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I doubt it. Mitsuku, a purely rule-based chatbot, was already able to correctly answer almost all questions of this form in 2014 simply by querying a large knowledge base of common-sense facts.[1] On the neural net side, Google's seq2seq was able to answer questions like this around ~2016-2017, although I have no idea about the accuracy.

It would be more remarkable if GPT-3 couldn't solve these types of questions. It might be another problem with the prompt design.

[1] Incidentally, the article is wrong in claiming that the state of the art before modern neural nets was Eliza. Rule-based chatbots got quite advanced in 2013-2016, although they admittedly were never capable of the sort of "true" understanding and long-term coherence that GPT-3 seems to display.
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> "I have problems with apps being fuzzy (not scaling to the display properly), problems with Cortana and the Windows Start menu, and problems with the screen not immediately waking from sleep."

that should be blamed on windows, or maybe on the graphics adapter drivers, not on the hardware per se.
Chess is all about memorizing patterns of many kinds to then recognize them and reapply on the spot.

What all great chess players have in common is an amazing memory and the will to think and work on chess all day long (which is more astonishing to me than the memory side).
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But why is this a bombshell (implying a surprise), rather than the natural, expected consequence of the UK leaving the customs union?

I'd imagine continuing the current scheme would add a lot of regulatory and procedural complexity for Amazon, which they are unwilling to handle.

Isn't this something that was expected by sellers?
Now you are measuring electricity instead of the light you read by, and fuel instead of the vacation trip you take with it. You have worsened the problem I refer to.
I suppose. But given the constant inflation in what we demand of AI for it to count as "intelligent", it seems that eventually our tests will become so strict that most humans will not be able to pass them.
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bombshell = big news
The original article (from 2017) - this one has been lifted without the links which provide references.

https://theconversation.com/does-playing-chess-make-you-smar...
At least now you get to keep those 350 million GBP a week.
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Yes, but a new comment doesn't immediately sink five places, unless the comments above it are very highly upvoted - or the comment is very large. That is, there is a grace period that keeps a comment on top of a thread for a little while, presumably to give it a chance to be read. But, I've noticed that large comments are automatically pushed down into a thread so the grace period for them is much reduced (and probably weighted by the size of the comment).

That's not absolute, because I remember it stated elesewhere by dang that larger comments are considered more likely to be more substantial (for sound reasons). But it seems that holds up to a certain point. There is probably some kind of comment size range, of maximum and minimum comment size, outwith which a comment is pushed down.

There are other factors, also that cause a comment to automatically sink. For example, I have the (admittedly very bad) habbit of editing and re-editing my comments over and over again. I've noticed that if I do this in a sufficiently large comment, the comment immediately sinks when I refresh the thread page after an edit. If the comment is smaller, it can take quite a bit more editing. I think this behaviour is also weighted by user karma or time since account creation because my comments started sinking less often as my karma increased. Or maybe the rules of the site changed in the meantime.

Bottom line: large comments with some edits sink like lead.
Bullshit. When all you have is a hammer .. stop making so many hammers and make peace instead.
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As in some ways the public face of the response in Singapore, Fisher has featured in a comic series “The COVID Chronicles"
I've always thought of chess being more about talent rather than the measure of IQ but it also depends on what one's definition of "smart" really is.
cheers - I've since posted the original article link in another comment.
>In general, if you are trying to distinguish an AI from a human, you don’t want to ask it obscure trivia questions. GPT-3 is pretty good at a wide variety of topics.

Perhaps too wide a variety of topics. You could ask it a wide range of trivial questions about totally unrelated obscure topics that no one human would possibly happen to know.
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I think the implication above was that while it was big, it wasn’t unexpected information.
Wiktionary defines bombshell as "Something that is very surprising, shocking, amazing or sensational."
If, say, an anti-virus program extracts an RPM's contents and scans each file separately, then it might miss files smuggled in that would be readable by malware with a custom cpio extractor.
I'm pretty sure the big 5 model was developed from data directly, not from a pre-existing theoretical model. I.e. they just made big personality tests and then checked how many factors there seemed to be, and it came out to 5.
> If he saw Keynesianists today, he would feel rather disappointed.

Well, what is the (your) definition of Keynesianism? Here's one TL;DR of it that I've run across:

> I would summarize the Keynesian view in terms of four points:

> 1. Economies sometimes produce much less than they could, and employ many fewer workers than they should, because there just isn’t enough spending. Such episodes can happen for a variety of reasons; the question is how to respond.

> 2. There are normally forces that tend to push the economy back toward full employment. But they work slowly; a hands-off policy toward depressed economies means accepting a long, unnecessary period of pain.

> 3. It is often possible to drastically shorten this period of pain and greatly reduce the human and financial losses by “printing money”, using the central bank’s power of currency creation to push interest rates down.

> 4. Sometimes, however, monetary policy loses its effectiveness, especially when rates are close to zero. In that case temporary deficit spending can provide a useful boost. And conversely, fiscal austerity in a depressed economy imposes large economic losses.

* https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/15/keynesianism-ex...
Not that I have a monopoly on information or anything, but I live in Singapore and this comment is possibly the first time I have ever heard this guy's name.
Freedom isn't free, there's a hefty f*ing fee.
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So sorry to hear about your wife. This is an incredibly scary disease for a lot of reasons. Adding the frustration of a chronic condition to that is not what anyone needs.

The basic problem is: What do you do about a chronic condition for which there is no proven treatment? I have a few people in my life with one such condition or another. There are three responses, mostly unhelpful.

The most common response is to essentially suggest things at random. Both rest and (generic) exercise are common suggestions. This can make the patient happy, but it's often actively harmful -- obviously, both rest and exercise won't help the same thing, unless it's a specific exercise chosen with the condition in mind.

The other common response is to not suggest anything, and basically try to get the patient to go away. If you're lucky, they'll try to sympathize, but mostly you'll just get brushed off. This makes the patient feel bad, but at least it won't actively make the condition worse.

The response you'll get if you're really lucky, is that they'll refer you to participate in a study of some kind. This is lucky because it's very high variance: it could kill you, but it also could significantly improve things. Obviously that risk isn't for everyone, but it's lucky to even have the choice.

Unfortunately, without a proven treatment, there isn't a lot else for doctors to do.
Not saying this isn't bad for the UK, but this is one of the very real consequences of opting out of the EU.

But perhaps this might break some of the Amazon dominance and make way for other options - that would be a real benefit.
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Which I'm sure the authors would agree with:

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Nothing, at the particular level. Maybe nothing generally, unless you have issues with industrial consolidation.

Either way, you now have a more concentrated industry, with a larger share of resources in non innovative hands.

Also, don't rely too much on internet companies for your example. This is (was?) a sector with high, fast returns on innovation, low barriers to entry and low capital requirements. That's not the norm.
Hey. If you are still reading this, I must apologise for my other sibling comment right under yours. I sound like a formalism nazi! I understand what you mean that "Prolog SLD resolution is depth first". You have probably implemented a Prolog meta-interpreter and noticed that it works by putting literals on the stack, then deriving new literals and putting those on the stack, recursively and by creating a new "branch" between each literal. In fact, resolution itself is often described (or rather reasoned about) in terms of resolution trees. It's definitely not the same as depth first search, because it's not a search, but it doesn't take a lot of effort to see what you mean by "depth first" in this case. I should not have been such a terminology miser here. I'm upset myself sometimes when people demand absolute terminological clarify of me when it's obvious what I'm trying to say (and it's obvious to them, they just like to nitpick). So I apologise for the nitpicking.
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I also prefer writing things down. However, the ability to quickly search and link years worth of notes is the reason I’m putting effort into org-roam ... dozens of notebooks on a shelf will never be able to do that.
Easy in the short run is hard in the long. We're all better off as loosely connected and trade oriented but autonomous neighbours.
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> In reality you might find impacts of the Amazon FBA Brexit bombshell start to impact you earlier. For instance, if you already have stock in Pan-European FBA it is feasible that Amazon will repatriate your stock before the end of the year and certainly are likely to stop sending your stock to Europe at an earlier date.

I am very sceptical that they would do something like above, as there does not seem to be any reason to do so:

- Amazon encourages you to have stock on both sides of the border to allow selling to continue as-is after the transition - repatriating stock automatically would run counter to that.

- There is no legal reason to repatriate stock. The sellers that use Pan-European fulfillment already have to be VAT-registered in all countries that hold their stock, and those registrations will continue to be valid regardless of the EU membership of the seller's home country.

- Amazon has not communicated that it is planning to do so (it has only said that it will stop transfers and fulfillment cross-border on 2021-01-01).
Cool. I don't like to include consciousness in this reduction, I consider that something sacred. The field that permeates all of us and everything. The thinking part of it, I think there's a chance it could be as you describe, with our brains coming with algorithms (or the ability to form similar algorithms) that do domain transformation, stateful processing, associate lookups, memory. I like to think of the consciousness, as simply being aware of this, and I guess "gently guiding" it through intention. It's what tunes us into our thinking and let's us perceive it. But the thinking could occur without that "supervisor". But perhaps somehow consciousness is the spark which gives us life, because when it leaves the body, the body and brain no longer function, or at least no longer animate. And consciousness can seem to exist within and outside the body.

Maybe what we call intelligence, and what we are trying to create with AI is just "how a brain" thinks. That version of AI definitely seems achievable, it's a;sp interesting to think what consciousness is, when it seems that people have been able to perceive things outside their body, while it was dead, and then return to that body upon it being revived, and being able to bring verifiable details back with them...Or a consciousness being able to recall things inbetween incarnations in bodies....Those impressions must involve pattern matching and thinking as well...But there's no substrate it seems. Just the universe itself. Which is pretty bizarre...Makes you wonder why our brains need to be so complex at all, if our souls can think and remember too...

Perhaps even more scary and bizarre (and not what I believe) but what if having a soul (as in some consciousness part that exists separate to the body) is actually real but not common. So the strange anecdotes of these occurrences are not more widespread simply because, for whatever reason, most bodies don't have souls...I'm sure it's not like that...but since we're speculating, may as well take this to where it goes, which is, if that's the case then consciousness (which we all have, otherwise the body is anesthetized), and the soul (which it seems some people have, owing to how they have disembodied memories that are factual) might be separate.

So if the body has consciousness that's entirely embodied, maybe AI's can have consciousness as well. Then what's the soul? And what is the soul doing when a person's brain and consciousness is doing the thinking? Or if we all have a soul (a disembodied consciousness) why can only very few people seem to have disembodied memories?

If we make the right AI substrate for consciousness, will it attract souls, like moths to a light?
If you look at what a company really is from a different perspective, then it makes complete sense that an internal innovator cannot exist inside any established organization. Let’s examine how any company came to be: it first started with a few individuals with a shared project, who maybe managed to obtain resources beyond their own resources, for example by raising external capital. With these resources, they create a product or service, and more importantly look for customers. They may not find customers immediately, but through a long and painful trial and error process, they will try many different recipes before they actually discover the recipe to find customers. Companies who can’t find enough customers will die. Initial capital is just delaying this fatal outcome. During this first phase till initial success, the organization is very fluid. The company strategy can be completed changed, the product can be completely changed, the production process can be completely changed … basically anything can be completely changed. A newly established organization is fluid and can reconfigure itself quickly, because it is still small, and more importantly it has nothing to lose doing so.

After a recipe to some initial commercial success has been painfully discovered, then the only strategy that make sense is to replicate it to grow the company. The initial recipe will be scientifically and meticulously improved, optimized, refined and scaled in all its components. Possibly by deploying additional capital, because the investment is now much less risky. This is what professional managers do. They perfect the execution of a recipe and balance risks doing so. Because now, as an established company with many shareholders, thousands of employees, suppliers, customers … the company has so much to lose by doing anything risky. Any established company must be risk averse or it will quickly disappear.

Fast forward a decade or more of commercial success optimizing the same recipe with a risk-averse mindset, which still has room for some internal innovation but only of the incremental type, then any company is no longer fluid but solid. If it’s a public company obsessed with short terms returns, then it’s a very dense solid. It is also a large organization by now, with many gatekeepers to company resources. An internal innovator would have to convince all of these gatekeepers for any significant new endeavor. This is clearly impossible unless the internal innovator is the CEO of the company. That's why companies lose their best innovators. That’s why significant innovation cannot be produced inside large companies, but it can nevertheless be brought in via acquisitions ... sometimes from ex-employees who left to start their own company!

What you see as an established company today, you can also see as a “fossil of its past successes”. That’s why an established company cannot be an innovation machine in my opinion. This was not always the case in the past. It’s probably a consequence of contemporary professional management, with too much emphasis on short-term, low risk and immediate returns.
When a company does an IPO, they hire an underwriter that guarantees that they'll sell a specific amount of stock at a specific price. So the company knows how much money they'll raise by the time the first day of trading arrives.
And those manufacturers will double-down by scanning for an open wireless network and send the data stream without you knowing, or embed a cellular modem to bypass all that.

It's a truly disgusting trend.
Proton is an amazing project. I hope it will lead to more Linux Steam users, and consiquently more 1st party support, because I'm sure MS will do everything in their power to make Proton less effective and reliable than it is today over time.
> There's no point in further engaging with you if that's your take on the presidential responses to 2009 H1N1 versus 2020 SARS-CoV-2.

"the presidential responses to 2009 H1N1 versus 2020 SARS-CoV-2" was not the topic of conversation. The topic of conversation was:

>>> If you want an increase in mask supply, you have to either allow the pricing mechanism to do its job, or force people to make masks.

>> Those aren't the only options. Some mask manufacturers could scale up manufacturing as long as they had a medium/long term contract to make the investment worth it. The current administration keeps blaming the previous one for drawing down on the federal PPP supply without replenishing it (dubious claim), so there was exactly zero reason for this[1] to happen.

>> [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-the-early-d....

You are now expanding the scope of your original argument. Before we do that, can we finish with your first point?

Did the Obama administration refill the inventory of masks after they were drawn down, or not? My reading of the evidence is that they did not, does your reading leave you with a different conclusion, are you maybe referring to different evidence than what I posted above?
I voted for Brexit. I knew it would be a painful process and I don't care. It's just something we need to do.
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Sorry, this is ludicrous. No analyst is basing their investment view on the 1 day post-IPO movements. Maybe a few months in, as an ancedote about market sentiment, but 5 years in the stock is traded totally differently, by different holders in a basically a different world. When funds make investment decisions we collate a whole bunch of random facts, some relevant, some just general interest. 1 day returns off the IPO can be filed under general interest, just like the gossip magazine articles written about the founders. At best it's attached to the fame of the stock, not the other way around - Facebook's pop is memorable not because of the pop but because of the stock.

Maybe because you're from the sell side you're hearing what you want to, it often puzzles me some of the views that you guys have on the market, the role you have just doesn't actually matter that much to the market. A stock is a business, not an investment banking product. The investment banking actions over the life of the business are out-sized, but they also quickly fade to be indiscernible - Facebook would still be the same company today and worth the same amount today even if it was backdoor listed on the pink sheets at first.
Thats what coursera-dl was for. Ive got 250GB of backed up courses from 2014-16 timeframe.
Very interesting. Wouldn't such reasoning serve as evidence for the heliocentric model, which I thought was known as a theory but not generally accepted at the time of Pythagoras?
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I said "allowed" for a reason. You can of course research whatever but if you publish something either none cares because you are a nobody or you get canceled if it doesn't support the "current truth". People have better things to do than destroying their reputation for zero reward.

The rest is just a lie. There are plenty known significant differences especially difference in risk for diseases that are linked to genetic differences. And that's about the only place where research is done today because if you literally are the person who tries to cure cancer you are apparently whitelisted ehm... I mean allowlisted from seeing genetic differences.
It wasn't well liked, but Netscape Livewire did JS SSR in the 90's.
Nice, didn't know about this. Will definitely check out.
No I’m not going to eat sleep and breathe development. It’s a job to me. I’m not going to work 40 hours a week in front of a screen and then come home and “contribute to open source.”

I will read blogs and listen to podcasts for whatever area that I choose to specialize, but I’m not going to spend time actually investigating it outside of work.

If you as an employer deem it important for your employees to keep up with the latest trends and contribute to open source, allocate some time during the day.

But, I guess this is also the reason I abandoned the clusterf%%% of modern front end development almost 10 years ago and just try to stay somewhat current with JS.