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Comment · 9 months ago
I am not so sure on that. They raise inflation, home prices, etc. The locals see no real benefit except having to pay more for everything. While more taxes are collected, most of that goes to offsetting just some of the economic pain induced by the people living there.

and it is in fact zero sum. every spot filled in university or company is a spot not taken by a local, as its obvious by the numbers, more local people are not getting admitted into CS programs nor are they being hired. its 100% zero sum when we are looking at these numbers and %s.

Comment · 9 months ago
back in 2023 when this article was written, you'd get downvoted into oblivion on hacker news for using AI to summarize a very long article/post.
Comment · 1 year ago
actually, I found that you can definitely yield better results. I ran an experiment with 1 prompt at temperature 0 and 9 with temperature 1.

I found the most anomalous response was as good (15/20) or better (5/20) than the temperature 0 response in 20 samples.

Comment · 1 year ago
there is basically everything2vec, but if it doesn't exist, then you can train your own embeddings
Comment · 1 year ago
I wasn't being literal when I said 'who wants to live that way' as in to mean every single person with no exceptions. yes, Locked-in syndrome is a thing. its not healthy but hey, you do you.
Comment · 1 year ago
the point was not to get into a mask debate but "In other countries it's conventional to wear a mask any time you're remotely sick" should ring as BS to you, because those countries have flu and cold just like any other country.

AND if you ask them, they don't do it to prevent others from getting sick (not that that works unless you are gasping air through an n95), but they do it to protect themselves. This is especially true in China where there is also air pollution to consider.

Comment · 1 year ago
yeah, this applies to any authoritarian, whether Communistic, Fascisms, or new age healer crystal worshipers
Comment · 1 year ago
I disagree with the premises outright. I have no intention of causing no harm to anyone. Just by living, we cause harm to others and other beings.

I am going to say things to other people and that is going to make them upset, that is ok. They are going to say things that make me upset, that is ok.

Someone is going to give me a cold, flu, etc. and that is ok. They didn't have to do it, they could have stayed inside for weeks until they were sure they were not sick, but who wants to live that way?

There is a level of harm in anything that that a living thing does.

Comment · 1 year ago
hmmm, wonder if some sort of embeddings, or even graph embeddings can yield some interesting insights into 'similar cities in road networks'
Comment · 1 year ago
I did that myself, not sure whats wrong with my eyes >.<
Comment · 1 year ago
you can call it NATO
Comment · 1 year ago
well, we did blow up their pipeline, so not like we didnt open the salvo for making international resources fair game
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I have found that embeddings + LLM is very successful. I'm going to make the words up as to not yield my work publicly, but I had to classify something into 3 categories. I asked a simple llm to label it, it was 95% accurate. taking the min distance from the word embeddings to the mean category embeddings was about 96%. When I gave gave the LLM the embedding prediction, the LLM was 98% accurate.

There were issues an embedding model might not do well on where as the LLM could handle. for example: These were camel case words, like WoodPecker, AquafinaBottle, and WoodStock (I changed the words to not reveal private data). WoodPecker and WoodStock would end up with close embedding values because the word Wood dominated the embedding values, but these were supposed to go into 2 different categories.

Comment · 2 years ago
its a feature, not a bug, sorry you don't understand it enough to get the most power from it.

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