yareal

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by yareal 2y ago
LLMs are an approximation of all the human media they consume. An LLM cannot exist with out human circuitry. It's at best an ersatz language user.
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by yareal 2y ago
I checked sources, turns out literally tens of millions of people vocally and loudly disagree with you. I think it's not helpful to anyone to come in here and be so resolute and so black and white. Especially in the face of an event th
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by yareal 2y ago
"People who I am critical of don't like me" is not particularly surprising, to be honest.
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by yareal 2y ago
Makes total sense in hindsight, here's hoping this gets confirmed. It's also just generally a good way for young kids to develop. Kids learn a ton by figuring out "can I climb this log?"
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by yareal 2y ago
If you are considering investing tens of billions into infrastructure for manufacturing in a country, it seems like a business risk to choose a country that is currently facing genocide charges in the ICC and UN. And before you brigade me,
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by yareal 2y ago
> Principal repayment is not an expense. In the links I posted several comments above, you'll find that it is considered an expense for the purposes of personal savings. I don't disagree with your definition, btw, it's jus
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by yareal 2y ago
The original poster is correct, the majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. With no savings (in the personal finance sense). Example: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/banking/living-paycheck-to-pa... What&#
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by yareal 2y ago
> There is nothing about savings that implies they must be liquid. Here are several examples that disagree. Yes, in a strict Keynesian economic sense it is saving but saving is different from savings , despite the similarity in the tw
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by yareal 2y ago
> Which means that when a home is not underwater, the owner has savings (or breaking even, of course, but that is as equally unlikely and is for all intents and purposes considered to be the same as underwater). What? It doesn't mea
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by yareal 2y ago
Being underwater on a mortgage and not being able to save aren't the same. A mortgage that is underwater means the value of the home is less than the loan balance. That can happen for any number of reasons. It doesn't mean anythin
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by yareal 2y ago
Okay bud, you win. I'll go tell all my gardening buds that the no till practices are "um actually, that's tilling". Any other pedantry you want me to pass along while doing so? I could tell them that "actually, toma
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by yareal 2y ago
Does it need to be a force in the AI industry? Are we confident the ai industry is healthy and sustainable? I'm certainly not. Could Apple continue to just make good, desirable hardware and decent os decisions that many people like?
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by yareal 2y ago
They didn't even cover the chemical composition and harsh structure of the regolith, which makes converting it to soil impossibly difficult and probably a good source of novel lung diseases. Or the low gravity resulting in issues for l
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by yareal 2y ago
I appreciate this. Suggesting that mental health is "just" a chemical imbalance is maybe addressing a very complicated system with a narrow fix. That said, I'm likely biased to be predisposed to believe that mental health is
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by yareal 2y ago
They have on label use as weight loss medicine. It might be discovered first as a side effect, but it's genuinely considered a primary desirable effect these days.
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by yareal 2y ago
You keep saying it's my confusion. My friend, there is no lazy speaker. It is merely the accepted and understood use of the term in casual conversation. I understand your semantic argument, there is no confusion, I simply believe lang
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by yareal 2y ago
This post mortem is sort of classically underdone. It describes a step that was taken that was in the path of the error, but is not the root cause. The root cause here is not "we copy pasted from chat gpt and it hallucinates", but
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by yareal 2y ago
The farmers I know, who farm thousands upon thousands of acres, are also no till. Plenty of farmers doing the same.
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by yareal 2y ago
Breaking up soil into large, mostly intact chunks, without turning it over, aeration. See the links above from the peer poster.
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by yareal 2y ago
Yep, that's the one.
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by yareal 2y ago
Have you use a broad fork? It's like 4-6 blades spread across ~4 feet. The mechanism of action is totally different, and no, it does not break up the soil in the same way tilling with a spade or rototiller does. If you are here only to
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by yareal 2y ago
The point is to build, over years, the kind of soil that fosters germination. You can mix in additives every year and till, or you can build a small ecosystem over time. Maximizing the ecosystem health of what's underneath the surface
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by yareal 2y ago
This person never made any claims about reduction of labor. No till farming and no till gardening are about regenerating soil, not reducing labor.
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by yareal 2y ago
Tilling, in gardening, usually refers to lifting spadefuls of soil up and out of the ground, turning them over and breaking up the clumps. It's like a kitchen aid stand mixer on your soil. Aeration with a broad fork doesn't lift t
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by yareal 2y ago
Mechanically, tiling and aeration are wildly different operations. What's your "hmmmm" all about?
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by yareal 2y ago
I have some remote forest land I would love to set some sensors up on. I just need to know exactly what to buy to gather the data, power it with solar, and send the data back via cellular signal. Unfortunately it's too remote to have a
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by yareal 2y ago
I have some forest land that is remote and I'd like to set up weather sensors on. I've been stuck on what to purchase, especially since there's no dedicated power or network connections (the site does have cellular access). T
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by yareal 2y ago
Green ammonia is already being commercially deployed by folks like Talus. Yes, we'd have to invest hard in renewables and nuclear, but it's absolutely achievable. Ammonia production is whole integer percent of global energy use, t
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by yareal 2y ago
It's expensive but we could absolutely produce green methane with renewable energy. And there are natural fertilizer paths that aren't cattle. You've constructed a strawman.
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by yareal 2y ago
People with autism are human, I assure you.

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