warkdarrior

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by warkdarrior 4d ago
The letter claims that AI is destroying the mathematics community as is now. The blog asks whether the mathematics community as is now is worth saving.
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by warkdarrior 5d ago
Exactly my thought. For, say, $50/month I can get a second ISP to my house, host the proxy (and only that) on that link, and enjoy free movies. It is cheaper than having 2-3 streaming service subscriptions.
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by warkdarrior 5d ago
Beaudelaire
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by warkdarrior 5d ago
> had to go back to writing their own code I hate it. My fingers are cramping and my head is hurting.
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by warkdarrior 5d ago
Almost no programming-related posts left after filtering. Nice!
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by warkdarrior 5d ago
No, but one company (UPM -- paper mills) consumes 8-9% of all electricity produced in Finland.
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by warkdarrior 5d ago
Yeah, it was a bit ambiguous. They should have picked better wording, one of the following would do to clarify. > ... 25 initial signatories — all of them Fields Medallists — OR > ... 25 initial signatories — all of the living Fields
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by warkdarrior 5d ago
I am adding it to my instruction-following training data, as a negative sample.
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
First to publish -- it's always been this way.
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
Scientific papers many times have citations of the kind "private communication." APA has a style guideline so certainly not looked down on: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/...
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
Jacob Coxon was at Anthropic since 2024, so more than 6 weeks.
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
In all the rideshares I've taken (Uber, Lyft) the drivers were busy checking two-three phones and selecting/rejecting rides, and some times taking phone calls, all while driving.
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by warkdarrior 6d ago
They also train on synthetically generated data.
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by warkdarrior 7d ago
> I've wondered why someone hasn't tried manufacturing an enclosed go kart with AC and enough trunk space for a few groceries. Because they are completely unsafe against a twice-the-height, multi-ton Ford pickup truck.
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by warkdarrior 7d ago
> other people are subsidizing cards with higher benefits/cash back Ripping off other people is the American way.
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by warkdarrior 7d ago
Why hasn't Alipay completely replaced Visa and Mastercard in US? Everyone has a smartphone to scan a QR code.
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by warkdarrior 7d ago
> Cards have fraud protection. This is only in US and it is needed in US, because US has very limited consumer rights regulation. EU has much stronger consumer rights (mandatory 14-day return windows for any reason, easy cancellation for
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by warkdarrior 7d ago
You think the owner is taking the cash to the bank?? Unless they are an one-person operation, they likely have an employee do it (among their other duties).
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by warkdarrior 7d ago
Stop asking relevant questions! I have a narrative to push and you are getting in the way.
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by warkdarrior 8d ago
Most airlines let you change flights, usually for a fee plus the difference in fares. The fee may be zero if your original ticket allows it -- sometimes called "flexible fare."
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by warkdarrior 12d ago
Not only Google does know your full address, but it also knows which corner of which room you are cowering in.
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by warkdarrior 13d ago
> OpenAI employee Why would you think it was an employee who did the push, instead of a random GPT agent?
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by warkdarrior 14d ago
Privacy is not free. They make it quite clear that they charge more if you don't want your data used by Meta.
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by warkdarrior 14d ago
In the case of this thread, the OP is protecting themselves from Google tracking by using a de-Googled phone. But they do not seem to care that Google is tracking their spouse.
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by warkdarrior 14d ago
Of course, privacy seeking is a selfish personality trait. I'm protecting myself, everyone else be damned.
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by warkdarrior 14d ago
Plot twist: you can use the same device for mouth and colon cleaning.
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by warkdarrior 14d ago
How do you know an LLM provider does not kill puppies every time you send a prompt longer than 14 words?
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by warkdarrior 14d ago
Microsoft Word has not claimed ownership in 40 years. Why would Anthropic do?
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by warkdarrior 16d ago
And those classrooms had no AC (probably), no WiFi, no projectors, no access to (almost unlimited) online resources, no fancy gym, etc etc.
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by warkdarrior 16d ago
> Running a server used to be trivial: run an executable, tell people your address, done... This works, until you have more than one person accessing your server. Then you need to worry about accounts, credentials, data isolation, etc. A

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