imperfect_light

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by imperfect_light 5d ago
Someone started that lawnmower and pointed it your direction. Why shouldn't they be responsible when the lawnmower runs over your foot and cuts it off?
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by imperfect_light 5d ago
If an individual hacked these sites they would be criminally and civilly responsible. Why don't we hold the companies launching AI agents to the same standard? They would be more responsible if there were some serious consequences bey
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by imperfect_light 27d ago
I don't know how it works today, but 20 years ago bookstores wouldn't return unsold books (too expensive to ship) but would simply tear the covers off and throw them in the garbage.
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by imperfect_light 27d ago
People keep repeating the "rare books" without providing any evidence that they are rare. Anyone who has collected books knows there are massive volumes of old books that can be bought by the pound.
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by imperfect_light 2mo ago
Where's the evidence the books are "rare"?
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by imperfect_light 3mo ago
>120 biolabs in over 30 countries And yet the only ones listed in detail are the ones in Ukraine, huh.
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by imperfect_light 11mo ago
You should ask BigCo if they're only providing goods/services to their customers "for the money."
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
He did so well with Theranos
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
Now we're seeing more colon cancer in young people. All of the discussion is around factors that change slowly (diet, alcohol, exercise), no one I've heard has pointed out that a pathogen would explain a quick change.
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
Have always been fascinated with Paul Ewald's arguments (as laid out in his books The New Germ Theory of Disease and Evolution of Infectious Disease) that most chronic illnesses are due to pathogens.
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
This seems similar to the "let's just rebuild from scratch" impulse that has been tried so many times on very large complicated systems and often, although not always, fails.
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
I'm not arguing that layoffs lead to a death spiral. I'm arguing that if you're on a downward trajectory and your primary strategy is layoffs and cutting expenses, rather than investing, you're not going to recover.
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
Anyone have examples of companies that were in trouble and cut employees and spending heavily and that led them back to success? My personal experience with working for such companies is that it leads to a death spiral, but I recognize my s
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
My question is less about PDFs and more about the notion that all the facts needed for the RAG are in documents. In my experience just a fraction of the questions that might be useful exist in a document somewhere. There must be a variati
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
The emphasis on PDFs for RAG seems like something out of the 1990s. Are there any good frameworks for using RAG if your company doesn't go around creating documents left and right? After all, the documents/emails/presentatio
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
How do you know you're actually getting what you bought?
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by imperfect_light 1y ago
Quantum entanglement
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
Police in my city go to pretty much every protest and take video and photos (with big zoom lens) from the roofs of nearby buildings. It's always surprising to me that more people don't notice.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
You're conflating outright fraud with a difference of scientific opinion?
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
Where are these numbers from? How does 5 million housing units from 2020-2023 (this was published in 2024) translate into "90K housing units" >The United States has added almost 5 million housing units since 2020, most heavily
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
>If you make them feel good, they’ll say yes. You could really generalize and say this is about relationships in general. If people leave interactions with you feeling good about themself, it will be a relationship they want to continue
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
You think they all magically figured out they were overstaffed at the same time? It's 100% herd mentality. They're cutting because everyone else is cutting, just like they went on hiring sprees because everyone else was doing th
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
Reminds me of the famous Reagan "welfare queen" story about someone showing up in Cadillac to use their food stamps. Did it happen, probably. Is it widespread, it is representative of most people on food stamps. Of course not.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
>But SQL is an old language with significant design problems, making it difficult to learn, difficult to use, and difficult to extend. It's difficult to learn and use? Compared to what? The "difficult to extend" might be
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
What are you basing this assertion on? It was closed because of the pandemic. When that was over Allen had been dead for several years, his instructions had been to sell everything and give it to charity so that's what his sister ha
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
If the museum was open I'm sure it would have plenty of visitors and support. Can't visit a museum that isn't open. But the fact is that most museums rely, in least in part, on grants and benefactors in addition to visitors.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
It's not like there's a shortage of money for art museums or natural history museums, but we do seem to be closing museums (this one and previously the Boston one) detailing the history of one of the biggest innovations in human h
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
The dude was sick on and off for years, could have had an army of lawyers setting up these places to continue after him, and didn't bother. Don't blame his sister who was left this mess.
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
> but likelihood that any of your potential heirs is also interested in it That's not the issue, he set up the parts of his empire he cared about so they'd live on (Allen Institute for example) and instructed his sister to sell
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by imperfect_light 2y ago
Test your website properly before popularizing it so people don't get errors like "Failed to execute 'json' on 'Response': body stream already read"

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