mr_toad

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by mr_toad 3d ago
> They've never said that You know that humans can lie, right?
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by mr_toad 3d ago
We also spent a lot of money fixing non-critical systems that would have had next to zero impact if they’d failed. A middle manager not getting their sales report on time is not critical. But at least with Y2K some effort was made in ident
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by mr_toad 3d ago
There are many technologies that have killed and hurt a lot more people than nuclear weapons that are not monopolised by governments. Cars and guns are two examples where ‘wanton usage’ can (and has) killed millions of people. Obviously th
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by mr_toad 4d ago
Much much bigger. Visiting it now is quite sad.
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by mr_toad 4d ago
> The waymo vehicle called the cops Waymo called the cops. It’s not clear if it was the vehicle, or a human in the company. I suspect the latter.
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by mr_toad 7d ago
Long tail works well when the marginal cost is near zero and most of the upfront costs are born by someone else.
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by mr_toad 7d ago
They must bend and flex, or they will crumple. Soon they will congregate, enclosed within the fold.
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by mr_toad 8d ago
> But these perceptions itself stands on top of consciousness. There’s plenty of evidence for unconscious perception.
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by mr_toad 11d ago
It was a New Year’s resolution that was broken by the next morning.
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by mr_toad 11d ago
Current levels of solar panel coverage on Earth are approximately 0%. If we ran the entire Earth on Solar power we’d need ~ half a million square kilometres, around 0.1 percent of the Earth’s surface.
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by mr_toad 11d ago
No graphics output. And so loud you wouldn’t be able to hear your game either. Also they use about 1kw of power, so you’d only want to run it in the winter.
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by mr_toad 13d ago
> And with typical main sequence stars lasting under 10 billion years For mid to large size stars, yes. But Red dwarf stars are expected to live for trillions of years.
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by mr_toad 13d ago
The biggest costs and sources of delays to building high speed rail in the UK are legal challenges from people who don’t want any construction to take place anywhere near them.
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by mr_toad 13d ago
The browser can easily handle millions of calculations and then render a million DOM elements so quickly that you won’t even notice it. The problem is when you try and do this hundreds of times very second. The irony is that obsessing over
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by mr_toad 14d ago
“It goes without saying that if any of the turbine fragments had entered the passenger cabin, there would have been injuries, if not fatalities, even if the plane later landed safely.” They got lucky.
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by mr_toad 14d ago
> Grammar and sentence structure are but mear suggestions Learning French has been eye opening, in that many grammatical structures that are optional in English are compulsory in French. Abbreviations for example: “it is” or “it’s” are
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by mr_toad 14d ago
Linguistic diversity has been used as a casus belli, at least indirectly. It’s something that populations will take up arms for, so it’s probably worth tiptoeing around.
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by mr_toad 14d ago
> So we'll need neural methods which can be learned Data is a problem. LLMs had the advantage of the whole internet to train on. Robots don’t have that corpus of information. And real time learning seems to be something that ever
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by mr_toad 14d ago
I guess they assume that nobody with a personal domain cares enough to sue them over this.
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by mr_toad 14d ago
Somewhat off topic, but Oracle database connection strings seem to be a form of Lisp. It makes me wonder why they would choose that.
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by mr_toad 14d ago
> It's also the idiotic thing about gold, a metal that has no more or less inherent monetary value than a fiat currency =) I don’t know why people keep repeating that. Half of gold production is used in industry and for jewellery.
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by mr_toad 16d ago
Not classifying things seems like a really good way to get your fingers burnt, or get poisoned, starved, or eaten, drowned, or die in many different interesting ways.
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by mr_toad 16d ago
Science doesn’t care about collective consciousness. Nor does the universe.
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by mr_toad 16d ago
It’s not vague or unimportant. Clearing their orbits literally made them planets because they absorbed the mass of everything they cleared out.
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by mr_toad 16d ago
In science, classification should have some predictive value. You should be able to predict the characteristics or behaviour of a class member based on its classification. For example if you classify something as a fruit you could predict
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by mr_toad 17d ago
> But I've always distinctly recalled that he was arguing for a 4th, or possibly 5th type, yet whenever I survey the literature I've only found at most such 2 types. But I've probably been looking in the wrong places. It’s
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by mr_toad 17d ago
> That wasn't that long ago was it..? Last time I used a crossover cable I was still using dialup, probably about 20 years ago. Once I had DSL I also had a router, so the crossover cable became redundant.
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by mr_toad 19d ago
“ Each PIM block only has fast access to its locally attached DRAM bank. All other input data has to be brought in through the DRAM chip’s comparatively constrained external interface. PIM blocks can’t directly exchange data with each other
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by mr_toad 19d ago
If you’re not prepared for the financial and time investment of the table top game there are a quite a few video games set in that universe.
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by mr_toad 20d ago
> Someone must set the goals, after all and current LLM's have no agency The board might have to take on a more active role in instructing the CEO, just as someone managing an LLM now has to be careful how they prompt it. God forbid

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