eutropia

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by eutropia 6d ago
The UI looks fun but reminds me of the hours and hours I spent tweaking my linux distro as a younger nerd. It didn't help me get anything done, but it sure did look computery!
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by eutropia 8d ago
If pre-ipo marketing pushes them to train a model capable of resolving a millennium problem in mathematics in a weekend, then, to quote XKCD: "Mission. Fucking. Acccomplished." https://xkcd.com/810/
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by eutropia 14d ago
The mat is the objective (or at least distinct from your own personal judgement) measure of your goal. If your goal is important to you, an objective measure of your progress towards it is more valuable than your own flawed and biased opini
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by eutropia 15d ago
Do his predictions about the datacenters being a risky and unprofitable business suffer the same fate as the others?
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by eutropia 19d ago
I sighed at the pleasant but claude-looking design of the page. idk what's wrong with me. it's a good looking page but I just instantly didn't care the second I saw the close-to-solarized-light color scheme and the typography
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by eutropia 23d ago
All the parasitic grifters founding these companies seem to be characterized by a uniform lack of human decency. if the best idea you can come up with for a company is is some variation exploiting humanity, you're not a visionary or an
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by eutropia 1mo ago
This is a modest start on an important direction for AI Alignment work; which is, as the authors observe, commonly comprised of tasks which are not readily empirically verifiable and not easily mathematically modeled - so it's hard to
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by eutropia 1mo ago
another firefox on linux user (cachyos), and it loaded up and worked flawlessly for me. anecdata!
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by eutropia 1mo ago
as someone with ADHD who always finished exams first or was the designated spokesperson for group presentations... I have no idea why you'd want to be taking a test a second longer than you already have to. Either you know the material
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by eutropia 1mo ago
Many people set their DNS to 1.1.1.1 -- would be easy for cloudflare to resolve any TLD it feels like
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by eutropia 2mo ago
the person cooking it is Kenji Lopez-Alt, who is an MIT graduate turned professional chef, and his wife is the one who's colombian. He's got several excellent cookbooks (like the Food Lab and Wok) and is a regular contributor to s
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by eutropia 2mo ago
Is there a reality in which a president can be held retroactively accountable for all the crimes and breaches of conduct while in office by a later administration? Because wow, the list of "crimes committed because you know you're
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by eutropia 3mo ago
nit: author lists their pronouns as they/she
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by eutropia 3mo ago
a good doorman would know this about you and tune your greeting into an acknowledgement of a subtle nod, I think
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by eutropia 3mo ago
They've got to find some way to afford those data centers, can you blame them?
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by eutropia 3mo ago
it's because sc2 is usually 1v1. and also it's a lot harder
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by eutropia 3mo ago
You're welcome to stop consuming the products of said "corrupt" science. You can start with clean air, water, and medicine...
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by eutropia 3mo ago
I wonder if they could have transferred it to a separate nonprofit, and then that nonprofit has no restrictions on whom it is transferred or sold to?
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by eutropia 4mo ago
What is run-rate revenue and how is it different than revenue (classic)?
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by eutropia 4mo ago
There are plenty of places to write systems code for a decent paycheck that aren't based in silicon valley or have a top20 web presence, and justine is definitely skilled enough to hold down one of those jobs. Is the ask here to donate
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by eutropia 4mo ago
Seems like a good reason to avoid ever transacting with this business.
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by eutropia 4mo ago
I think you'd still get fraud, for example I'm just imagining some reddit degens sharing the comprehension answers on a wiki or discord so people can skip the time commitment of reading the thing and instead grind as many as possi
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by eutropia 4mo ago
Colossal Biosciences and its goal of resurrecting extinct bird species "bird species"? C'mon. They want to do a Jurassic Park.
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by eutropia 5mo ago
I was surprised by how cleanly our results came together,” said Pan, a neuroimaging expert with the West China Hospital of Sichuan University and the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health at Monash University in Australia. “We u
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by eutropia 5mo ago
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare... I do love the failure to hide the admin interface of the AI article generator, and the wide open seemingly firebase-style database giving complete edit history of all the AI-generated articles.
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by eutropia 5mo ago
If the AMOC is strong, then closing the strait would cause less fresh water to flow out of the Arctic Ocean and into the Atlantic, they found. That would help keep the North Atlantic salty and the AMOC stable. But if the AMOC is alread
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by eutropia 5mo ago
We had such a ritual in our games back when I was in high school: the start of the campaign luck roll. The idea was that your starting circumstances would be modified by the d100 zocchihedron roll. One time, my buddy rolled a 2; our DM grim
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by eutropia 5mo ago
Version 2.1.113 is available as of this comment. I think the brew version lags behind the other ways of installing it.
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by eutropia 5mo ago
There's a time and a place for everything, and rejecting popular media as "lowest common denominator" is the most uninspired form of cultural elitism. Is it cynical to want your <art project> to make a profit? Or for it
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by eutropia 6mo ago
these sorts of "your opinions must be financialized to be valid" takes are the equivalent of the middlebrow dismissal. "Smart money" is an illusion that only holds up until they do something in an area you're famili

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