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Well, they did sue Cox Communications for a billion dollars because they weren't self-policing. ISPs can lose their safe harbor status and effectively become accomplices in all the…

Not only downloading, but also uploading. Your ISP (in America) has a policy about how many DMCA strikes you get before they disable your internet permanently.

In New Hampshire, we banned both public and private ALPRs. You can see on the map that the only ones are at toll booths. Those got explicit exemptions in the law.

Last week I called around to see if I could get a booster before schools open. I was told by several places that they had sent their Covid shots back and I should just wait until m…

Here is a "Yoga for Building VR Tolerance" article from 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209025553/http://elevr.com/...

Looks like superalignment was Jan Leike's term, since the team at OpenAI dissolved immediately without him.

The text version is nice for some things, but this one could really use the pictures. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/28/1243933142/diverging-diamond-...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/the-atlantic-hurrica...

Herd immunity has only ever been achieved with vaccines. It has not been achieved with Covid, with hundreds of people still dying from Covid each day.

I don't think a ring of galaxies is going to look very different from anyplace within the solar system. Anyway I think moralestapia's point is that the circle might not be centered…

Reddit? Metafilter?

What search engine do you think management uses now?

The output of the LLM is not just one token, but a statistical distribution across all possible output tokens. The tool you use to generate output will sample from this distributio…

I was browsing test kits where you send a sample back to a lab. They're $79 - $300 and advertise 1 or 2 parts per trillion. Looks like getting to 0.02 ppt requires some very specia…

Fine tuning can be useful if you need to generate lots of output in a particular format. You can fine-tune on formatted messages, and then the model will generate that automaticall…

How much money do you have?

The doctor in the documentary tells him that his liver is damaged like an alcoholic's. He just let people assume it was from the food.

He said it was this specific performance that convinced Weird Al that he was the right guy. Also the movie is great.

Since the 777 is older, and this has never happened, and they are giving airlines 5 years to make the change, it doesn't seem likely to be an actual problem.