skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's less obvious because you brought them up without context.

Not going to walk back that accusation that I'm a liar, now you know that you were talking about something else?
That's a graph of `x/2 - floor(x/2)`. The question is about `e^(x/2 - floor(x/2))`.
"which to me shows that he was very good man (and his actions in the civil war, and after, back this up)."

With at least one striking exception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._11_(1862)
> Often you'll end up using numerical methods to approximate the solution, but if you can come up with a closed form solution that's much nicer.
Also even with the example in the post , thinking about the problem at first and exploiting it's periodicity before naively integrating numerically over the entire limit affords much faster computation. Although might not be specific to this example , utilising such symmetries can sometimes turn even a numerically intractable problem or a problem that requires days / 100s of gigabytes into something one can do on their laptop in hours.
I think it's a mixture for me. I can certainly enjoy some music just as pleasant noises, or even as meaningful to _me_ rather than the meaning that the maker put into it.

For example, I've always loved 'Cloudbusting' by Kate Bush which (like many of her songs) is a tiny bit silly, and not for everyone. However one day I looked up the lyrics and found that it's about Wilhelm Reich (orgonne energy) and his relationship with his son. As a result, some of the lyrics became much deeper for me, and I liked it more.

I guess I don't care who a musical artist 'really' is for that authentic authenticity in their music. Do I care who Sting is as a person - his relationships, or activism? Do I care if Richard D James owns a Daimler Ferret Mark 3 Armoured Scout Car? Probably not, when it comes to their music.
I notice that the study you cite is measuring effectiveness in reading interventions. Obviously, that's where the data is coming from because we don't carefully track readers who learn successfully at a much earlier age.

However, I wonder if the ideal pedagogy would be different for younger students (maybe pre-K to 1st) who have less knowledge and smaller vocabularies? It's a bit tricky because a lot of the students who need intervention probably need remedial instruction in other areas too, but some of them may have been good students who struggled with reading.
Not GP, but I open the browser (in my case Vivaldi) and type my query in the address box.

My default search engine on Vivaldi is DDG, it issues a query to DDG.

Do you actually use the default google shit widget to do web searches?
Are there more university/research centric resource of communities regarding AI, I mean things on a more epistemic and higher level, that disregards current ML techniques and implementations?

I have no problem when there is a lot of money spent to implement things that can be used and tested, but I wish I could read about the next step of AI, something that involves science and not software engineering.

I've yet to read anything related to the analysis of trained data or trained neural networks, the structure of the brains of small insects, psychology on general intelligence, AI and emotions, the real ability of an AI to think and write meaningful code or understand what is a problem/solution etc, I mean anything that is related to AI that can be treated by computer science.

I have no problems with algorithms and implementations, but don't university/professors also try to go beyond, with epistemology, to connect the dots with biology and neurology?

Unless I see science cover several fields of research, it's not real, worthy research in my view, which is why the reason why I'm so stubbornly skeptical of chatGPT.
Interesting chat with ChatGPT :)
English is highly non-phonemic. It's not absurd. If you considered English phonetic, you'd have to consider almost every modern language writing system phonetic. The distinction wouldn't mean much.
Really like the idea of this as a user in the Apple ecosystem and would hop to it in a hot minute.

However, given recent trickery around stealing iPhones and taking over entire accounts: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-pas...

I worry this makes iPhones that much richer (heh) of a target. I would be hesitant to add a significant amount of money to my wallet’s savings account as it would create an incredibly financially potent single point of failure in the event my iPhone is stolen and compromised.
There was a chemistry professor trying to get an idea of some testing of this property and set up an experiment for dropping a weight through ketchup and timing it followed by another one shortly after. The second one will fall through the ketchup faster.

How do you measure this? How much ketchup do you need?

The initial approach was a large cylinder holding the ketchup with the bottom clear - and then a mirror set up under that. It also was initially done with a human with a stop watch and they needed enough ketchup so that the difference would be noticeable and within the error of human reactions.

It takes a lot of ketchup to fill up a 2 meter by 20 cm cylinder. Can't make it too narrow because the edges change it.

The grad students bought all the ketchup at the local big grocery store and raised a few eyebrows at the checkout.

After proving that it worked they were able to make a clear polymer fluid that had the same properties (though was more expensive than ketchup) so that they were able to see it from the side and provide better timings... and not have to worry about spoilage... still, the grad students with 16 gallons of ketchup was something to remember.

They did a bratwurst cookout with the unused leftovers.
While the point remains that Apple Card’s rewards are inferior, I find that almost everywhere except Home Depot/Walmart/Lowes/Kroger/Winco accepts Apple Pay.
Clearly ChatGPT has just reasoned out all the secret NSA-mandated additions to TPM 2.0 that are not listed in the specification.
Name is obviously inspired from the Anna Dewdney children’s books.
Messengers.
> Google Magi’s initial launch will be only in the US, with a maximum of one million users. Later, by the year’s end, it will expand to 30 million users.

It seems they never learned from the failed launches like Google Wave or Google Plus. Where you couldnt use them and by the time you and your friends got them the hype allready wore off.
>>they'll think, "eh, I think I'll just buy a Switch and

Or (which is me) " I think I will just buy a SteamDeck and not bother with Nintendo at all"

There is a reason why they are always number 3.... People tire of their BS.

They could be #1 if they would get out of their own way
If the company is big enough (e.g. not using whatsapp is not an option for a lot of people), or if the app comes from a state that can force you to install it by law, yes it can be.
Literally no one is suggesting phonics only, that’s just the language decoding step. The problem is that the “whole language” approach has been shown not to work at all, and we regularly see 4th graders who are functionally illiterate.

If your teacher friends are mad, maybe it’s because they’re being called out for using a shitty method that’s ruin the lives of poor children.
Are we still teaching math well?

I grew up with rote memorization of math concepts and applying that through memorized math tables. That doesn't work for my spectrumy dyscalculic brain. If I had more advanced math education that started with elements of computer programming & interaction (actually, even at the "basic" level too), I'd wager I'd actually be relatively good at math today, with a much better lower level understanding of concepts. Instead, I'm effectively helpless when it comes to math.
I think this tendency is mainly one for /successful/ engineers, ones that society has repeatedly rewarded for completing engineering projects to the satisfaction of others. Somebody works hard through a couple decades of looking at difficult but project-based problems and coming up with solutions. These projects start small and well-defined ("design the least expensive $thing that can accomplish $goal using this library of components") but are of increasing complexity and eventually start to look a lot like politics and sociology ("build a team that is capable of creating a successful product for the $industry industry").

They succeed at all of them, possibly even because they are actually very smart, and so come to the view that life is a series of projects that can be completed successfully, after which they will be rewarded with money and admiration. When engineering projects of sufficient ambition cease to become available (there are only so many Channel Tunnels or moon rockets to organize and build), they jump sideways into other disciplines with this template. Often that other discipline is politics, and their methods and mental models are just wrong because the engineering that these people know (not all engineering) is about completing projects within constraints, but politics has poorly defined constraints and is not a "project" (because there is no end).

This isn't really limited to engineers. All of us are in danger of thinking that our experience has prepared us for more than it really has. If anything, its more of a danger for lawyers and MBA types.
IIRC the trick to not having the tants go up in flames is to make absolutely sure they will never ever see a voltage beyond their rating. Apparently they really don't like that.

I prefer just to avoid that headache, but I'm just a hobbyist so...
People want LLM leveraged search, and Google isn't delivering.
> Windows only

Maybe it runs on ReactOS? Or under wine?
It's on the upper end of the spectrum.

Citi's fancy "Citigold Private Client" savings account for people with $1M+ in it is at 0.35%.

(My favorite bit about that account: they have an interest rate tier starting at $10,000,000,000,000+ on https://online.citi.com/US/ag/current-interest-rates/savings...)
Here's part of another song (and interview) that was mentioned (David Guetta with AI Eminem voice): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40lOIZLUACU

My question: do you own the likeness of your own voice? How does this differ from a very good impressionist?
Yes, you forgot github, typescript and NPM. They acquired most popular dev platform along with code editor, watch what you do and will automate that.
I moved to Bing a year ago, as 1) Google became a senseless SEO swamp 2) they don't allow VPN.
Put another way,Apple and iOS is becoming more like Google and Android.

My privacy isn't happy about this.
Contrary take, all programs are little languages. They are, of course, written in a larger language that has more capabilities, but every program is reducing down to the parts that are getting used. And moreover, most of the bugs are when people don't keep themselves to this reduction.

Is why most "little languages" should probably not aim for complete capabilities. The smaller you can keep these little languages, the better.

But, this means you will get more things like regex as a little language. Format strings. Basic workflow validation programs. Not full programming interfaces.
> Is this an admission that 50,000 was just an invented number out of nowhere?

What do you think '~' stands for? It is approximate estimation and my point still stands unchallenged.

> Here are some stats though: https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics

You don't even know yourself. That statistic is "MONTHLY" active users, not DAILY active users. You gave a figure that is collected directly from the 'servers' page that literally says "Monthly Active Users". [0]

Try again.

[0] https://joinmastodon.org/servers
The comments to this article just scream Stockholm Syndrome.
You may argue it's not a very good phonetic script, with all of the special cases present... But letters mostly represent sounds, unlike written languages where characters represent concepts.

A computer program written with knowledge of a few dozen of the common special cases would pronounce >90% of English words correctly and be close on most of the rest, "cupboard" notwithstanding. Indeed, look at how well 80's-era speech to text did with this exact approach.
It is a snarky thing to say, and may or may not be true...

But I feel like they took this kind of play from the Sony playbook.
Yeah, most people shouldn't need more, but you're right. For example, to update the maps in our minivan's navigation system, I need to install some (crappy) Windows-only desktop application, "Garmin Express."
Google got too corporate and played things too safe for too long. Imagine if Google released Bard 1 year ago.
> I definitely think that Americans are more entrepreneurial than most, but other cultures are equally ambitious in different ways.

My anecdotal experience is that the Mexicans¹ I have known have been way more entrepreneurial than the Americans. If the Spanish-speaking Americas were to establish economic union a la the E.U., I suspect that they would become the dominant economy in the world in a generation.

⸻

1. Speaking here, specifically, of Mexicans living in Mexico and not immigrants to the U.S., although come to think of it, the immigrants are likewise also highly entrepreneurial, but this is a self-selecting segment of the population who are willing to undergo great hardship and go to a whole other country, suffer discrimination and struggle with living outside their language and culture to make a better living for themselves. Which, of course, is true of the vast majority of immigrants to the U.S. which is probably a big factor in American (U.S.) entrepreneurship.
https://archive.is/RgOq3
Yes, you can run inference at decent speeds on CPU with llama.cpp. A token is about 0.75/words, so you can see lots of people getting 4-8 words/s on their CPUs: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/34

There a lot of optimizations that can be done. Here's one w/ potentially a 15X AVX speedup for example: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/996
None of this happens on android. It's time to step out of the Apple fantasy land and into the real world.
That's an unrelated issue. They're not on the Google Play Store anymore because Google banned them. But they most definitely did come back to the Play Store with their tail between their legs, and even made some salty comments on life outside the Play Store.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21229943/epic-games-fortn...
> So could Ford stop me from using footage of a Mustang? Vehicle design and logos are copyrighted. What about a movie wear characters are wearing designer clothing? Those are covered by copyright as well.

You may notice how when cars are used in commercials they generally have their logos removed. Likewise when someone wears a shirt with a designer logo or graphic design on TV it'll often be blurred. The line is fuzzy but at least the professional media production world seems to have agreed it's somewhere around there.
> This is what worked for me: allow yourself to have fun. It is not frivolous. It is not insignificant. It is an important part of a fulfilling life, so make time for it. Literally carve some time for it and put it in your daily/weekly schedule if need be.

The act of "scheduling" fun makes it hard for me to actually have fun - it feels like a chore. Fun is only fun (to me) if it's spontaneous.

Obviously, that creates quite a vicious cycle... I'm stuck in one right now, actually. I'm just grinding, hoping something's gonna change. I doubt it will, though.
> "But that doesn't scale!" cries Hacker News. But what you mean is, it doesn't scale for a centralized entity that wants to collect rent on other people's work, and frankly, fuck those centralized entities.

The problem is, payment is hard.

For authors:

- Micropayments are still ridiculously expensive

- Users want it to be as simple and hassle-free as possible, which means you're stuck with Stripe, Ko-Fi, Patreon or PayPal as that is what people have, and they don't want to trust Joe Random Blogger with their credit card information or their real name

- PayPal has been known to randomly close down accounts and hold your money hostage for months and years, especially if you're dealing with "morally grey" content (e.g. if you write about sex or anything related to crime)

- Accounting is annoying because each micro-donator needs a formal invoice, you have to deal with dozens to hundreds of micro invoices at tax time

- You're virtually stuck with credit cards and their limitations (again, see above, most of PayPal's ridiculous policies comes from the big CC networks) if your audience is international, but guess what, less than half of Germans have one [1], and outside of Europe the situation is even worse.

For users:

- Fuck no I don't want to fill out a form with CC number, CVC code, my real name and my address just to give a dollar for Joe Random Blogger's coffee cash

- Fuck no where did I just put my phone for 2FA

- Why is Joe Random Blogger now blasting my email address with newsletters?

- Uh, I did not consent Joe Random Blogger to suddenly draw in 20$ a month instead of 5$

The centralized entities (Paypal, Stripe, ko-fi, Patreon, whatever) take care of a ton of the associated bullshit, but they are expensive and, as I wrote, prone to randomly ban you without recourse - and not just ban your commercial entity but also your personal account - for life.

In contrast, ads are easy: you embed some piece of code on your website (or set some identifiers in your WordPress theme/plugin) and get a check or bank transfer every month. That's it.

[1] https://kreditkarte.net/zahlungsverkehr/
Google hasn't done jack in terms of innovation since he took over. They did close out a few moon shots. but nothing to note.
It's the same account behind the scenes, but somehow the Apple branded version pays more.
Yeah, obnoxious huh? My main bank is always suggest I open a savings account with them. “Check out our new awesome rate!”

0.3%, or something similar.

I’ve been using different banks with real high yield for a long time. My current choice is almost 4% (after climbing a ton last year with all the hikes). A number of banks offer similar rates.

Some places are starting to offer non trivial rates on checking. I think AmEx may be paying over 1% interest on their checking accounts (I know, think it’s new) instead of the common 0.0005% if you’re lucky enough to get interest at all.

Sadly you have to shop around. Even credit unions often don’t offer good savings accounts, even if better than the big banks.
I like how Goldman directly offers only 3.90%.

https://www.marcus.com/us/en/savings

Seems like they want people to go via Apple.
I imagine they have some AI solution in reach.

I wouldn't want somebody to give presentations as a head of Google. On the contrary, I hate when people produce vapor.

Microsoft bought their AI solution. We will see if they can successfully integrate it. I am not yet sure about that. I hardly call that innovation though.
Vicuna is a specific open source AI LLM: https://ai.plainenglish.io/vicuna-the-unparalleled-open-sour...
this is a quick link https://www.statista.com/statistics/1098129/credit-cards-and...

adoption across countries https://www.statista.com/statistics/968220/credit-card-owner...

your link seems to be confusing debit cards with credit cards

Apple card is not a debit card, which is widely used in Europe, with much less credit card/debt normalized vs. the US
We’ve tried but we understand even less about how “real” intelligence works. Atleast in a way that we can replicate it.

The people doing so called alchemy are making far better systems that anyone who’s trying to actually understand things. And we’ve been trying for decades now.
It's not the first time that portfolio losses accruing to billion-dollar companies have been covered by the taxpayer, and it won't be the last.
Common misconception, IP laws are about commercial use of something

Personal copies are legal... Just like I can take a patent, build the thing and use it myself, I just can not make commercial product and sell it.
Yes, nobody is saying that Apple Card is the only card for everyone, just that it's a great card for tap-to-pay.
at first, sure. challenge your assumptions even a little and the stress becomes imperceptible. beyond that, understanding that people will lie to you for their own gain, and you won't even believe anyone by default anymore.

it's quite healthy to question stuff in this way, I think.
It's phonetic because the graphemes (whatever they look like) represent phonemes.

If English doesn't use a phonetic writing system, then what kind does it use? Ideographic? Syllabic?
If you want to understand the theory, that's true. If you want to develop an intuitive understanding without having to understand all the nuts and bolts (and I understand that can be a big ask for how some people learn/understand), give this a try: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
> hasn't caused chaos on desktop platforms

I beg to differ. How many windows machines were infected in the early 2000's? Would bot-nets exist if Windows had a strict app store back then?

Now: I will agree that freedom to install any software on desktops has been wonderful, and I hope it remains, but I wouldn't say it hasn't caused chaos.
Used to be a decent source until they started letting ads take over their content. In your link you have to get past the "Featured" section and "Offers from banks you may use" section to see the actual content. Many times I've needed an extra click to get past the ads, or been completely unable to.
https://help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/articles/5357457259155-202...

PornHub has transparency reports tracking how many upload there are to the system, where they come from, how many uploads get removed, how the removals were detected (e.g. by your user report, detected by internal tools before anyone saw them, etc.) they also discuss and the automated systems and manual processes they use. It’s all rather sophisticated, including an AI train system that does age estimation to detect, previously unknown, CSAM material.
I can't help but feel like Google is going through their "Steve Ballmer CEO Phase". I wonder who will be the next CEO to fix things.
I see no value in the Windows desktop. For my tasks.
Here are two manually curated lists of the currently highest yielding FDIC-insured deposit accounts in the US:

https://phatwalletforums.com/topic/109/best-nationally-avail...

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/

4.15% is good, but there are better options, including with big banks like Bank of America (4.50% currently, though with an initial deposit requirement of $100k).
I'm saying that "[you can] simply just get apps from the official store" is not necessarily correct. I'm not making a value judgement about whether that's a good or a bad thing.
The older regulations included shape in the specifications for Class I cucumbers, Class II cucumbers, etc, as well as other measures of quality. Nothing prevented the supermarket or restaurant from buying unclassed cucumbers, though that category would include cucumbers not reaching Class I/II for other reasons (size, taste, colour/ripeness etc).

The change to the regulation removed shape from Class I and Class II, so they're more likely to be sold for the higher price, and the supermarkets can't reject vegetables for being the wrong shape.

So there was never a ban on selling vegetables of the "wrong" shape, but there were rules to categorize vegetables by shape as part of their overall quality. The EU harmonized these rules across the whole EU (that's the whole point of the Common Market), then later scrapped them and told the supermarkets they'd have to deal with the occasional knobbly carrot.

(This is my approximate understanding, I may have the numbers backwards or whatever.)
> Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds

Is your argument that Montañez's memory is accurate but that of everyone who was interviewed (20 people?) are not?
"Planetship" would have been better, or "Spaceship". A starship is something which flies to the stars.