pinko

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by pinko 2mo ago
Seth Roberts was arguing this ~20 years ago and would have loved the advent of LLMs...
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by pinko 3mo ago
Do other countries' state healthcare system costs count towards their labor share of income? If not, it seems sensible not to account for them that way in the US, or you're creating a much more serious apples and oranges problem
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by pinko 3mo ago
It's a class thing more than a geography thing. Culturally working-class urban Americans are chatty in almost every American city, save the most recently-urbanized ones (like PHX -- and even there there Latinos are chatty even if wh
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by pinko 5mo ago
I thought Uber & Lyft prevented this sort of thing? I'm not sure I understand how/why this exists now -- or given that it does, why it wasn’t a thing years ago -- but I just used it and it works. It's great!
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by pinko 6mo ago
Underrated comment in this thread, which is full of asserts of universal abstractions and patterns which are not universal. (And of course this insight applies to all kinds of written communication, diagrammatic or prose...)
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by pinko 7mo ago
What are the chances some non-trivial proportion of the millions of cars on the road will not have their LIDAR designed, built, installed or calibrated correctly? I suspect this is going to be a recognized public health issue in a decade o
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by pinko 8mo ago
Underrated observation. The low-hanging fruit is all in the office/home-to-takeoff and touchdown-to-office/home blocks on each end, not the time in the air. The commute, checkin, security, airport transit, boarding, and taxiing
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by pinko 9mo ago
I'm not sure this is true. In Atlanta, on a very busy two-lane city-street commute into work, I follow traffic laws scrupulously, and have excellent driving skills, but I take every advantage I can that's not illegal or antisocia
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by pinko 9mo ago
Both slurm, and even more so HTCondor, power most of the major computationally-expensive physics projects worldwide (all the LHC experiments, LIGO, IceCube, etc.)
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by pinko 10mo ago
From https://lastexam.ai/ : "The dataset consists of 2,500 challenging questions across over a hundred subjects. We publicly release these questions, while maintaining a private test set of held out questions to assess
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by pinko 10mo ago
Privacy through uniformity, operational security by routine, herd immunity for privacy, traffic normalization, "anonymity set expansion", "nothing to hide" paradox, etc. I.e., if you use Tor for "normie sites",
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by pinko 10mo ago
I see this all the time when asking Claude or ChapGPT to produce a single-page two-column PDF summarizing the conclusions of our chat. Literally 99% of the time I get a multi-page unpredictably-formatted mess, even after gently asking over
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by pinko 10mo ago
I've been having a good time chatting with Deep Research LLMs about this. The bottom line, for me, is that the risks of hot plastic -- to me as an adult, in, say, micromorts -- are dwarfed by the (also small but much larger) cancer ri
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by pinko 11mo ago
I did exactly this last Friday as an experiment and Claude Sonnet 4.5 recommended that I go long in an inverse ETF lol. When I told it that was terrible advice, it apologized and suggested buying puts.
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by pinko 1y ago
The post's dataviz in fact allows you vary the # of horizontal cuts and compare the results. Take a look.
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by pinko 1y ago
HTCondor is always an option. Lacks shiny tinfoil, but works like a tank.
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by pinko 1y ago
Are there still a lot of hybrids without CVTs?
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by pinko 1y ago
At ~100s, it's already at about the minimum for Hubble; often it's 1-2 orders of magnitude longer.
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by pinko 1y ago
I suspect, at ~4.5AU distance, even though 3I/ATLAS is moving at a relative speed of ~60 kms, its angular velocity across the sky is manageable for Hubble's current one-gyro pointing system, given non‑sidereal tracking and short (
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by pinko 1y ago
You may be right, but we have no idea what the scores would have been had Reading Rainbow not been on (i.e., maybe it held off a decline), so this isn't really meaningful one way or the other.
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Wall Street Builds S&P 500 'No Dividend' Fund in New Tax Dodge(finance.yahoo.com)
11 points by pinko 1y ago|3 comments
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by pinko 1y ago
I don't disagree, but I still think it's funny that, not six pages in, they compromise the central conceit...
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by pinko 1y ago
Fascinating: the author cheats! E.g., "butch-ers" appears*, as if hyphenation makes it not a two-syllable word! * https://archive.org/details/aesopsfablesinwo00aeso/page/12/m...
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by pinko 1y ago
I wonder if this would help: https://zenodo.org/records/15556365 We argue that a lightweight, five-step Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) loop—inserted inside or immediately above every system prompt— ... forces the
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by pinko 1y ago
Also relevant: https://x.com/polkirichenko/status/1934730967446638644
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by pinko 1y ago
I can't believe this has languished in HN obscurity for a day -- topical paper, significant results!
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My Newest Patient Cannot Blink: A Therapy-Loop Prompt Pattern for Trustworthy AI(zenodo.org)
1 points by pinko 1y ago|3 comments
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by pinko 1y ago
We argue that a lightweight, five-step Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) loop—inserted inside or immediately above every system prompt— ... forces the model to state its automatic thought, challenge itself, and re-frame with calibrated u
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by pinko 1y ago
Even the word "siphoned" is loaded with bias. Is research aimed at understanding why kids choose to participate in high-school science classes or not, and whether certain teaching approaches lead to better outcomes for boys vs gi
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by pinko 1y ago
So after the first simple question, we're already at less than half the original claimed figure of 55% (a bad sign for its credibility, if you're a Bayesian!). But more importantly, I'm familiar with the linked document, and

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