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In the lost media sense? I'm not sure. Of course there are always post 1960 books which are rare and valuable for being very limited run first editions, signed copies etc.

It's not enough of an improvement that you might see them. It's enough of an improvement that they will likely still exist somewhere.

> with a focus only on books with an ISBN number, the identification system introduced in 1966 So it's not likely to be rare and precious books. It's things which are already in th…

About that old Slate Star Codex article, I find it amazing that no one in that 70+ comment section of presumably smart and Rational people, bothered to look up to see if there were…

Humans detect mode collapse. If there was one artist making art in the style of AI (by hand), he'd be no more annoying than say Reg Mombassa, Guy Delisle or Tony DiTerlizzi or anyo…

I thought the term "AAA game" was silly, but now I've heard someone use the term "AA game" as well and that's even sillier.

It's not just lack of belief, it's a coordination problem. Just because we admit to ourselves that it probably won't end well if we keep allowing the powerful to use their power to…

As I said, it's always uncertain how much power is in the hands of those who nominally are supposed to have it. But it's also not an either-or. I view states as more socialist the …

Common ownership of the means of production is what I call socialism. Public welfare isn't technically part of it, but it's hard to imagine a state where we don't have it if power …

Branding with historical bad words and other propaganda can't put a lid on how power to influence our future in a meaningful way is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands.

I agree with the sentiment, but that's really about welfare, not socialism. You can still have welfare in a state where control of the means of production is in a few, private hand…

It's not always clear who controls the means of production. It certainly isn't always the people who formally is supposed to - whether we're talking about a "capitalist" or "social…

Jokes aside, I think a lot of the famous Google internals that became public (Tensorflow, Kubernetes, Bazel, Angular), although I heard everyone say they worked so much better insi…

And Tensorflow?

I come from a long line of short men - myself I'm the exact national average for Norway so I can afford to be a bit detached from it. Obviously they all succeeded, but I wonder if …

The written record? You'd be surprised at how much "incel" terminology about how women are, started out as advice in self help literature by and for women, or in magazines like Cos…

Of course it's been a big deal, but I got into genealogy. Found my 7th great grandfather in direct paternal line. Found another descendant in direct paternal line from my 7th great…

Internal tooling? Didn't Jeff Dean write their internal tooling?

I took this as a joke in reference to the popularity of JavaScript on the backend for the last two decades.

Hmm, who does the calibration, and how scientific are they about it? Can we check their work?

Another great indie soundtrack is Death Road to Canada's. I see you put Hades, haven't played it but I can attest that Supergiant's first game Bastion also has a pretty good soundt…

From my experience, modern machine learning models don't scale well down at all, and it's almost certainly better to just use a simple Markov chain variant of some sort - like Nial…

Wasting a lot of power.

This benchmark makes me worry a bit that people will just ask their model to reimplement everything from scratch once their requirements become more clear.