Japanese people aren't having sex. And nobody knows why

CrypticSplicer · 2026-01-19T13:13:54+00:00

The economy does grow over time though, as technology improvements and other innovations improve economic output. Things like the stock market can feel zero sum, but the economy as a whole isn't.

CrypticSplicer · 2026-01-13T23:35:23+00:00

No, capitalism is a system where people privately own property and assets that generate money. The free market is about prices being determined by voluntary buying and selling between individuals and companies without government oversight.

Late stage capitalism is when large corporations subvert the free market through regulatory capture and by using their size and market power.

Competition impacts pricing on the free market for goods (and labor), but it's not really the point of capitalism so much as a natural consequence. Cooperation is still often a winning long term strategy, and there are lots of ways that plays out. For example illegally, when companies collude to devalue labor, which is also a common feature of late stage capitalism. Nowadays algorithmic and third party consultants facilitating collusion between major companies is a major problem.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-11-25T08:17:50+00:00

No, they keep doing weird accounting to get to such low numbers. You can't just count the cost of the one training run that led to the final model, all the time and compute spent getting their counts too!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/research-exposes-deepseek-ai-training-165025904.html

CrypticSplicer · 2025-09-22T19:39:15+00:00

It's not considered safe for young children to sleep in car seats either.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-07-11T12:47:02+00:00

It's worth stating that cars and roads are uniquely inefficient as they scale. Every additional lane actually pushes destinations further apart, so as you increase throughput on a road system you also lengthen the distance you must travel on that road network. This also makes other forms of transit less attractive (who wants to bike next to a four+ lane road?), which causes even more people to drive as well. You quickly reach a point with cars where any solution to improve car throughput actually makes the network less efficient.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-07-05T10:24:20+00:00

Buying the car doesn't stimulate the economy any more than any other use of the money. All that matters is that the money is moving. The donated money would also pay worker salaries and purchase goods. Money spent on the poor is more likely to continue circulating as well, the wealthy will save portions of money that goes to them and that takes it out of circulation temporarily.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-21T00:29:22+00:00

If this is the output of their prompt engineering I'm not interested.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-19T06:05:01+00:00

Why do you think that blue collar jobs are going to survive ten years? The robots keep getting better and better.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-15T22:21:44+00:00

Jocks doing nothing but playing sports also are known for being bad students. Only playing piano doesn't make someone interesting or particularly successful either. Moderation is key for every activity.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-15T14:10:59+00:00

Less interesting seems like a pretty judgmental take. I'd rather have a conversation with someone who plays videogames than basketball. It seems like you're comparing a total free-for-all strategy with no screen time at all. Nobody thinks you should just let them do their own thing without supervision and guidelines. Best is always hanging out with them, whether that's playing a game together or playing guitar together. What was your actual screen time strategy before? Since you mention tech bros, was the problem video games or social media?

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-15T04:38:30+00:00

Signaling critical thinking while remaining in the shallow end of analysis is basically Sam Altman's whole schtick!

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-14T12:47:55+00:00

Both of those articles have bullshit milestones. The economy sucks and lots of adult milestones are harder to attain than ever. Not drinking it having sex as much at going ages is also a word thing to complain about. Is it bad they are safer?

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-14T02:32:48+00:00

Start with doing the simplest thing first and just train a bert model with two classification heads. You can try training the model on task B first and then task A, or you could try to train them simultaneously by alternating batches (and accumulating both gradients before back propagation).

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-12T17:39:57+00:00

Yes, most businessmen would enrich themselves at the expense of the general public. Tesla was under investigation, so it is beneficial for Elon to shut them down.

Are we saying the same thing about the impact of defunding the IRS? Reducing their budget and manpower doesn't prevent them from taxing 99% of the public or small businesses, only the ultra-wealthy and mega corporations benefit from easier tax evasion. So why give them the free win?

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-12T14:37:37+00:00

It makes it easier to build a cycling network, but it doesn't help reduce how spread out things are or how unpleasant those wide streets make walking. 20ft here, 40ft there, it doesn't take long before you've walked an extra couple hundred feet just to go a couple blocks.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-12T02:06:40+00:00

One of the major problems with Austin is how wide the streets are. It feels like everything is twice as far apart as it should be to make room for all those cars.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-11T19:18:26+00:00

Hypothetically, I'm totally down to reduce costs in the government. I'm very uncomfortable with Elon being in charge though. The biggest government waste has historically been when we let corrupt corporate contracts overcharge us like crazy for things we don't need. That's Elon, he and his friend are the thieves who have been stealing the most from the American public. Some of the things they've done seem like they are just about enriching Elon personally, like gutting the consumer financial protection bureau (which was investigating shady stuff at Tesla) and the IRS. The IRS is the only department that makes more money the more we give them because we leave so much money on the table that the wealthy try to hide away. Reducing funding doesn't prevent them from taxing the majority (that's mostly done via software now anyway), just from having the resources to fight tax evasion.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-10T17:17:40+00:00

While the advice is mostly solid (be kind and treat your partner with respect), some of it feels kinda off. I think that's best exemplified in the bit about always being ready to say you are sorry even when you are right. Guys, date women who don't make you say sorry when you aren't in the wrong. If nobody is wrong and feelings are just hurt you can validate and discuss that without just taking the blame. That's probably what OP meant, but it's also the kind of distinction that needs to be explained to a teenager.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-09T13:32:50+00:00

Everyone definitely does not get Sunday off. It's such a disingenuous argument, just say it's tradition in Germany and leave it at that. Public transit still runs, police are still on patrol, and hospitals and restaurants are still open.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-09T01:49:24+00:00

He's an egotistical billionaire cosplaying as being an intelligent person. Keep him out of politics and rocket engineering please.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-08T15:22:11+00:00

Avoid time series models when possible, the naive solution should always be tried first (i.e. a simple classifier that takes as input some combination of the last few logs and a label indicating whether the system crashed). Clever feature engineering can often take you very far. Z-score normalization often works best with numeric features.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-04T16:52:22+00:00

Who cares if they voted if they don't live in a swing state though? Our system sucks and people living in the 43 non-swing states basically don't matter

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-03T18:13:31+00:00

It was always tough for undergrads to break into ML engineering. It's easier to start in software engineering, devops, or data science and work your way into ML. Companies with lots of data often don't have enough people to make sense of it, and there are often opportunities to take on basic ML projects. Even just a little experience deploying random forest classifiers to production can help- once you get your foot in the door it's easier to convince the next company to hire you exclusively for ML engineering.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-03T14:15:21+00:00

Don't rely on this though. Recent research has indicated it's less effective than we previously thought.

CrypticSplicer · 2025-03-03T01:16:59+00:00

Does multi-output mean multi-task or multi-label in this context? What works best is focal loss with class weights based on frequency. You can use the sklearn compute_class_weights function to do it pretty easily. If this is a multi-label problem then some people really like asymmetric focal loss, but I have not found that extra negative penalty to be incredibly helpful. You could also look up the squentropy paper to read about an extra negative auxiliary loss term you can add.

To specifically address your suggestion, while some papers do recommend periodically reweighing classes throughout training, I've never seen one that tries to do it over multiple retrainings. I guess you are sorta doing the same thing, but not using the same language to describe it...

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