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by vintermann 3d ago
> Could also argue that the scam ad that won the slot for 10 cents would have gone for 9 cents without the scam and Meta's marginal revenue was only 1 cent. They're probably taking that into account in their 10% of profit comin
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by vintermann 3d ago
I can recall one time I got feedback from Google that an ad had indeed been taken down, that was an Ukrainian women dating ad in Gmail which was not subtle at all about offering trafficked women. But that's some time ago.
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by vintermann 3d ago
> You can see the data if you report them. That's at least something. Last I was on a streaming service, they were very fastidious about not revealing who was behind a spammer's rotating "music labels", despite them b
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by vintermann 3d ago
> There are more ads going out then can be reviewed, so they would rather have people report them, then they automatically reject the report until enough people report it, then an actual person may review it. If only there was a technolo
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by vintermann 5d ago
Can't spell classical without "class". If you like classical music and don't find at least parts of the culture obnoxious and elitist, I'd worry for you.
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by vintermann 6d ago
I think you miss the point of this book. Karl had tuberculosis, Jonathan died saving him from a fire despite knowing Karl would soon die (which he did). No suicide there, only tragedy. Then they had an "afterlife" which is full of
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by vintermann 6d ago
Same here, they are still extremely cheap, though.
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by vintermann 6d ago
Very odd. I've used DeepSeek heavily for some weeks, and haven't seen a single Chinese character either in its replies or its thinking. Are you using a quantified model or a different provider by any chance?
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by vintermann 7d ago
Remember that Astrid Lindgren was born in 1907, got pregnant at 18 and had to give up her son to a foster home for the first few years. She grew up in a completely different world, and it's no coincidence that a lot of her stories are
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by vintermann 7d ago
Yes, and it's a problem procedural space games have in particular. Because the planets usually don't interact at all in any meaningful way - what's on one planet (or indeed in one zone on a planet) has no impact outside it.
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by vintermann 7d ago
They've added a lot of elements inspired by other games. One of the first things they added was base-building. Also a colony sim subgame, a pokemon-like subgame, fishing and cooking subgames, a roguelike subgame (exploring derelict dre
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by vintermann 8d ago
I don't understand what you suggest that implies?
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by vintermann 8d ago
You have no other information to go by in this scenario, so whatever you do you're equally likely to randomly exclude the best candidate.
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by vintermann 8d ago
It may be bad at recognizing it, but if all arms are equally good, that doesn't matter.
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by vintermann 8d ago
Talking about this in terms of exploration/exploitation may be a bit misleading, because from a pure exploration-exploitation perspective, biases wouldn't be a problem if the groups were secretly all identical. If they are, you ar
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by vintermann 8d ago
Probably not any 23andMe haven't already told you about. They test a limited set of SNPs, balancing between ones thought useful for genealogy, ones useful for ethnicity estimates and ones thought useful for health-related things (the l
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by vintermann 9d ago
> LLMs generally only debug systems by reading the code with whatever information you give them in a prompt. Oh, I wish. "This call doesn't return, how strange! Let me fire off a bunch of small test script one after another, wi
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by vintermann 9d ago
Point is if humans need to struggle with something to build neural pathways, character etc. then getting better at playing an instrument is as good at that as anything, even if it has very little economic utility (I thought that part was ob
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by vintermann 9d ago
> High-speed images of splash events generated by flow from an anatomically accurate nozzle They had some fun writing this.
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by vintermann 9d ago
It's a very strange algorithm completely different from most compression methods, that's what makes it interesting IMO. But it's probably not realistically competitive, since one needs to do more after the burrows-wheeler tra
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by vintermann 9d ago
I think it's a lot about which country you live in. I live in Norway, and went to a music oriented high school (I'm not terribly talented myself, but only half the places were set aside for people doing well on audition, the rest
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by vintermann 9d ago
Conservatory kid parent reporting here too. At least I live in a country where there is likely a job for him, even if he shouldn't win out against all the other extremely determined classical piano students.
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by vintermann 9d ago
I don't think fully employed opera singers, and professional orchestra musicians, tend to have side gigs. But it's also extremely difficult to get full employment in such jobs, and I think they're pretty intense: of the few p
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by vintermann 9d ago
Fair enough, but I don't think that's something fundamental. Agentic AI hasn't been around for many years, and many of its most enthusiastic adopters have, shall we say, attention issues, so I don't think it's odd t
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by vintermann 9d ago
Advertisers may be the reason we got this problem, but the security state is the reason we can't fix this problem and it only gets worse.
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by vintermann 9d ago
> the cost of suing you is nowhere near the damages they will be able to prove in court. The problem is, the one advising them whether to sue or not might not care about that at all, and might personally profit from a lawsuit. So they&#x
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by vintermann 9d ago
What are the hard things AI can't do yet, then? Are you sure we shouldn't rather spend time getting better at, say, playing the piano? Assuming we're allowed to prioritize that in a world where the rich have all the money. (L
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by vintermann 9d ago
I didn't say it did. Might still matter for people trying to tame or fight these beasts from less miserable places.
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by vintermann 9d ago
Feels like it to me too. Not only is it clearly extremely vibecoded, but the human author seems to have failed at (or not tried) restraining common agent impulses such as writing huge, sprawling stream-of-artificial-consciousness "docu
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by vintermann 9d ago
They could, but will they get the chance to? My most commercially valuable skills - software wrangling, figuring out what went wrong, explaining how to do things in software - are rapidly getting obsoleted by agents. But I'm not too sa

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