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drmath

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    Comment #47593895

    The California WARN act effectively requires 2 months severance for large layoffs at large companies (or 2 months notice , but companies almost always prefer severance).

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    Comment #46049986

    One source of trouble here is that the agent's view of the web page is so different from the human's. We could reduce the incidence of these problems by making them more similar. A…

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    Comment #45827842

    I could handle this style when it wasn't everywhere. But now I've developed a hypersensitivity and can't bear it. It's like suddenly most of the internet is in a language I can't r…

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    Comment #45585902

    I wish almost every news article came with a statistics section. If you must, go ahead and write that article about a particular murder or traffic accident or drug trial or earthqu…

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    Comment #45034649

    Even in the just-photoshop-not-ai days product photos had become pretty unreliable as a means of understanding what you're buying. Of course it's much worse now.

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    Comment #44689681

    > I've tried to ask dozens of companies that wanted to hire me just for how many shares were outstanding and/or authorized. "Wanted to hire me" as in they made an offer, or an earl…

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    Comment #44428901

    Haha there's a pigheaded part of me that insists all of that is the "prompt," but I just read your bit about "inferred definitions," and acceptance is probably a healthier attitude…

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    Comment #44428823

    Isn't "context" just another word for "prompt?" Techniques have become more complex, but they're still just techniques for assembling the token sequences we feed to the transformer…

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    Comment #43214407

    Whether or not you're really outliers , it would be very surprising if "my friends and I" were representative of the general population.