shaldengeki

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by shaldengeki 10mo ago
> Is anyone really using bazel outside Google in any meaningful capacity? Yes. For instance, Stripe uses Bazel internally for ~all of its builds. https://stripe.com/blog/fast-secure-builds-choose-two For other users
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
I appreciate your position, but the record is pretty clear; his actions clearly meet Berkeley's own definition of research misconduct.
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
You may be interested to read that the Why We Sleep guy committed research misconduct in the book. Guy is totally unrepentant about it. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/03/24/why-we-sle...
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
HN's moderation team has been pretty clear that generated comments aren't welcome here. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
I don't see any network analysis on this page. What network analysis do you see? I do see generic statements like "boosting each other", and I see vaguely-drawn lines in the primary diagram with no further explanation, but th
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
Further in the thread, the guy notes that this isn't "new" mathematics - a better proof with tighter bounds was published in April: https://xcancel.com/SebastienBubeck/status/19581986678373298...
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
Should be in the first, not seventh paragraph: this was a survey of 19 doctors, who performed ~1400 colonoscopies.
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
This shows a huge surge starting in 2023. I see you're counting all .AI TLDs; how much is this responsible for the surge? I think .AI TLD registrations took off starting in 2023, and one thing I wonder is if prior to 2023 we're mo
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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship(acoup.blog)
3 points by shaldengeki 1y ago|0 comments
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
I think it's important to clarify that it's just audio and video that are E2EE, not text messages themselves. (You may have meant this, but "channels" was a little ambiguous.)
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
Yes, that's correct. The authors themselves are being extremely careful (and, I'd argue, misleading) in their wording. The right way to interpret those words is "this is literally a model that supports our predictions".
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
No, you're wrong. They wrote the story before coming up with the model! In fact the model and technical work has basically nothing to do with the short story, aka the part that everyone read. This is pointed out in the critique, where
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
> One of the AI 2027 authors joked to me in the comments on a recent article that “you may not like it but it's what peak AI forecasting performance looks like”. Well, I don’t like it, and if this truly is “peak forecasting”, then p
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
This strikes me as disingenuous: > I like when my software gets used by a lot of people and people send me nice emails. In this case, people weren't sending me the nicest emails, unfortunately. But they also didn't really know
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My Model of Language Models(tomlee.wtf)
1 points by shaldengeki 1y ago|0 comments
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by shaldengeki 1y ago
This is an extremely minor point, but: > significant parts of our federal government have abandoned key precepts of outcome-driven problem-solving. (Just try navigating the IRS’ Free File tax return tool. I gave up and paid for H&R B
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Advancing Secure and Convenient Government Communications: The Case for Element(element.io)
2 points by shaldengeki 1y ago|0 comments
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by shaldengeki 2y ago
The title here buries the lede, IMO. Quoting from Epoch AI in the thread: > We were restricted from disclosing the partnership until around the time o3 launched [...] Our contract specifically prevented us from disclosing information abo
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by shaldengeki 2y ago
I don't think this article, or the underlying claims, are (yet) credible. I'm disappointed that the Washington Post wrote about this at all, and that people I respect a lot have amplified it on Twitter. The claims come from an MBA
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by shaldengeki 2y ago
Here's a 14 year-old series showing that providers are the biggest chunk of the overspending in the system: https://web.archive.org/web/20210421025041/http://theinciden...
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by shaldengeki 2y ago
Their commitment to open source, however, might go. Quite recently Google quietly unshipped an effort to make their protobuf build rules more useful to OSS users of Bazel (see the rules_proto repository). This wasted a huge amount of planni
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by shaldengeki 2y ago
The Internet Archive shows the progression of events pretty clearly. - In ~May 2023, the FT transferred it to Jake Champion: https://web.archive.org/web/20230505112634/https://polyfill.... - In mid-Oct,
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Histograms worked(brandur.org)
8 points by shaldengeki 2y ago|1 comments
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by shaldengeki 3y ago
As someone who attended before and after the change: there was certainly no immediate effect. The consensus at the time (at least amongst my little circle of friends) was that adopting the Common App was an obviously short-sighted metrics p
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by shaldengeki 3y ago
I agree with the general thrust of this, but it's worth noting that the author does _slightly_ better than is typical for LLM-based analyses: they released the dataset of book-labeled posts. You can at least estimate the false-positive
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by shaldengeki 3y ago
For whatever it's worth, the person you're replying to took the courtesy of pointing you to some research they're familiar with, and your "it's just one paper" point (or really, any of your points here) would b
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by shaldengeki 3y ago
Sure - earlier you said "if this is useful that's a really bad sign", and now you're saying "if it's necessary it's a very bad sign", which are pretty different claims. I'm mostly interested in p
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by shaldengeki 3y ago
This is really interesting to hear; I work in a team & org that I think is pretty healthy, but I've found the yearly "brag doc" exercise useful for several years running, if only to go through and remind myself of everyth
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by shaldengeki 3y ago
It'd be useful to know what site you used to verify - but if we're talking about the same site, IMO a website that presents Dan's experience sometimes, and your experience sometimes, is actively harmful.
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by shaldengeki 3y ago
What's most shocking to me is how much malware there is in all of this. The fact that Google et al aren't constantly in trouble for directly forwarding unwitting users to malware distributors indicates to me just how far our stand

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