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ketman hetman
Suddenly I cannot remember the color of your eyes
Or the things we said as we stood together for the last time
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ketman hetman
20hr ago
To be honest I didn't find it scary. It was suspenseful, sure, but I was pretty certain that he was
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ketman hetman
1d ago
The cable periscope kills me.
How much did this whole thing set you back (minus the cost of the land)?
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Boomers aren't working - check prime age lfpr: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
Nearly at an all time high, and higher than pre covid.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Of course it makes grammatical sense. You've got a verb acting on an object and a preposition. There's plenty of verbs that work this way ("to butter Israelis up"). The question of whether you can use "reign" in this way is one of semantics, not grammar.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
How is transforming the 3D surface of the sphere that Google Earth internally manipulates into a 2D image that can be rendered on a planar phone screen not a map projection?
- The Vanishing (ridiculously titled Spoorloos in their absurd meme language): gripping Dutch crime movie. Ending may or may not be somewhat frustrating, but it's grown on me.
- Force Majeure: a fascinating study of women getting the ick.
- No Other Choice: hilarious Korean movie about getting ahead in the lucrative field of paper manufacturing.
- Caché: Kind of a mixed recommendation. Emotionally impactful, but overall slow paced and takes for granted that you agree with the woke premise.
- A Separation: Iranian divorce movie. "Things can always get worse."
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Certainly there are cities near nature areas, and NY is quite bad in this sense. But multiple parks comparable to central park within walking distance beggars belief.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
The sphere of Google Earth is projected onto the rectangular plane of your phone screen.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Maps should not attempt to show two sides of a sphere at once!
You gotta choose a projection long before you try to show both sides of the earth at once.
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ketman hetman
1d ago
Central Park is fine. But my small town has multiple comparable parks in easy distance
You have multiple 800 acre parks within walking distance of your house? How does that work?
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ketman hetman
1d ago
We are talking 70% of government workforce being women
Source? I'm seeing 45% of federal employees are women. https://ourpublicservice.org/fed-figures/a-profile-of-the-2023-federal-workforce/
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ketman hetman
2d ago
the phrase 'to reign in' makes no grammatical sense.
Anon, I...
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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ketman hetman
3d ago
Paying informants to stay in an organization, continue rousing for it, and report back is fungible with just paying the organization to exist.
Maybe on some scales. Was the USG paying the USSR to exist since some KGB guys were on the American payroll?
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ketman hetman
4d ago
According to the Google the top 1% of of income earners in the U.S. make between 650-800 per year.
That's household income. Top 1% individual income is something like 450k.
In San Francisco, people who aren't SWEs hate all the "techbros" and your average dead end L5 is hated, or at least considered uninteresting, by all the other average dead end L5s. You might get some respect if you work on something unusual (and you can feel smug around people who live on the peninsula), but converting your work to respect requires some cloutmaxxing (usually by poasting on Twitter, attending the right parties, and name-dropping). Even then, your status is limited to those who travel in the same cloutmaxxing circles. But if you do all this, carefully manage your bubble, and gas up your self conception, sometimes, just maybe, you can look in the mirror and convince yourself that you are high status.
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ketman hetman
4d ago
It's one thing to say something is in the LLM's memory. It's quite another to say it's doing some kind of lookup in a database or into the training data.
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ketman hetman
4d ago
What does that memory look like for an LLM if not reference to a database?
The memory is the weights of the model. The first stage of training an LLM is next token prediction - the LLM is shown a block of text and is trained to produce the next word (technically, part of a word, but that's not important). Internally, the model manipulates the numeric representation of the input tokens as points in a high dimensional space. The model produces a kind of probability distribution over all the words it knows for what the next word might be, and the weights of the model are adjusted so that it's more likely to expect the correct word.
The result is that every token, with some context before it, that the model sees leaves some kind of "impression" upon the model. The details are fuzzy, but things like word choice or style are probably represented in some regions of that high dimensional space, which is what lets the model say that something "sounds like" Shakespeare.
Anthropic have some public research around trying to look into a language model to see what's going on in that latent space and how neuron activations relate to concepts. It may be difficult to read without any ML background, but fortunately you can now feed it in to an LLM and have it explain anything you don't understand.
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ketman hetman
5d ago
The most damning blow to the 80/20 interpretation comes from a 2009 blog post by a co-founder, which shows that actual messaging behaviour follows a similar distribution for both genders:
Does this really make it better? That women hold their noses and message perfectly average guys they think are ugly seems like cold comfort for the mids in question.
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ketman hetman
5d ago
If I gave you a snippet of Shakespeare and asked you to guess who wrote it, I expect the Bard would be one of your top choices. How are you doing that if you don't consult Google or your Shakespeare box set?
Each token that the model sees in training updates its view of what sort of things are associated and in what way. Elements of style or topics may be clustered somewhere in the high dimensional latent space with the corresponding authors.
Why did women get into F1 racing all of a sudden in the past ten years? Feels like a psyop but if you asked me if you could psyop women into give a shit about dudes driving around in circles for an hour and a half I'd say no. I could at least understand if they got women driving the cars, but they don't.
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