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by finebalance 18d ago
They are different mediums. While the underlying story might be Tolkien's, every frame is an artistic choice and while LLMs can make a choice is many situations, they are unable to 1) keep it coherent b) make it meaningful because art,
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by finebalance 4mo ago
Poor people are already being priced out of cheap phones due to rise in RAM-related unit costs. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/smartphone-sales-to-plummet...
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by finebalance 5mo ago
> This war was unavoidable btw, it was going to happen sometime this year or next. Iran was, as per the latest reports I've read, complying with terms and not enriching uranium to weapons-grade or close to weapons-grade. Are there c
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by finebalance 6mo ago
"What's the point of having fuck you money if you never say fuck you." They are all horrible. If there is ever a reckoning, I hope this entire class of spineless shits get destroyed.
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by finebalance 7mo ago
"evolution (fit to environment) than engineering (fit to purpose)." Oh, I absolutely love this lens.
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by finebalance 9mo ago
It can be both, I think? Politicians/powerful people take advantage of divisions in society, but often those divisions do exist in a fully-fledged or nascent form for them to exploit.
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by finebalance 10mo ago
Killing USAID.
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by finebalance 1y ago
I do it more or less this way - except I keep the root intact until the end. It keeps the onion structurally intact until I'm done with the dicing. At which point, the root takes a single chop to lop off, and then the whole thing scatt
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by finebalance 1y ago
Google exposes their reasoning. You can use their new gemini python sdk to get thought traces.
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by finebalance 1y ago
> not that a single user uses a lot of energy for a simple chat. This seems like a classic tragedy of the commons, no? An individual has a minor impact, but the rationale switching to LLM tools by the collective will likely have a massi
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by finebalance 1y ago
That's ok. AI will kill those off soon enough, and like all winners, rewrite history enough so that that inconvenient theft never happened anyway. It's manifest destiny, or something.
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by finebalance 2y ago
I can't speak to Rust, Go or C, but for me LLMs have greatly accelerated the process of learning and building projects in Julia.
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by finebalance 2y ago
Not a clue. I'm a decent engineer working as a DS in a consulting firm. In my last two projects, I checked in (or corrected) so much more code than the other two junior DS's in my team, that at the end some 80%-90% of the ML-relat
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by finebalance 3y ago
So, tech workers paid >200k couldn't anticipate that hot places are going to get a lot hotter due to global warming and all the trends we've been observing over the last decade or so? Interesting.
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by finebalance 3y ago
... like women are all special and interesting by virtue of being female? Most of humanity is bland and forgettable. Gender is hardly a factor there.
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by finebalance 3y ago
The purple prose is exhausting.
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by finebalance 4y ago
> And in all of this no-one gives a crap about the children, since they rarely spend even a word talking about tracking down the uploaders or creators of said porn (i.e. they say a site "has child porn", but not how fast it is
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by finebalance 5y ago
Collective fucking madness. It's tiring to be subject to the constant narcissism. The human toll of the incompetence of this government is incalculable. They've set us back decades, if not forever, because I have no clue how our d
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by finebalance 5y ago
I swear. But it's not just an issue with the cheap, knockoff stuff: my Bose Soundsport Earbuds often fail, too, with the left one connecting maybe two thirds of the time. It's so infuriating. The only upside is that they were a gi
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by finebalance 5y ago
In so many of these papers it seems to be almost a given that the global south is fucked so, holding that constant, they do a cost-benefit analysis on various levels of warming for already (mostly) rich countries.
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by finebalance 5y ago
It's kind of astounding how rapidly the series has disappeared from the mainstream. Couldn't have bungled it up worse had they tried.
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by finebalance 5y ago
Slick pretentious nonsense unfortunately makes the world go round these days.
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by finebalance 6y ago
"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
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by finebalance 6y ago
I'm Indian, and I think there's a strong case to be made that the Indian avg IQ is likely to be lower than 100. This is nurture though, not nature: a large % of Indians do not get sufficient micronutriants during childhood, and ar
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by finebalance 7y ago
Possibly: low income earners lost jobs in substantial enough numbers to affect the median (that to some extent is robust to outliers).
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by finebalance 7y ago
It matters, in certain contexts. For example: a large number of clustering methods boil down to matrix factorization, with variations in the constraints. If you have both domain understanding and a general understanding of what kind of outp
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by finebalance 7y ago
The point the poster above is trying to make is that given the same amount of data, improvements in technique is leading to significant improvements in accuracy. An illustrative example comes from the first lesson in fastai's deep lear
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by finebalance 7y ago
Right. We have priors about how the world works, and that usually helps.
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by finebalance 7y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. I live in a country where people don't get enough protein due to religious and cultural dietary restrictions. Once I got my own apartment I upped my protein intake and significantly li
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by finebalance 7y ago
>The people who are good at this are just so much better at it than the average person. A fast woman, even if she isn't faster than the fastest men, will still be faster than 99.9+% of them. That's not in doubt. An extremely sk

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