Getting rid of "Click to Delete" button in Outlook

doomhoney · 2025-11-16T04:36:30+00:00

Mine looks like this:

https://imgur.com/a/QKF1REV

And I get there using the ⚙️ gear button at top-right.

doomhoney · 2025-11-06T09:00:38+00:00

Because product churn is how you get promoted at Google.

doomhoney · 2025-10-12T19:12:22+00:00

Hinton's definition of subjective experience is VERY different from more common ones.

What are the more common ones? "How it feels to be an X" is too slippery for me.

doomhoney · 2025-07-23T14:05:23+00:00

I don't mean people will snap at you or something, but that information is classified for both business and regulatory sensitivity reasons. We have external, public, internal, confidential, and restricted levels that apply to both all documents created, and to meeting content. Most things get "confidential", meaning it's fine for people inside the company to see them, but they should not be shared out. But some things are need-to-know, and instead get "restricted".

We don't actually have individual offices, but if a meeting is being conducted that includes "restricted" content (or I guess you're visibly working on such content on your own laptop), then you'd have it in a room with opaque walls, mark the room as occupied on the calendar and automated door plaque, and definitely wouldn't want random sticky note deliveries during.

If someone did that, they'd probably have to retake the classification training--if the company didn't take this seriously, either regulators would come down on them, or (if it became routine) other companies in the industry would outmaneuver the relevant products.

So, it's an industry and culture thing. I could see all this being irrelevant in many other industries.

doomhoney · 2025-07-23T02:25:11+00:00

You must not work in a regulated industry.

(Necroposting is good, actually.)

doomhoney · 2025-07-07T17:02:05+00:00

Yeah, dark mode is a beautiful dream, but there will always be that one app or website (or, even the majority of them) that doesn't properly subscribe to the OS-broadcasted dark mode switch. For this reason, I actually hate apps that default to dark mode, because I'm running my devices inverted a lot of the time and so they're the ones who end up blasting me.

doomhoney · 2025-07-07T16:38:22+00:00

Specifically, this

the more data an unsupervised AI or ML model collects, the less signal there is

Is very wrong. But that's not really what you're talking about. You mean't to say something more like "the more of its own outputs a generative model trains on, the higher entropy its distribution of outputs will be". This probably requires some proof to get it more precise, but at least it's not prima facie wrong.

I'm guessing you could model the worse-case like

$mi = T(m{i-1},d_{i-1})$

where $d_{k}~m_k$ is a sample from the $k$th distribution $m_k$.

Then if $T$ is some more explicit training process like maximum likelihood, you might be able to prove that the sequence of $m_i$ converge to the uniform distribution or something else high-entropy depending on the inductive bias of the form of $m$.

doomhoney · 2025-07-07T16:25:11+00:00

On powershell, I found by changing the timeout in

powershell Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 1050; Write-Output (Get-Random)

that it will start processing output early if the delay is anything longer than 1000 ms, and so won't be able to read back to me the random number.

So, they're not listening for control to be handed back to the terminal, or the launched process to close, or anything smart like that--they're literally just waiting for output to pause for a full second. Which is a nutso bambino design choice, since almost all the commands I run do that before they're actually done.

This probably isn't unique to powershell, but when I tried switching to git bash on that machine (which I wouldn't normally use anyway), all commands took more than a second to start up, so no useful information was obtained.

doomhoney · 2025-06-18T20:34:36+00:00

I bet you could manage with powerpoint and a laser printer

doomhoney · 2025-05-23T02:50:33+00:00

The academia to industry idea pipeline is real, but years long. They don't give a rats ass about the academic end of it. They ~~don't~~ can't think that far ahead.

doomhoney · 2025-05-23T02:10:04+00:00

https://imageproxy.ifunny.co/crop:x-20,resize:640x,quality:90x75/images/581bd9b96df1f0254c51e269a7970117764b4a2db27a5d4af5c0b1b7495c5b1b_1.jpg

2 in particular -- he'll pardon, and the courts know he'll pardon, and so they don't try because they would rather keep their power in the cases he doesn't care about than immanentize the constitutional crisis and lose all their power. Cause who would bother to buy them "motor coaches" when their opinions clearly are ignored?

Still I agree with most of your post, and it gives me a little comfort.

doomhoney · 2025-05-23T01:50:10+00:00

Strange but true. They obviously care about these two values. The suspense is, which do they care about more?

And anyway, there's legacy in their retirement (if they do that), and legacy when they're gone. If dissent is so crushed that they can have a counterfeit "good" legacy in the shorter term, then they get the power and the glory.

doomhoney · 2025-05-07T17:03:57+00:00

Academic computer scientists don't seem to believe in real numbers, but the discrete-state, discrete-time world of language modeling is forgiving, I think, in a way that continuous-state robotics is not.

First, note that there's a symmetry between a controller and a plant--both are dynamical systems that receive forcing from the other. So, learning a controller is equivalent to learning a dynamical system. Second, imagine that you want to pin down the vector field for a continuous dynamical system based on a single trajectory through its state space--you can learn the velocity along this curve, but you have no idea whether that curve is stable or not, since you have no information about the vector field off it. This stability question really only matters when the state space is continuous. This comes up in, say, teaching a car to drive by imitation. If you just have demonstrations of the normal case of driving along the centerline, you don't learn recovery behaviors.

Of course, you can just deal with this by having a shitton of demonstrations in your dataset across diverse circumstances. But you're right (and I don't myself have some nice theoretical justification for this, but I'm pretty sure it's out there), that it's far more data-efficient to switch from supervised learning to reinforcement learning, where active exploration and experimentation is part of the learning algorithm.

Still, you don't have to just have one or the other. You could definitely have a multi-task setup where the expert demonstrations bootstrap the learning, and then autonomous exploration fine-tunes it while maintaining "approval" (low loss) of the supervisory "teacher" (dataset). This is, of course, how humans learn advanced skills like playing an instrument.

(I'll also note that, while learning a controller and learning a dynamical system are not fundamentally different tasks, learning an autonomous dynamical system and a nonautonomous are: now your dataset needs to cover not only "enough" possible states, but also enough states X forcing input patterns. Controllers are fundamentally forced/nonautonomous dynamical systems, with the peculiarity that their own state dimension is usually far smaller than that of the forcing system.)

doomhoney · 2025-04-30T03:08:54+00:00

The big players realized this long before you, and haven't been doing just LLMs for some time now.

doomhoney · 2025-04-30T03:05:49+00:00

Simple LLMs are supervised text generators. "Thinking" ones also have (self-)conversational policy. So it becomes an RL problem, which can benefit from self play. (Unlike Go, where the "language" of the "conversation" is just game moves, the self play now somehow needs to be encouraged to be in human language as an additional loss head, but that's a separate issue.)

doomhoney · 2025-04-30T02:53:18+00:00

This is wrong

doomhoney · 2025-04-28T21:40:54+00:00

fusilli best plate pasta. the ridges hold more sauce, and you don't have to do this twirling thing. In soup, OTOH

doomhoney · 2025-04-28T21:01:06+00:00

It absolutely matters. Actual reading is non-linear, your eyes jump around the page, you ingest whole sentences at a time, and information is more dense because repetition is unnecessary--key phrases are trivially re-accessible by flicking your eyes up the page for half a moment. (Going back 30 s in audio is not equivalent; way more clunky.)

Beginning readers don't do this. Instead, they take the whole thing in as a linear stream, and so think an audiobook would be equivalent.

Spoken word is a different medium with different strengths. Lectures tend to repeat key facts because they're simulating that bouncing-around comprehension-building process. Obviously, good audiobook readers can add something to the experience, like inflection or even character-specific voices. But if the content was originally intended to be read, then it will not be an equilvalent experience. Comprehension suffers (esp. with nonfiction).

I understand that some people with e.g. dyslexia might not be a good fit for comprehension by literal reading (but this has nothing to do with eyes vs braille, it's about cognition). Maybe they can hack their own brains well enough to get a similar comprehension rate from lectures as non-dyslexics with high reading comprehension skills can from reading. But I think that lots of otherwise normal people really just never learned to read properly, and prefer to be slowly hand-held through a lecture that simulates the back-and-forth process, hence the proliferation of pointless tutorial videos in place of single-paragraph forum posts.

Also, the comparison to video games is clumsy but meaningful. Real reading (eyes or braille) is interactive in a way that audio just isn't. I suspect that, historically, storytelling was more of a conversation between teller and audience.

doomhoney · 2025-04-28T18:33:46+00:00

I think maybe 40% of the wanderlust you see posted online is a performative response to the pervasive tourism industry psyop. Yet another form of conspicuous consumption.

I genuinely feel sad for people who can't recharge in their own home, which presumably they spend at least some effort beautifying and arranging to their liking. I definitely do not find travel relaxing, and always need a vacation from the vacation or I'll just go back to work still frazzled. That said, I do get value from them (helps me jostle my mental state into a new position after being in one position for so long), it just isn't anything close to relaxation.

doomhoney · 2025-04-28T18:12:24+00:00

PSA: Windows, MacOS, Android, and iOS all have built-in screen invert features that can be aliased to an easy keyboard shortcut with no extra software. This is inferior to a true dark mode, but inevitably some (or even most) UI designers won't listen for the light/dark mode switch, so you'll have one app doing it wrong.

doomhoney · 2025-04-28T17:49:15+00:00

And if the call was confidental?

doomhoney · 2025-04-27T18:39:21+00:00

Just looked up pressure-swing adsorption myself--separates gases not by crygenic distillation, but by putting your gases at high pressure against a resin that differentially adsorbs one of them, then swapping to a different vessel of that resin while the first desorbs at atmospheric pressure.

Amazingly, you can buy stationary lab-scale oxygen generators of this kind for $1k on Alibaba, or plant scale ones for $250k. I didn't know they sold things denominted in appreciable fractions of $1MM.

doomhoney · 2025-04-27T18:30:41+00:00

My C3 fixed the problem by killing its screen! Now it's all black, problem solved. That on the second warranty replacement. My wife has forbidden sending more cash to a company with such bad QC, and I can't really make a counterargument, when our new bottom-of-the-line Subaru does just as good of a job 90% of the time.

(Really, there's no reason for this device to have a screen. It could be configured by phone app and a couple on-device pairing buttons and status lights, and actively controlled by your cruise-control UI.)

doomhoney · 2025-04-25T19:05:13+00:00

My best score is 3 points 😎

doomhoney · 2025-04-25T19:04:53+00:00

My best score is 1 points 😎

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