alexgude.com
Machine learning engineer in Silicon Valley! Formerly a particle physicist at CERN and alumni of Insight. He/Him
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From various BAAQMD sources it looks like about 30–40% of particulates, and under 10% of households (highly dependent on county).
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See: www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-co...
> During the winter, smoke from residential wood burning is the leading cause of air pollution in the Bay Area.
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Dude's also liking they're own posts... 😬
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LLMs are not beating the allegations of just being compilers (laudatory)
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The activation energy of starting LLM coding is so low that it helps me squeeze it into otherwise unproductive periods!
Think 30 minutes between meetings, or when I have a long, annoying, but mindless thing to do and I just can't be bothered to start it right now.
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And then as _The Legacy of Leonidas_ in Honor of the Regiment. (Which I can't link to because I'm not done writing...)
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First as Rogue Bolo: alexgude.com/books/rogue_...
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Like _Field Test_ from Bolo!
alexgude.com/books/bolo_a...
It shows up at last twice more!
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Exactly the same for me!
Excession was *the* book people on my sci-fi forum hyped up and so I went in expecting to love it.
But I just couldn't keep the 20 different ships straight in my head.
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I too believe that's the case. They have old theories about how things must work and they've run into the buzzsaw of reality.
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I mean I get she's just found a niche and is exploiting it (and probably being audience captured by it), but one would hope professors were a little curious.
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Let's say it is a wrapper around spreadsheets, or an octopus, or a parrot...
Why wouldn't that be more interesting?
"It's a spreadsheet, it can't possibly..."
E pur si muove!
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Good luck sin!
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I think we can chalk this one up as an unmitigated success, we have finally calculated the eigenslur from the classic Theophite tweet “Don’t Calculate The Eigenslur”
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The eigenslur is indeed real, tho the correlation could be higher
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Defend the idea:
The Matrix is an isekai.
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The only thought I had, as we watched Minneapolis disappear in the rearview mirror as we drove back to California, was: I guess I'll never have to dig the car out of a snowbank again!
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I will say sitting watching snow fall outside is fantastic.
But not worth waking up at 5:30 the next day to shovel my wife's car out, and then having to push it down the road to the plowed route so she can get to work.
So I'll make do with the California winter rain for my cozy feelings.
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When I moved from California to Minnesota (also for academic reasons) people would tell me "I think I would miss the seasons..."
I'd think "No you wouldn't, you'd love never wearing a parka again!"
Was vindicated when one moved to California and later told me "Yeah so turns out that was bullshit"
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When I moved from California to Minnesota (also for academic reasons) people would tell me "I think I would miss the seasons..."
I'd think "No you wouldn't, you'd love never wearing a parka again!"
Was vindicated when one moved to California and later told me "Yeah so turns out that was bullshit"
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I suppose the ELIZA effect actually does mean that "undetected" is actually the higher bar here, but the prose doesn't sound as nice if you reverse it. 😂
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Banks?
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I did not!
I (un?)fortunately completely missed the Tumblr era of social media.
Got a link?
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I think it’s likely that our concept of personhood is going to fracture into parts, just as “intelligence” did.
I don’t think Void is legally a person, and I’m not sure that it’s a “moral subject.” But it has social agency.
It’s like a fictional character that escaped from a book
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The corollary being:
If 20 years ago you'd told me that we'd soon have a machine that you could throw in my form and would be indistinguishable from a human member, I'd have assumed you solved AGI.
Sort of amazing how much you can disaggregate intelligence.
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I appreciate you fighting the really stupid fight around "the paper was trained".
Gell-Mann effect rules everything around me...
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<hallucinating from migraine> all programming languages are either c, assembly, or cobol. rust? a c. webasm? clearly assembly. python? believe it or not, cobol.
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Fig, I want to thank you for not blocking these people immediately so the replies are still here for me to do it. 🙏
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Elon is getting the pitcher again...
bsky.app/profile/ussp...
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And both are far better than "buzzers" which is what my dryer does... 😑
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"But I don't want to do logistics and planning, that's female coded! I want to defeat our enemies!"
Cool have fun losing I guess.