moravak1984

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by moravak1984 4mo ago
> Meh. Writing like this was formative for me (before Gwern; I'm old), but I've come to realize that the biases of the rationalist community are really no different from the biases of anyone else. It just manifests in a differe
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by moravak1984 4mo ago
Oh, thanks for the correction. I misread the abstract indeed.
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by moravak1984 4mo ago
It is true for gun ownership, so I guess it is true for noise. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11143840/
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by moravak1984 4mo ago
The copy on the main page gives a first clue. "A daily reading club for language learners" available on 7 languages, on a .club domain... Now, look at the number of books on each language. Does it sound reasonable that a no-name s
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by moravak1984 4mo ago
oh, YOU go to your room and think about what YOU did. You can't (accurately, beautifully and incisively) show us the real culpable in a very engaging way without repercussions.
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by moravak1984 4mo ago
Yes, but Claude (cleverly disguised as "storica.club") does not agree with the facts, and would rather show you a story with virality potential. This is an obviously AI-generated site. There is no interest on correctness, just &qu
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by moravak1984 4mo ago
Yep, my thoughts exactly. This comment should be at the top. The poster should disclose it is AI...
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by moravak1984 8mo ago
I was an avid reader, then I had to stop due to eye problems and because I did not want "staring at a thing" to be my hobby when it was also my day job as a data scientist. While I still spend a lot of my working life staring at a
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by moravak1984 8mo ago
> Same goes for HN, yet it does not take kindly to certain expressions either. > I suppose the trouble is that machines do not operate without human involvement Sure, but HN has at least one human that has been taking care of it since
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by moravak1984 10mo ago
He did the best he could with the information he had at the time. Yes, it is sad, and it may even feel more a "selfish" life in many ways in a "modern" society. (I would say "Western" but that would include the
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by moravak1984 10mo ago
It is incredibly hard to judge actions taken in the past with a values system from the present.
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by moravak1984 11mo ago
You could add writing to that list of topics...
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by moravak1984 11mo ago
Yes, pedantry is justified in this case. Froggies doing wrong cultural appropriation again... maybe the "Emilia Perez syndrome" is becoming a thing.
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by moravak1984 11mo ago
lol yeah... "tell me you are lefty without telling me you are lefty"
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by moravak1984 1y ago
"Smrt" means "death" in Czech, so...
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by moravak1984 1y ago
Yep. Good sleep makes many other decisions easy. Anecdata, but while I normally have a healthy Mediterranean diet (after many years of binge eating), if I don't sleep properly, hell unleashes. If I eat well and I am well rested, I feel
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by moravak1984 1y ago
Its existence is irritating. Could we stop it from existing?
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No Nobel for Borges(asiteaboutnothing.net)
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by moravak1984 1y ago
I remember a few years ago that an activist businessman started a campaign against a comically overpriced website for buying the highway stamps: https://www.wmcgrey.cz/hackathon-znamkamarada/ Sure, it was a bit of a ra
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by moravak1984 1y ago
Click on the link and you will find the button for signing with Identita Občana
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by moravak1984 1y ago
Sure, it's not. But often on AI papers one sees remarks that actually mean: "...and if you throw in one zillion GPUs and make them run until the end of time you get {magic_benchmark}". Or "if you evaluate this very smart
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by moravak1984 2y ago
In the end, what we all want is to have a good barbecue around friends...
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by moravak1984 2y ago
Sometimes I can't believe how much money I make for that little input, and whether that is ethical at all. This idea popped in my mind while on "home office" (sightseeing on the village with my wife) and saw the waitress pani
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by moravak1984 2y ago
There's a lack of skilled workers *willing to jump through their hoops*. For at third-world country immigrant, jumping through hoops is a first-world problem.
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by moravak1984 2y ago
I'd argue that Mastodon and Telegram hardly count as social media (and 450 contacts on WhatsApp... come on) If someone with a site on X/WhatsApp/Instagram/FB repeats the experiment, then we might see something interestin
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by moravak1984 3y ago
> has been demonstrated in written and printed matter across the centuries. which centuries are we talking about? > It helps that written Spanish has been particularly well documented from the Age of Discovery onwards. and that was ho
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by moravak1984 3y ago
Oh, this is such a cliché, like all contemporary geniuses do is maximizing CTR... Many others are doing R&D for companies producing harmful products (both for humans and the environment, even when they love to make people think they are
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by moravak1984 3y ago
Absolutely. A former student of mine worked for a non profit in Afghanistan (his home country) for a few years. Said non profit was flying in McKinsey consultants for very short gigs at six figures (USD). Same can be said about many LGBT no
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by moravak1984 3y ago
All these articles read a bit like "well, just become the kind of person who doesn't need to be stressed by becoming so valuable to corporates that they will leave you in peace". Fuck all those beta's, become a look-like
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by moravak1984 3y ago
Well, you are not alone. As a Math PhD, I want to believe that there is something less trivial than glorified linear regression to this whole AI/ML mess, but well, there isn't... It's non-linear transforms + holy Mary'

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