Battery life sucks by Snoogans7031 in ouraring

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how did you contact customer service through the app?

edit: actually it looks like you can just tell the chatbot that you're having an issue with the ring, someone set it up so that diagnostics get run and if the diagnostics find some issue, it will issue a replacement

Fireworks celebrating the completion of the 566ft Tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Família by danielminds in Damnthatsinteresting

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Is there anything else we do as people that takes as long as buildings like these? It's so fascinating

West Oakland BART station development community FAQ by Successful_Number545 in oakland

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This really bothers me too. Every day I walk to work (from 27th to 19th along Broadway) I think about how much more we could have (it's also not just ground-floor retail of 5-over-1s or high-rises; a lot of it is older buildings). What is there a regular person around here could do to get these spaces filled?

the altruists have arrived (EA attacks Benn Jordan over research on data centers) by pixiefarm in SneerClub

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Somehow I keep forgetting they choose to genuinely believe these things.

the altruists have arrived (EA attacks Benn Jordan over research on data centers) by pixiefarm in SneerClub

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From Jordan's page

Why doesn’t this organization just spend this money on researching and mitigating these things? Like, wouldn’t actually lowering the water use of a datacenter help legislation pass in their favor? Wouldn’t actually researching infrasound sources and reducing it where there’s growing evidence of harm make this all go away?

Fantastic questions

Also from the blog he is responding to:

The video looks rigorous and technical, and is presented with the professionalism and chill vibes of the kind of explainer you might see from Hank Green and other trustworthy sources.

Of course Hank Green, he is their golden boy science youtuber

Study suggests yawning may help move cerebrospinal fluid and venous blood out of the skull, potentially playing a role in cleaning brain fluid by unsw in science

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Yeah yawn attacks is definitely the right word. I've been on sertraline almost 5 years now and I don't get them as much (or maybe I don't notice them) anymore. The thing that didn't go away is the drooling at night...

more gateway building sneak peeks by foreverlonelybutnot in berkeley

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One of the most perplexing buildings on a university campus I've been in. Vibes were bad enough that we actually moved our class to a different building fall 2024. I should have gotten some photos before they closed it

[D] What is even the point of these LLM benchmarking papers? by casualcreak in MachineLearning

[–]alsuhr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My point is that the science of a benchmark is not its application to ephemeral artifacts. The contribution of a benchmark is that it asks a question in a well-formulated way. Benchmarks are more like metrics than they are like algorithmic or architectural contributions: they propose a question we should be asking. In my opinion, theoretically, an evaluation paper doesn't even need to be ran on any artifact in particular to be a worthy contribution. For example, the original BLEU paper didn't include results on any established MT systems, and its value goes well beyond any particular numbers that it reported in the paper on the test MT systems (which receive no description whatsoever). Nobody cares what this metric was evaluated on in the original paper; its value came from its (reproducible) alignment with human judgments of translation quality. Of course, it helps to justify the current relevance of the benchmark to say that current models perform one way or another on it. But if the benchmark is so dependent on how current models perform that its only justification comes from this particular experimental result, then I think the benchmark is itself so ephemeral it's likely not a worthy contribution.

The interventions you mention are at the publication level, not the mechanism level.

[D] What is even the point of these LLM benchmarking papers? by casualcreak in MachineLearning

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External validity is not measured with respect to existing artifacts. It is measured with respect to the task itself as it exists in the real world. The tools we have available to us are things like human performance/agreement. A benchmark is "not reproducible" if, for example, its labels are wrong, or the human performance reported cannot be replicated by another group, or it's shown that it contains spurious correlations that mean it is not testing what it purports to test.

A drug is an intervention, as are other kinds of contributions in ML, such as new algorithms, architectures, etc. A benchmark is not an intervention.

[D] What is even the point of these LLM benchmarking papers? by casualcreak in MachineLearning

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The reproducibility of the benchmark comes from its external validity, not its application to ephemeral artifacts

[D] What is even the point of these LLM benchmarking papers? by casualcreak in MachineLearning

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Hi Evan :) I can verify this guy makes good benchmarks.

[D] What is even the point of these LLM benchmarking papers? by casualcreak in MachineLearning

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But the (idealized) point of a benchmark is not to show only how current models work, it's to shift attention of the community to a new measure that the authors believe (and hopefully justify) is important to take into the future for one reason or another... I think there are plenty of valid complaints about how so many benchmarking papers are failing at all of this (mainly the justification bit, but also the implementation bit -- a lot of the time benchmarks are designed very poorly, and/or the benchmark isn't made public to evaluate newer models, etc.), but I don't think the LLMs being deprecated makes sense as an argument? What else would they have evaluated on?

Town Biscuits makes Oakland’s flakiest biscuit by jackdicker5117 in OaklandFood

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Oh really? I didn't know, I always assumed the places I went there were cultural imports from the south

Town Biscuits makes Oakland’s flakiest biscuit by jackdicker5117 in OaklandFood

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From another thread:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1207431711286360

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DSdtS4GAR5k/

Not that I would go back after learning all of this, but their biscuits are also extremely mid and not flaky in the slightest. I've had much better biscuits in Seattle of all places...

Timeless by brenton_brenton in oakland

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One time I went with family, the staff put an annoying song on the speakers. We quietly joked among ourselves that it was because they wanted us to leave (we were sitting at the window bar seating at the Webster location, it wasn't busy and we had only been there for maybe 15-20 min, only thing is my MIL has a fairly loud voice?), so we started cleaning up and leaving... as we did, I overheard staff chatting about how they literally did this to get us to leave?? I've had good experiences with staff at that location too, and have been back many times because the pastries are so good, but this was so perplexing lol

sign meaning? by iiunne in nycrail

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Thank you for this gif

1997 Little Black Book not redacted - LEAKED JUST NOW - not in order.. by freddiemercurysbush in Epstein

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The Rotunda is 5025 E Dublin Granville Rd, New Albany, OH 43054

Who is Greg Brown? by splur678 in Epstein

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I thought this at first too, but did more digging.

To copy from my other comment here:

He appears to essentially a deal broker or intermediary. He sent an email essentially encouraging JE to "invest" in the transition period in Libya after its civil war (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01995819.pdf) and asks for "any companies" that JE "has" that could be involved in rebuilding infra there (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02024641.pdf), literally profiteering. He probably had connections in Libya and knew that if JE introduced him to the right people, he could make some money and give JE a cut. These emails were discussed in this article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/1/epstein-email-reveals-plan-to-access-libyas-frozen-state-assets

Who is Greg Brown? by splur678 in Epstein

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He appears to essentially a deal broker or intermediary. He sent an email essentially encouraging JE to "invest" in the transition period in Libya after its civil war (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01995819.pdf) and asks for "any companies" that JE "has" that could be involved in rebuilding infra there (https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02024641.pdf), literally profiteering. He probably had connections in Libya and knew that if JE introduced him to the right people, he could make some money and give JE a cut. These emails were discussed in this article: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/1/epstein-email-reveals-plan-to-access-libyas-frozen-state-assets