sarker
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sarker
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20hr ago
San Francisco has plenty of narrow streets and pedestrians. Various parts of the service areas have streets that are not on a grid. There's obviously no snow in San Francisco, but the waymos seem to work fine in the rain.
I personally know of an experimental model spazzing out because it saw a pedestrian holding an umbrella.
A waymo model?
sarker
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1d ago
the fact that LLNs prove and disprove a large number of longstanding theories in linguistics about how intelligence and language work
They really do nothing of the sort. That LLMs can generate language via statistics and matmuls tells us nothing about how the human brain does it.
My TI-84 has superhuman performance on a large set of mathematical tasks. Does it follow that there's a little TI-84 in my brain?
sarker
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2d ago
The human brain is a large language model
What is the evidence for this besides that they both contain something called "neurons"?
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2d ago
They are, after all, self-identifying as non-essential.
This is perhaps the furthest thing possible from "self identification" - it's your boss telling you you're not important enough to be paid.
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3d ago
They really can't be extracting much since they are legally obligated to pay out 80% of premiums. They could pay out perhaps 15% more if the entire company did it for free.
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4d ago
At least on this metric, all of the countries listed are rather lower trust than Switzerland itself, which has been gaining in trust over the past 30 years despite immigration from lower trust societies.
Italy, France, and the DR are similar trust societies. Same for Portugal and India, and El Salvador and Turkey. Albania is lower trust than any other country mentioned.
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5d ago
IME it's practically a perfect egg white substitute in everything short of, uh, egg white omelettes. Good for baking, cocktails, etc.
sarker
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6d ago
And the Assyrians. And the HRH. And the Ethiopian empire. And the Carthaginian empire. And...
sarker
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6d ago
Does New Zealand have a comparative advantage in such questions? Or is it better off trying to materially improve the lives of its citizens and leave those questions for others?
sarker
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6d ago
Canola oil has similar amounts of linoleic acid to chicken fat, and rather less linoleic acid than almonds or sesame oil.
sarker
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6d ago
Linoleic acid is an essential fatty acid that humans require in their diet.
sarker
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7d ago
Not the stupid hat thing again. Replaced.
sarker
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7d ago
sarker
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7d ago
Yes I agree, e.g. in Python I use pd.DatetimeIndex.tz_localize
Well, that's your mistake - I'm talking about the standard library, not pandas. No dependency, no bitrot. No need to localize any datetimes until you're displaying them, so as long as you aren't working with naive datetimes it's pretty low overhead.
Also SQL doesn't play nicely with timezones at all, so the problem still very much exists for SQL scripts unless you only want to use SQL to pull the data and will do all your analysis with the pulled data in a different language.
As SQL is fundamentally not a serious language, it indeed does not support zoneinfo.
sarker
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7d ago
Just about every serious programming language includes zoneinfo related functions in the standard library.
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7d ago
Surely olive oil is uncontroversial even among seed oil disrespecters.
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7d ago
It won't necessarily drift very much away from solar time.
On 18 November 2022, the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) resolved to eliminate leap seconds by or before 2035. The difference between atomic and astronomical time will be allowed to grow to a larger value yet to be determined. A suggested possible future measure would be to let the discrepancy increase to a full minute, which would take 50 to 100 years, and then have the last minute of the day taking two minutes in a "kind of smear" with no discontinuity.
sarker
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7d ago
sarker
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7d ago
Left to decide on their own, no businesses will adjust their hours to start earlier in summer and later in winter.
Then there is probably not much demand for this.
sarker
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7d ago
This matters little since leap seconds will be abolished in the medium term and the difference between UTC and TAI will simply be a constant.
sarker
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7d ago
Sure, but Seattle doesn't have hot summers, and places with hot summers are usually closer to the equator and don't have such early sunrises.
The point is that there isn't a one-size-fits-all opening time solution, which is why it makes sense to let Sol Invictus dictate noon for consistency and let businesses set their hours to be whatever is most useful.
Perhaps waymo's biggest strength so far has been an extremely cautious and slow rollout which I suspect allows them to detect issues like this before they cause accidents (on the theory that for every accident there are ten near misses).
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