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adammarples··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
I'm in Tottenham I don't need to go to your town to get the point. However the point remains, you can't just arrest an entire social cohort.
adammarples··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Trouble is you'd be scooping up 90% of boys in a certain race, class, age bracket, because those ballys and bikes and Nike tech are effectively fashion at this point even if you're doing nothing wrong. And if that's the case you don't need AI you can just wait outside the school gates and arrest everyone.
adammarples··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
Yes but unfortunately you never paid for what rights your neighbour had, so nothing is being taken from you
adammarples··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Anti-missile shielding
adammarples··on MiMo v2.6
This is not the same. If everyone wants mowed lawns, and everyone is busy working on that, there is no opportunity cost, everyone is working on their top priorities. The broken window fallacy is a fallacy because the headline gdp figure doesn't account for the destruction of the window which cancels out the benefit. In the grass mowing analogy nothing has been destroyed, useful and priority work has been done all around.
adammarples··on Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
The comments in the other post on this topic had an article which slammed Sagan's book for being outdated and espousing debunked triune Brian theory. The article was called "your brain is not an onion with a lizard inside".
adammarples··on OpenAI models secretly generate instructions to ignore constraints
But I think the point is they learn "role" from the tone, and would ignore the JSON just like they ignore the tags already.
adammarples··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
Just sorting it out for him
adammarples··on Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
Brainlet swarms lol
adammarples··on .gitignore Everything by Default
Just have a global, personal gitignore in your home folder to cover them
adammarples··on The Highest Point in the Netherlands
Substance abuse is a poor description for taking magic mushrooms
adammarples··on I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul
Meetings magazine from 30 Rock is real
adammarples··on Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
If you live in what sounds like the desert and you're constantly watering your trees, it might be the case that you've picked non-native species that don't handle heat well. Check out the crime pays but botany doesn't on YouTube, he does a lot of videos about this, people in Texas etc planting English oaks and needing to water them all the time while native species are ignored or cut down because they're "messy".
adammarples··on LLMs are making me lose my savviness
That's not how addictions work
adammarples··on Data centers' 'oh s–t' moment
Spacex for one. An AI company they say.
adammarples··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
I think you mean mibionaires
adammarples··on Fences, Not Sandboxes
Never seen a sloppier hero image
adammarples··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
No, "on record" here means simply "recorded", ie. measured. It doesn't mean "a record", like a maximum.
adammarples··on The Sloppification of Peptides
You've never heard of Ozempic? It's not a silicon valley thing, it's made by Novo Nordisk, Denmark's second biggest company, and Ozempic is partly why they're so big.
adammarples··on Fast and Hard Code
I don't even know any more. I wanted a weather bapp that shows the whole forecast on one page with no scrolling, so I was ambitious and asked anti-gravity to build one for me. Half an hour later, done. Then I asked codex to review it and half the stuff didn't even work, made up wind gust data, misaligned hourly data, polluted caches. So I asked codex to fix the issues. Did it? I don't even know, it said it did.
adammarples··on 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe
All we have to do is plant trees. Millions of trees, and reduce beef farming.
adammarples··on 5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe
This is not an argument for global warming, but do bear in mind that cold kills far more and on balance global warming has saved lives here. The issue is going to cause worse problems than heat deaths though. However, a big wet bulb event could completely reverse that count.
adammarples··on Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years
Nobody thinks walking is a silver bullet, ie a cure all. It's a good preventative for the most likely cause of death (heart disease).
adammarples··on Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism
What about "I built a property here because I like the environment and you're welcome to sell up" do you not like?
adammarples··on Show HN: An app that logs your meal's calories from a photo
I'm going to safely assume that everything is hallucinated
adammarples··on Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you? (2023)
Have relationships, walk, sleep, eat food. It's all actually quite relaxing and enjoyable stuff, nothing to stress over.
adammarples··on I gave Pi one tool
Why do people write in this staccato, linkedin-esque way where everything is a short unconnected sentence? It's awful.
adammarples··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
Shout out to WFMU. Listen, donate.
adammarples··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
The BBC hasn't been cut in the name of austerity. It isn't funded by general taxation it's funded by the licence fee, which has only risen, however not in line with inflation. This is basically because nobody wants to pay it, and indeed a huge number of people have stopped paying it.
adammarples··on US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace
Counterpoint: we know it will move down
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