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New comment by llm_trw in "Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order"

llm_trw — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 02:35:22 +0000

This comes up every time someone wants to give the death penalty for rape.

If the punishment for rape is harsher than the punishment for murder than anyone committing it may as well remove the evidence by using a blender.

New comment by llm_trw in "We in-housed our data labelling"

llm_trw — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:38:33 +0000

We have human teachers for much the same reasons.

Are humans just other humans hiding in boxes pretending to play chess?

New comment by llm_trw in "Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)"

llm_trw — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:32:55 +0000

Other than sugar none of those are spices used for food.

And even sugar became much less commonly used to in Europe.

New comment by llm_trw in "Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)"

llm_trw — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:36:41 +0000

The wildest thing about European colonialism is that it was kicked off to get more spices for European food. Then in the worlds most bizarre twist European food gave up all spices a few centuries later and colonies had to invent something else to sell back to the colonial centre.

New comment by llm_trw in "Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the roots of Frank Herbert's Dune (2021)"

llm_trw — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:32:15 +0000

That's the third major use of the printing press.

The first was for catholic indulgences.

The second was for religious propaganda during the European wars of religion.

New comment by llm_trw in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

llm_trw — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 05:49:24 +0000

Ironically Linux with KDE is very good for being both pixel perfect, responsive and enjoyable to work with.

What a time to be alive.

New comment by llm_trw in "We in-housed our data labelling"

llm_trw — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 06:19:08 +0000

It's not a product. It's business core competency in the ml space.

New comment by llm_trw in "We in-housed our data labelling"

llm_trw — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 04:30:34 +0000

Data is king. Even when a new better model comes along a high quality dataset is still just as valuable.

Paying top performers above market rates to do nothing but data labelling is a moat that just keeps getting deeper.

New comment by llm_trw in "The early days of Linux (2023)"

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:03:33 +0000

Linus isn't a renewable resource unfortunately.

New comment by llm_trw in "The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed""

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 07:30:13 +0000

Longer than Germany at the rate things are going in Germany.

New comment by llm_trw in "The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed""

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 06:59:56 +0000

Britain had two parliaments in the home island - Scotlands and Englands.

The only people who can possibly think the British empire was centralised are those who have never opened a history book about it.

New comment by llm_trw in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:50:05 +0000

I suggest you look up how much raising children costs today vs the 1980s in both money and time.

Two kids today are a much bigger status symbol than a 5 million dollar house.

New comment by llm_trw in "The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed""

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:48:29 +0000

California has half the population of Germany and twice the GPD.

We can't pretend the US is some dinky country in Europe that can be ruled the same way.

New comment by llm_trw in "The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed""

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:46:37 +0000

What works for a country the size of a New York neighbourhood doesn't work for a country the size of a continent.

New comment by llm_trw in "The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed""

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:42:00 +0000

It's not terribly interesting. There have always been two strains of thought for the Democrats in the US. Once has been that we must move the whole country in the right direction kicking and screaming - this has been the ideology that has been in ascendency since Kennedy. The other that we must be allowed to be as progressive as possible without interference from the Federal government. That's not been in vouge since the end of the new deal.

I'm completely in the second camp and would move back to the US if it were possible to get it adopted at the national level.

New comment by llm_trw in "The NIH is being slashed and burned, not "reformed""

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:33:20 +0000

Decentralise government so a single election doesn't destroy everything.

In short: states rights.

New comment by llm_trw in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:29:31 +0000

This is what gets me.

Homer Simpson was meant to be a fat idiot barely hanging on.

In the 40 years since the first episode he's gone to being average weight and fitness.

Economically he's now wildly successful for being able to own a house on a single income with three kids. There are people making over $800,000 today who can't afford that.

New comment by llm_trw in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:27:09 +0000

The rest of the world is just 30 years behind the Us.

The Netherlands today are fatter than Missisipi was in 1985.

New comment by llm_trw in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 04:25:40 +0000

The 40% of Americans who are obese don't work at Google.

New comment by llm_trw in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

llm_trw — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:56:52 +0000

Is there any evidence for general impulse control?

I'm seeing papers claiming both increased and decreased impulse control.