rorylawless

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by rorylawless 2mo ago
Before leaving Britain, I lived in an area that had a ~50% poverty rate. The number of betting shops, small and large brands, just on the local high street alone was ridiculous. It reduced somewhat as gambling has moved online, however ther
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by rorylawless 2mo ago
She gave a talk at my then employer during the pandemic, I think that was my first time listening to her. Well deserved.
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by rorylawless 3mo ago
And only available in person at the Washington Passport Agency.
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by rorylawless 3mo ago
This was listed as a hallucination but is the most accurate for my name: “A NAME THAT MAY REFER TO AN INDIVIDUAL, BUT I CAN’T IDENTIFY A SINGLE WELL-KNOWN PERSON WITH CERTAINTY FROM THE QUERY ALONE.”
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Crystal Nights (2008)(gregegan.net)
65 points by rorylawless 4mo ago|7 comments
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Can these dumbphone evangelists convince you to dump smartphones?(theguardian.com)
4 points by rorylawless 4mo ago|4 comments
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by rorylawless 4mo ago
Slight correction here. It is fraud if you intend to stay after getting married. Nobody cares if you get married on a tourist visa and leave the country after.
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by rorylawless 4mo ago
In DC too. Usually associated with political campaigns, although I recently saw one advertising Uber Teens outside a school.
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by rorylawless 5mo ago
Yes, the government has concocted a dastardly conspiracy to cut health system costs by reducing access to a known cause of illness.
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by rorylawless 5mo ago
I’ve recently been unwillingly exposed to this side of things. It’s truly an insane, there must be a better way?
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by rorylawless 5mo ago
And it is not impossible the posts ended up in the training corpus.
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by rorylawless 5mo ago
It looks like a clone of present-day Reddit to me.
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by rorylawless 6mo ago
A couple of podcasts in my rotation had Sarah Wynn-Williams on as a guest [1] [2], with the caveat that she was unable to talk about the book or comment on the Meta. Absurd. I need to give this a read soon. [1] https://www.ppfide
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by rorylawless 6mo ago
Is "30 under 30" one of those schemes that require people to put themselves forward and maybe pay a fee? I've seen a bunch of "awards" (particularly for companies) that follow the same model.
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by rorylawless 6mo ago
Quote from the article subheading: "The First Judicial District of Pennsylvania said the rule is designed to protect witnesses and jurors from intimidation." It seems like a perfectly reasonable motivation to ban any device from c
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Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple(theverge.com)
7 points by rorylawless 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rorylawless 6mo ago
What do you mean by “scientific”? These concepts aren’t discoverable in nature. However, they’re transparently defined in the code book and the “opinions” are available for analysis in the expert coder-level dataset.
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by rorylawless 6mo ago
The fine tuning endpoint is deprecated according to the API docs. Is this the replacement? https://docs.mistral.ai/api/endpoint/deprecated/fine-tuning
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by rorylawless 6mo ago
The simpler explanation is that we live in a world that is more connected than ever so politicians, campaigners and the rest can get policy ideas almost instantly. There is no grand conspiracy, just a smaller world.
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by rorylawless 6mo ago
For high-level football/calcio/soccer at least, Reddit is and has been better for a long time. Often goal and other key highlights are uploaded before the broadcasters.
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
People will always need shoes.
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
Could this escalate to the point that Anthropic exits the US and sets up shop elsewhere? Or would the company cease to exist before it got to that point?
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
The bitcoin entry is off. jdoliner‘s criticism ended up being more true than false; it isn’t wildly trusted as a medium of exchange and it being an “asset class” doesn’t disprove that.
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
1Password wrote a response to the paper: https://1password.com/blog/eth-zurich-zero-knowledge-malicio...
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
Thanks for sharing this. I attended UCL a decade ago so it is fascinating to read about its founding, 200 years ago.
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260215115717/https://www.histo...
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
There is an entire ecosystem of products that have locked themselves (and their users) into Github for one reason or another. I hope a critical mass builds that forces them to open up to a wider range of alternatives.
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
This aligns with the explanation given in response to the urgent question. What looks like a simple breach of contract issue is being weaponized in bad faith by politicians who spend far too much time time on the shadier parts of the intern
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
So, they create powerpoints?
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by rorylawless 7mo ago
So, they’re basically a traditional consultancy firm focused on data analytics, particularly record linkage?

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