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SpaceManNabs··on MIT abandons requirement of DEI statements for hiring and promotions
> killer robots won't care about your race

that is not necessarily true... while i agree with most of your sentiment, this statement is specifically why I believe everyone is racist, and nobody knows how racist they are if they only live in a homogeneous place. "this" being not understanding that being race-blind also being blind to correcting disparate treatment.

Regardless, DEI went off too far in the track of identity politics instead of correcting all forms of socioeconomic disparity so wtv. I am not surprised that you could not see the best argument in all the noise and the chaos.

SpaceManNabs··on DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
I saw mullvad vpn ads on the L train (nyc) this week!
SpaceManNabs··on Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
OpenAI has blatantly ignored most of its principles (which Elon called out surprisingly well). Insane to me that people ignore that.
SpaceManNabs··on Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
> we do, it’s just 80% privatized and a massive liability and inconvenience for citizens in ways that it doesn’t need to be

I am guessing to you are referring to how multiple private organizations can just poll for my social security number and I cant do anything about it? Yeah...

SpaceManNabs··on Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
> Wait, is that a decision a company is allowed to make ? Is it the beginning of cyberpunk ?

Companies can choose their clients in a non cyperbunk world too.

SpaceManNabs··on Harvard applications drop 5% after year of turmoil on the Ivy League campus
My mistake. I am only deeply familiar with the first two.
SpaceManNabs··on Harvard applications drop 5% after year of turmoil on the Ivy League campus
Caltech, Princeton, and UChicago remained pretty level headed (both faculty and most students) through all of this. Notice that the first two schools are notorious for not having grade inflation.
SpaceManNabs··on Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
How does back propagation work now? Do these suffer from vanishing or exploding gradients?
SpaceManNabs··on Show HN: I made a spaced repetition tool to master coding problems
how is this different from sharing an anki deck?
SpaceManNabs··on Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood
Lots of the comments are really far off.

The solution is more sunlight during childhood and early adult years. It seems that sunlight is an important signal when it comes to eye growth and shape development.

This has been confirmed for at least a decade.

No need for any particular supplement or food or anything. Literally just go outside for 30 min to 2 hours (can't remember the recommendation).

Kids need recess back.

SpaceManNabs··on It's Official: Scientists Confirmed What's Inside the Moon
The moon being hot enough for a liquid outer core is insane to me. I wasn't aware that tidal heating was so powerful.
SpaceManNabs··on Guy Callendar, the engineer who discovered human-caused global warming
Peer review was broken back then too. It is just too perverse and dismissive. Peer reviewers have a bias to discredit novel results that are true. I feel terribly for Callendar not being recognized.
SpaceManNabs··on Bloomberg's analysis didn't show that ChatGPT is racist
Was the article edited?

Because the heading that says:

"ChatGPT likely isn't racist, but its biases still make it bad at recruiting"

was

""ChatGPT isn't racist, but its biases still make it bad at recruiting"

when I read it, or at least I made a mistake. I will take the L here if the article wasn't edited and admit I misread.

SpaceManNabs··on Justice Department to file antitrust suit against Live Nation
which bank if you feel free comfortable sharing?
SpaceManNabs··on Amazon HQ2 was supposed to add jobs last year. It shed them instead
AOC was right, like she usually is. Regarless, she didn't have any decision making power in this case, only soft power.
SpaceManNabs··on Bloomberg's analysis didn't show that ChatGPT is racist
I basically had the same comment. The issue is that they are responding to bloomberg's flawed analysis. The article focuses on the already-determined metrics correctly, but this discussion already started on the faulty premise that name-based discrimination is the primary metric for determining racial bias in chatgpt.
SpaceManNabs··on Bloomberg's analysis didn't show that ChatGPT is racist
This article does the same stat 101 mistakes that the Bloomberg article does with p-values.

All this article can say it is that it cannot reject the null hypothesis (chatgpt does not produce statistical discrepancies).

It certainly cannot state that chatgpt is definitively not racist. The article moves the discussion in the right direction though.

Also, I didn't look too closely, but their table under "Where the Bloomberg study went wrong" has unreasonable expected frequencies. But then I noticed it was because it was measuring "name-based discrimination." This is a terrible proxy to determine racism in the resume review process, but that is what Bloomberg decided on so wtv lol. Not faulting the article for this, but this discussion seems to be focused on the wrong metric.

If you are going to argue people over stats, then don't make the same mistakes...

SpaceManNabs··on A Visual Guide to Vision Transformers
Lucas Beyer has a lot of references and material as well that I recommend.
SpaceManNabs··on T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs
2FA is broken.

If I want to get a new cell phone number, I am absolutely fucked on everything. This isn't sustainable.

SpaceManNabs··on T-Mobile employees across the country receive cash offers to illegally swap SIMs
Is Id.me and login.gov the same thing?
SpaceManNabs··on AzerothCore: Self-Hosted World of Warcraft 3.3.5a Server
I thought this was illegal? I tried using a private server Summer 2012 and it was shutdown by the end of the summer.
SpaceManNabs··on Implementation of Google's Griffin Architecture – RNN LLM
Calculating self-attention is still quadratic though. So you get the negatives of transformers there too.
SpaceManNabs··on Legendre transform, better explained (2017)
How beautiful that this blog post was made years after I was struggling in thermodynamics to understand these transforms. Now if someone could make a post for the Laplace Transform with the audience being people familiar with the fourier transform.
SpaceManNabs··on Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks
I thought people were being ridiculous when they were angry at mozilla for bundling with Pocket. After this, maybe the slope was more slippery than I thought.
SpaceManNabs··on After five years I discovered why my network goes down (2020)
I don't understand networking enough or maybe what docks actually do. What was the OOP's solution?
SpaceManNabs··on Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Would Rather Wait to Watch Movies on Streaming
> A family of five plus snacks is topping out around $60-70 nowadays

I am in NYC. I went on a double date to the movie theatres for Dune 2. It was like $90 for the tickets, $35 for the pop corn and drinks, and $28 for the alcohol.

Where are you getting this family discount at?

SpaceManNabs··on Cicadas' unique urination unlocks new understanding of fluid dynamics
i didn't think that video would be so interesting. so it is a volume constraint? why don't other bugs do this? just hold more liquid? or do they face other constraints that cicadas don't have?

Very curious.

constraints meaning those that would influence evolution ofc

SpaceManNabs··on Proof of the Singular Value Decomposition
I have ran into this blog on my own while looking up the gumbel distribution. this is a very high quality blog. surprisingly, one of my collaborators was also credited on one of the posts. small world. it makes me wanna say the blog is even more high quality than i thought.
SpaceManNabs··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
This whole post makes OpenAI look like a clown show.
SpaceManNabs··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
The title of the post made me think it was going to be a blog post from a third party commentator. For OpenAI to write such a blog post is so petty and desperate.

It is clear that they are full of it.

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