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The Buyr app is made for this, though not sure it covers clothing and toys yet.

It goes further back than that. In 2014, Li Yao et al ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0585 ) drew an equivalence between autoregressive (next token prediction, roughly) generative mod…

> how much livestock is grown and slaughtered specifically for leather Yes and, I would hope that the majority of leather comes from cattle that are grown and slaughtered for meat.…

I think you're not aware of all the available evidence. The lab leak theory does not implicate China so much as it implicates particular people in the US who intentionally moved th…

And yet "debunked" it shall be, by taking the weakest argument and showing it is wrong with such condescension that good citizens will be afraid to believe any of it.

I think the point is that 0.5 is 1/2, and the 5 digit only appears because of our base 10 presentation of numbers.

Have you seen the author list of DeepSpeech2? https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02595

The one thing that I most wish Python had is Common Lisp's restartable conditions. They're like exceptions but they don't break your whole process if you don't handle them in the c…

They meant algebraic in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_operation .

I notice it mentions Ctrl-a and Ctrl-x which "increment or decrement any number after the cursor on the same line". I hate these shortcuts because several times I've accidentally p…

More like 10x. Black is truly a terrible thing.

It definitely works, JAX only sees the unrolled loop: x = 0 x += y x += y x += y x += y x += y return x The reason you might need `jax.lax.fori_loop` or some such is if you have a …

Ah yes, deny people the right to die because we could make their lives better in principle . Assisted suicide is the messenger that tells us that we are otherwise failing these peo…

Did you mean to write dμ(x) instead of μ(dx)? As a non-measure-literate person, I can understand dμ(x) as the d of density μ(x) evaluated at x. But μ(dx) has μ evaluated at the inf…

You made a statement about "keto diets" in the plural, and "for control of obesity" in general. An anecdote would be you relating which of this plurality of keto diets you tried an…

> Just an anecdote: keto diets for control of obesity are so effective it feels like a hack. I'm genuinely fascinated that you prefaced this clearly-not-an-anecdote with "just an a…

I don't think the author is talking about utilitarianism at all. They're talking about compressing their moral intuitions. They already believed it's bad to kill grandma, therefore…

> The argument being that it was better for someone who would only projected to make it to 50 years to die early than it would be if someone who was projected to make it to 75 year…

According to https://gis.cdc.gov/Cancer/USCS/#/Trends/ the rate is still going down. Literally the first place I looked and their graph goes to 2018.

Yes, I've worked with this exact algorithm before, and others like it, and it should be much worse. Better than finite diffs or reinforce, but way worse than backprop's exact gradi…

There has since been follow-up work to extend Onsets & Frames to multi-instrument music: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/transcription-with-transforme...

Because rationalists gonna rationalize. They like deep-sounding stories that justify the things they are emotionally invested in.

Interesting example they chose there. It requires no fewer than three deus ex machinas: apply this trick, then apply this very particular substitution, then find another substituti…

They did name the boolean expression; they named it `is_unique`. It's a poor name, but that's a different argument.

I switched back to Firefox last week and I had the same experience -- Google apps and Slack were dog slow. But after a day or so they were working fine, I imagine it's a matter of …