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I’m not endorsing the current administration’s policy, nor do I think it would succeed, but I find this comment really perplexing since this action is PRECISELY in line with the 20…

I think this is a bad way to look at it. LLMs can probably conceive of most things that are representable within the embedding space. Ordinarily in mathematics there’s a TON of pap…

I think what I mean is just that from an individual standpoint we can’t really answer that and it’s not how vaccine evidence is collected or decisions are made. Those are always ma…

It reminds me a bit of the tyranny of the rocket equation. You can always scale your fuel to get a little more delta V, with ever diminishing returns. …but for something like a DEE…

Detecting radio signals never made much sense to me. Even a few light years away, it’s almost infeasible to build a radio transmitter that could be detected above the noise floor. …

First pass through. After the machines invent time travel they end up accelerating the creation of skynet.

Yeah substantial degradation in really basic functionality in the last 3-4 years. I mean, new features I don’t use and useless UI changes have been added at a high rate over the sa…

That’s impossible to know either way.

I completely agree, but I also think that an industry disrupting architecture tweak akin to the “Attention is all you need” is VERY possible to emerge at any moment. It feels like …

Depending on what they’re doing, good finish carpenters will definitely take a bunch of moisture readings on a slab of wood before working on it.

Because the space of people interested in such things is relatively small and so a single article has knock on effects where a reader of the article or a blogger sees it and starts…

Having opinions on Wikipedia policies is perfectly appropriate.

I would think you could, in principle, deduce the bad key from a recorded segment of the jamming signal, and only revoke when identified. I would have to look at the math more spec…

Isn’t this the exact problem tree-based broadcast encryption schemes were designed to solve? You could surgically revoke the keys of a bad actor, and I’m not exactly sure, but I th…

Yeah I scored well enough and only missed 3, but that’s just because it was very easy to “guess well”. There were many words I didn’t know though.

Yeah, it’s definitely higher risk. When riding a motorcycle, you’ll encounter people that don’t see you almost every trip. The same is not true in a car. Riding a bike is just a 10…

The cynic in me thinks its an extension of the NSA having long ago switched from being defensively helpful to US companies, to deliberately introducing backdoors and issues that th…

Splitting Eucalyptus and big madrone by hand will test a man.

This matches my experience. LLMs are great at speeding up the easy but tedious bits, but they can’t even come close to independently identifying and solving the issues that come up…

https://archive.org/details/ExplosivesEngineeringPaulW.Coope... (30 seconds of googling.) Or perhaps you meant Q clearance nuke stuff? That would be QUITE a bit harder to find and …

Admittedly my knowledge was based on work I did in academia, and I now work in transportation, so I suppose it’s possible I’m in error, but I’d be surprised if much survives the RO…

Revolutions almost always involve one faction of the elites using the masses against another faction.

That’s been a solved problem, engineering-wise, for a while. The advanced treatment stages take care of it. Between UV, ozone, and nanofiltration, etc. we can remove the pharmaceut…

Municipal waste water is a much cheaper way to get desalinated water in the first place though.