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It would be mostly quiet (remember that humans only hear up to ~20 kHz). Sure, this is a joke today, but if we continue down our current path, we would probably hit ultrasonic rate…

What is the training data and have you thought about how to build a causal model that would be robust to interventions (e.g. by changing or adding a gene)?

Yes, they all have significant 'ghosting' artifacts where the harmonics are a bit fuzzy if you listen closely. AFAIK all of the recent neural speech engines have this, from SoundSt…

I genuinely want to understand this mindset. Are you only against things that help extend lifespan a very large amount, or is it more nuanced? 80 years was only achieved recently b…

I love the math/stats history around gambling-related things, thanks for mentioning this. This method assumes the flipper can't introduce bias. ET Jaynes in his book Probability Th…

Definitely bikeshedding, but it also kind of looks like the TensorFlow logo and for a second I thought there was a group breaking the project free from Google.

Thanks for the recommendations, I will check them out. I appreciate the point about seriousness too. One part of it that I liked kind of feels like travel writing from the last cen…

The essay was fun to read and had excellent balance - the author talked about distractions semi-ironically with fine control of its focused structure and pacing while keeping a lig…

The AMC series Halt And Catch Fire had the line: “Computers aren’t the thing. They’re the thing that gets us to the thing.”

There is also 10+ years research for tinnitus using Vagus Nerve Stimulation to stop it [1]. Results seem mixed. Many other drugs/neuro-stimuli for T have gotten mixed results and p…

Thanks for reminding me about this. MacsBug was great. Besides being a useful development tool, MacsBug was used extensively to break shareware as well by the mac warez community. …

Where did you get that 3 per 100k from? In each of the last 2 years there were 55 homicides in SF from what I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of New York, which is half of SF's rat…

Any merit to this service? It claims without 'hidden fees' so I thought they would get rid of the airbnb-like fees, but it looks like there is still cleaning fees, platform fees, a…

The install (npx dalai serve) fails silently for me. With --verbose it says `npm info run node-pty@0.10.1 install { code: 1, signal: null }`. Ubuntu 22.04.

How do they get ChatGPT not to hallucinate stuff about the articles? Everything seems fairly accurate, which is not my experience with ChatGPT when talking about technical things. …

Ah, that makes more sense, thank you. Since this was mentioned in the tokenizer section and the number of unique tokens wasn't mentioned I misunderstood.

How does token->embedding lookup work with 1.4T BPE tokens? Since there are more tokens than the 65B parameters it must be doing some sort of interesting thing based on the merge o…

The options grant appraisal for startup employees seems very optimistic - 70% it's worth nothing. 25% payout is equivalent to all the backpay you would have gotten if you had worke…

I've seen this use of constants inside big O notation in leetcode and 'informal' discussions. Is it pedantic to say that O(NM) == O(N) if M is a constant (in this case since it's b…

Can you answer this question: In the case of business failure, will customers lose their existing 20 years they paid for and have to pay the new management company all over again?

>What happens to all of Anja's clients if the business exits? >All biological goods stored with Anja will stay in our New Jersey lab regardless >of what happens to Anja as a busine…