tanaros

14 ms·

1.
by tanaros 25d ago
> 85% of Canadians live within 100 miles/160 km of the border. These are very integrated communities. Yes, but the culture and values start shifting as soon as you cross the border, and they shift more the further south you go.
2.
by tanaros 2mo ago
In case anyone would like to read the text of the statement behind [2] instead of the editorialized headline, it’s here: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2023-10-18/pdf/2023-2...
3.
by tanaros 4mo ago
Total EU defense spending is around $450M USD. The US defense budget, prior to 2027, is about $950M USD. Are you saying the US could have all those social policies for $500M USD?
4.
by tanaros 6mo ago
Whenever somebody makes a benchmark, people complain that the benchmark results are meaningless because they’re gamed. I don’t know why those same people don’t understand that grading on vibes is strictly worse.
5.
by tanaros 7mo ago
Google stupidly positioned their service as if it was a separate console you had to buy games for, which then couldn’t be played anywhere else. The successful streaming services sell you games for non-streaming platforms and then just allow
6.
by tanaros 9mo ago
> The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions. If the federal government is about granting rights, does that imply the default state is “no rights”? That seems objectively worse.
7.
by tanaros 10mo ago
> Good gaijin are welcomed, bad ones need to leave. This is always the rhetoric in anti-immigration movements. You may find that the definitions of “good” and “bad” vary wildly.
8.
by tanaros 10mo ago
> A lot of people are missing the fact that the Steam Frame is Valve's attempt at staking a position in the wide-open and malleable VR space. It is their third attempt.
9.
by tanaros 11mo ago
> which would help reinforce the idea that what we sacrifice as the price of scientific knowledge, is absolute knowledge. I don’t think it is possible to have absolute knowledge of anything. Scientific knowledge is the best (only) thing
10.
by tanaros 11mo ago
I enjoyed it! Admittedly, I went in with extremely low expectations. It was fun, though, and I liked the visuals and the music. The plot was … something.
11.
by tanaros 1y ago
The link says: > Some teams in the Google Cloud org just laid off all UX researchers below L6 That’s not all UX researchers below L6 in the entire company. It doesn’t even sound like it’s all UX researchers below L6 in Google Cloud.
12.
by tanaros 1y ago
The notion of “PhD-level research” is too vague to be useful anyways. Is it equivalent to a preprint, a poster, a workshop paper, a conference paper, a journal submission, or a book? Is it expected to pass peer review in a prestigious venue
13.
by tanaros 1y ago
> buying an EV does not actually reduce emissions like magic, unless the owner drives that car for a looooong time. Like 10-15+ years. I find this timeframe surprising. I did some quick searches and there are models like GREET that sugge
14.
by tanaros 1y ago
It makes sense if you view the HOV lane primarily as a way to reduce emissions, not traffic. This is also why e.g. single-rider motorcycles are often allowed to use HOV lanes as well.
15.
by tanaros 1y ago
> Google spends something around 30 billion dollars a year to be the default search engine across many platforms. You can spend the same amount and tomorrow your search engine will have 88.9% of searches. It is a widely held belief that
16.
by tanaros 1y ago
The rejection message doesn’t seem to be accurate. I tried “happy person” as a prompt in AI Studio and it generated a happy human without any complaints. It’s possible that they relaxed the safety filtering to allow humans but forgot to upd
17.
by tanaros 1y ago
If you look at the side-by-side [1], it looks pretty plagiarized to me. They changed the words a bit but the overall plot and themes are essentially identical. [1] https://viruscomix.com/evidence.png
18.
by tanaros 1y ago
> Trump won the majority vote in an election that brought out a huge amount of voters compared to previous elections, and Republicans won every other government body. For the curious, based on [1], turnout in 2024 was 63.1% of the voting
19.
by tanaros 1y ago
Their methodology seems reasonable to me. To clarify, they look at the probability a model will produce a verbatim 50-token excerpt given the preceding 50 tokens. They evaluate this for all sequences in the book using a sliding window of 10
20.
by tanaros 1y ago
> I learned a while back that Google Maps was moved from maps.google.com to google.com/maps so that when people gave location permission to Maps, Google Search could also use that permission. This does not appear to be the case, at
21.
by tanaros 1y ago
> In the spirit of good science and as a happy taxpayer for the cause of these organizations, we should still be open to their scrutiny. A simple question we should ask, after all we're good scientists, is whether these groups are a
22.
by tanaros 1y ago
My hypothesis: it is about control. Education level is correlated with voting preference [0]. US universities are funded in large part by scientific research grants. Cutting funding directly damages these institutions, and it gives the curr
23.
by tanaros 1y ago
I suspect you have to choose the right numbers but not the right order. That makes the numbers work out.
24.
by tanaros 2y ago
Medium is a publishing/hosting platform for authors. This Medium account is (or purports to be) the official account of the Stanford alumni magazine.
25.
by tanaros 2y ago
> it'd hardly be prudent for the world's largest software company NOT to have it's own SOTA AI models. If I recall correctly, Microsoft’s agreement with OpenAI gives them full license to all of OpenAI’s IP, model weights a
26.
by tanaros 2y ago
You can submit a blank ballot. Since the ballot is secret, compulsory voting merely verifies that you got a ballot and submitted it, not that you filled it out correctly/completely.
27.
by tanaros 2y ago
It is difficult to investigate since the original statement of “$21 million for ‘voter turnout’ in India” doesn’t give any reference to the actual grant. Some sources suggest that the referenced grant is [0], as this is allegedly the only g
28.
by tanaros 2y ago
I don’t think it’s a good strategy in this case. Some of the people you fire will not come back, even if you try to rehire them immediately. Some of the firings will not result in problems in the near term, but will cause problems later on.
29.
by tanaros 2y ago
I mean, Altman also wrote this ( https://x.com/sama/status/1882234406662000833 ): > watching @potus more carefully recently has really changed my perspective on him (i wish i had done more of my own thinking and
30.
by tanaros 2y ago
Assuming the numbers I linked above are correct or at least in the ballpark: At the federal level, pretty much anything else, since it’s already not really spending any money on libraries, relatively speaking. At the state/local level,

More ›