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by serhei 2mo ago
There are... multiple blog posts online now about how to use freely available data and modest amounts of compute to train a custom GPT-2-sized model from scratch. It would be quite a policing effort to prevent.
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Installing debugging tools into a Red Hat OpenShift container with oc-inject(developers.redhat.com)
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by serhei 9y ago
Clearly Apple's decision is based on paternalism, which most people don't appreciate when it's combined with government power. Compare: "Clearly the ability to eliminate opposing viewpoints was a huge part of the Chinese
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by serhei 9y ago
It's still completely illogical to install an update just to wait for another update to fix the problems introduced by the first update.
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by serhei 9y ago
Apple has had a planned-obsolescence approach for years and years [1], but with the way software used to be distributed and the consumer expectations on hardware design it was less of a problem before. If you want to keep using an old Mac,
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by serhei 9y ago
You may laugh, but it seems scarily plausible to develop a machine algorithm that generates 12 articles, have a human go through to pick the 3 least-ridiculous ones and do some light editing, and push it out to the news.
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by serhei 9y ago
Yes, that was a typo on my part. Lake Ontario lengthens any NY-Toronto train line. Lake Erie lengthens any NY-Detroit train line.
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by serhei 9y ago
I'm not sure that makes sense as a single rail route. If Toronto and Detroit are intermediate stops on a line from NY to Chicago, that would mean the train either goes the long way around Lake Ontario (pointlessly adding travel time) o
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by serhei 9y ago
There could also be a desire to push partial-autonomy features in the short term, when Model 3 owners are making the decision day-by-day whether to drive the car completely manually or whether to rely on whatever level of Autopilot is avail
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by serhei 9y ago
Don't worry, those buildings can always be repurposed as condominiums. Unless the housing bubble implodes in which case Toronto has bigger problems.
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by serhei 9y ago
I'm more concerned about whether the streetcar running on top of there will ever be more than just a sketch. An extension of the streetcar network in that direction has been proposed, canceled, procrastinated, debated for years but not
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by serhei 9y ago
The ability to buy something on Steam is sadly no longer a guarantee that it works.
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by serhei 9y ago
Seems like Peter Thiel just has a policy to keep a finger in a lot of pies. Reminds me of the time Yarvin wrote a criticism of Sam Altman: > Sam Altman (whom I don't know, but SF is a small town and I probably know someone who knows
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by serhei 9y ago
To paint a less rosy picture, many countries are good at keeping out US based tracking / social media monopolies because they want to support their own tracking / social media monopolies. It's kind of a "well, duh"
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by serhei 9y ago
Have a look at https://sandstorm.io/
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by serhei 9y ago
> After a lot of lunacy including running around in the backyard and driveway looking for a spot of coverage, we finally settled on a system of handwritten IOU notes, and most people had to buy in twice and have an appointed stranger pro
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by serhei 9y ago
The reasoning on this guy's website is often pretty fascinating: http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM -- these are entire fantasy planets. For a warm-up exercise, he started out by tilting the Earth in diff
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by serhei 9y ago
It's worth noting that conventional railways tend to sacrifice a bit of speed (relative to what you could engineer them for) in favour of being flexible in terms of how much passenger capacity can be provided, supporting a mixture of
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by serhei 9y ago
That's pretty similar to how languages like Scala with higher-order features translate down to the JVM bytecode (which is subject to certain restrictions).
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by serhei 9y ago
The next boom will be in whatever _isn't_ being hyped right now.
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by serhei 9y ago
I believe hype is actually Musk's primary product: by constantly coming up with these announcements he plays his part in maintaining the narrative of the US being the leader in tech innovation, over and above the narrative of the US be
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by serhei 9y ago
I certainly don't look forward to auditing a Solidity contract with the complexity of the federal tax code.
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by serhei 9y ago
Imitating other code that is known to work [1]. Lots of testing. Fixing the bug when someone runs into it and complains (a viable last-resort for almost anything besides a Solidity contract). [1]: For example, when working with filesystems,
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by serhei 9y ago
Thanks, I edited my comment to be more readable.
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by serhei 9y ago
Heck, the basic methods of writing provably correct programs have been explained in plain English since at least the 70s: https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijks... https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by serhei 9y ago
It sure makes me wonder if Ethereum would do better with a less forgiving programming language. The fact that the syntax resembles Javascript is not reassuring, neither is the fact that the very first code snippet in "Solidity By Examp
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by serhei 9y ago
Agreed. The Swiss did study something similar ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro ) but their proposal looks a lot more expensive and is entirely in-tunnel.
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by serhei 9y ago
"200MPH is not high-speed." Says who? Originally anything over 125mph was "high-speed rail" simply because it required new engineering techniques to be developed (existing trains and tracks were physically not engineered
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by serhei 9y ago
A typical third rail metro moves at around 25-30mph if you factor in station stops. Top speed varies, e.g. for Washington Metro the cars can accelerate up to 75mph but could plausibly be much slower depending on the track characteristics, h
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by serhei 9y ago
Many of the existing freight rail corridors are twisty and not designed in a way that works for high-speed rail at all (unless you buy land anyways to straighten out the more extreme curves) [1]. They might work for conventional passenger r

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