syrgian

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by syrgian 7d ago
Let's say we were in an alternative reality were we had reached this quality of token prediction with just Markov chains. Would you argue that those would also be conscious? Or is the obfuscated behavior of transformers part of the pos
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by syrgian 3mo ago
I am a dog owner, and I agree that a loose and aggressive dog is a liability to humanity and you are making everyone a favor if you kill it even if you could have escaped (e.g. you manage to get into your car in time). If it was attacking y
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by syrgian 9mo ago
My wife runs https://www.saviament.com/ , an open-access educational website in Catalan. She also sells printable content following the same style as the website, which has exploded in popularity this year and has become a d
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by syrgian 11mo ago
Wouldn't all the houses in the village lose way more than £400 in value? Last I was comparing houses in a neighborhood, the houses near a powerline were consistently worth 15k-30k less (3-6% less).
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by syrgian 11mo ago
The post I was replying to was edited and originally claimed that London had higher murder rate than New York.
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by syrgian 11mo ago
You are right. Should not have relied on the most likely LLM-generated description attached to the data. I trusted it because I already had the wrong impression that it was less safe, but that was just because the raw number of crimes is hi
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by syrgian 11mo ago
London murder rate per million in 2024: 11.6 NYC murder rate per million in 2024: 43 And from what I read, NYC is exceptionally safe for a US city, and London is exceptionally unsafe for a UK city.
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by syrgian 1y ago
Same boat. I have a 6D Mark II since 7 years ago now, and I misguidedly was counting on ML to be released within 3 years of my purchase. But luckily, it's still a fantastic camera.
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by syrgian 1y ago
Can't the Western government strongarm the receiving bank by threatening to kick them out of SEPA/ACH/Fediwire?
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by syrgian 2y ago
If you are going scam people with locked iPhones over the internet, why send an iPhone at all? You should just send a literal paperweight. It will serve the same purpose. It's not like the marketplace will be like "It's an iP
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by syrgian 2y ago
It seems to me that it would increase safety, but I guess only a simulation could truly tell. I understand your take, but I have a different one: most accidents happens when someone makes a mistake at stop light changes. Less cars stopping&
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by syrgian 2y ago
I was trying to write a decent definition but Wiki does it better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model#Agency In this context it could be able to do multiple actions in order to address an ask from the u
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by syrgian 2y ago
This is the source to the 3.9TW number: https://assets.bbhub.io/professional/sites/24/BNEF_2023-11-2... I understand your frustration. I had to dig quite a bit to find numbers I could use, because there are m
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by syrgian 2y ago
Australia's target is more ambitious, but China has a larger share right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable... I am also not clear that it is that much more ambitious. You are not co
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by syrgian 2y ago
If you don't need the granularity, you can store all the credentials that will be used by a specific caller(s) in a single JSON object and it will cost you only those $0.50. You can easily fit a thousand, maximum size is 64kb.
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by syrgian 2y ago
The article mentions it is not a limiter, but rather a speed limit warning. So none of your hypothetical scenarios apply, other than drivers might learn not to overtake if breaking the speed limit is necessary because the warning is annoyin
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by syrgian 2y ago
2013 was a quite bad moment to move into Ireland. It was very hard hit by the crisis. Right now salaries are way better: https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater... I moved in 2020 and it
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by syrgian 2y ago
You are comparing market cap to GDP. You should compare revenue to GDP. Still not a perfect comparison, but much much better. Apple's revenue: 380B. Iran sits at position 40 with 380B GDP in 2022.
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by syrgian 2y ago
I love this genre, and Deep Rock Galactic and Alien Swarm are the only ones that are on the same level. Alien Swarm is even more tactic and punishing (no reviving at all). Full Metal Furies is also very good, but not as similar to the other
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by syrgian 2y ago
Buy houses and lots, keep them empty, and speculate on their value. Or just build their 6th mansion that uses a plot of land that could fit 400 apartments, keeping the people underneath them commuting 1 hour from their 80 square meter apart
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by syrgian 2y ago
This already happens in Spain. It is very common that the private eviction services negotiate rather than force them out. And the negotiation is basically a piece of the payment, say, they might split 2.5k/2.5k and both squatter and ev
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by syrgian 2y ago
Basically only truly DRM-free, offline games in GOG/itch.io will be able to show "Buy", giving them an advertising edge.
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by syrgian 2y ago
I am not hopeful at all that it will go that way. Instead, I expect those buildings to invest in having the fastest, most stable internet connection with added redundancy and everything will be fully centralized in datacenters.
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by syrgian 3y ago
I had the intuition that Netlify are extremely incompetent compared to Cloudflare, and this thread adds another data point. So no, if you value uptime you are not going to rely on them.
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by syrgian 3y ago
Companies (not banks) that can now settle payments almost in real-time rather than wait a day to confirm that the payment has been received makes them more competitive global-economy wise.
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by syrgian 3y ago
If a non-notable person tweeted this, they might have lost their livelihood.
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by syrgian 3y ago
It would definitely work if a parent could report the accounts of all the kids involved and their tiktok/whatever accounts got deleted + their phone numbers and emails got block-listed for the service. Even more if the system worked in
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by syrgian 3y ago
I agree 100% with you but I will mention three that, for now, are still decent (although not 100% perfect): ID Software, Valve, FromSoftware. I had to look at over 20 studios that built my favorite games in 1990-2010 to find those 3. And ID
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by syrgian 3y ago
Not Spotify, but I pay for Amazon Music. I listen music all the time, and it also works for 5 of my family members (out of which 1 listens a lot and the rest listen a little). It's cheaper than Youtube Premium and has better quality as
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by syrgian 3y ago
Same experience. I know one example of "oh yeah, he had been here since the creation of the company but he became a drag and his departure was welcome" for each 10 examples of "development speed, reliability and talent retent

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