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"large-ish minority shareholder" != owner

Aligning with the distribution you happened to be able to sample from is not 'truth seeking'.

"I merged my checking account ($X) with my savings account ($Y) in an all cash deal valuing the combined entity at $X+Y"

A loyalist privileges their leader over their principles. A patriot is a leader that subordinates themselves to the principles shared with their followers.

Hasn't been updated for the -0324 release unfortunately, and diff-pdf shows only a few small additions (and consequent layout shift) for the updated arxiv version on Feb 18.

I mean Meta did that already with Llama 3.1 https://www.llama.com/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/ll... …

nit: a divergent training run is somewhat separate from the question of local minima. The latter observes the loss curve stabilize and asks 'is the _best_ (loss-minimizing) set of parameters for…

Each token requires the same amount of compute. To a very crude approximation, model performance scales with total compute applied to the task. It’s not absurd that producing more tokens before an ans…

Which is why the likes of Eve Online employ real-life economists - is easy to get wrong. Cobras aren’t really an arbitrage problem, except in the sense that the reward was (presumably) more than the c…

A dollar per dead snake, you say?

They argument does not depend in the slightest on the equality of crime rates, its depends on the their similarity. The data linked show quite similar rates of reported use for cannabis. You can mak…

> whether rate of committing crimes is uniform The above linked data show self-reported cannabis use within +/- 10% over the relevant pre-legalization period (before 2012), if anything with a …

If there are lost keys everywhere you will actually find some looking under the streetlight. Honest statistical reports may even be written highlighting the frequency of lost-key-findings under street…

Direction matters? same or _lower_ frequency of use does not seem like 'shifting the goalposts' on the original claim of disproportionate _incarceration_.

At 12k GDP per head, it’s pretty tough to argue that China is successfully extracting value for their people

Spectrum licenses aren’t global. If you’re going to make radio noise in someone’s territory you’re going to have to comply with their regulations. Broadcasting from space doesn’t magically solve radi…

> NLIHC not mentioned in or at all related to TFA, but go off. > mostly-government-funded False. Just blatantly wrong. The 990 you linked reports zero revenue from government sources, (part 8,…

Yes yes American nonprofits, with their mandatory annual public financial disclosures including key individuals salaries, famously a great and easy way to misappropriate monies.

If you didn’t have the benefit of your preferred news sources, would you still believe this?

LISC and ECP too. Like 1.5m affordable units developed between them

The gall to describe a group counting habitat for humanity and united way as members as “a new nonprofit”… It’d be funny if it wasn’t so serious

I hate that I know this, but he probably half remembered this conservative brainworm[1], the reality of which is “recently founded weirdo groups claiming nonprofit status are sketchy, get audited more…

Also worth mentioning Murphy's WIP textbook[0] focused entirely on RL, which is an outgrowth of his excellent ML textbooks. [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05265 …

Yes of course, your personal, subjective experience of the USPS is exactly and entirely representative of everyone's experience and use of the USPS.

"I've pinned the gas and feathered the brakes but I'm not slowing down. Clearly my brakes are broken" Also US national debt is literally on live billboards, get your numbers right …

Fair, I was a bit ungenerous. So you believe - what? USAID shouldn’t engage in politics, and agree enough with a recent viral tweet to use it as your example, and to insinuate that anyone talking abou…

> Is interfering in bangladeshi elections “soft power?” Don't act like then entire purpose of USAID and the entire definition of soft power is whatever 0.08% of one year's budget you'…

And as we all know the only valid assessment of a foreign policy prescription the median American's opinion.

On your aside: I'll admit, I said that completely sincerely, they've had pretty informative and well-informed things to say in other discussions around here. Coming back with "Yes I am…

That's shockingly first-order. Even if there was zero bilateral US-Ukraine trade as of 2022 there's: (a) trade with other EU partners that depend on Ukrainian food imports, gas transshipmen…