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by strken 5d ago
If university is truly miserable then multiple years of it are going to give you lifelong issues with learning and set you up for failure later in life. I'm not saying it has to be sunshine and rainbows all the time, but if you actuall
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by strken 8d ago
If you're as baffled as I am, FLINTA is apparently a German acronym meaning anyone who's not a born and current man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLINTA*
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by strken 8d ago
They don't. They want to let people opt out of social media feeds for the same reason they currently let gamblers self-exclude[0]. Politicians do not believe that casinos are popular despite the gambling and they do not believe that so
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by strken 9d ago
I think the literal interpretation is correct here. It's a way of saying "you, dear reader who runs this combination of things, might be very kind, but some of your compatriots will be unusually unkind and will turn up in my issue
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by strken 10d ago
In Australia where lamb is more common than in the US, it'd be pretty easy to keep the fat after roasting a lamb shoulder, or to freeze the fatty offcuts from forequarter chops and render them after I had enough.
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by strken 11d ago
I was going by foreign currency reserves, which feature CAD and AUD in much greater quantities than CHF. Also I swapped in SGD for GBP, whoops. Global reserves continue to hold USD in greater quantities than anything else. A movement away f
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by strken 11d ago
In a way, the bond market tracks international central banks' confidence that this will continue to be true. If they lose some of that confidence, their stock of bonds moves from USD to RMB/EUR/JPY/AUD/CAD/SGD&
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by strken 12d ago
Good thing we all had the ADA to protect us from free educational material distributed for cynical reasons.
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by strken 12d ago
They could have, but they didn't, then they got sued, and now kids in Kenya can't watch world-class lectures. Thanks, disability advocates! Thanks, UC!
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by strken 12d ago
They were archival footage of old lectures. But also, "really cheap" is only cheap when something is done for profit. When it's done as a charitable side gig then pretty much any expense is expensive.
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by strken 12d ago
Why would Berkeley budget for captioning on a series of videos that they're giving to the public for free? Expecting them to accommodate everyone for loss-making global educational philanthropy is a ridiculous overreach. It has made th
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by strken 12d ago
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9058071/ (if "strong affinity" means "bimodal distribution and I ignore the lower pole") https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38497251/
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by strken 13d ago
I know that the poster is talking about something that occurs in deep depression, but I don't think Edgar Allan Poe was and I don't think TFA was either.
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by strken 13d ago
Yes, and I'm saying that is clearly suicidality, but I think TFA is talking about something else.
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by strken 13d ago
This doesn't seem like a problem if you exclusively support 3LDs and don't let anyone register 2LDs.
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by strken 13d ago
I have the impression you could be confusing suicidality with the little voice that says "what if I stuck my finger in the candle wax?" or "what if I forgot to put on clothes before going to work?" and only mentions tall
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by strken 13d ago
I think the issue is less about creating a new benchmark and more that the existing benchmarks shouldn't be called anything related to AGI unless they measure AGI. If a model couldn't go to work as e.g. a first year apprentice plu
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by strken 14d ago
That seems kind of nuts when you could stick a few solenoids on the pedals and steering wheel, mount the sensors from the head onto the chassis, and skip the need for a humanoid robot.
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by strken 14d ago
Is Italy in that list?
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by strken 14d ago
I imagine part of what makes it difficult is that people can and do reuse plastic bags. If I reuse a plastic bag 20 times before it breaks then you now have to reuse your cotton bag 3460 times, which is much harder.
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by strken 14d ago
One really nice economic factor of the dole is that it disappears at a rate of 50c for each $1 of earnings above $150 and at 60c above $256, so there's no welfare cliff. This does mean that you're effectively only earning 40c for
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by strken 16d ago
I think the example I gave is a good counterpoint: - you have a monolith, and it handles normal API traffic patterns - you have a workload that involves different hardware needs e.g. extremely high throughput relative to the rest of the sys
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by strken 17d ago
Big companies mostly seem to use the microservice(s) per team model. If your whole company is two founders, one account manager, and an engineer, you only have one team. It can make sense to have more than one service for purely technical r
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by strken 19d ago
I believe crows can be more aggressive than ravens, maybe because they hang out in bigger groups rather than pairs. I haven't heard about it being limited to Australia, though. We only have a couple of species of crow and if you'r
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by strken 20d ago
I believe some people have aphantasia and hyperphantasia, but a lot of people who claim they have either are somewhere on the bell curve between them. I also suspect that some of the people who think they have aphantasia could learn. I pers
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by strken 23d ago
I would describe PIAAC literacy levels 1 and 2 as barely able to comprehend English, and someone who wrote at a corresponding level as barely able to write. They're close to the line of illiteracy, particularly PIAAC 1. I believe the m
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by strken 23d ago
Stuff doesn't need to be clarified unless it's unclear. If stuff is unclear, and someone objects to the lack of clarity, and a clarification is offered, then surely the statement was NOT "fine as written".
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by strken 23d ago
LLM speak is of "higher" "quality" to a superficial inspection because it uses big words in a grammatically correct way. It is worse because it fails to communicate information well. When I say it can barely speak Englis
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by strken 23d ago
We're redirecting an increasingly large portion of the world's R&D funding into building data centres to run LLMs which can barely speak English ("Good observation - that's the pivot point. I'll land the load be
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by strken 24d ago
Well, no, because in this case the difference between "many", "most", and "all" was unclear and was being used for rhetorical effect to support a contentious point. You can't just make a broad assertion in

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