snakeboy

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by snakeboy 12d ago
Yes, I can understand why absolute ratings are impossible to extract. However, since the population maintains some continuity over time (players gradually enter and then leave over time), would it not be possible to reconstruct relative rat
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by snakeboy 13d ago
> The search was enormous — there were more possible designs than atoms in the universe PopSci journalists must get so excited every time they get to write about a math result with a combinatorial flavor, letting them use their favorite
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by snakeboy 13d ago
> If you want to compare Magnus Carlsen's peak rating of 2882 in the year 2014 to Garry Kasparov's peak rating of 2851 in the year 1999, you have to know how strong the total pool of players (including all the amateurs who comp
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by snakeboy 13d ago
> She was even able to change the text in one of their images to its new product name without having to contact the graphic designer. Is that legal... ? I admit I don't know much about graphic design is contracted.
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by snakeboy 1mo ago
Fortunately, there are enough books out there to keep one occupied for a whole lifetime without reading anything published after 2022. The classics are classics for a reason.
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by snakeboy 1mo ago
Bad economic policy is subtly "evil", by way of allocating finite resources inefficiently. Usually this is unintentionally done by not appropriately taking second, third, ..., nth order effects into account.
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by snakeboy 2mo ago
> And therefore, if an AI had more data that mirrors that experience in some way would it be sufficiently creative to create something "truly original"? An important distinction seems to lie in a human having original experienc
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by snakeboy 4mo ago
Have you ever seen transplants to a colder climate trying to navigate icy road conditions? This is a valid point that self-driving cars solving the issue once and losslessly deploying the solution to it's fleet is a massive improvement
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by snakeboy 5mo ago
> Reform wasn't passed, it was forced via a technicality after riots made it politically unpalatable, and it has put France in a governing crisis ever since. You can call it a technicality if you'd like, but, the article 49.3 m
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by snakeboy 5mo ago
> Any attempt to change those results in the country being taken hostage by rioters, thus nothing changes. Your theory doesn't actually match with reality, given that Macron's retirement reform was passed into law despite pro
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by snakeboy 5mo ago
I usually use free archived versions to read mainstream journalism pieces. Seeing this convinced me to subscribe. I've always loved The New Yorker, and am happy to support serious longform journalism (and I know that Ronan is one of
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by snakeboy 6mo ago
I don't need any of these statements to be true to want to divest from a US monopoly on essential software. It's about decentralization, always has been.
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by snakeboy 6mo ago
I fail to understand why you cited ChatGPT in the first comment instead of just linking the sources in the first place. That was obviously the critique of your comment, and it seems bad-faith to claim it was because they "just don&#x2
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by snakeboy 6mo ago
The whole pitch of AI is that the model is going to be able to make exploit general knowledge outside of the local scope of the problem, just like a human would do. So I would also expect that it would be able to transfer his knowledge of
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by snakeboy 6mo ago
> All of this capability emerging from a company (Anthropic) that’s just five years old. Imagine what Claude will be capable of in 2030. I don't believe VC-backed companies see monotonic user-facing improvement as a general rule. T
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by snakeboy 7mo ago
> I wonder if it will reduce risk-taking I understand this argument in engineering and medical fields, but in clothing industry, does incentivising risk and innovation really matter that much?
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by snakeboy 7mo ago
It's the name of a french-developed open video conferencing software[0]. See the 1st prize result in TFA... [0] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/visio
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by snakeboy 8mo ago
Well, nobody needs Google-level money...
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by snakeboy 8mo ago
> Installation Process Enhanced by AI Proceeds to use requirements.txt in 2026... Old habits die hard for our LLM overlords. But at least it sure knows how to market itself!
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by snakeboy 8mo ago
I think it's more likely that Chinese EVs are banned in the US because they would absolutely obliterate the domestic car manufacturing industry.
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by snakeboy 8mo ago
I feel like the normal reaction is to see it in both and maintain a distinction between these two entirely different contexts without ignoring the crimes of the lesser.
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by snakeboy 8mo ago
It's some utopian dream to think the death of the EU would decentralize power. It's currently a necessary evil to put pressure on the already centralized power of the US global hegemony. Without the EU, the world is controlled
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by snakeboy 8mo ago
If you can't reason about the concept of 'price sensitivity' without a slippery-slope invocation of slavery, then I think capitalism isn't for you.
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by snakeboy 9mo ago
It works if you know the person and have a baseline for how much confidence you give their opinions. If it's just a random person on the internet, they need to support their argument.
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by snakeboy 9mo ago
The post is just about doctors, but I hear similar arguments about professors (in the US, at least). These two fields attract the greatest minds and most dedicated souls to do actually important work for society (compared to those great mi
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by snakeboy 9mo ago
Makes sense, but how does this explain the fact that this problem seems recent, or at least to have worsened recently ?
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by snakeboy 9mo ago
I personally prefer some grammatical errors or awkward phrasing over AI-assisted writing. It's a blog post, not a diplomatic transcript.
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by snakeboy 10mo ago
At this point, is the most "effective ethical" career path for a software developer to work on LLMs to flood social media and ad-clicks to speedrun the collapse of digital marketing? And thus freeing competent but money-driven so
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by snakeboy 10mo ago
No surprise that claude- haiku -4.5 was one of the few models able to see through the poetic sophistry...
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by snakeboy 10mo ago
As well as the hundreds of other unnamed underage victims who were coerced into sexual favors for Epstein personally.

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