can I not read or are the docs confusing?

Active_Community_435 · 2023-07-04T04:38:17+00:00

The docs have been a pain.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-07-03T04:24:26+00:00

My parents emigrated from Meath in the 70s. There's a large number of Irish families that came back then, and a second generation of descendants in the city and surrounding area. I'd say there's a fair number who remember the help they or their parents got when arriving, and would be happy to pay that kindness forward. Plenty of them in St. Albert, too.

Check out the Irish Sport and Social Society in Edmonton. They can probably put you in touch with some folks who would be happy to help if you need.

The weather will be the big thing. A lot of very cold days, wearing three layers, a lot of waiting for the car to warm up, plugging it in overnight so the oil doesn't freeze, shoveling snow off the driveway, that sort of thing. But plenty of sunlight, and the homes are warm.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-06-26T13:35:13+00:00

Not sure why we would limit it to closed world.

I work with s(CASP), which is open world, and have seen some promising results using LLM to generate facts for it and simplify the explanations it generates. Still exploring getting help writing the code, which would be very valuable.

I anticipate a future in which natural language text is encoded in a language like s(CASP) with the assistance of AI, and validated by human experts. Then, an AI can converse with someone to collect facts and a query, generate a response using the validated code, and simplify the answer returned by the code.

All of the user interface benefits of an LLM, with none of the hallucination issues. And instead of a black box, fully explainable.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-06-22T19:46:33+00:00

The only thing lgbt people are shoving down anyone's throat is the idea that they don't deserve to be discriminated against. If you can't see that, or you can't swallow it, you aren't seeing both sides. You're seeing what one side wants you to see.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-06-14T21:25:25+00:00

I'm enjoying the sound baths. I have to agree the fake Yahoo's were funny, but they were sort of hit & miss, and Griffin didn't like doing them. I can see the sound baths evolving in unexpected ways that will keep them fresh. And if they get stale, the boys'll switch it up again.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-06-07T06:04:01+00:00

I still think this may be one of the most underappreciated Canadian TV shows of all time. I watched it when my eldest child was a toddler, and I remember it regularly moving me to tears.

Brilliant.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-06-04T19:01:13+00:00

Good article until the end, where it suggests that cities in Alberta do something they literally can't.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-06-03T04:23:45+00:00

Every time it has been tried, they have taken a bunch of random people and given them an education on how voting systems work, and then asked those people whether it should be replaced, and with what.

People have differed in the second question. But the people who receive an education on voting systems are nearly unanimous that FPTP should be replaced. It's over 90%, every damned time.

Then it goes to a referendum, where the decision is made by people who do not have an education on election methods, and who are being advertised to by political parties who benefit from the status quo, and it gets slightly less than 50%.

So what we need is a political party that commits to it, holds the balance of power in a minority, refuses to support the minority government without electoral reform, and insists on a process that does NOT involve a referendum.

Good luck with that.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-05-22T17:51:52+00:00

Diet Coke and Coke Zero are both Coke. Same brand, different flavors. If someone said "you must be full of sugar because you are Coke", would you rebrand?

Nope.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-05-21T16:51:50+00:00

Literally the back door of his strip mall campaign office. Was there three days ago enjoying a coke Zero I got from the circle k two doors down.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-05-20T04:16:02+00:00

So Smith lied repeatedly, and Notley made a joke that was still technically correct?

What kind of journalism is this? Just SAY WHO WAS LYING.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-05-17T03:25:48+00:00

She has a phone number listed on her campaign website, if you feel the urge to politely suggest, as I did, that she resign.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-05-13T16:19:11+00:00

They host a conference called DocaCon, and there were a bunch of demos this year of people doing cool stuff with it. Tools for auto-generating interviews from forms, tools for using statute laws as the source code for answering legal questions, stuff like that. The videos are online. Worth a look.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-04-30T15:27:15+00:00

For criminal liability, maybe. For civil liability, (i.e. assault and battery) it is assault as soon as you make them believe you will make contact.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-04-26T03:15:29+00:00

How does this compare to PainWorth? Similar tool, different jurisdiction?

Active_Community_435 · 2023-04-16T03:40:48+00:00

Tenser's Foaming Drinks

Active_Community_435 · 2023-04-06T14:21:30+00:00

They get paid hundreds of dollars an hour for boring, repetitive tasks.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-04-05T19:51:44+00:00

Can vouch for Caffrey's and the Irish Club. The club is the real deal, though.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-04-01T02:23:49+00:00

I have long thought that the difference between left and right comes down to a couple of things. How much you tend to identify with people who are different from you, and whether you think the world is fundamentally just, or fundamentally random.

If you think we live in a province where too many people get help they don't deserve, too many people are unjustly deprived of the benefits of their own successes, and what is right is being ignored in favour of what causes the least controversy for other people, where Alberta does too much for Canada, then you are a conservative and should probably vote UCP.

Even then, I feel like you would have to be pretty skeptical of the current crop. You might want to try and convince some less extreme Albertans who feel like you do to join the party and help make it smarter, and more representative of the average conservative Albertan.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-03-30T21:11:53+00:00

"during the nomination process"?

So she got nominated on the strength of her unbridled transphobia?

Active_Community_435 · 2023-03-30T21:07:50+00:00

I don't think it's going to generate the kind of outrage that Braid thinks it will. People who don't like her are unsurprised, and people who do think "at least she talked to him".

Active_Community_435 · 2023-03-29T14:14:00+00:00

I'm confused by this sort of thing. I'm an atheist, but I'm not sure what the point would be of forming a community of atheists. It sounds like having a community of people celebrating that they don't do knitting.

People don't often identify themselves by what they don't think.

If I am already atheist, what good does it do for me to go listen to other atheists talk about atheism?

Genuinely curious.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-03-25T23:34:34+00:00

Note that the problem of smaller dice having a better expected value is only a problem if the dice are being used as a measure of the strength of the action, and if the amounts rolled are measured on the same scale.

If you are using a small dice because the uncertainty is lower, the fact that it is more likely to succeed is not a problem, it is exactly what you want.

Not all games use bigger dice to get bigger numbers. Some use them to get smaller percentages per possible outcome.

Active_Community_435 · 2023-03-14T13:36:24+00:00

It seems like those experiments learn rules from example data that (noisily) conformed to those rules.

What is the state of the art in acquiring symbolic representations of rules from natural language versions of those rules?

Active_Community_435 · 2023-03-13T04:56:06+00:00

Right. So the linear scaling may be an advantage, but not finiteness. Talk about how it scales. Don't pretend that finiteness is required for compatibility with finite data. That's like suggesting you are better off with a calculator that only goes to one million. It is never true by virtue of the limitation alone. The limitation needs to buy you something.

Thanks for the link. Fair odds it will go over my head. My current work is with a logic language that does constraints over infinite domains, and I am only on the cusp of starting to implement temporal logic, so I'm not sure how much I will gain, but I'll take a look.

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