markwkw

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by markwkw 2y ago
You trim, yes, but AI content surely invades (all?) areas of written material. People are increasingly using AI to assist their writing. Even it if's for slight editing, word choice suggestions. Even AP doesn't ban the use of LLMs
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by markwkw 2y ago
Mechanical engineering interviews seem to do the same as software: "Engineers always ask about beam bending, stress strain curves, and conservation of work. Know the theory and any technical questions are easy." Basically an equiv
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by markwkw 2y ago
You can easily demonstrate that an LLM does know certain fact X AND demonstrate that the LLM will deny that they know fact X (or be flaky about it, randomly denying and divulging the fact) There are two explanations: A. They lack self-ref
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by markwkw 3y ago
I wish they tried to solve the 1989 4x4 crossword puzzle optimization with a modern solver, but a small memory limit (~8MB) and perhaps a severely underclocked CPU to showcase the algorithm improvements.
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by markwkw 3y ago
I think there is something special. Some special coupling of emotional states between us (manifests as empathy, feeling of community, feeling of connection). Not saying that this connection cannot be replicated or faked, this remains an ope
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by markwkw 3y ago
I sometimes wonder how people managed in the 19th century. Many went from villages to increasingly crowded cities. With no savings, minimal or no education. Industrial production was ramping up, but with crazy demands on workers, long hours
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by markwkw 3y ago
I don't know. Look at hundreds of thousands of pages of regulations, many layered regions and municipalities, meddling politicians; agencies and bureaus involved in US market (or EU market). If you wrote down all the rules of Google ap
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by markwkw 3y ago
Sonny: Yes! Rapidly and repeatedly. [then add the actual quote:] Can you ? Human: ... Oh how the tables have turned.
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by markwkw 3y ago
These two effects are not similar in scale. Fertility across the globe is falling by a lot. Africa went from 6.7 to 4.2 in a span of 50 years. Asia went from 6 to 1.9. Anywhere but least developed countries child mortality is low, such that
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by markwkw 3y ago
Isn't the utility of the cycler that it can be a massive object with a lot of shielding for humans and permanently installed life support systems? Like a big space station for whole crews to live safely and comfortably while in transit
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by markwkw 3y ago
I think the root cause is increased abstractness of jobs. A job where you cut and plane wood to make planks that are used to build houses has a straightforward connection to basic life. A job where you are trying to influence a group of peo
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by markwkw 3y ago
Good health -> athletic ability + mental ability + good outcomes all around
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Should You Get a Full Body Scan? [video](youtube.com)
5 points by markwkw 3y ago|1 comments
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by markwkw 3y ago
In this video, a cardiologist from UK directly addresses the problems that full body scans cause for both individuals and healthcare systems on aggregate level. I think this answers questions on how additional information could be detriment
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by markwkw 3y ago
On the other hand, looking at lived experience the story is quite tricky. From the perspective of an individual it is very hard to detect this level of climate change. I can't tell how much warmer any given month was compared to even 2
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by markwkw 3y ago
I just had a thought. A thin robotic worm. Can squeeze through and around important organs/vassels. When its head reaches the tumor it gently chews and siphons the tumor. I’m imagining tiny mechanical jaws just for cool effect
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by markwkw 3y ago
To me it became unbearable after it became flooded with people trying to add content without bringing any actual insight. They'd largely reuse existing materials or top google/wikipedia results and used certain style that became a
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by markwkw 4y ago
If I was to attack the CICO argument I would say: - you control CI, but there could be feedback loops where the type of CI influences CO: eg consume 1000 kcal of steak vs 1000kcal of fructose and attempt 30 minutes of zone 2 cardio - will e
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by markwkw 4y ago
Home deeds, loans, mortgages are not accounting concepts, but more in the ... contract(?) land. When a loan is made, a loan document exists; and accounting entries exist somewhat separately. A contract can be entered without writing, a cont
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by markwkw 4y ago
This is true only if your definition of “computer nerd” includes terrible shape and never working out.
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by markwkw 4y ago
Metaverse being “not-engaging” is not an engineering type of observation, rather some kind of psychology/marketing type of insight. I wouldn’t trust engineers telling me something is, or is not going to be engaging to the general publi
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by markwkw 4y ago
In a large corporation, different precesses can be handled and developed by separate teams often working in silos. After many years, there may not be a force to assure these processes are consistent, have rules that make sense in relation t
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by markwkw 4y ago
Many animals will multiply and consume available resources without stopping. Cute bunnies left to their own devices on a lush meadow will multiply and keep eating grass until the is little grass left, upon which they will die en masse. Inva
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by markwkw 4y ago
Chess is, in a way, doomed. At this point cheating by a smart perpetrator is nearly impossible to detect. - Miniature devices can even be implanted. You can probably already have a chess engine onboard your body. - Accomplices of a cheater
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by markwkw 4y ago
There is little hope for stopping cheaters. example: Moon Ribas, an artist, has a small vibrating sensor embedded permanently in her feet that communicates wirelessly and vibrates whenever there is an earthquake somewhere in the world. htt
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by markwkw 4y ago
Where could I educate myself on the vulnerabilities of PoS? It seems like for PoW, the vulnerability comes from variability of computing power of miners - if miners capacity dips for a few hours because of external events, attacker can use
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by markwkw 5y ago
They can already easily cut (or threaten to cut) main power lines anywhere nearby. It’s not like ukrainian army controls all the area except for the the plant itself. So we’re back to the question: how can they be so stupid to attack the fa
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by markwkw 5y ago
So he aims to be scarier than Hitler? Quite an ambition. Tragic for everyone involved.
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by markwkw 5y ago
Astronauts can reportedly see highways, airports, dams with a naked eye from orbit.
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by markwkw 5y ago
I don’t think this is true. Looking at this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/pMchk.jpg from UN, objects above 500km take ~25 years to decay from orbit. They reportedly start at 550km, so I wonder how they hope to achieve 3 years

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