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by i000 1mo ago
Economic mismanagement assumes there is economic management, and this is a very recent development. I would wager that we still do not know how to manage economies well in the long run - case in point US deficit and wealth inequality.
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by i000 1mo ago
Such a good comment, I would also add how much our perception of technology lifting conditions is conflated with the increased ability of governments to steer the economy to smooth things over.
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by i000 2mo ago
What is a "simple-ish open problem". I guess it falls under "solving this open problem in mathemathics is left as an exercise to the reader" ;)
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by i000 2mo ago
It would not even help me with updating my CV because I work in biology...
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by i000 3mo ago
They want to encourage diversifying model use.
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by i000 3mo ago
I guess that is at the core of Google vs Oracle, they copied the API kept the implementation clean-room. It was definitvely ruled that this was fair use. If fair use applies to something as strict as re-implementing an API, I would argue it
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by i000 3mo ago
That is my point people are pro-AI / anti-AI and pro-automation / anti-automation, there is nothing weird about it.
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by i000 3mo ago
Weirdly common I would say. US dockworkers / longshoremen are anti-automation big time. https://ilaunion.org/the-ilas-fight-against-automation-prese... The lack of productivity-growth in construction is also telling th
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by i000 4mo ago
This happened to me in elementary school. We were doing fingerpaintings using plasticine. After all the bikes were hung on the wall, mine was racing the other way... Somehow it really stuck with me.
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by i000 4mo ago
Indeed hilarious considering my grandparent still remember being put into a german nazi concentration camp.
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by i000 4mo ago
Hmm.The point was that people with Alzheimers have trouble interpreting images, and obviously remain concious until the latest stages of their disease.
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by i000 4mo ago
> do have long-term memory from their training and thus act very much like someone suffering from Alzheimer’s. Your 8th grade science teacher may be disappointed too. Drawing such analogies using unequivocal language "very much like
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by i000 5mo ago
Have you looked at the rise of Germany's right-wing politics recently? AfD with 18.8% in Baden-Württemberg (west Germany, relatively rich).
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by i000 5mo ago
Gearmany's pacifism is just like its green energy transition hypocrytical and ineffective. Their Energiewende was to shutdown nuclear to bring back coal. Their Zeitenwend amounted to bankrolling Putin's war machine via the Norstre
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by i000 5mo ago
Not sure why you are voted down. Came here to make the same joke.
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by i000 5mo ago
It is also wrong...
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by i000 5mo ago
What makes ggplot great is that it allows manual adjustments AND has a nice declerative grammar. Hard for me to see the value of a plotting library without being able to adjust plots.
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by i000 6mo ago
Imagine a pizza place that allows you to pick from 40+ toppings but you can only order a margherita ;) /s
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by i000 6mo ago
Agreed. What you wrote was probably the input, what we see is the LLM output with the directive to "make us sound smart, put gratuitous em-dash"
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by i000 7mo ago
Would it make sense to embed such single-purpose network with fixed weights within a LLM before pre-training?
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by i000 8mo ago
Me neither, but what you present is a false dichotomy. Science used to be a past time of the wealthy elites, it became a profession. By opening up it up progrss was accelerated. Same will happen when publication will be made more open and a
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by i000 8mo ago
Perhaps the real issue is the gate-keeping scientific publishing model. Journals had a place and role, and peer-review is a critical aspect of the scientific process but new times (internet, citizien science, higher levels of scientific lit
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by i000 10mo ago
What makes you think that this 'surplus' GDP will be captured by those who do the investments?
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by i000 1y ago
What an utterly disappointing comment. FWIW I spent 15min on the app, and found it very helpful to see examples of the various kinds of skin lesion - it will likely motivate me to see a doctor when I see a similar malignant skin lesion. Edu
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by i000 1y ago
If you take advantage of all the featuers in Teams, perhaps. But we needed a tiny bit from Workbench, a little bit from Connect, and sliver from Package Manager - and Teans ended up eating a huge portion of our IT bill, effectively stunting
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by i000 1y ago
Thank you for the response! My key recommendation is to unbundle. At one point we have been told "It got 35% more expensive, but it does so much more now it supports Python" - we didn't ask for Python. To effectively use Conn
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by i000 1y ago
I am talking about the RStudio Server and Connect - these are really expensive. One of the sales reps claimed that it is so expensive because they are a PBC and support open-source development. As in if they were just for profit it would
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by i000 1y ago
What is the alternative? Posit princing is absurd. Even academia is charged arm and leg - and the value, very questionable.
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by i000 1y ago
I think this is pretty much how many Amish communities function. As for me, I prefer making decisions on how to use technology in my own life on my own.
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by i000 1y ago
If utility/value is not "the" big question, what is?

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