thatnerd

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by thatnerd 5mo ago
Back up
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by thatnerd 5mo ago
I think we've collectively DDoSed it. I'm getting a 504 timeout. The author [page]( https://github.com/sterlingcrispin ) is there on github, but I can't even find his full list of his repos to confirm it's
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by thatnerd 11mo ago
I ran into them at Burning \Man in the early aughts. They're awesome!
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by thatnerd 1y ago
Regardless of how fast we use up non-renewable resources, they're all going to be gone at some point. Copper, lithium, and tin are going to be gone. Humanity will need to live off of what we can forage or grow. Also, the rarity of farm
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by thatnerd 1y ago
Yes: our politicization of science and theirs will take a somewhat different form. And yes: if our politicization of science is is less complete, or briefer, it may not set us back as much... but RFK Jr. is out there purging scientists from
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by thatnerd 1y ago
The comparison to the present-day US isn't hyperbole. It's not a perfect match but there are parallels. The article mentions Lysenko, a Soviet "biologist" who set back Soviet biology for a generation. He believed, for ex
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by thatnerd 1y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/worldcoin-sam-altman-orb/
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by thatnerd 1y ago
For a casino? In practice, yes, fair games are perfectly consistent with greedily skimming a game, and fair games draw gamblers. That said, when organized crime gets involved, somebody always thinks "if I rig this, I'll do EVEN BE
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by thatnerd 1y ago
I think that's an invalid hypothesis here, not just an unlikely one, because that's not my understanding of how LLMs work. I believe you're suggesting (correctly) that a prediction algorithm trained on a data set where wome
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by thatnerd 1y ago
Yes, the pricing is what I'm curious about. If they were saying "we can make this for half the price of steel," then the world steel market becomes their growth target. If they can't get cheaper than steel, if they can&#
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by thatnerd 1y ago
Here's a thought: why don't YOU shut up? /s Sorry! That was mean, but I hope it came across as funny. In all seriousness, I like the question, and your implication is intuitive: if we (as individuals) talk to machines rudely,
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by thatnerd 1y ago
Sam Altman doesn't want you to say "please" to ChatGPT. https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt
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by thatnerd 1y ago
You can't express mass in volts. A volt is energy per unit of charge. To get energy, you need to multiply by a charge. One Joule of energy is what you get when you move one Coulomb of charge across a 1V potential. One electron Volt (eV
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by thatnerd 1y ago
I think it's an upper limit of around 0.2 eV^2, so √(0.2 eV^2) = 0.45 eV. I'd like to see an experiment that's sensitive enough to eliminate the m=0 hypothesis. Their prediction of m^2 = -0.14eV^2 is a bit disconcerting.
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by thatnerd 1y ago
What is the stochastic part? It looks like the predator/prey behavior is deterministic. I'm guessing it's somewhat similar to the foxes/rabbits work you were doing a few months ago? https://github.com/kyl
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by thatnerd 1y ago
I think the demographic transition overshoot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#Stage_f... ) we see is unexpected though.
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by thatnerd 1y ago
Yeah the demographic transition is something nobody predicted (afaik). On the other hand, LTG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth ) is a neo-Malthusian prediction that seems to match early data, and a su
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by thatnerd 1y ago
Feedback: The units on square feet per acre are inverted. Should be acres per square foot. I recommend having the solution check unit cancellation to confirm that it works. I'd also like to see a choice between multiplying/dividin
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by thatnerd 2y ago
We're already engineering ecosystems in a thoughtless way. I find it hard to believe that messing with mosquito genetics is going to make the world significantly more risky than it already is for humanity.
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by thatnerd 2y ago
This article is too strong on vibes and lacks data beyond "there's a lot more money in private equity than there used to be." Also, private equity includes a broad range of investors, from angels that fund unlikely-to-ever-be
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Carta is using cap tables to generate leads(twitter.com)
3 points by thatnerd 3y ago|0 comments
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by thatnerd 3y ago
Location: New York/New Jersey Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, shell script, SQL, Relational and NoSQL Databases Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamdcross/ Email: tha
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by thatnerd 3y ago
Useful for bored apes this week
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by thatnerd 3y ago
That's always been my take too. Like, ok, we get testable answers and they match experiments but also this is _so_ hacky and I can't shake the feeling that one day someone will come along and show that there's some reason why
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by thatnerd 7y ago
Thank you, we didn't get that resolved beforehand. Should be fixed now.