griffzhowl

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by griffzhowl 4mo ago
If someone steals my passwords and then does nothing with them, or just uses them for their private purposes, then there's no problem. The problems only occur if my passwords are used to take control of my accounts or identity, which w
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
National security can mean protecting a society founded on the values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It can also mean facilitating a militaristic surveillance state. Not necessarily the same things, and at some point we migh
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
It applies to anyone knowingly using false information to try to influence people
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
The point is to convince people who are undecided. Using information that's known to be false or weakly supported is then short-sighted and counterproductive, because enough false predictions will turn up that those undecided will tune
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
They are. I just used different words to refer to the same idea
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
Good points, but it any case, it's true that chimps in general treat group members very differently to outsiders isn't it? Those behaviours that de Waal mentions seem probably directed towards group members. Are there any document
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
noob question: can't we just use longer classical keys, at least as a stop gap?
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
In the UK the main deception was the farcical Iraq Dossier, aka "the dodgy dossier", put together by Blair's propaganda chief Alaister Campbell. Colin Powell had seen it before release but not sure what role it played in the
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by griffzhowl 5mo ago
Looks like not much. The book is about using Python to implement numerical methods, mainly about teaching the Python part, and that's all explained. You might be missing motivation if you don't know any physics, but even so, basic
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Dogs are allowed though, and used to herd sheep and cattle, so ground-nesting birds don't seem to be a big concern
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Of course, but everything depends on context. Stating a mathematical theorem in English will also make no sense to someone who's not acquainted with the field
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
> People who really grasp a subject can usually explain it well in plain language. That's very much a matter of style. An equation is often the plainest way of expressing something
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Ah, I thought writing a bit was irreversible, because after writing say 1, the previous state could have been a 0 or a 1. But in fact writing a bit should be thought of as the whole process "0 to 1" or "1 to 1", includin
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
> The platform doesn’t need to bother with individual prompts - it just needs to see where the questions cluster. A map of where the world is moving. This was insightful, but is it much different to the kind of data google and other sear
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Nice post. Just this bit: > Our hacky solution for the blind spot? Let the brain hide it in software. I would say the solution is just having two eyes, since their respective blind spots don't overlap in the visual field. I would al
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Is the focus on the erasure of a bit, rather than writing a bit, just conventional or is there a significant difference between the processes?
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Did you try turning your computer off and on?
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
I was talking about Greek texts rather than Roman legacy, whatever that means. Arabs certainly preserved some of the Greek texts, because many haven't survived in origianl Greek manuscripts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Nevertheless, many of the texts from the Greeks were first translated into Latin from Arabic copies in Spain from the 11th century, because the Greek versions were inaccessible in Western Europe until Constantinople was conquered in 1453 an
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Because sycophancy in humans is motivated not by the wellbeing of the person seeking advice, but by the interests of the sycophant in gaining favour. It makes sense that this behaviour would be seen in LLMs, where the company optimizes towa
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Well, maybe, but that seems like a deliberately uncharitable interpretation of the question, which I interpreted more as "Can you summarize the video in ~1 line?" - or at least closer to that than "Can you give me the answer
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
But just a personal account with materials reportedly from 2011-2022, not an FBI breach
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
Answers that are only comprehensible to those who already know the answer:
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
This study finds a higher rate of correct identification for black people than for other ethnic groups, whereas a few years ago the problem seemed to be that the software was less effective at identifying black people. Do you have some insi
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by griffzhowl 6mo ago
But it doesn't seem like these physical factors would have reversed the effect between 2020 and now. Unless you can think of some?
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by griffzhowl 7mo ago
If you're into atomic physics and getting a feel for the intricate structure of the basic processes, the best find I had recently is this MIT course by Wolfgang Ketterle. The first lecture is an informal overview, and he gives vivid an
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by griffzhowl 8mo ago
Yeah, soon after I posted this it became clear it's nonsense, a few people in the thread have referred to studies that trees underneath the landslide have been carbon dated to 9400BP, while the book this article's based on claims
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by griffzhowl 8mo ago
Very perspicacious remark that it's more likely than five or four... are you an astronautical engineer by any chance? But I'm wondering about such shallow angles - wouldn't it bounce off the atmosphere or somesuch? Perhaps it
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by griffzhowl 8mo ago
The plot thickens: a commenter here posted this link, which indicates Ötzi might have been roped in to this story in quite an imaginative way: "Despite this new evidence, curiously in 2008 the impact hypothesis was revived by some pseu
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by griffzhowl 8mo ago
Yeah, it was quite a compelling story, and it's at least a genuinely beautiful and intriguing tablet. The author Hempsell does have some talent though, in seemingly getting a reputable university to publish his book... I'm thinkin

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