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Pictures aren’t mandatory. Most restaurants don’t have them.

In the US, some of those apps were generating gross nonsense like showing an image of a pizza with a sweet pie filling (because the menu said “pizza pie”).

I don’t get how AI images like this don’t open them up to false advertising lawsuits

It must be some 5-dimensional chess he’s playing, it couldn’t be that he’s just an edgelord Nazi whose brain has been liquefied by ketamine abuse

I shouldn’t have been so negative. I still very much like Rust, but hearing about these AI rewrites constantly is tiresome.

I used to like rust, but I feel like I’m being Pavlovian-conditioned to recoil at its mention now.

I assure you they would be more than happy to order it for you.

The behavior of a single model and version can and does change. There’s not only built-in stochasticity, but closed hosted models like Claude are tweaked and changed all the time.

Buying the physical book from Amazon isn’t a great way to stick it to Bezos. Just have your local bookstore order it for you, it’s easy.

He’s such a good guy

wow, that’s crazy that OpenAI is saying that negative opinion against them is actually a nefarious foreign conspiracy, and does not actually indicate people hate them

Ah, Axios. The same great outlet that has gotten the scoop on the Iran war ending numerous times.

More of a lot of things. Universal healthcare (as opposed to employer-provided plans) encourages people to start their own businesses. UBI would be similar, but moreso.

You’d really think they’d really check everything and cross their t’s after their previous issues in marjorana fermion QC. I generally have a very high opinion of MS research, but this is getting a bit embarrassing.

Bingo. The typical data scientist has a masters or PhD in a non-CS quantitative field, and has had exactly zero CS or software eng classes. It’s a shame, because once you get over some of the idiosyncrasies, R is a really powerful and flexible functional language.

I’m a big fan of Polars. It’s really fast and memory efficient. With the lazy streaming functionality, I’ve been able to easily process 1 Tb+ data on a single machine (you do have to be careful to not do any operation that would cause the whole DF to materialize in that case).

It’s certainly miles better than Pandas, which has a terrible API in addition to being comically inefficient. In my group, we generally use it for any new work, and have also swapped out pandas for polars in critical spots of our existing code - the latter giving a huge benefit relative to the amount of work it took.

I largely agree with you on SQL being the common denominator, but there are some things that are just awkward in SQL, and much easier to do in Python or other general purpose language.

I’m not saying it doesn’t have flaws, but the tidyverse is still the most coherent and functional ML/stat computing ecosystem I’ve ever used. R packages outside of the tidyverse can get pretty gnarly. Even the R stdlib is usually considered to be inconsistent and riddled with legacy cruft.

They kind of have to shoehorn “AI” in there have any hope of raising capital these days.

The onus is you to show it makes children safer - you’re the one advocating these privacy-harming rules.

There’s no way Anthropic can keep jacking up the prices like this for every marginally better model. I think even tokenmaxxing companies are going to soon balk at $50/million output tokens.

Recipes were the province of the wealthy. The average person would have had a very repetitive, bland, and potentially malnourishing diet. They might have had some herbs or even foraged like you say, that still is very bland and boring compared to what we’re used to.

Ironically enough, the thing that really did Roman Italy it was Justinian’s reconquest. The Gothic War was absolutely devastating. Yersinia pestis didn’t help either, of course.

It’s not so well-paying anymore, especially given the onerous education requirements. The exception is for the few who get hired in biglaw firms

An export ban wouldn’t really help much: US oil production is (now) predominantly light crude, while US refinery capacity is oriented towards heavy crude from the gulf or Venezuela.

We produce more oil than we use, but we can’t refine it all.

How do you do that when the ruling class has a vested interest in preventing it?

The kind of consumer thrift stores want to sell to. They don’t have to be real.

Coulda fooled me. From what I’ve seen, it seemed like they were dragged to electric kicking and screaming after other options didn’t pan out - even with assistance from regulators. Germany has a severe problem with rational consideration of energy issues.

Thrift and vintage stores have been pivoting to the premium consumer as well.

The impact hypothesis for Younger Dryas isn’t really tenable. Among other things, the climate effects of a large bolide impact would be global, whereas Antarctica actually warmed during YD. This “Polar See-saw” pattern is easily explained by a northerly meltwater pulse hypothesis, but not a bolide.

There’s so much magic, for lack of a better word, in those illustrations. Miyazaki is really one of a kind.

I think they’re just trying to do anything to survive, since they’re getting their lunch eaten by LLMs trained in stack overflow posts.