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The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload(theinnermostloop.substack.com)
2 points by honoredb 6mo ago|0 comments
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Testing a sci-fi story from 1953(blog.outlandish.claims)
3 points by honoredb 8mo ago|0 comments
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The Toxic Modernity Narrative(theargumentmag.com)
20 points by honoredb 8mo ago|6 comments
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We Are Not Low Creatures(theintrinsicperspective.com)
3 points by honoredb 1y ago|1 comments
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The Margins of Cybernetics (1963)(blog.outlandish.claims)
2 points by honoredb 1y ago|0 comments
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Glass Beads(outlandishclaims.substack.com)
18 points by honoredb 2y ago|2 comments
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The coming world of ubiquitous price discrimination(slowboring.com)
3 points by honoredb 2y ago|4 comments
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Marked Absent: Nothing is systemic in an unmarked system(outlandishclaims.substack.com)
2 points by honoredb 2y ago|0 comments
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We Have Made Science(sfruf.github.io)
1 points by honoredb 2y ago|0 comments
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Microbial Time – By Siv Watkins(sivwatkins.substack.com)
2 points by honoredb 2y ago|0 comments
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The Art of Training Young People – By Benjamin Parry(skillfulnotes.com)
1 points by honoredb 2y ago|0 comments
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The Original Lyrics to “Hark the Herald Angels Sing”(medium.com)
13 points by honoredb 3y ago|7 comments
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CockroachDB 22.2 adds user-defined functions and changefeeds on SQL queries(cockroachlabs.com)
3 points by honoredb 4y ago|0 comments
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Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic(medium.com)
290 points by honoredb 4y ago|322 comments
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Show HN: Is My Mail-In Ballot in Danger?(ballotindanger.com)
1 points by honoredb 6y ago|0 comments
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by honoredb 7y ago
Typo near the beginning, "press a petal," gave me a fascinating mental image for a second. I'm sure it'll be informative to learn exactly why every theoretical avenue for faster-than-light travel doesn't work, but I
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by honoredb 7y ago
This is a nice explanation and a cool solution. I amused myself a bit ago by trying to come up with a solution for these two constraints without reading about the crypto work, and ended up with something different. In my scheme, a voter cas
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by honoredb 7y ago
Naturally, you can generate awful continuations in the same style via GPT-2. Model prompt >>> As they sprinted together down the echoing, looping ramp of the deserted Guggenheim Museum, closely pursued by three swarthy members of t
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by honoredb 7y ago
This. Technical verification solutions help, but none of them defend very well against your CEO apparently ordering you to bypass the verification step.
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by honoredb 7y ago
The story of a bug that caused the AI to optimize for maximally disturbing text that went unchecked because the only people authorized to stop it were asleep is a great illustration of how easy it is for an AI to "go evil" when yo
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Why Grubhub uses crypto when generating coupon codes at scale(bytes.grubhub.com)
3 points by honoredb 7y ago|0 comments
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by honoredb 7y ago
Oh, I get it, it's a defense against plagiarism detection. The article is largely plagiarized from other sources, but since they didn't contain the homographs you can't just google the unique sentence "This is a fair a
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by honoredb 7y ago
They happen to look significantly different in the font in the article the way my browser is rendering it. They're using the Cyrillic character that looks like q, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qa_(Cyrillic) .
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by honoredb 7y ago
I'm super distracted by the use of ԛ instead of q in this article, what's that about? Plagiarism detection? Seems bad for accessibility/SEO.
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by honoredb 8y ago
...who invented PIE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
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by honoredb 8y ago
I love this title and abstract; we need more of this kind of plain speaking and rigor when dealing with mysticism-adjacent areas.
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by honoredb 8y ago
So now we have to consider the specter of someone writing an overly verbose review of something that reduces to "tl;dr". Someone might summarize the review by writing "tl;dr: tl;dr". Or they might express the same thing,
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by honoredb 8y ago
Nitpick: "…had 13 not been prime" is not meaningless whimsy--a prime number of images is harder to lay out on the page. Mentioning this in the caption without explaining it is whimsical, but like a lot of GEB I'd argue it&#
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by honoredb 8y ago
It says something that I'd disagree about who won in the contest in the epigraph. Fooling a flock of birds sounds much harder than fooling somebody of the same species, not because birds are better at perception but because they'r
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by honoredb 8y ago
To store 500 million hashes in 860MB, wouldn't you need to truncate them to 13 bits each? That'd give a false positive rate of 1000 in 1000, slightly worse than the Bloom filter's false positive rate of 1 in 1000.

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