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Silverdawn
I wake up 🔄 There's another psyop
1yr ago
Where is this conversation happening? Is it all on Twitter and private chats? I've seen some people mention Deepseek but feel otherwise mostly out of the loop.
Mottizen
1yr ago
Taking him on is a highly risky option - if you fail and Biden loses some people will blame you for the loss, potentially killing your future prospects. If you take him on and he wins that's even worse - now the President has a very personal grudge against you.
Also if you provoke an open nomination and you personally don't get it, it's likely to torpedo your personal chances of being President if that nominee ends up winning the election since they'll likely get to run twice at which point it's 2032 and your political ambitions are probably fucked.
DaseindustriesLtd
late version of a small language model
1yr ago
Yeah it's exclusively Twitter and Discord, and then only a handful of niche accounts, mostly people who are into model evaluation. You can find them by searching the word. For example this guy is a maintainer of the BigCode's (itself a respectable org) benchmark, and so I've seen him mention it a few times. Likewise here and here.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
1yr ago
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1yr ago
I particularly like the commenter who goes 'this is clearly an AI generated video' when that would be way more impressive than the technical feat of backflipping dogbots. AI video without that shimmering, of something as out-of-distribution as a rotating robot dog?
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
1yr ago
With One Belt One Road maybe China could supply an army in Europe via Russia. The world is getting smaller.
coffee_enjoyer
☕️
1yr ago
Anyone know of a list of words by their population-level familiarity? For instance, % Americans who know what a rollercoaster is, a snowshoe, a thermos.
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
1yr ago
Pacific islanders also have the additional issue that they are genetically predisposed to higher BMI. In a lot of the rest of the world since the agricultural revolution there has been selection against high BMI over the last 10,000 or so years (we know this by comparing modern vs ancient DNA), however pacific islanders haven't seen the same thing happen. As such today they have more high BMI alleles so it's no surprise they just balloon when exposed to modern highly processed western food.
The biggest takeaway I have from the discussion below is how bad American drug prices are. I'm paying around £100 a month ($130) for my tirzapetide by buying high dose pens and then taking half dozes every week. In the end the net cost to me of this medicine is minimal because it means I eat almost £100 less worth of food a month too. One the other hand you guys are having to pay $500+ per month for semaglutide which is worse.
I'm not the biggest fan of the NHS but you can't deny it gets us cheap drugs, their development paid for on the American dime. Long may that continue!
2rafa
1yr ago
Every medication when prescribed by the NHS is literally £9 per prescription, right? Something like that, I think.
4bpp
Now I am become a Helpful, Honest and Harmless Assistant, the destroyer of jobs
1yr ago
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Paraphrasing a common zinger, what if it turns out communists can stay innovative longer than you can stay ahead?
More substantially, though, I don't see much of a persuasive argument here. You are generalising from very little data (a roughly 200 year old system that identifies as "capitalist" vs. the second major ~60 year old system that identifies as "communist") and theoretising about the "communist" system from first principles that there is very limited evidence it actually adheres to, and on top of that reaching a conclusion which is flattering to your obviously preferred system, which should give you pause. Is this different from a Russian arguing in 1904 that a heathen state will never prevail over a Christian one, with an argument based on the recent historical primacy of the former and imagining that the expected naval tactics of Russia and Japan can be derived from the tenets of Orthodox Christianity and State Shinto?
So far the PRC story seems to me to make a compelling case that you can suddenly and massively crank up the wealth of great numbers of people while making them less inclined to pursue freedoms outside of your prescribed window. The main line of work the devil is making for idle hands there appears to consist of mobile game daily quests.
grognard
Intel Pentium III 450 / Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra / Corsair 128MB PC133 / ABIT BH6
1yr ago
Trying to learn something from this. Should my wife and I not be both doomscrolling independently of one another in bed?
grognard
Intel Pentium III 450 / Nvidia Riva TNT2 Ultra / Corsair 128MB PC133 / ABIT BH6
1yr ago
What is this all for? Will it at least make you sound more manly?
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1yr ago
Sounds about right. I remember losing hair when I had to get paracetamol for my ex and it cost me about a hundred times what I pay for it in India.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
1yr ago
The Scots eat haggis
I learned that some of the more entrepreneurial of the relatively few South Asian immigrants in Scotland invented the "haggis pakoda".
That convinced me there's such a thing as too much assimilation and fusion of cuisines.
BurdensomeCount
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1yr ago
Yeah, but you're not getting GLP-1 agonists prescribed by the NHS unless your BMI is like 35+. You can very easily get a private prescription for them from any of the big online pharmacies and all you have to do is send them a picture where you look fat enough (can do this by wearing three extra shirts and sticking your belly out). This way your monthly pens cost £150-£250 depending on place and strength but the high strength pens can easily be used to dispense half a dose instead of a full doze so you can use them for two months instead of one.
BurdensomeCount
—Your em dash is showing...
1yr ago
You can get paracetamol off the shelf very cheaply at any pharmacy, don't need a prescription for it.
No_one
1yr ago
Trans-siberian railways has been in place for a 100 years. Russians could supply their far-eastern Manchuria offensive pretty handily.
Now there's even an additional track laid through Kazakhstan to Yekaterinburg, and trans-siberian railways has a parallel railway to it going a bit more north to it too..
orthoxerox
If you can read this, you're using a custom theme
1yr ago
Right now I sound more like a neurotic Jew (or Lois Griffin, who's voiced by a neurotic Jew, come to think of it), but the swelling should go away in a couple of weeks.
I've always had a deviated septum, but when I developed AERD, nasal polyps made aerobic activities even harder. Getting my airways straightened out was literally the only reason.
No_one
1yr ago
A few people have had luck with switching to a meat heavy low carb diet, fwiw. https://youtube.com/watch?v=mHr51XqJtwE
this woman had a serious weight problem (up to 360 lbs), started doing carnivore diet and over 1.5 years dropped to ~220 with that an exercise.
ControlsFreak
1yr ago
I would like to not scream bloody murder.
Ten months ago, a prediction was made here:
It's very clear to me that if Trump's opponents did the things that Trump himself has done you would be screaming bloody murder. If Biden was on stage getting crowds to chant "lock him up"? If Democrats put together alternate slates of electors in states they lost and tried to get Harris to declare them the real ones? ...
Whelp, here we are. Frankly, I still don't care a whit about his crowds chanting stuff. I do, indeed, care about the actual authorities bringing actual shoestring cases based on sketchy interpretations of laws (where the FEC has disagreed with said sketchy interpretation, but we don't have a circuit court ruling saying that they're wrong, and where there's an extremely strong First Amendment defense1).
Similarly, I might observe that the "good conscience" clause talk reminds me of the "regularly given" clause talk, where in the latter case it remained talk and the former case is yet to be seen... but I certainly wouldn't scream bloody murder. I'd say that it's probably a somewhat sketch interpretation of the rules in both cases, probably not great, but it's at least sort of in line with the general types of somewhat ridiculous procedural rules lawyering I expect from modern political parties.
Would anyone else like to scream bloody murder?
1 - I also just recently listened to a Short Circuit Podcast where they talked about a completely different campaign finance case. The legal expert on the topic very directly and blithely mentioned that SCOTUS has only allowed these laws to be justified by quid pro quo concerns (exchanging money for official acts), exactly as I have been saying in the Trump case, where it makes no sense to think that Trump entered into a quid pro quo with Trump to exchange Trump's money to Trump for Trump's official acts, just because he used an intermediary to make the payment. He didn't mention the application to Trump's case, but it's yet another example of just how common and boring it is to know this for subject matter experts, how completely true and uncontroversial it is in general, and how the only thing you need to do is an extremely simple application of this boring principle to Trump's case.
ControlsFreak
1yr ago
This seems extremely plausible to me as a matter of Constitutional law. Assuming it survives appeals, is there any form of home distilling that is "worth it"?
I noticed you call them "open-source" LLMs in this post. Where do you stand on the notion that LLMs aren't truly open-source unless all of their training data and methods are publicly revealed and that merely open-weight LLMs are more comparable to simply having a local version of a compiled binary as opposed to being truly open-source?
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