jackpirate

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by jackpirate 4d ago
The METR report included 0 technical details. For example, they did not include: 1. were the agents running on bare metal/docker/VM? 1. were the agents in a VPN? 1. how many TCP/IP requests were made? from what IPs? 1. how m
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by jackpirate 21d ago
They both look fine to me. But I do notice some weird aliasing effects in the animation that makes it difficult to identify the direction of fast moving rope. Maybe that's the problem?
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by jackpirate 3mo ago
Coursening is not as elegant as differential privacy. But using coursening is not a "privacy emergency", it is a very-slightly-less-accurate census. And no one knows what the actual economic impacts of this level of accuracy dif
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by jackpirate 4mo ago
The name let-go of your programming language is awesome!
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by jackpirate 5mo ago
I "like" how in their graphic agriculture and cities are both putting water into the lake, and only data centers are removing water from the lake. The prompter should have redone this image a couple of times until they had all thr
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by jackpirate 5mo ago
Also, the racoon it circled isn't in the original.
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by jackpirate 7mo ago
> Edit: Changed this from email because email validation is a can of worms as an example Email honestly seems much more straightforward than dates... Sweden had a Feb 30 in 1712, and there's all sorts of date ranges that never exist
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by jackpirate 11mo ago
Why not have a conversation instead of downvoting. What did I say is wrong? Your second paragraph is implying that the half of Americans who voted for Trump are "bad Americans". That seems to be sowing the division that your fi
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by jackpirate 1y ago
What's the origin of XXX? I've seen FIXME/NOTE/TODO all over the place, but never encountered XXX before.
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by jackpirate 1y ago
Except those papers are 8ish years old; they actually were among the first 2-3 algs for this task; and they studied the fully general vector space alignment problem. But I agree that naming things is hard and don't have a better name.
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by jackpirate 1y ago
> We tested all of the methods in the Python Optimal Transport package ( https://pythonot.github.io/ ) and reported the max in most of our tables. Sorry if I'm being obtuse, but I don't see any mention of the POT
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by jackpirate 1y ago
I hate to be "reviewer 2", but: I used to work on what your paper calls "unsupervised transport", that is machine translation between two languages without alignment data. You note that this field has existed since ~201
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by jackpirate 1y ago
It seems like you have some misconceptions about Strassen's alg: 1. It is a standard example of the divide and conquer approach to algorithm design, not the dynamic programming approach. (I'm not even sure how you'd squint a
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by jackpirate 1y ago
As a CS prof, I'd love to have this in my office for students to play with. Looks awesome!
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by jackpirate 1y ago
That all make senses to me . But it definitely won't make sense to my intro to programming students. They already have enough weird syntax to juggle.
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by jackpirate 1y ago
Building off this question, it's not clear to me why Python should have both t-strings and f-strings. The difference between the two seems like a stumbling block to new programmers, and my "ideal python" would have only one
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by jackpirate 2y ago
> I've seen a lot of examples that use CSS to show the prompt or line number without it becoming part of copied text, and I'm highly in favor of that. This is unfortunately not compatible with writing the tutorial in markdown t
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by jackpirate 2y ago
I have a minor nit to pick. I actually prefer when tutorials provide the prompts for all code snippets for two reasons: 1. Many tutorials reference many languages. (I frequently write tutorials for students that include bash, sql, and py
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by jackpirate 2y ago
> I can talk about concepts like "atoms" or "bacteria" or "black holes" with anyone, and they'll know what they are - even if their knowledge of those subjects isn't in depth. I'm not convince
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by jackpirate 2y ago
I think you're wrong. Suicide does not have stable reporting rates. It was very stigmatized in the past, and so investigators would notoriously report suicides as "unknown cause of death" if they could. Violent crime, on the
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by jackpirate 2y ago
They very clearly explain why this matters in the "Why should I care?" section. Partially quoting them: > Harry Potter is an innocent example, but this problem is far more costly when it comes to higher value use-cases. For ex
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by jackpirate 2y ago
The WHO list of essential medicines is not just over-the-counter drugs. It includes things like the chemotherapy drug cisplatin. I happened to need that for testicular cancer ~10 years ago, and the treatment cost was $50k (as "payed&
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by jackpirate 2y ago
You're wording in this comment (and the twitter/comment video) gives off the same vibes as the google april 1st videos for things like gmail motion ( https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAD8wFTLnQKeDsINWn8Wj... )
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by jackpirate 3y ago
I don't see how that would have helped in this case. This was not a resource at a known location that was supposed to be only available to logged in users. This was a resource that the admins didn't know about available at an un
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Pluralistic Ignorance(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by jackpirate 3y ago|0 comments
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by jackpirate 3y ago
There was rather a lot of NATO coordination in the US-led invasions of both Iraq and Afghanistan. None of the military missions in these countries were in response to the Article V mutual defense clause of the NATO treaty. It's very
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by jackpirate 3y ago
This is false. Standard sampling algorithms like beamsearch can "backtrack" and are widely used in generative language models. It is true that the runtime of these algorithms is exponential in the length of the sequence, and so l
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by jackpirate 3y ago
One of the reasons I've intentionally decided not become independently wealthy is that I want to have to explain to other people why I'm doing things. Part of my work is "charity-ish", and by not being able to do thin
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GitHub's new user signup is an unusable GPT-ish interface(github.com)
36 points by jackpirate 4y ago|40 comments
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by jackpirate 4y ago
I suspect the numbers would be worse if you looked at households instead of individuals due to declining marriage rates (but I'm not willing to put in the effort to find numbers).

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