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jakderrida

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    I think he's just saying the case they would make to avoid being sued for breaching their fiduciary responsibility. Not that it's the actual reason. But Idk.

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    Comment #46980398

    Think of it more like the original poll. They originated the census weighting methodology. In statistics classes about methodologies and survey design, it ALWAYS starts with a refe…

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    Comment #46980330

    They cut down the sample size about 5-7 years ago, anyway, by like 90%. I learned this not through a press release, but by going through their metadata. This was a long time coming…

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    Comment #45268536

    I'd argue that Anthropic still has a hard edge on creativity for things like emulating people's comments. I've fed into several models my past reddit comments (with the comments it…

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    Comment #45268483

    What if I just modify the code to misspell things that no AI would misspell?

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    Comment #44268509

    If I'm being honest... I expect the websites to keep returning errors and have hopes that those that employ you to at least start to understand what's going on.

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    Comment #44268397

    I think more often you'll find it's the mediocre coders (like myself) that have trouble using AI. The software developers and CS majors just know exactly what to tell it to do and …

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    Comment #42463860

    It'd be nice if they underwent tests and developed fine-tuning data that was proven to work rather than using fine-tuning data made to cater to human preferences. When I would look…

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    Comment #41278517

    I feel like it should instead link to a video in the sling.com domain with almost patronizing instructions on how to convert their login to Sling and promote it as "Your very own B…

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    Comment #41278462

    https://t.ly/Sk3MB Appears the "OPEN" light was on in July of 2021 from street view.

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    Comment #41178513

    >Why there are no companies that arrange this? That's a weird expectation. But I think, for starters, that the reason you don't see it often is that when it comes to jobs working w…

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    Comment #41142990

    Sweet! I'll be hiding that under my mattress.

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    Comment #40910803

    I got it in 6 years and seven months and got filthy rich on PhD coin. Bear in mind, I think not being a PhD actually made the game MUCH easier for me because I had no empathy for t…

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    Comment #40873697

    Hmmm.. I'm trying to imagine interviewing for SE and telling them I got wealthy from a crypto market-making algorithm I coded in R during Covid and the interviewer responding with …

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    Comment #40872899

    >The code ChatGPT generates is often bad in ways that are hard to detect. If you are not an experienced software engineer, the defects could be impossible to detect I keep hearing …

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    Comment #40860082

    AFAIK, Rolfe's persona started with him including two added videos at the end of some horror DVD he made in Art School. One for Castlevania 2 and another. However, I'd argue that M…

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    Comment #40846391

    Angry Video Game Nerd, on Youtube, had a huge issue finding a working one and I don't think he ever did. He just kept ordering new ones and kept getting duds. Even took it to his f…

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    Comment #40837004

    I'm pretty sure Neo Geo CD on the resale market is known for having like a 99.5% defect rate on youtube.

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    Comment #40836989

    >all these systems that obsessed me as a child. I remember being obsessed with this system, too. It was more like a legend than a system. Everyone knew someone that knows someone w…

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    Comment #40826821

    Exactly what I was thinking. He also says >Paradoxically, smaller models require more training to reach the same level of performance. It's not a paradox at all. If less training t…

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    Comment #40804436

    The giraffe actually does look like Geoffrey. I don't know how they're "spitting on their own graves". It's just not the same company. Not the same management. Probably not even a …

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    Comment #40804340

    >Boy, I can’t wait for the foundation of my house to disappear because the LLM mis-classified a drilling report as non-hazardous LMAO! It's so hilarious that people like you forget…

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    Comment #40804301

    Also, imagine the public shitstorm when people see headlines that NSA has overturned their policy against microdosing. They're not gonna understand what tf is going on and trying t…