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Comment · 7 days ago
You implied that they are engaged in sabotage because they believe that if AI increases efficiency to the point where backlogs are easily cleared out by a small number of people there will be workforce reductions. I’m not sure why you’re so confident the opposite is true, or why you assume they are taking this view and concluding that sabotage is appropriate. But it is almost certainly damaging yourself and others around you greatly to assume so much malice in the people around you. Maybe I’m not reading enough into the “test it” phrasing but I don’t think it implies all that you seem to think it does.
Comment · 7 days ago
This is an absolutely unhinged personal attack on the op that has nothing to do with their comment. Why do you assume they are intentionally slowing things down? Because their analysis of the situation is that some people will be fired?
Comment · 3 months ago
I find that writing with ai is far superior both in terms of results and for my memory. Writers like Neal won’t be competitive for much longer. It’s time to put the pencils down.
Comment · 5 months ago
Bit late, but since I don’t see any correct answers here - no a jury is not required here. The judge chose to convene an *advisory* jury here — likely to strengthen the factual findings of the court and maybe to save the court itself some time/effort.
Comment · 5 months ago
Not a lawyer but generally it is as you say: "because the trials suck after a while cuz no one remembers anything". It's not fair to have a trial when the evidence is unreliable because of the flow of time.

Encouraging timely action is another factor. Generally people with real harms will file sooner than later, otherwise why wait?

It's also to grant peace of mind -- so people can stop worrying about potential litigation after some amount of time.

Comment · 5 months ago
Are you a lawyer? IANAL but my understanding is it would be difficult for an appeal to succeed. Appeals courts only evaluate review matters of law, not of fact. Whether is has been more than the 3 year limit the statute of limitations places is a matter of fact I think. And the advisory jury makes this much harder to appeal. What do you think the grounds for appeal will be?
Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder if this could be used for doping in aerobic sports? Could this elevate overall oxygen intake in a healthy person?

My vague understanding is that oxygen intake is a big limiting factor in aerobic activities hence measurement of things like vo2max in sports science. ‘Blood doping’ has similar benefits though it’s also about having more blood period.

It seems unlikely that one could take a big enough suppository to help in a meaningful way in a marathon, but in a middle distance race lasting only a few minutes…

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKS_primality_test though it's number theory, and concerned with numbers of size n, rather than lists of length n.

Also relevant: https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/aspnes/pinewiki/Derandomizatio...

Comment · 1 year ago
Hyperloglog analyses generally assume access to the full data stream, and so are O(n) at a minimum. Perhaps by running hyperloglog on a sublinear sample of the dataset you'd get an algorithm in this class.
Comment · 2 years ago
You have it precisely backwards. "Developing scenes in which the reader discovers what kind of people they are" is synonymous with "show" and "being told" is literally a form of "tell."
Comment · 3 years ago
From your article: > The United States became a party in 1989.

The person you are responding to is writing about American Copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St.... The first american copyright law is from 1790, which does in fact predate the bern convention, and our life of the author plus 50 years rule is from the copyright act of 1976, 13 years before the US ratified the bern convention.

So yes, it is an 'American thing' as are all issues of law in the US. And if you think that this kind of convention is meaningfully binding, just checkout the history of the US and other major powers with regards to various other international treaties, like the ICC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court.

Comment · 3 years ago
Those aren't redundant or collinear though? Maybe you are surprised they didn't encode this as an integer "num_images"? It is fairly common to one hot encode ordinal variables with only a few common/possible values this way.

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