jessetemp

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by jessetemp 5d ago
There is also the hide button under every post, which I’ve started using generously. It only takes a few seconds to clean up the front page to your taste
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by jessetemp 7d ago
I would like to buy just the back half please. I’m not even joking. I couldn’t find the exact dimensions but at 5.4” diagonal, that would make it even easier to use one handed than the mini
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by jessetemp 14d ago
You're saying the vacuum in the economy (people without an income source) will be filled by something else that leaves people without an income source? Who's paying for the robots? If people find themselves with more time than mon
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by jessetemp 1mo ago
All of that already existed for the purpose of biasing people and now it biases ai for free. A company would have to make an effort to remove or change the bias
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by jessetemp 3mo ago
How do you validate this kind of work to weed out any confabulating by the LLMs?
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by jessetemp 3mo ago
I kind of agree with you. I think music theory would be way more approachable if it was taught using intervals instead of all the weird naming of western notation. For example, everyone learns major and minor scales which are the interval s
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by jessetemp 3mo ago
I get it now. Had to play around with the code a bit to see it. Very interesting and unintuitive problem. Thanks for the thorough replies
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
You might be right. It’s been a while since I read snow crash. I just remember the metaverse as a sort sad state of society, but I don’t remember if the evil corp stuff was in there or just in the world at large
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
I had no idea it was a lord of the rings reference. Here’s an apt quote from wikipedia: “The [palantir] stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented.”
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
Makes me wonder what it’s like to identify with the villains in media. Zuck looking at the metaverse and thinking hey that’s a good idea! Or Thanos wasn’t so bad. Those rebel scum had it coming. Homelander is the good guy!
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
That would actually be a great feature. Opening two file browsers to move stuff around is a really common workflow. Although with current trends we might instead get a chat bot prompt “tell me how you feel about where you want your files to
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
Not quite. I'm saying there are 256 discrete numbers (0-255) and 255 intervals between those numbers. Most of the real values will fall into the intervals and get mapped to 0-255 somehow, maybe by nearest neighbor, but I'm not try
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
Judging by your other comment in this thread, you might agree with my rational [1] more than you realize [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365800
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
Thank you for the thoughtful reply. Maybe bins is the wrong word to use, so I'll try with intervals. Starting with 1 bit data, there are two numbers and one interval. I think where bins makes it confusing is that inside the interval th
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
By counting the edges
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
The author is confusing bins with bin edges. In their first plot, the standard approach looks strange because 0-7 should be the bin edges, not the center points as shown in the plot. You can see this confusion again in the histogram example
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
Creating a throwaway for this comment is telling
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
Jeff Lowenfels has a series of books about fungi, microbes, bacteria, and nutrients that I really enjoyed. They’re all fairly short and accessible for someone without a bio background. https://www.jefflowenfels.com/
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by jessetemp 4mo ago
It’s a craft like anything else. Some people enjoy building a table and feel a sense of accomplishment telling their friends “I built this.” Other people just want a table and buy one from Ikea
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by jessetemp 5mo ago
That explosion plot is pretty bad. No y axis. Unclear if it includes tuition and loans (which are paid or owed by students). Loans are ~50% of "ED appropriations", and only ~$21 million was distributed to students in 2021. But in
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by jessetemp 5mo ago
> do you think that there are limits to who can or should use ai? I don't think there should be imposed limits, but there might be an upper bound where expertise becomes atrophied by depending on AI too much. > if the plumber&#x2
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by jessetemp 5mo ago
The plumber obviously. Not everyone needs to know how to be a plumber, but a plumber should know how to be a plumber
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by jessetemp 6mo ago
Higher cost doesn't always indicate negative environmental consequences. It could be (and seems likely to me) that harvesting one cow's worth of plant protein is more labor intensive which isn't necessarily bad for the enviro
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by jessetemp 6mo ago
It doesn't need to be cheaper than the cheapest meat to be competitive. If there's some social or moral incentive to avoid real meat, that adds value to plant based alternatives. Fungi protein sounds cool though. I would totally a
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by jessetemp 8mo ago
Laughter isn’t a perfect signal, but is the only signal in all the noise you mentioned
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by jessetemp 8mo ago
> If two people disagree on whether something is funny, who's wrong? You can't say either of them is. There's no reward function for funny. Laughter is the reward. N of 2 is a small sample size, but if one person laughed y
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by jessetemp 8mo ago
Ideally, hold Google liable until their AI doesn’t confabulate medical advice. Realistically, sign a EULA waiving your rights because their AI confabulates medical advice
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by jessetemp 8mo ago
Only true if the alien plants are using the same chlorophyll as earth plants, which seems like a colossal fucking assumption to me
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by jessetemp 9mo ago
Sorry to ruin your ruining, but if you read past the abstract and look at the data, you'll see it tends to correlate with whether a democrat or republican is in office. Immigration policy is also mentioned in the discussion. > Given
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by jessetemp 10mo ago
> fewer safety guardrails in pretraining and system prompt modification that distort reality. Really? Isn't Grok's whole schtick that it's Elon's personal altipedia?

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