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jwjohnson314··on Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure
Out of curiosity, how long ago were those incidents? Seems crazy for such well-known areas with guidebooks and extensive documentation on mountain project.
jwjohnson314··on Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure
Really? In 30 years of climbing I’ve never run into territorial locals. Surfing, on the other hand, can be pretty hostile.
jwjohnson314··on Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time
And sell some puts against assets at good prices to harvest premium in the meantime
jwjohnson314··on Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?
Can you elaborate on this? I am curious what processes are being simulated to feed the network.
jwjohnson314··on TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale
The lack of screen time limits on the Apple TV just demonstrates Apple's complete lack of credibility in this area too.

And the parental controls on their other devices are illogical and remarkably buggy. Clearly not a priority.

jwjohnson314··on A university president makes a case against cowardice
> The salt in the wounds is that universities are flush with cash, yet its spent on anything and everything except for the welfare of the students.

Maybe the elites. State schools and small colleges are not flush with cash and many have been shuttered or severely downsized recently. Though they could still spend their limited funds better.

jwjohnson314··on My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?
This is remarkably dystopian. ‘Bought our tv? We are going to show you ads and you can’t even turn it off’
jwjohnson314··on The Government Knows AGI Is Coming – The Ezra Klein Show [video]
And no evidence - literally nothing - presented to support the idea of looming AGI except ‘some people in the business/in the government said so, and I believe them.’
jwjohnson314··on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
I think of hallucinating as a phenomenon where the model makes up something that appears correct but isn’t. Citations to papers that don’t exist, for example. Regurgitating training data (which may or may not be correct) is a different issue.
jwjohnson314··on Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone
The interesting thing here to me is that the llm isn’t ‘hallucinating’, it’s simply regurgitating some data it digested during training.
jwjohnson314··on Bald eagles are thriving again after near extinction
To say nothing of the California golden bear, which graces the state flag despite being hunted to extinction around 1924. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear
jwjohnson314··on Francois Chollet is leaving Google
PyTorch is just much more flexible. Implementing a custom loss function, for example, is straightforward in PyTorch and a hassle in Keras (or was last time I used it, which was several years ago).
jwjohnson314··on SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005
In addition to the points others have made, flights that pass near the poles are often rerouted to lower latitudes.
jwjohnson314··on SWPC issues first G4 geomagnetic storm watch since 2005
If you have a pair of eclipse glasses you may be able to see the sunspot cluster causing all the action with them, it’s enormous.
jwjohnson314··on Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)
Unfortunately a rain/sleet/ice/wet snow mix is now more common than 'dry' snow in my part of the northeast US, necessitating waterproof gear if you want to be outside in the winter.
jwjohnson314··on Patagonia's New Study Finds Fleece Jackets Are a Serious Pollutant (2016)
66north from Iceland has some excellent wool fleeces.
jwjohnson314··on Realtors reach settlement that will change how Americans buy and sell homes
But where do you find a good agent? My experiences have been of sellers agents dramatically undervaluing my property hoping for a quick sale and buyers agents with none of the qualities you mention, just a desire to push me to buy at any price asap regardless of whether the property they are showing me is a decent fit or not. I have yet to experience any value added from an agent on either side of the transaction.
jwjohnson314··on A different tipping culture compared to a few years ago
Pay cash, skip the screen