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anomaloustho
·قبل 5 أيام·discuss
The problem is the background is often times doing a wave motion across the screen.

Then the foreground content is doing an in/out undulation on top. So you’re seeing an undulating in/out in every possible direction + the background. And the foreground animations are all at the same time. So it’s not that we’re emphasizing any one thing. We’re emphasizing all of it.

The key with animations is in what they’re trying to draw attention to, the character of the movement, and the timing of it. You usually don’t want everything to equally animate at once.

I would: • Use background movement that also isn’t a “wave” • Stagger the timing of foreground animations so the main content is emphasized, followed by a pause, followed by the sidebars • Change the nature of the animations so they’re not doing the same essentially thing “zoom and pan” - so have the center zoom and pan, but do something different for the sides.
anomaloustho
·قبل 15 يومًا·discuss
I think you don’t want to anthropomorphize nature, not because you shouldn’t have empathy, but because it can cause you to draw the wrong scientific conclusions.

e.g. faithful bird conclusions when they aren’t always monogamous, ants forming societies and having loyalty when they don’t, alpha wolves when alphas aren’t really a thing.
anomaloustho
·قبل 6 أشهر·discuss
Just noticed the “whataboutism”. I don’t have a particular take on the comment above but those countries do those things in their own parts of the globe.

The government of nations is anarchy and in anarchy the only rule is that “might makes right”. Some seem to have a view that there is a world government and that there are “rules” when in reality there are none.
anomaloustho
·قبل 7 أشهر·discuss
Why do we use polytree in this context instead of DAG? Because nodes can’t ever come back together?
anomaloustho
·قبل 8 أشهر·discuss
It’s already been said, but most companies already have those instant “alarms” that go off within minutes. 80% of the time, those alarms are red herrings that get triaged. At a lot of companies, they go off constantly.

As a company, you don’t want to declare an outage readily and you definitely don’t want it to be declared frequently. Declaring an outage frequently means:

• Telling your exec team that your department is not running well • Negative signal to your investors • Bad reputation with your customers • Admitting culpability to your customers and partners (inviting lawsuits and refunds) • Telling your engineering leadership team that your specific team isn’t running well • Messing up your quarterly goals, bonuses etcetera for outages that aren’t real

So every social and incentive structure along the way basically signals that you don’t want to declare an outage when it isn’t real. You want to make sure you get it right. Therefore, you don’t just want to flip a status page because a few API calls had a timeout.
anomaloustho
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
Isaac Arthur has put it in a way that resonated with me. If you live in a universe that has FTL, it’s scarier in a lot ways. It means the really dangerous bad guys in the other galaxy can reach you. If you live in a world without FTL, it makes things happen really slowly and over generations. That’s not as fun and exciting, but it also severely limits the amount of bad guys that can get to you.

And any bad guy that can even reach you basically means you’re already dead if they so choose.
anomaloustho
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
No, because you can only randomly measure the state of your particle and therefore the remote particle. (then lose the entanglement) But you can’t put the particle into a state.
anomaloustho
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
I wrote elsewhere but I’m more interpreting this distinction as “RL in real-time” vs “RL beforehand”.
anomaloustho
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
Looks like they added the link. But I think it’s doing RL in realtime vs pre-trained as an LLM is.

And I associate that part to AGI being able to do cutting edge research and explore new ideas like humans can. Where, when that seems to “happen” with LLMs it’s been more debatable. (e.g. there was an existing paper that the LLM was able to tap into)

I guess another example would be to get an AGI doing RL in realtime to get really good at a video game with completely different mechanics in the same way a human could. Today, that wouldn’t really happen unless it was able to pre-train on something similar.
anomaloustho
·قبل 4 سنوات·discuss
My guess is this exploits an AirBnB loophole that allows a host to remove a review if the guest never stays.

Small technicality, but the review asks you to rate how clean the place is, what condition it’s in, etcetera — you probably wouldn’t have been able to rate those honestly having not stayed.

Some of this rides a thin line in the sense that you made it far enough through the booking to have technically left a review, but wouldn’t have been able to if you had the dispute earlier. In other cases (ones I’ve personally experienced), I’ve had hosts who were jerks and I canceled before ever getting close to the check in time. In that case, you can’t leave a review on AirBnB or Turo. The only punishment to the host is lost revenue and lost opportunity.

At the very least you know the host lost revenue for this. It can be difficult to get a new booking in such short notice.