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by rotexo 1mo ago
I had a similar gut feeling. To use some possibly dubious and dated terminology, would a guardian angel also emulate my shadow self, particularly if that self was an important part of my identity? If I usually manage not to let my shadow se
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by rotexo 5mo ago
I love seeing this. Klondike with a physical deck was my “I need to do something with my hands or I’ll go crazy” release valve during the pandemic after work. I thought about trying to build something like this, but it was far outside of my
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by rotexo 6mo ago
E4B is pretty good for extracting tables of items from receipt scans and inferring categories, wish this could be called from within a shortcut to just select a photo and add the extracted table to the clipboard
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by rotexo 8mo ago
Paul Rudd’s computer (~2009?) was to me probably the most accurate prediction regarding genAI ( https://youtu.be/a8K6QUPmv8Q )
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by rotexo 9mo ago
Interesting that enforcing an ontology seemed to result in reduced performance. ( https://youtu.be/hLDKW3-OKUA ) I guess developing an ontology based on the extracted graph will be an important area for future work
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by rotexo 10mo ago
I thought most asteroids were basically just gravel piles loosely held together by internal gravity?
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by rotexo 10mo ago
Can you describe this more? Is “edge_case” a key in the structured output schema?
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by rotexo 1y ago
The stacks of tablets were because of DRM (a cybersecurity method to manage the threats of data exfiltration, “Digital Romulan Management”)
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by rotexo 1y ago
An army of troll bots to shift the Overton Window?
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by rotexo 1y ago
You know that thing in anxiety dreams where you feel very uncoordinated and your attempts to manipulate your surroundings result in unpredictable consequences? Like you try to slam on the brake pedal but your car doesn’t slow down, or you’r
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by rotexo 1y ago
Reminds me of Nadia traveling all over Mars after the first failed revolution and building habitats from scratch using the huge robots in KSR’s Mars trilogy. Very cool, but probably not solving the factors involved in housing unaffordabilit
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by rotexo 1y ago
Forget Eeyore, that sounds like the break room in Severance
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by rotexo 1y ago
I find myself occasionally wondering if 8.11 is in fact greater than 8.9
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by rotexo 1y ago
I feel like this approach might be relevant to achieve the equivalent of “go sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.” Pull out two random poorly-rated chatbot conversations and have the model look for commonalities in its shortc
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by rotexo 1y ago
I’ve always felt that the Matrix lacks the sort of social commentary I associate with cyberpunk. Sure, it has virtual reality, but it’s more a messianic power fantasy than an unflinching look at the human condition. Strange Days struck me a
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by rotexo 1y ago
My knowledge is out of date (I was in a microbiology PhD program starting in the early 2010s), but at that time, it was known that there are a whole lot out of micro-organisms out there, but many of them were probably difficult to grow as i
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by rotexo 1y ago
> There are of course quite a few large US businesses being affected directly by this stuff. I imagine that they are not happy with this. And that level of unhappiness will translate into shifts in political donations. Which, I'm s
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by rotexo 1y ago
Some thoughts about making it possible for individual humans to access Wikipedia, robustly to calamities that are within the sphere of human agency. Seems like you would want it to be stored digitally. Ideally, people would have the ability
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by rotexo 1y ago
I think his private armies are going to be his private armies. Think Wagner group, to be deployed domestically and in central/South America.
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by rotexo 2y ago
That soundtrack never fails to improve my mood. Maybe it is just the nostalgia of playing that game with my buddies in my teenage years.
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by rotexo 2y ago
Yes, I recognize that these are articles of deeply-held faith. I am open to the idea of God, I am open to the idea that God is fundamentally mysterious and beyond our mortal understanding. I simply feel that I always have to exercise skepti
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by rotexo 2y ago
I liked the simple observation in point 35: 'as Pope Francis observes, “the very use of the word ‘intelligence’” in connection with AI “can prove misleading”[69] and risks overlooking what is most precious in the human person.' I
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by rotexo 2y ago
I interpreted that causality as AI leading to deployment of carbon-neutral energy, then when the AI bubble bursts, we’ve pushed carbon-neutral electricity sources off the learning curve cliff and it is available for cheap without the origin
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by rotexo 2y ago
Can the E-cache and KV-cache be supplied to the model to produce the natural language output that would have been fed into the next model of the chain, if it were not for DroidSpeak? If so, doesn’t seem to materially change the explainabili
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by rotexo 2y ago
This talk touches on similar points, I haven’t finished listening to it though https://youtu.be/s7_NlkBwdj8
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by rotexo 2y ago
Correction: it is generally accepted that DNA was confirmed as genetic material in the Hershey-Chase experiment ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey%E2%80%93Chase_experi... ), which predates the determination of the
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by rotexo 2y ago
Probably not at all. My understanding is that forensics uses either fragment analysis of pcr products, which depends on synthetic oligos, not plasmids. Those tests might be moving to NGS or long read sequencing, which also would not depend
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by rotexo 2y ago
I guess a further refinement here would be that depression and anxiety are clinical terms for what are likely a range of conditions, some of which can be addressed using omega 3 supplements and some of which can’t (like mine).
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by rotexo 2y ago
I see that my comment came across as snarky. I guess the point I was trying to make was that the results of clinical trials treating humans with antidepressants make me more confident of their impact on depression and anxiety than studies o
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by rotexo 2y ago
I am honestly very glad for people who took omega-3s and who experienced a benefit. For me, though, next time I’m a mouse and I want to drink more sugar water and stay in the middle of an open box vs. the edges (all that was demonstrated in

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