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by tominous 4mo ago
Here's one (CIFSwitch) from a couple of days ago: https://heyitsas.im/posts/cifswitch/
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by tominous 7mo ago
Performance and efficiency are important, but we need you to invent the monitoring tools and visualisations that will underpin alignment!
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by tominous 8mo ago
Yes there are metabolic changes in the mother herself during pregnancy but that's not why it's hard to research. The main fear is that drugs will cross the placenta and affect the growing fetus, or similarly be transmitted through
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by tominous 1y ago
Maybe not due to attention, but it is certainly possible for chat content to get leaked into other conversations due to bugs in the stack, and in fact it has happened before. https://openai.com/index/march-20-chatgpt-ou
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by tominous 1y ago
In my case I had hundreds of invoices in a not-very-consistent PDF format which I had contemporaneously tracked in spreadsheets. After data extraction (pdftotext + OpenAI API), I cross-checked against the spreadsheets, and for any discrepan
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by tominous 2y ago
If you're trying to say that immunostimulant is a term of art distinct from immune checkpoint inhibitor, then fair point. But what it seems like you're saying is checkpoint inhibitors don't "enrage/activate" th
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by tominous 2y ago
Immunostimulant is a reasonable way to put it: it takes the brakes off one part of the immune system. (Similarly, we call caffeine a central nervous system stimulant and it works by blocking adenosine, which is one of the brakes on brain ac
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by tominous 3y ago
I have very quickly picked up the habit of pasting snippets of my code into GPT-4 and simply asking "Why is this not working?" Almost every time, it succinctly explains the apparent purpose of the code, and how it is subtly wrong.
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by tominous 3y ago
I was dying on the GPT-4 API waitlist too. I built a proof-of-concept with GPT-3.5, got some ada embeddings, played around with some common patterns for a couple of weeks, spent less than $20. I then applied to the waitlist again with a few
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by tominous 3y ago
Same for me. I see it as the combination of 5 things: 1. It lowers the activation energy of getting started; for me motivation tends to come after action, and it gets me to that point. 2. It taps into the intense drive of "someone is w
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by tominous 4y ago
I just spent a month doing an E-Business Suite platform migration and it was very similar: follow the step-by-step instructions to apply patches and run commands. Each patch has a README file with dependent patches or commands which need to
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by tominous 4y ago
It's ok, because they often make you give your postcode as a second factor.
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by tominous 4y ago
As a native speaker of English, I didn't know about mass nouns until I was an adult and I was trying to explain to a non-native speaker that they were using "the" too much.
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by tominous 4y ago
ProxyJump (or the -J option as a shortcut) plus TCP port forwarding (-L/-R) is ridiculously powerful. You can chain jump hosts with commas, threading a port forward deep into (or out of) multiple server hops with a single command.
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by tominous 4y ago
In animals some things are definitely hardwired. I had a pet rabbit and made the mistake of watching a nature documentary about snakes when she was in the room. The mere sound of a rattle snake on TV caused the rabbit to stamp a few times,
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by tominous 4y ago
Yes I said that. Still -- many, many hours of cryptic crosswords being solved and explained if you want to see how the best in the world does it.
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by tominous 4y ago
Cracking the Cryptic, e.g.: https://youtu.be/ecytVCusIeY It's mostly a variant sudoku channel but Mark Goodliffe is an insanely good cryptic crossword solver, and both Simon and Mark are good teachers. Beyond the intro
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by tominous 4y ago
My mind was blown when visiting Sweden in 2002 and finding out they pronounce "www" as "vee vee vee" (not just because the letter name double-v makes much more sense than double-u, but because they were smart enough to s
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by tominous 4y ago
Congrats to Scott. I'm still somewhat disappointed Brendan Gregg didn't pop up there making the AI Alignment equivalent of flame graphs!
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by tominous 4y ago
Not denying that there are many ways in which development can go wrong, whether that's genetic or the environment. What I'm responding to is the sudden change seen in many populations as per the article. Re: the chromatic aberrati
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by tominous 4y ago
Almost all children are born hypermetropic (far-sighted). The growth of the eyeball is calibrated by the amount of defocus (blur) experienced. More defocus, more growth, which reduces hypermetropia. My hypothesis is that less sunlight means
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by tominous 4y ago
OpenAI, on AI alignment instrumentation?
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by tominous 5y ago
Third option: the test ID is generated well before the test is taken. When I donate blood the nurse pulls out a sheet of around 20 pre-generated identical barcode stickers, and attaches one to each piece of paper and bag of blood. This uniq
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by tominous 6y ago
I assume they meant T^4 radiation (Stefan-Boltzmann law): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan–Boltzmann_law
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by tominous 9y ago
Interesting analogy but it doesn't always hold. Take the greening of Ascension Island [1] where planting trees created a virtuous cycle: the trees trapped more moisture which promoted the growth of more trees. In biology there are many
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Total Solar Eclipse 2017(brendangregg.com)
2 points by tominous 9y ago|0 comments
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by tominous 9y ago
The cost isn't just in dollars though. In a PET scan they inject a radioactive dye into your bloodstream. It "exposes you to around the same amount of radiation that you would receive from the general environment over about three
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by tominous 9y ago
What you say makes sense, but the people involved didn't even attempt to make me aware of the differences in the concise way you just did. And when I asked about the difference in final result, pain, and time, there was no straight ans
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by tominous 9y ago
The standard approach to orthodontics is to extract teeth to make room and then move the remaining teeth into place. There is an alternative approach which involves enlarging the jaw, either through expanders, surgery or a combination of bo
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by tominous 9y ago
Paradoxically, more frequent fires can often mean less severe fires. That's the rationale behind controlled burns and traditional aboriginal land management practices. And because this is Hacker News, have a play with the simulation ho

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