firejake308

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by firejake308 3mo ago
> Maybe the goal is to force the U.S. Census to publish statistics that actually enable re-identification, to help with future gerrymandering efforts? In case you were wondering why the government would do this, yes, that's exactly
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by firejake308 5mo ago
> The new SECURE proposal includes language ... [that does] not allow people to sue companies for violating their privacy rights.... In case you wanted to know what this was about
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by firejake308 5mo ago
Right, this is what I remember seeing. Overall, inflation didn't increase much last year even after the tariffs because a lot of companies had stockpiled inventory and were able to postpone the price increase. Seems like that bet paid
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by firejake308 8mo ago
I mean, we need all the electricity we can get to run all of these datacenters, right? So I think this might be one of those things that the Republicans quietly allow to continue so that the corporate interests can maximize electricity prod
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by firejake308 8mo ago
The LLMs are not uncorrelated, though, they're all trained on the same dataset (the Internet) and subject to most of the same biases
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by firejake308 8mo ago
> “DeepSeek is more humane,” my mother told me in May. “Doctors are more like machines.” Now there's a quote
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by firejake308 8mo ago
> As of Saturday, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said it had confirmed 5,459 deaths and is investigating 17,031 more. The 30,000 number comes from the Ministry of Health. It seems the UN number also aligns with the new
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by firejake308 8mo ago
If hallucinated citations are making it to top conferences, do we just have to accept that no one is willing to do the work to ensure that our research is grounded in reality? Perhaps the volunteer peer review system is broken and we need p
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by firejake308 8mo ago
If hallucinated citations are making it to a top conference, Is there anything we can do to stop this rampant abuse of AI? Or do we just have to accept that research is no longer going to be grounded in reality?
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by firejake308 9mo ago
Not building enough housing? It seems like they've built 164,121 housing units too many. I think that the more correct explanation is that speculative investors are holding onto property indefinitely rather than selling or renting at a
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by firejake308 9mo ago
The only way for cooperation to be a winning strategy in a prisoner's dilemma is if people have memory/reputation/trust. However, that is very difficult to build in the modern digital world where everyone is a faceless userna
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by firejake308 9mo ago
I went to a school in the suburbs with kids from middle class families and lower-middle class families. Many of us wanted to get into the Ivy League schools, but what I saw was that, presumable because of AA, the middle class kids from over
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by firejake308 1y ago
Two key caveats: 40% of people said their arthritis got better with the placebo treatment, while 70% got better with the radiation. Yes, that's clearly a difference, but it also means that 40% of people don't need to expose themse
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by firejake308 1y ago
Slightly amusing, perhaps, but accurate and concise? Definitely.
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by firejake308 1y ago
> at least ChatGPT attempts to give a paid option. Again, I don't think that'll stop them... Netflix also attempted to give a paid option, but now we have an "ad-supported" plan. I think that same logic of maximizing
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by firejake308 1y ago
But wasn't that also true in 1979 when the ban was first put in place? Obviously, yes, money is the main force driving this country toward sports betting, but I argue that there used to be a counteracting force called morals, and the l
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by firejake308 1y ago
I actually agree with your take, that a model trained on a dump of the Internet will be left-leaning on average, BUT I want to reiterate that obvious indoctrination (see the incident with Grok and South Africa, or Gemini with diverse Nazis)
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by firejake308 1y ago
yeah, but they benefit from convincing people not to dump everything in context, because the alternative is to dump everything in a db (like Chroma) and then retrieve only the relevant parts (whether that's using vector search or regex
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by firejake308 1y ago
IME, ports generate way more income than workers, so I go for pretty much fully soldiers
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by firejake308 1y ago
This addresses the key problem. The lack of access to therapists is due to lack of therapists, because the demand far outweighs supply. It is simply not possible to train the number of therapists that we need, so technological advancement i
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by firejake308 1y ago
> The older students consistently scored higher on tests... The findings were true for children of all backgrounds, but especially for boys and for children from low-income families. If redshirting benefits both boys and girls, it seems
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by firejake308 1y ago
White House doing girl math now. In the words of Two Minute Papers, what a time to be alive
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by firejake308 1y ago
> "We also introduced OpenAI o3-pro in the API—a version of o3 that uses more compute to think harder and provide reliable answers to challenging problems" Sounds like it is just o3 with higher thinking budget to me
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by firejake308 1y ago
> NIMBY/YIMBY is a strawman argument designed to keep the masses distracted Distracted from what? I do in fact view NIMBYs as the biggest roadblock to expansion of housing supply, so I must be part of the distracted masses you'
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by firejake308 1y ago
Yeah, depends on how sensitive the trigger is, which is something you can't always control at a public restroom
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by firejake308 1y ago
You're right that the dice are literally intended to represent a hidden variable. The difference between the frequentost and the Bayesian is that the frequentist only accounts for the hidden variable, whereas the Bayesian also accounts
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by firejake308 1y ago
After experimenting with 1B models, I am starting to think that any model with 1B parameters or less will probably lack a lot of the general intelligence that we observe in the frontier models, because it seems physically impossible to enco
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by firejake308 1y ago
The latest generation of supersonic aircraft does still generate a sonic boom, but the key innovation seems to be to fly at an altitude where the sound wave will mostly be reflected. Source: this picture from the Boom XB-1 website, which wa
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by firejake308 1y ago
> the page flashbangs you Did anyone understand what the purpose of that was?
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by firejake308 1y ago
I'm confused why they are working on their own frontier models if they are going to be bought by OpenAI anyway. I guess this is something they were working on before the announcement?

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