this is a pitch for malleable/end-user software; meta's app isn't interested in feedback because there are just too many of you and you might be lying. _your_ app can accept and believe and immediately act on your feedback
I would love to see a map of watershed basins but instead it's where "the city" refers to, when someone asks you where you're from
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I am continually surprised that this doesn't cause more problems
git merge mostly just works without introducing any bugs but it has this seemingly huge flaw!
looking forward to an LLM-aided git merge which considers the intent & semantics of each commit while merging
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how would one automatically generate these alignments?
throwing a bunch of paintings through an embedding model into a similarity search doesn't quite seem like it does the trick: this alignment is so perfect because it's a small crop of the original painting
really enjoying @_MathAcademy_
the gamification is subtle, but strong enough that it's helped me brush up on basics and average ~an hour of math per day for the last 2 months
Arena Cove caught a tiny tsunami and 10 minutes later the warning was cancelled. This line might have been involved in the decision? But one measurement doesn't seem sufficient to call off a warning, what other data sources might have been involved?
a great post on how to read prediction market prices, sometimes they're biased even when everyone is acting rationally. be sure to click through to the fed working paper
quantian.substack.com/p/mark…
The existence of undetectable backdoors seems to suggest some kind of impossibility result for alignment: you have no idea what your optimizer might have planted in there: arxiv.org/abs/2204.06974
Very ironic that the anti-virus triggered this. Why should a virus even be possible on these things? Most of these are playing a loop and would prefer to be a raspberry pi and a thumb drive, barely online.
The game theory of medieval monks giving out curses to those who betray them
academic.oup.com/jleo/articl…
Next time I write a control panel for some system I will write it in Blender and it will come with stunning visualizations:
Airports are the lungs of cities. They perform a crucial gas exchange between the outside world and the bloodstream: the hierarchical road networks cities use to nourish themselves.
ALT /imagine gravure illustration, cartoon kunst, airport, planes landing, control tower, people walking to cars, zoom out, wide angle, birds eye view --q 2 --s 750
