jmcgough

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by jmcgough 3d ago
I think the danger of anthropomorphizing is that 99% of people lack the technical background to understand the nuance. People have been primed by pop culture depictions of AI to think of LLMs as intelligent, autonomous beings, which leads t
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by jmcgough 5d ago
> There simply aren't any repercussions for this in their training envs. It's also not like a child or a pet animal where you can try to teach it to learn from the experience. LLMs are not "intelligent", they just use
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by jmcgough 10d ago
The people you know aren't exactly representative of the whole country. Most people I know are on instagram.
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by jmcgough 11d ago
This took about eight years of work by a private company (funded by US VC and an ex-SpaceX leader). This wasn't an intentional decision to decouple from the US, if that's what you're implying, but a business decision.
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by jmcgough 11d ago
Kind of weird to want to make an essay from 1971 about you. Until 1974, women sometimes weren't allowed to open bank accounts without a husband who could co-sign. There was a massive power imbalance until fairly recently.
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by jmcgough 11d ago
Have to wonder where they got the mime. Was it a friend? Someone who worked there? I can't imagine the founder would actually pay a professional mime.
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by jmcgough 13d ago
He served his time and hasn't been in trouble since. Do you not believe in rehabilitation?
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by jmcgough 14d ago
I honestly feel like letting myself read the LinkedIn feed is an act of self-harm at this point.
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by jmcgough 14d ago
Per https://eoconf.com/index.php/icmse/article/view/578 , globalization decreases complexity of individual languages through standardization, but increases overall complexity by creating new multilingual
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by jmcgough 14d ago
How are LLMs not the cause here? Reading online content is unpleasant these days because it all uses the same vocabulary and style. You can tell that an LLM wrote or edited it and it grates on you. I'd need to see a study showing that
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by jmcgough 18d ago
This might be appropriate in some cases, but it's important to consider that you have a finite amount of social capital as a new leader. Once people get sick of poorly thought-out changes it can be hard to keep changing things and get
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by jmcgough 20d ago
I've been absolutely loving the decomp projects that have been coming out lately. Huge props to the writer for this, Snowboard Kids is a real gem. I'd also encourage people to check out the Legend of Dragoon recomp [1]. It's
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by jmcgough 21d ago
It's such a big deal to get a working RAS drug. Pharma companies will be pursuing additional drugs of the same class after this - much easier to be the second than the first. I think over the next few years we may see improvements on t
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by jmcgough 26d ago
Unlike AI, calculator use has been studied and shown to be useful for math education. Our understanding of these things evolved over time, however the results of this study are concerning.
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by jmcgough 26d ago
You need some baseline knowledge to be able to gauge the correctness of answers you get from AI and to be able to ask the right questions. Removing homework and exams seems very short-sighted.
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by jmcgough 1mo ago
We're seeing a generational loss of young talent that will be hard to reverse. PhD grads who would normally stay in the US after graduation are returning to their home countries. My American post-doc friends have had funding for cancer
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by jmcgough 1mo ago
Half of people with Alzheimer's carry at least one APOE ε4 allele. However , a full quarter of the population carries that mutation, and most carriers never go on to develop Alzheimer's. Lifestyle matters a lot here. This kind of
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by jmcgough 2mo ago
Source? There are so many explanations for that beyond just "bike lanes kill businesses".
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by jmcgough 2mo ago
This is pretty different - in both of those, the officer faced consequences. Unidentified masked ICE officers have killed about a person a month with no consequences, many times over a civil concern (immigration status) or just getting anno
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by jmcgough 2mo ago
> This new technique doesn’t just recycle materials; it recovers most of them at an unbelievable rate. I'm so tired of reading articles written by LLM. There are several sites that just ingest material (like studies) and crap out lo
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by jmcgough 2mo ago
Thankful that California banned them, others should follow suit.
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by jmcgough 2mo ago
EMT now is often used as a stepping stone to a career with a liveable wage, like physician.
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by jmcgough 2mo ago
> most people die because vitamins, minerals, amino acids deficiency every day The most common cause of death globally is cardiovascular disease. The people buying supplements from him are buying his longevity supplements which likely ha
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by jmcgough 2mo ago
He's going about this in the least scientific way, though. When n=1 and he has a million confounding variables, it reads more like fear of his own mortality than a meaningful research project. And this is a business for him now, he sel
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by jmcgough 3mo ago
Doesn't read like it's AI-written to me.
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by jmcgough 3mo ago
This article isn't focused on LLM for code generation.
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by jmcgough 3mo ago
Billionaires can spend unlimited money convincing people to oppose anything that benefits them, and we have an entire industry of social media influencers who get rewarded for stoking conflict. Citizens United passed in 2010 and everything
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by jmcgough 3mo ago
I think they're arguing that a somatic cell from an older human contains mitochondria that's more degraded. Egg cells are all created before birth, and each is pre-seeded with a large number of mitochondria.
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by jmcgough 3mo ago
Most states had lotteries before this though. At least those brought in tax money and were designed to be relatively fair. Online gambling can shut down your account and refuse to pay if you get too big of a payout, and their money isn&#x27
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by jmcgough 3mo ago
fanduel and draftkings poured massive amount of money into advertising, pumping their numbers to make it seem like gambling was too big to stop.

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