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- Comment on LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find 6 days ago:
Didn’t read the paper, but the description suggests that the models which were tested were specifically created with a very limited set of training data. I can understand the argument that this might allow researchers to evaluate one property in a simplified environment, namely logic generalization. But it could also be argued that general logic is an emergent property, and limiting the LLM in this way prevents it from reaching that complexity threshold.
I’m not sure if the intent of including the two transformations in the training data was an attempt to provide the LLM with at least one opportunity to generalize between known phenomena before asking it to further generalize.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 week ago:
I keep trying to eat meat but it just won’t cooperate!
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s not that districted voting requires FPTP, but I think the point was that it has an effect that’s similar.
Even if you had RCV in each district so that the elected candidate was generally more preferred by the people in that district, you could still end up with an aggregated outcome where no members from a given party win any districts, yet still had some small portion of voters in each district. In that way the unlucky party gets no representation despite having a non-zero voter base.
So while I wouldn’t use the phrase “inherently bad” to describe district elections, I think the arguments in favor of districtless, proportional voting are stronger.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 week ago:
This issue is actually pretty weird. Racial gerrymandering is a violation of the voting rights act, hence illegal. Partisan gerrymandering is completely legal. In practice this seems to mean that it is harder to gerrymander in states where racial voting patterns align with party, e.g. whites vote Republican, blacks vote Democrat. In states where party lines do not predominantly fall on racial lines, you can hack up the districts to favor your party as much as you like.
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 2 weeks ago:
Calling deleting metadata image processing is a bit of a stretch. And you can disingenuously clean images either client- or server-side, that’s true, but if we’re getting serious here about data privacy, one could independently validate, build, and sign an executable for users to run locally. I don’t know of any similar technique to guarantee what’s running server-side.
- Comment on Exclusive: Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare ‘concrete measures’ against Israel 4 weeks ago:
WHAT ARE THE MEASURES?
- Comment on There's a lot to be known about me by knowing who my exes are, what my favorite songs are to sing in the car, and my fast food orders. 2 months ago:
Exes? Okay.
Favorite car bangers? Right.
Fast food orders? Wut?
- Comment on US | ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world-class’ haters 2 months ago:
I imagine it would be hard to be on the news side of the news/analysis divide, having to talk to these chodes in a professional manner, and also never being able to publicly say they are the biggest chodes you’ve ever met. I bet that sucks. I do get NBCs position on this though.
- Comment on Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances 3 months ago:
Honestly what are you talking about?
- Comment on Trump Selling "Trump Watches" 8 months ago:
I hear youth knives are a growth market
- Comment on Potoo Potions! 9 months ago:
I just had a mini-revelation that this looks weird because the “pupil” is on the surface of the contact instead of under the lens of the eye. These aren’t bad contacts; contacts are just bad like that. Seems that post processing is really the only option.
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 9 months ago:
Short answer is yes.
I got curious and dug up the spec sheet. budgetheating.com/…/BOVA36-60HDN1-M20G Technical … So I overstated my particular unit. It’s rated to -4F.
I live in a climate that gets under -4F a few times a year, so I also have an auxiliary furnace. I set the cutover temp very conservatively at 20F for last winter as it was the first winter using the heat pump, and I also heard people telling horror stories about $1000 electric bills in January.
While my winter electric bill is now larger than my summer bill, the increase in electricity spending is about half the decrease in gas spending. Looking back at the temperature record, my furnace turned on about 10 days last winter.
I’ve got the cutover set to 0F this year and we’ll see how that impacts the balance.
It’s also worth noting that my home was built in the early 70s and still has the original windows and insulation, so it’s a long way from the ideal case.
As for your experience with HVAC technicians, I also met a few who clearly still thought heat pumps didn’t work well enough, and others who basically recommended them to everyone. It really seemed to be a generational thing.
- Comment on Seriously good cold-climate heat pumps are headed to the US market 9 months ago:
I am looking out my window at a heat pump in my back yard which is effective down to -15F. Your info is I think about 10 years out of date.
- Comment on 'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment' 9 months ago:
Skill issue.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their Projects 10 months ago:
If the argument is that sm2 is successful because it limited it’s scope to execute a smaller number of features well, I don’t think that holds up. It took on three different types of games and (imho) executed merely okay. What more could they have added? Open world? MMO?
I think the more plausible explanation is that it’s Warhammer, it’s pretty, and SM1 was good.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their Projects 10 months ago:
Who praised them? But I don’t know what measure we’d use to determine the general reception of this particular feature. Particularly given that almost all video game journalism is mere marketing. So that’s probably not a fruitful point to argue over.
Instead I’ll offer the things that I think earn the competitive multiplayer a poor rating.
- No skill or even experience based match making. Too many games are blowouts because all of the level 1 players were put on one team.
- Teams are static once a match lobby has formed. If the teams are poorly balanced they will continue to be forever. Players can’t even switch voluntarily. The only remedy is to bail on the lobby and hop into a different random one.
- Classes and weapons are poorly balanced. The Bulwark is a key example of a too strong and not fun design. The Assault class, and melee in general is in a pretty poor state (unless you have an infinite defense shield that lets you walk up to people). Many of the weapon options for the classes are almost unusably weak, so class loadouts tend to be very samey. Grenades are spammy and the shock grenade blind duration is not fun.
- Players are randomly assigned Imperial or Chaos marines. But there is basically no character customization for the Chaos marines, while the Imperial marines have 5 or 6 different sets. Either the enemy team should always appear to be Chaos with their NPC style, or they should have included equivalent Chaos customization.
- Players have minimal control over which game modes they play. It’s either 100% random or selecting a single mode. A configurable selection is a common multiplayer feature.
- Map design is bland. This is perhaps a more personal preference, but I find the symmetrical, arcade arenas with no narrative character boring.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 Dev Says Big Budget Games Are Failing in Part Because Teams Are Over-Scoping Their Projects 10 months ago:
Space marine 2 seems like a good example of this.
Single player campaign: mediocre CoOp missions: mediocre Competitive multiplayer: poor
Seems like dropping one of those might have allowed the remaining two to earn a “pretty good”