost in the bigger revenue streams under the old model. Remember how the media kept running "How long can Goog
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by dspeyer 11y ago
It is weird that this exact phrase kept getting used against the Irish and not other discriminated-against groups. Nothing for Poles, Slavs, Italians, Russians... Or at least that's what I'm finding on the LoC search. A few &qu
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by dspeyer 11y ago
So we want to insert a value. We find an empty slot. We find the bucket it's in. Do we have to realloc the bucket and move all downstream data down by one? That sounds slow.
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by dspeyer 11y ago
I notice that once you go down the "is it for a legitimate business" branch, the answers are all "NO". They could have omitted all the follow-ups.

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