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New comment by no_multitudes in "PaperBench"

no_multitudes — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:12:31 +0000

Are there examples of the outputs the LLMs under test generated? I couldn't find any detailed ones in the paper or code.

The result here seems to be "Our Judge LLM gave another LLM a 21% grade for some code it generated", which is ... not qualitatively meaningful at all to me.

New comment by no_multitudes in "Arctic temperatures soar 50°F/28°C above norm in long-lasting heat wave"

no_multitudes — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:53:09 +0000

It's a temperature difference, not an absolute temperature. If it was 50F yesterday and 100F today, that means it was 10C yesterday and 38C today.

New comment by no_multitudes in "One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB (2020)"

no_multitudes — Tue, 04 May 2021 15:50:40 +0000

I wonder if it could have been done to shut up some static analysis tool?

New comment by no_multitudes in "Fortnite’s battle with Apple and Google could have an impact on news publishers"

no_multitudes — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:49:00 +0000

IDK, it doesn't seem ironic to me. Being the only store that sells something is pretty different from being the only store allowed in town.

New comment by no_multitudes in "Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests"

no_multitudes — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 06:26:47 +0000

It depends how you break up the stats. The total number of officers feloniously killed is a little higher than the number of accidental deaths for recent years, but motor vehicle crashes is typically the largest single category. https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2019/home

New comment by no_multitudes in "Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests"

no_multitudes — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 06:14:29 +0000

Yes, obviously? Of course they are going to get hurt doing their job. A lot of their job involves performing odd manuevers in traffic, for example. Do you have a suggestion for how to do policework without police officers ever having to accept the possibility of getting hurt?

New comment by no_multitudes in "Why I Procrastinate (2019)"

no_multitudes — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 04:51:56 +0000

"stimulants are a placebo" is a pretty wild take

New comment by no_multitudes in "23andMe licenses its own drug compound to Spanish firm Almirall"

no_multitudes — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 20:10:27 +0000

I think they would qualify as literal lab animals in this case...

"laboratory animals (also referred to as animals) are generally defined as any vertebrate animal (i.e., traditional laboratory animals, agricultural animals, wildlife, and aquatic species) produced for or used in research, testing, or teaching. " https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK54054/

New comment by no_multitudes in "The Acceleration of Addictiveness (2010)"

no_multitudes — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:31:55 +0000

>As far as I know, there aren’t nearly as many drug problems there as compared to the west.

In Japan it seems like the prohibition/cultural disapproval of most drugs has made addiction far worse for the legal drugs -- alcoholism and cigarette smoking are ubiquitous. And I have heard there is a thriving underground trade in amphetamines, but I have no direct experience there.