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The GP is saying that IQ tests are deliberately calibrated and normalized to produce a Gaussian output, and that the input is not necessarily a Gaussian distribution of any particular quantity.

This doesn't say anything in particular about whether it's useful, just that people should be careful interpreting the values directly.

So...copyright theft then?

That's a hyperbolic misstatement of the situation on the ground. Poor people use free emergency rooms as primary care instead of paying for primary care physicians. That's a cost disaster no matter what you think should be done about health care. We'd be much better off with actually free primary care for the poor, and it would at least make sense to prevent the emergency room misuse since it's so wasteful. But it's politically untenable in the US to fix a broken system in any direction people don't like, even when it's Pareto optimal.

The endorsement and verification would need to be continuous, or else the anonymous users will sell their accounts for the value of the accrued positive reputation. I.e. what people already do with Reddit accounts that accrue a lot of karma.

Not the GP but I think a foundational skill is naming things. If you can't give a simple name to a function/class/etc., it's probably not well-defined. It should be adjusted to make it easier to name, usually by moving responsibilities out of (or into) the code structure until it represents one concept that you can clearly state as a name.

Touche.

I take it you've never heard of Poe's Law?

Efficiency and lowered costs are not universally good. They strongly favor easily-measured values over hard-to-measure values, which in practice means preferring mechanisms to people.

The first thing I saw on the page was a phone-screen-filling disclaimer that everything they said was opinion. I didn't read any further.

I guess it depends on whether the crucial mutation that flipped the organism from "non-chicken" to "chicken" happened before or after fertilization!

Or alternatively we can say that the germ line went from 49% chicken to 50% chicken to 51% chicken? Biology is really a continuous state space anyway and trying to push things into categories too hard will break them.

The GP was clearly talking about dancing as a social activity. TikTok dancing isn't social, it's a performance for an invisible audience.

There are many benefits to a therapist. Understanding a problem is not the same as solving it, and many problems are not cognitive dissonances.

If Perplexity can substitute for the NYT's staff for an essential news story, then it can substitute for their staff for almost all stories. However, I don't think that's even the attack Srinivas was going for - he's indirectly claiming that the NYT's subscribers don't need the NYT for the source of its prestige and power - its news reporting.

There's another thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42044956 with 13 comments.

Videochat therapy is OK as a stopgap, and it saves travel time, but it puts a barrier between the person and the therapist. If the patient doesn't need that barrier to go to therapy in the first place, then that distance may make the therapy less effective.

I had the same question! For other readers, Ai Weiwei is an artist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Weiwei

Was the Fool article stealth-updated? It's not particularly positive at the moment.

If the court order specifies that it be taken down worldwide, and the court order isn't definitely illegal according to Indian law, and the Wikimedia Foundation has operations in India that they want to preserve, they may not have a choice.

This article might be more informative although I can't say how accurate it is: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/wikipedia-suspends-ac...

It's relevant on the margins. WaPo not endorsing Harris would be a very negative signal about Harris for fence-sitters and lukewarm voters - this is the paper that hated Trump so much they changed their motto to the apocalyptic "Democracy Dies in Darkness"!

A* is faster in practice if the heuristics used by the specific implementation are accurate and if the graph is "general" for the problem space. I'm being very loose with the word "general" but essentially it should have typical structure for the problem space it represents.

There's almost certainly a paper somewhere proving that A* with a given heuristic can always be made O(large) by choosing the right adversarial inputs.

That's effectively an answer of "no".

Top comment at the time I looked:

"There seems to be a ton of confusion about the purpose of these ads. These are recruitment ads, not product ads, hence why "no drama" is the driving message. I'm sure these were all taken at or around a tech conference."

We've been in the mid manufacturing era for quite a while, when every part is engineered to fail the day after the warranty expires. Maybe the idea of a bicycle that can last seven decades is interesting to people.

It's generally bad writing to use the same phrase structure over and over and over again. It either bores or distracts the reader for no real advantage. Unless they really could not find an adjective clause other than "familiar with" for sixteen separate instances of the concept.

I think that's the whole house, not just bedrooms.

This probably isn't backed by an LLM but instead some kind of geometric shape model.

At least they're publishing it!

Businesses are interested in AI so they can fire employees and do the same amount of work with much cheaper AI instead. The whole point is to scrimp.

Ozempic seems to have a large number of positive effects for virtually everyone. It's a little premature to think everyone will be on it "soon" and there are plenty of people who won't take something even if it's universally beneficial.