tripper_27

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by tripper_27 2y ago
Several EU cities have experimented with making public transport free, and people seem to really enjoy it. Also, as you so eloquently put it, it isn't clear that the cost for issuing and checking tickets is covered by the income from t
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by tripper_27 2y ago
Seconding Uvix's question. I was looking for work in 2021-2022, and an approach like yours got me a job after interviewing with circa 10 companies. Unfortunately ended up on the wrong side of office politics and had to leave in early 2
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by tripper_27 2y ago
> Those people who have to apply to 100s of jobs are probably in that situation because they’re spraying low-effort LLM resumes around and most hiring managers can see right through this game by now. Just came off a brutal 7 month job se
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by tripper_27 2y ago
cost and outcomes. In aggregate, Americans pay much more and get worse outcomes
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by tripper_27 2y ago
Define "smart". And explain how "smart"=="conscious" I can agree that there is no genetic benefit to being able to move at the speed animals move, because that's not how plants obtain food or avoid being e
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by tripper_27 2y ago
Alternative hypothesis: Given that plants do not have a central nervous system, it is reasonable to expect they have a distributed consciousness. Recall that most plants avoid building single-purpose organs, as the odds that 70-80% of the p
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by tripper_27 2y ago
Hey, will say your right about "seems similar to human", but behavior such as moms taking care of their babies is found in many plant species, as is loyalty. Probably happiness and longing as well. Ask yourself how many of these f
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by tripper_27 2y ago
> If we define hallucinations as falsehoods introduced between the training data and LLM output, Yes, if. Or we could realize that the LLMs output is a random draw from a distribution learned from the training data, i.e. ALL of its outpu
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by tripper_27 2y ago
It's also much faster to get in front of a NP than a doctor.
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by tripper_27 2y ago
hey, I hear you. Modern America is full of voices demanding you give them care/attention. Every. Single. Thing. It is overwhelming. See following comments on the need for slack/margin in capacity. Well, we also need it in emotiona
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by tripper_27 2y ago
if you'll forgive my prior snark, some people successfully involve the children in the cooking. When this is done, the children seem to prefer the home-cooked because they are part of the cooking and they are part of the feeding/p
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by tripper_27 2y ago
> Children notoriously prefer prepackaged industrially processed food over whole foods prepared with care and love. Let me fix that for you: Children notoriously prefer heavily marketed food in attractive packaging which is designed&#x2F
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by tripper_27 2y ago
Not too hard to build your own. Lots of tutorials based on i.e. ESP32 chips, various blinky light options. Google "Adafruit clock" to get started.
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by tripper_27 2y ago
Wow! So a visual effect similar to some psychadelic hallucinations is associated with brain cleaning! Also, I've been at concerts where the light show guy seems to have reverse-engineered the filters our brains use to process raw signa