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Re:Ember-1 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:32PM (#49870034)
Curious about how you generated the training data? Was it just asking an existing model to generate a bunch of examples?

I ask cause would this be a kind of model distillation?

I have a small model I'm looking to train on some data, and I have some real live data but I'd love to be able to extend it.

Re:GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:08PM (#49473911)
Maybe off topic, but I'm very sad old.reddit.com is now forcing login. Have pretty much stopped using reddit since they did that.
I've read a take somewhere that seemed to make sense. They don't want to get stuck with the liabilities of the content that gets posted on their platforms. So by forcing the age verification onto the users, forcing users to identify and track themselves, they can have a "clean" route to someone who posts illicit content on their platforms.

It just sucks that that's all in sacrifice of our privacy.

Re:Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:22PM (#45109224)
Hard disagree on this. The gap between the levels of statistical significance you get in economics vs physics is massive. They're not at the same levels of inevitability. The predictive power of the laws of physics vs the laws of economics is vastly different.
Re:A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @01:57AM (#45035901)
So people that look to chatgpt for answers and help (as they've been programmed to do with all the marketing and capabilities from openai) should just die because they looked to chatgpt for an answer instead of google or their local suicide helpline? That doesn't seem reasonable, but it sounds to me like what you're saying.

> So did the user. If he didn't want to talk to a chatbot he could have stopped at any time. This sounds similar to when people tell depressed people, just stop being sad.

IMO if a company is going to claim and release some pretty disruptive and unexplored capabilities through their product, they should at least have to make it safe. You put a safety railing because people could trip or slip. I don't think a mistake that small should be end in death.

Maybe the fix to home invasion burglaries isn't increased surveillance but actually helping people? We increasingly put people in bad situations and then blame them when they lash out.

This sounds like a "first they came for the socialists..." moment. Where we might not feel oppressed with the increased surveillance but as we go further and further into the surveillance state, eventually we'll be the ones that are pushed into a bad situation where a surveillance state is used against us.

The system that is killing our planet, that exploits and ends up killing the majority of its unwilling participants? Yeah, I don't think the loss in productivity will be a bad thing. Maybe people will consider the effect of their work before doing it a little more when they don't have a gun to their head.
Did you read the article? Because it says that about half of the ones that stopped working stopped working because they were going back to school. That doesn't seem like a drain on the system...
So not sure if you read this part

> Lewchuk added that while some people did stop working, about half of them headed back to school in hopes of coming back to a better job.

But they didn't just stop working, they went back to school

Re:Introduction to Stochastic Calculus on Monday February 24, 2025 @12:17PM (#43162117)
Itô is the name of the type of calculus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C3%B4_calculus) and calculare I think is just the plural of calculus. So something like "all the itô calculus are notable examples of fairly high level mathematics ..."
Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? on Thursday January 16, 2025 @11:40PM (#42734155)
My only hope for climate change is that insurance companies start lobbying to have a more predictable environment since risk models works better when things aren't chaotic, and that gives a monetary incentice for companies to do better
Check out cronenberg's recent movie, crimes of the future, seems relevant haha
Re:GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:15PM (#35530888)
agreed, not to mention that there's things that just can't be expressed. Speaking as someone fluent in spanish and english there's nuance to some things that don't really translate well.
Reminds me of the classic yoda quote "do or do not there is no try".
It sucks there are no pictures of the actual sinkhole or forest, but this is amazing!
Re:Success and Failure at Pebble on Monday April 11, 2022 @09:27PM (#30997475)
What about teenage engineering. Though it's kind of niche?
Re:Explore Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables in Europe on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:57AM (#26622668)
anyone know of anything like this for Canada? Specifically Ontario.
That's the whole concept of esperanto afaik. Google it, it's a language designed to be easy to learn.
I think they meant DDos'ing as in the person gets overwhelmed with notifications and can't actually see the notification about the password change. (i.e. the person's attention is the service)
Re:Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @05:14PM (#26019870)
Seeing all the comments in this thread that people have had bad experiences with pipenv, this contrasts with my own experience which has been pretty good. How has pipenv failed for everyone?

Gonna take a look at poetry, but would love to hear what problems people have had with pipenv?

Re:What’s Wrong With The Honeywell Humidifier on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:54PM (#25997557)
Are there any of those Japanese ones you can buy in North America? Any brands you're aware of?
Re:FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:36PM (#25850919)
It would be so cool if they did not just shipping to art galleries, but also mass produced it so you could get your own fedex shipping box art at home.
Re:Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:17AM (#25834187)
So what should we be using instead of elasticsearch for logs? To mitigate that licensing risk?
Had a similar idea recently and I'm so happy someone has taken this to fruition! Would love to know when you guys can do the interviews in Spanish since I'd want to get a few of my parents and grandparents stories.
Re:Show HN: Live map of “good morning/night” tweets on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:39PM (#24750952)
hmmm, doesn't seem to work in firefox for me?

Realy cool though!

Not to contradict your point, because I agree fully, but given how concisely you put it, I'd be interested in what your thoughts are on Freedom Mobile? I know they're kind of independent, but also their coverage sucks.
Yeah, I would argue it isn't. It's at least not a healthy democracy.
Re:AWS Copilot on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:15AM (#23843640)
This starts to sound more and more like how they manufacture plumbuses
Re:A Steve Jobs masterclass from a decade ago on Monday July 13, 2020 @11:57PM (#23828379)
I find I have a better experience discovering music by making a playlist and then doing the playlist radio to get more music similar to it. Eventually it just plateaus and keeps giving me the same artists as the playlist, but there's a kind of sweet spot where I've found stuff I wouldn't have found otherwise.

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