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closetnerd··on You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites
The source of about 30% of the hits I took in homework and tests was, to this day, not having memorized the basic values of Sin/Cos(pi, pi/2, pi/4).
closetnerd··on Cognitive reflection, intelligence, and cognitive abilities: A meta-analysis
Hierarchical model for the win. Consistent with Jeff Hawkins research as well.
closetnerd··on Abnormal brain structure seen in children with developmental language issues
I swear this comment comes across as a bot.
closetnerd··on An untold story of LSD psychotherapy in communist Czechoslovakia
True...

Though I think there is more to LSD. It's fair to be skeptical. If the pitch is it's going to fix everything for everyone, or the likes, then it's definitely a lie.

closetnerd··on An Invasive Tick That Can Clone Itself Is Spreading Across the U.S.
Point being you gotta get your measure to the millions of other clones.
closetnerd··on Yi-34B-Chat
My understanding is they are all still transformers. The tweaks are more about quantization that better to generalize over data more efficiently (so less parameters requires) and improvement of the training data/process itself.

Otherwise I'd like to know specifically whats better/improved between models themselves.

closetnerd··on US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant
I would join as well. And donate.
closetnerd··on US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant
This is unacceptable.
closetnerd··on FTC Chair Lina Khan looks for allies and leads in Silicon Valley charm offensive
My perspective here is that to do the job was going to be near impossible. No one even knows at this point how to succeed.

And if we need to learn how to succeed, the initial heuristic of applying the law is the only starting point. Failure was the expected initial result.

She can fail for the entirety of her term. We lose nothing from the status quo. But if she can stick to it - then after she's taken enough of the initial beatings, someone else can come and succeed with the learnings she provides.

closetnerd··on FTC Chair Lina Khan looks for allies and leads in Silicon Valley charm offensive
Eh? She seems like the first in a very long time to actually be making a legitimate attempt at the job.

Makes her very likable.

closetnerd··on New group attacking iPhone encryption backed by US political dark-money network
Ah good reminder why I'm paying for the intercept.
closetnerd··on Nue.js: Rethinking Reactivity
I think I'm one that is a bit fatigued by the idea of learning a new thing w/o enough wins here.

On the other hand, the unproductive critique in all the comments makes me think everyone forgot how hard it is try to make something better.

closetnerd··on First U.S. ban on sale of cellphone location data might be coming
Is there anyways to make it anonymous?
closetnerd··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Ya I think he's actually unlike most other CEOs. The man does super unpopular decisions in front of everyone.
closetnerd··on Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
I'm seriously confused how people can remotely equate them. Nawaz sharif is worth 100s of millions. He's driving around in Bentleys in London for 4 years while his brother is PM of Pakistan.

I really want to know what did IK profit in the current allegations? He's creating a university where students learn for free like his decades old hospitals where people get free healthcare.

closetnerd··on Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
Is there a source for the 41 lynchings in America?
closetnerd··on Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
Very much false.

They arrested him, and many others, because he's demanding the constitutionally mandated elections be held. He'd been going to court for cases like terrorism because of "blasphemy".

He's a major threat to the very corrupt army and dynastic parties. All other parties have joined in a coalition with the army. The only opposition is Imran Khan.

Sharifs: The head of one has been in self exile in London while he made his brother prime minister. His daughter and nephews run the party. He was found to have been hiding money when the Panama papers came out.

Zardaris: Was prime minister when Osama bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan. Known as mr 10%. His niece and disgraced generals accused him of killing Bhuttos. He's made his son the heir to the party.

Of the top 10 richest folks in Pakistan are Sharif & Zardari.

Imran Khan is not. Instead earned most of his money through cricket when he led Pakistan to the only World Cup victory. Then he'd opened the best hospitals in Pakistan that treat most patients (all of them desperately poor) for free. Then founded/created an entirely new party that after decades came to power.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/28/pakistani-cour...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/dec/16/pakistan-zarda...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/18/pakistan-court...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pakistanis_by_net_wort...

[5] https://twitter.com/voaurdu/status/1655992378098843709

[6] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/pakistan-punja...

closetnerd··on Internet disrupted in Pakistan amid arrest of former PM Imran Khan
> So the army is having to resort to increasingly contrived methods to keep Imran under control.

They tried to assassinate him and got very close to it.

closetnerd··on Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
In the post, author says that the GPT-3 version it apparently worked well. Which is really is amazing to me.

The prompts really read in a way where I wouldn't have expected the "correct" output.

closetnerd··on Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems
What's most astounding is that it was expected to work when so much of the prompt just doesn't make sense:

> Objects should only move if they will end up on an empty tile after their move

> "An object is free to move onto a tile that another object moves onto if that other object is moving off of its tile"

closetnerd··on EU will require Apple to open up iMessage (2022)
Is there more on this? Can this as is really be enough to maintain the security guarantees Apple currently provides?
closetnerd··on The Case for the F-35
I'm the most ignorant man alive when it comes to war - but this is what I want to know.

Isn't sensor + tracking abilities far more advanced at shooting down planes than planes are at creating damage? And if that's the case, aren't hyper/sonic/long/range stuff better at evading defenses?

Seems like the next "war" will be LoL style to me.

closetnerd··on Google is shutting down Stadia
Effectively? Cause you can get it wrong and get a bunch of WeWorks...

To be fair - didn't really look into it past the graph, but my initial question would be how much that has to do with all the money that artificially got pumped into the economy last year.

closetnerd··on Google is shutting down Stadia
I've long thought big companies and individuals have WAY more money than they know how to effectively use.

This is really hurting American innovation edge. If we could figure out a more effective way to get that money towards entrepreneurs / start ups - we'd be way better off.

closetnerd··on Sr Manager at Google Resigns After Dalit Activist Disallowed from Giving Lecture
To be fair - I think James Baldwin explained it so it's not just Indians. For a lot of folks, you feel some sense of security about your place in the world when you know there's someone "lower" than you.
closetnerd··on New type of ultraviolet light makes indoor air as safe as outdoors
Me too - I have an air filter (noise/replacing it) but I rather this. Do you know where I can get one?? Figure it'd be easy to get
closetnerd··on But life had other plans
In the surgery. 5 months pregnant is VERY detectable

edit: wait sry - it also says 2 weeks, so now I dont know how to read what its saying

closetnerd··on Real-Time Coherent 3D Reconstruction from Monocular Video
Says it’s real-time
closetnerd··on Fourier Slice Photography (2005)
Is there a layman explanation of what this about? Improved Digital focusing??
closetnerd··on Get ahead by not shooting yourself in the foot
I get the general attitude/perspective and I'm largely in agreement.

I'll nit-pick on his point of buying experiences vs things.

Though I agree that instagrammable experiences don't have much meaningful value, I do value a lot experiences where I paid not an insignificant amount of money.

I'm assuming the author meant some balance but called something out based on his impression of an audience (maybe some projection on his part). But "paid experiences" can meaningfully lead to personal growth, perspective of other countries/peoples, deepening friendships.

That being said - you should have good long term finances to even make all that viable.

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