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The Bank Secrecy Act, under which he was charged, is of extremely dubious constitutionality ( https://www.coincenter.org/broad-ambiguous-or-delegated-cons... ), and it certainly violate…
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This from DeepMind: DiLoCo: Distributed Low-Communication Training of Language Models - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.08105.pdf From the first author on Twitter: "It could quit…
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And moreover, what makes people even think that a desire to commit mass murder is an innate characteristic of an 'intelligent' being, that increases the more 'intelligent' it becom…
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First Amendment hasn't been fully destroyed yet, and we're talking about large 'language' models here, so most mandates might not even be enforceable (except for requirements on se…
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This is the sort of thing that makes me want to learn VR development.
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Computational irreducibility is a very useful concept; among other things, it is an elegant way to have free will in a deterministic universe.
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>More people are going to notice they’re using a different browser vs. using a different search engine. Chromium Edge and Chrome have pretty much identical UI/UX. If you switch between Google …
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>The power of the defaults benefits google.com much better than it benefits Microsoft with browsers. And that's simply because the delta between Google and the competition in search is greater…
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The power of defaults is heavily overrated: https://www.theverge.com/23935029/microsoft-edge-forced-wind... …
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>In Gallup’s data, the average teen spends about 5 hours a day on social media "Social media" is a super vague and amorphous term. Does it include platforms like TikTok and YouTube, which…
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>That’s right: I teach courses in Python and Pandas. Never mind that the first is a programming language and the second is a library for data analysis in Python. Meta’s AI system noticed that I was…
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