tempestn

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by tempestn 4d ago
Problem is I don't want a spiritual successor. I want an actual successor that would build on the Starcraft universe, but in an RTS.
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by tempestn 7d ago
Per mile driven I expect it's true, just given their greater experience than most drivers. Not that I disagree with you that many Uber drivers are not actually great at driving, but neither is the average driver in North America. I exp
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by tempestn 9d ago
I do agree that Lambert's coverage of Tesla appears to be pretty one-sided, and that the company has provided significant benefits to the world, but I also think there's a reasonable case to be made that Musk himself is a uniquely
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by tempestn 12d ago
Having the generator as backup means you need a lot less battery though, so it saves weight overall.
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An 'Exercise Pill' Just Cleared Its First Human Test(gizmodo.com)
8 points by tempestn 13d ago|5 comments
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by tempestn 13d ago
I would bet that llms have talked plenty of people both into and out of suicide at this point. That nitpick aside, I think that's an excellent list. Especially being able to articulate what it does and doesn't know, or how confide
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GoPro acquired, getting into 'defense, government, robotics and aerospace'(theverge.com)
37 points by tempestn 13d ago|3 comments
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by tempestn 16d ago
If the culture shifted such that people were skeptical of original results but excited about replication, replication would be the big news and people would want to do it. How to get there, I don't know.
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by tempestn 26d ago
Any original text has value for the purpose of AI training. The argument is that they have no other value.
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by tempestn 1mo ago
But the choices are weighted based on those probabilities. This doesn't affect the weightings, only how the final weighted pseudo-random selection is made.
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by tempestn 1mo ago
It's not just swapping synonyms. The way llms work is by predicting the likelihood of the next token. It's inherently probabilistic. Choices are made based on weighted random number generation, based on those probabilities. Changi
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by tempestn 1mo ago
You're generating a pseudo random number one way instead of another way. How would that inherently compromise quality?
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by tempestn 1mo ago
LLM output, as the author acknowledges here, is already non-deterministic. Next token probabilities are set, and tokens are chosen pseudo-randomly. As I understand it, this watermark is just going to be a matter of using a known seed and al
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by tempestn 1mo ago
Every one of them has their own particular flavour of this aggravation too. Gemini has been my standard go-to for non-coding tasks for a while, but I started to get really annoyed with a couple aspects, especially how it would end almost ev
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by tempestn 1mo ago
The issue is that anything you put in the prompt gets considered along with all the other stuff you put in the prompt. There's no way (currently) to give instructions for how to format the output that don't also affect all of the
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by tempestn 1mo ago
IMO this kind of thing adds work and stress for the best students. If I'd been faced with something like this while I was in school I would have felt the need to basically curate a parallel construction AI discussion, knowing it would
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by tempestn 1mo ago
It probably is.
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by tempestn 1mo ago
Yes, that's why they're still doing it. It just doesn't fill up a 40-hour week.
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by tempestn 1mo ago
Oh, I see. Yeah, good point about splitting a 240V outlet. Not as convenient as having them everywhere, but it'd certainly be possible. NG may be 100% efficient, but heat pumps are like 300%+ in terms of electricity to indoor heat. And
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by tempestn 2mo ago
I'm not clear what point you're making about PDUs. Re 120V outlets, while batteries don't need to supply the full peak load, they are more effective the more of it they can supply. And a home with a heat pump or baseboard hea
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by tempestn 2mo ago
I assume plug-in batteries are considerably more workable in the UK on 240V, since they could charge and deploy at double the rate of a plug-in system here. Of course 240V plugs exist in North America, but they're generally only instal
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by tempestn 2mo ago
But you're implying that they could use non-destructive means and choose not to.
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by tempestn 2mo ago
We're talking about browsing history, not cookies and cache.
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by tempestn 2mo ago
We've got a fly-pollinated bush in our yard. Smells like rotting death when it's wet to attract them. (I did not plant it...)
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Brief Answers to Cosmic Questions (~2000)(lweb.cfa.harvard.edu)
8 points by tempestn 2mo ago|0 comments
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by tempestn 2mo ago
I also explicitly save stuff I plan to use later, but you can't always predict that in advance.
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by tempestn 2mo ago
The practical argument I can understand. From the abstract argument though, it sounds like you'd be opposed even if the anonymization could be guaranteed, which I don't understand. Why is it "spying" to try to understand
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by tempestn 2mo ago
You're right about explicitly set preferences. What do you see as the harm in website owners using aggregated analytics data to improve their sites?
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by tempestn 2mo ago
My understanding is that any front-end analytics solution will require consent. You're right about explicitly set preferences. I was mixing that up with inferred preferences.
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by tempestn 2mo ago
You're right; I haven't looked into this in detail in some time. You can't save inferred preferences, but can save things that the user has explicitly selected to save.

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