(Enn) Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦

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2024-09-19 12:41:58

Only 9 years before Putin was born.

2024-09-18 14:52:07

"Webster's Dictionary defines cringe as..."
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2024-09-15 12:38:47

I find it unfortuate that there's many conditions for which people self treat... and we do nothing with that data
Yes, not running a trial in controlled conditions means it's of limited ability to *prove* something, but it certainly has utility in terms of *suggesting* avenues for further study.

2024-09-14 13:02:34

Haha, I don't think I know that joke ;)

2024-09-14 12:48:43

His take has already been, "Wow, it's already doing neat things - we just need more data and scale, and it'll be solved!"
Doesn't work that way.
If he had been around in the 1970s, he would have been talking about how we just needed wider perceptron layers, and ignored DNNs.

2024-09-14 12:47:03

I think neural networks are very much the way to handle scenarios with edge cases- they're much more flexible at dealing with the unexpected than hard-coded algorithms.
But I have been continuously frustrated at Elon's naive takes on them. He constantly neglects the importance of NN architecture.

2024-09-14 12:39:13

Only 1/3rd of employees in the US have long-term disability coverage, and not everyone is employed. And the policies usually have time limits. A nice gold-plated policy might last until retirement age, while a cheap one might be just a couple years. Also, just provides a partial salary, not health.

2024-09-14 12:34:55

I only will reverse my investment stance if Elon leaves.
I've always been bullish on autonomy long-term but pessimistic short-term, due to the extreme amount of edge cases. I wouldn't have even bought Autopilot if it hadn't become included by default (though I'm glad I have it).

2024-09-14 12:29:50

Conservative is a relative term - in that post I was referring to it by a US baseline.
Like for example, thinking that you should have a decade of life support and nursing paid for by the government would be quite a far left position in the US.

2024-09-14 12:19:24

against the stock. My net leverage now is roughly neutral, occasionally even net short.
The main problem Tesla has is that all the investors who are furious at Elon sell, leaving only the nutcases steering the ship (or rather, letting Elon steer it without any checks and balances)

2024-09-08 15:32:54

Hard to beat thick layers of cross-linked cyclic carbon compounds. :)

2024-09-07 19:48:34

Besta útsýni. :)
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2024-08-25 03:53:08

In a good or bad way?

2024-08-15 12:26:24

Yeah, shrinkflation is the first workaround step. But if the government is really sold on this dumb idea, their next step would be to mandate package and quantity sizes, and even product content standards....

2024-08-13 08:29:47

Trump picking Sofa Loren as his VP nominee is the gift that keeps on giving.
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2024-08-12 21:00:39

Driving through Kursk be like:
"Let's see, so we're in Banderivsk, and we're headed to Mazepivka via Mikhnivka."
"Is that near Zelenki?"
"No, it's by Zaluzhne. Right between Bayraktarove and HIMARSke."

2024-08-11 23:02:31

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant today. Video:
t.me/V_Zelenskiy_...
Rumours are that the fire is just tyres being deliberately burned to create a panic.
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2024-08-11 14:42:19

Lead-acid is still the best choice?

2024-08-08 16:55:18

I seem to remember reading something about German tanks threatening Kursk before... ;)

2024-08-08 14:48:17

Jesus Christ.
www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...
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2024-08-07 19:29:55

I mean... I think everyone looking back I kind of wish you *had* bombed lend lease hardware in 1945 end of the war, so western forces could have occupied more of Europe instead of the USSR...
I know hindsight is 20/20, but the fact that they continued to supply it until September 1945 is crazy.

2024-08-07 15:55:05

Yeah, the atomic bombs certainly weren't the *only* war crimes going on. The firebombing of Japanese cities killed around 100k people, albeit over a multi-year period, and wasn't as *unambigously* done with the goal of killing civilians (much of Japanese industry was mixed in with residential)

2024-08-04 16:09:46

You can accomplish amazing feats when you systematically dope your athletes ;)

2024-07-31 17:09:29

Here in Iceland, just as an example, I once went to a political party meeting where the prime minister was speaking, and during the meeting, little kids were running around her table playing tag.
People just take them with them and let them be kids. And that's certainly good for birth rates.
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2024-07-31 16:36:44

The US is really obsessed with helicopter parenting, at least compared to what's normal in Iceland.
In the US, it's sort of expected that you give up a lot of your life to raise your kids, where here, you give them more independence and/or take them with you. Even like to a heavy metal concert.

2024-07-31 16:17:56

...
Let me repeat that. They believe that AI will be working an ever-larger share of jobs, eventually all of them, and bringing in an era of abundance. *So what does the number of human workers even matter*?

2024-07-28 15:26:14

You know, if you ever took on a "meh, fuck it" attitude, you could have so much fun with interviewers. Like, you could start advocating *for* ALS. "I never had a chance to get this much rest before I got ALS! And you get so much done when you're not running around all day...."

2024-07-28 12:40:14

Can't tell you how much I enjoy watching Vivian dunk on her nutjob dad ;)
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2024-07-24 15:35:52

Bridgy.Fed says it supports Threads :) Any clue what his account is?

2024-07-21 18:32:48

Does't match any Icelandic word, but the closest that come to mind are "kamar" (outhouse) and "kamaldýr" (camel) ;)

2024-07-21 18:20:42

(Almost surely done in negotiated agreement with top Democratic leaders to likewise endorse her).
First female president of the US. Best of luck you guys, I hope you can pull it off. :)
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2024-07-18 19:37:12

Staff gets paid well here, but it does mean that eating out isn't cheap.

2024-07-14 19:01:41

The acceptable kind of sheep.
(The ones that are outside my fence!)
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2024-07-07 10:32:15

Sort of like military exercizes against "yellow".
"No no, this isn't about you, Russia! It's just about some unspecified party that happens to fit your description!" ;)

2024-06-19 11:00:00

I did it backwards, learning assembly around when I started university, which I attended two years early. An assembly program I wrote, I later discovered, ended up being used by the teacher as an example for later classes :) It was ModeX pong with sound, mouse, special effects, humanlike AI, etc.

2024-06-11 20:29:15

IMHO, it comes down to Ukraine being able to, for brief periods, achieve temporary air superiority.
There's no chance of permanent air superiority. But effective SEAD for covering quick assaults very well may be in the future.

2024-06-09 16:41:23

I love that Google Translate translates it as "Jumping Buddy" ;)

2024-06-09 13:31:41

Glaze is snake oil.r>
bsky.app/profile/nafn...
And Bluesky is a public place. Anyone can register an account and see anything unless you've blocked them. And even then it's still visible on the protocol.

2024-05-25 08:51:46

This here IMHO is the actual problem with Google's "AI results" RAG summary. They *directly tasked it* to trust top results from an internet search & repeat them with confidence.
It matters to the searcher whether the top result is from e.g. nature.com vs. from theonion.com. But not to the summary.

2024-05-25 08:15:06

I assume that's your birthday? And the family requested no guests on your birthday?

2024-05-24 12:26:47

I had a tank buried in a filtration medium in an underground stream on a neighbor's land uphill from mine, so it's gravity-fed at full pressure. Delicious, reliable, and low impact. :)

2024-05-24 11:11:30

I buy flour from commercial suppliers by the dozens of kilos every 1-2 years and use a bread machine roughly weekly. :)

2024-05-22 11:07:51

In the Russian propaganda circus, Solovyov is the star clown.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAa-...

2024-05-17 21:00:22

I've said it many times before, but I'm really glad there's people like you working on nuclear safety, rather than people with little imagination about how failures can compound in complex, out-of-the-blue, or just plain stupid ways :)

2024-05-17 10:47:39

And 4000 MWh? Nice. :)