iid.bsky.social
A collection of three IID random variables stacked on top of each other in a trench-coat
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I first noticed it because I'm an ice skating fan, which links up all these corners. A lot of young Russian female ice skaters are put on starvation diets, retire young and immediately marry & start having children, and are used as tools for the Putin war propoganda machine. It's very insidious
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Found this post that echos my sentiments on this
digmedia.lucdh.nl/2024/09/23/e...
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this is what I mean when I point out that culturally, in many ways Russians are closer to Americans. my Russian female colleague shares the same cultural anxieties over marriage expectations that I do while my French female friends are baffled---why would anyone marry before 37, they say
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US commentators seem to perceive trad wifery as a primarily American trend but my experience is that tikok very quickly veers into what I can only descibe as "skinny Slavic doll pregnant with my 3rd child for the glory of the Russian homeland" content
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it's just interesting that for better or worse this is the demo for Democratic Socialism in the US and 10 years of stumping hasn't really moved the needle on that, and yet people very loudly insist that it can't be true
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This is why I hate the whole conversation around human versus AI "error rates." We're not talking about the same kind of thing! The way in which a human student errs may look superficially like the ways LLMs err, but they are not the same
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But with an LLM, if you want to call it intelligence (I don't, but many do) it's an alien intelligence. The errors that LLMs make are not conceptually coherent to us. Maybe they are traceable back to some high dimensional pattern matching deep in the latent space, maybe not! maybe it was a coin flip
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(This is, of course, dodging the fact that I would never in a million years rely on a graduate student summary, because graduate students often don't know how to read papers or summarize. I would rely on trusted colleagues whose expertise and ability has been known to me for years, though.)
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If I'm asking a graduate student to summarize a topic for me, and they misunderstood equation 2.3 or whatever, all their errors will flow downstream from that misunderstanding. If they have gaps in their knowledge, I can (usually) discern why and how they made errors due to that gap
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It also sounds good as hell. This part is really important
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Now this is game
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there's actually research that shows singles tend to be more socially connected to their communities than marrieds!
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I’m neutral on the rest of the book, but I think about the opening chapter at least once a week
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The European sun belt’s outright refusal to install signifiant solar, a tech that has a production curve perfectly matched to the energy needs of cooling tech, is going to get thousands killed in the next decade
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If you ask a European about AC they’ll smugly tell you “not, we don’t use that, we use heat pumps”
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I don’t give a single shit what mechanism you want to call it. A refrigerator moves heat from one place to another, via some kind of reversed thermodynamic engine. Do I have to get out the Carnot diagrams? You’re not morally superior because you use a different medium. A Frenchman proved this
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I had an extremely rough summer last year, experiencing several nights where my tiny stone-insulated, west-facing studio reached ~90 degrees OVERNIGHT temp. The desperation was believable, I couldn’t sleep, I couldn’t eat. It’s not a livable condition for people and it’s inexcusable to say it is
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On the one hand, AC is a necessary technology to provide physically safe conditions for much of the world’s population in the next century. On the other, it’s responsible for Florida
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I believe strongly that it is very much within the realm of human engineering to minimize waste heat production in nearly all other areas of modernity (esp compute!) and use that budget exclusively for engineering proper cooling systems for humans to survive. And it is about survival
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(They moralize the energy cost, but these are different things. Data centers also emit waste heat and in fact, I saw an interesting talk last year in which a thermodynamicist pointed out that if we hyperscale, the waste heat production from computing will rival the greenhouse effect)
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I think people get stuck on moralizing the thermodynamics—AC can only move heat from one place to another, so cooling a home requires venting heat somewhere else. And yes, obviously, that’s not ideal. But as pointed out in the comments, we generate useless waste heat on AI, and no one moralizes that
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In particular, I get the sense from those commenting from naturally cooler regions who have very little experience of the desperation that sets in when you can’t cool down seem to see not having AC in a rapidly warming world as a kind of righteous punishment for our sins. Which is detestable