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"I find it useful to think “what can I expect from speaking with the dataset of combined writing of people”, rather than treating a basic LLM as a mind." I've been doing this as we…

One of the weirdest things Einstein discovered is that time is relative, but cause and effect are absolute. For example, muons should decay before they hit the ground, but they don…

My favorite example is if I search Google for "tide me over vs tie me over" it comes up with "Tie me over is correct". Not only is this wrong, but if you click the link, the source…

Honestly I think the root problem is that universities have a degree in computer science, whereas what most people want is to learn to build computer software. The two overlap most…

Perhaps you should consider wearing an N95 while visiting the hospital. You can a pack on Amazon for $15 (even in stylish black), and they really aren't that bad wearing. In my opi…

" I don't think there's a JRPG more accessible than this one" I'd argue there's one more, though I may be biased as it's what got me into RPGs - Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. It's a …

I agree that "throw everything in a hashmap" should be straightforward and is a good interview test. However, his further steps to "optimize" it by saying "Poor candidates load the…

I agree. I hate how these interviews always focus so much on algorithmic time at the expense of flexibility of the code. I agree with the first part about avoiding the n^2 algorith…

The SMTM theory is that obesity is not directly about counting calories, but more like a contagious disease due to a contaminant that causes people to be hungrier and eat more calo…

Because the story was misrepresented and it wasn't truly voted on in the normal sense. In the US Congress, how many people are present matters to the vote. So if a bunch of Congres…

The delayed choice quantum eraser is misunderstood (even by PBS Spacetime) to invoke time travel/retrocausality. The truth is that the pattern seen on the screen is the same whiche…

Looking around, it does look like she's explained things better in other videos than the one I saw, so maybe I was too harsh. The video I saw at the time is "Why is quantum mechani…

I have substantial layman's expertise in quantum physics and while she correctly points out many mistakes that are even in textbooks, she also follows the very niche Superdeterimis…

Unfortunately, her physics videos are worse than people realize too, at least the quantum physics ones. I've been learning a lot of quantum physics and she's a mixed bag. On the on…

The CDC was recommending against KN95 and N95 masks even after Omicron, so it was more like 2 years, not one month. I was also someone who wore proper masks against the advice of e…

I was as shocked as you, and was absolutely infuriated over the bank telling me that they couldn't manually override whatever was going on. I can assure you it was a real thing tha…

Fun fact. Several years ago I started getting charges from NPM, which although I am a software developer I have never used. I cancelled my credit card multiple times, but they kept…

There are, and it turns out that this is a significant mathematical concept. The integers between 0 and infinity are defined as "countably infinite". Other infinities are considere…

"at maximum, the spectre of AI contribution might virally taint the entire film" - which would also mean that anyone who used GitHub Copilot would not be able to copyright their so…

I don't see programming going away for this reason. Think about it, if you have to carefully describe what you want to do to an AI - you are just writing a program. Only a program …

How does this affect programming? Does this mean if a program was built using GitHub Copilot, that in order to have copyright on software, you have to explain that to the copyright…

I'd say it is about the accessibility of data. First, there is the issue of paid ads. An example is if I look up "How to learn C++", the top link is a paid ad for CodeAcademy, whic…

I've never used password managers, partly because I don't trust them and partly because I've found an alternative that I feel is secure enough and more convenient. I split my passw…

I don't know if the above commenter is talking about the same time period. However, the period around 2016 when Trump got elected revealed some odd decisions that Reddit had that i…

I was thinking about this with the news about how poor our Omicron booster response has been where only a few percent of people have taken them. I think a significant part of this …