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by neltnerb 1y ago
That's great, but AlphaGo used artificial and constrained training materials. It's a lot easier to optimize things when you can actually define an objective score, and especially when your system is able to generate valid training
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by neltnerb 1y ago
I read it as similar to the US espousing how its researchers developed something. Not really a big deal, though I'd have... you know... linked to the actual paper or maybe mentioned the professor's name more prominently. I think m
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by neltnerb 1y ago
The linguistic traps are so tricky here. You clearly know what's going on, but still wrote that you should "discourage" an LLM from doing things. It's tough to maintain discipline in calling out the companies rather than
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by neltnerb 1y ago
At least they mostly felt the need to pick a single consensus reality to approximate. How well it represented common experience, well...
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by neltnerb 1y ago
right, was agreeing with you. meta: I hate how hn culture lately makes people assume that what was obviously a statement in support of a premise was somehow an argument. I get it, around here it is rational enough. Still weird.
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by neltnerb 1y ago
> queue is a line of silent letters glorious, thank you.
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by neltnerb 1y ago
Maybe it's just me but I feel entirely comfortable asking questions like "how much math did you take? do you remember what a derivative is?" and base my explanations on the response. Turns out fine every time so far... and if
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by neltnerb 1y ago
I tried my best but once it starts citing different sources as providing hard numbers and then not linking to the sources ... and of course they're selling something. Might need a citation on that claim that iPhones don't use PWM
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by neltnerb 1y ago
Huh, interesting research. I wonder how much more intuitive the firefox hamburger menu on the top right would be if they moved it to the left. I sadly just realized it's the one icon I cannot customize the location of, but now I'm
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by neltnerb 1y ago
Glass?
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by neltnerb 1y ago
Curiously, a lot of tape is made from "cellophane", which is chemically similar to paper. The windows on envelopes are typically made from it. Not sure about cardboard boxes but you can make cellophane pretty strong.
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by neltnerb 1y ago
If you mean, why police would ever be involved, the answer is that there are a lot of police and not a lot of municipal workers walking around. The only way municipal workers would do anything here is if a resident of the area contacts them
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by neltnerb 1y ago
And the counterpoint (not even an argument, you're simply correct) is that it doesn't have to be that way, trains used to handle all cross country shipping and could still for a lot more than they do. We have the tools to do bette
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by neltnerb 1y ago
What we need is fewer roads to maintain, but as you say a whole different problem. It took a while to find numbers, but it seems like ~$80B in total gas taxes in a year is probably close. Meanwhile state and local governments (alone) spend
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by neltnerb 1y ago
Why would that favor fixed-route shuttles operated by a private company? I agree that transit is hard, but it sounds like the only advantage Uber has is the ability to charge much higher fares than the public would ever allow for buses. No?
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by neltnerb 1y ago
So essentially that buses need to have higher fares in low density areas? I'm sure Uber fixed-route shuttles will cost many times more. It's hard to imagine a fixed-route shuttle making much more sense in a low density area than b
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by neltnerb 1y ago
You're likely right, but I suspect only because of social stigma and classism. Literally what is the difference between a fixed route shuttle operated by Uber versus a bus operated by the city, except that one siphons the profit into a
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by neltnerb 1y ago
Yeah, the article is bait. The original research just says "Global increase of lianas in tropical forests", the addition of "from space" is to get clicks here. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.
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by neltnerb 1y ago
I remember at the time being frustrated that, after in person interviewing, they left me hanging for four months. I had a NSF grant that had been approved and if Google X had offered me a role I would have turned down the grant, but after m
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Actual Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54178-1#Fig1
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by neltnerb 2y ago
For anyone else that also wants a much more in depth explanation, this hour long talk is a gem. https://resources.altium.com/p/2-the-extreme-importance-of-p... That AC signal energy is contained in the field between th
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Arguably, the fact that they knew in advance exactly what you would need to do to avoid the issue means their process control is incredible!
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by neltnerb 2y ago
I mean, that was exactly the way the job was described when I interviewed at Intel for a process engineer, and everyone doing the same job was at the time a PhD according to the interviewer. Did it change? Being on call 24/7 to trouble
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Or it will reach a new stable equilibrium based on modern demographics, as things that add to 100% tend to do.
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by neltnerb 2y ago
God help the regulators that need to determine if it's insider trading for the people training the LLM to know it will be biased in ways they can profit from when used in inappropriate ways like this. I suspect the answer will be that
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by neltnerb 2y ago
I guess if you can manage 10 years there's a pretty high chance that the other side will give up, for instance https://commonwealthbeacon.org/environment/cape-wind-calls-q... Same as trying to do a construction pr
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by neltnerb 2y ago
Senior people that need years of training in a specific tool are the exception that proves the rule. A ton of people basically know enough to do a new role with a few weeks or months of mentorship. Remember orgs are a pyramid, for every sen
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by neltnerb 2y ago
The "when it rains, it pours" phenomena I think most of us (anectodtally obviously) think we've seen is especially amusing in this context. They're really shooting themselves in the foot by only hiring people everyone wa
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by neltnerb 2y ago
As I write many more things collaborating with people who do not speak English as a first language, it is more obvious than ever that grammar and spelling errors have absolutely no correlation with the quality of the argument when it comes
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by neltnerb 2y ago
I also do not get it, I don't know why consideration is even relevant for a donation. I assume someone wanted to restructure things so that a fully owned trademark was owned by a non-profit instead, with them retaining commercial right

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