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ssteeper commented on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5   blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
spiffytech · 2 years ago
I bartered on gmailswap.com, sending someone a bicentennial 50¢ US coin in exchange for an invite.

The envelope made it to the recipient, but the coin fell out in transit because I was young and had no idea how to mail coinage. They graciously gave me the invite anyway.

ssteeper · 2 years ago
Ah, to be young and clueless about coinage mailing.
ssteeper commented on Long context prompting for Claude 2.1   anthropic.com/index/claud... · Posted by u/typest
crawfordcomeaux · 2 years ago
It's like they're saying

"When we prompt the model asking for it to search in the way we want it to, it searches in the way we want it to. "

ssteeper · 2 years ago
You're saying this as if the result is unsurprising, however it is significant that the performance jumps so dramatically and it is not a fundamental issue of capability, just a bias in the model to be hesitant towards providing false information. That's a good insight, as it can allow further fine-tuning towards getting that balance right, so that careful prompt engineering is no longer necessary to achieve high P/R on this task.
ssteeper commented on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/htrp
toomuchtodo · 2 years ago
I intended to give it to anyone 23andme would provide it to. I previously provided it to Harvard’s Personal Genome Project, along with my lifetime medical records. More recently, Northwestern Medicine and a similar program in affiliation with the National Institute of Health (“AllOfUs”).

https://www.personalgenomes.org/

https://www.joinallofus.org/

https://www.joinallofus.org/learn-more

I still want fraud prosecuted, regardless of entity. Complex problems are full of nuance. Are we here for sound bites? Or to solve complex problems?

ssteeper · 2 years ago
Yes, it is complex. I agree that providing personal data to trustworthy research programs is beneficial to the public. Do you agree that providing detailed health data to untrustworthy corporations can easily become problematic? Because so far, you've made it sound like you don't see a reason for an individual to not provide their data to 23andme.
ssteeper commented on Drugmakers are set to pay 23andMe to access consumer DNA   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/htrp
toomuchtodo · 2 years ago
I willingly gave them my DNA. I want to support research and better drug development, and gave broad consent towards that end.

(disclosure: also interviewed there over a decade ago and declined the offer only because of lacking comp, don’t recall the name of their CTO around Jan 2011 but was a cool dude)

ssteeper · 2 years ago
Did you intend to give your DNA to GSK PLC too? The company that bought the DNA data from 23andme is GSK PLC, the tenth largest pharmaceutical company and #294 on the 2022 Fortune Global 500.

In 2012, GSK pleaded guilty to promotion of drugs for unapproved uses, failure to report safety data and kickbacks to physicians in the United States and agreed to pay a US$3 billion (£1.9bn) settlement. It was the largest health-care fraud case to date in the US and the largest settlement by a drug company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSK_plc

ssteeper commented on Writing Is Objectively Superior to Speaking as a Communication Method (2020)   koshka.love/babel/writing... · Posted by u/tomodachi94
ssteeper · 2 years ago
This is not an objective argument, if you were expecting one based on the title. The author is making this claim as "an antisocial autistic person".

> I can't bring myself to understand the importance for such things (if it even exists.) Communication is about the exchange of information, not superfluous nonsense that contains hardly any relevance to it.

ssteeper commented on Valve bans 40k Dota 2 accounts using honeypot patch   dota2.com/newsentry/36777... · Posted by u/chungus
izzydata · 3 years ago
I have found over the last 5 years that it is impossible for me to take online multiplayer gaming serious in any capacity anymore. Cheating has become so rampant and so ubiquitous that I have no confidence in any online gaming match to be cheater free. If people are cheating then what am I even playing for? It's only fun for me when I know there is some semblance of integrity between the players, but nobody else seems to care. I don't even particularly care about being good or winning. You wouldn't cheat at tic tac toe despite the inherently low stakes of the game so it doesn't seem any different in any other video game.

I also have no trust in any sort of gaming related records of feats of ability. I've been deeply involved with gaming communities in the past where people would show off their world records. I would question such scores only to be flamed and then years later it is discovered they were cheating after all.

Really my only point is that I despise cheaters and any game that isn't single player or only between friends may as well not exist for me anymore.

ssteeper · 3 years ago
I've played 3000+ games of competitive Halo Infinite over the last year while climbing to top 1% and only had 1-5 games with noticeable cheating. It's nowhere near "ubiquitous and rampant". In the singular game with blatant aimbotters, it was actually a really close and exciting game because while their aim was perfect, their strategy and game sense was atrocious. So with good communication and coordination on our side, we were able to outsmart them and win.
ssteeper commented on We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot   githubcopilotlitigation.c... · Posted by u/iworshipfaangs2
lovich · 3 years ago
> But it doesn't make sense to criticize the plaintiff looking for a profit…

I don’t know man, I can simultaneously see the systemic issue that needs to be solved and also critique someone for subcoming to base needs like greed when they don’t have the need.

ssteeper · 3 years ago
Is a startup founder looking for a big payout succumbing to greed?

These people are just following incentives.

ssteeper commented on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?    · Posted by u/jharohit
Physkal · 4 years ago
My wife loves to play it, she is still learning how to use the right stick to aim but is getting much better. Know any other girlfriend friendly co-ops?
ssteeper · 4 years ago
Overcooked 2
ssteeper commented on How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?   old.reddit.com/r/Advice/c... · Posted by u/throwaway284534
Someone · 4 years ago
It’s rare, but not novel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling lists at least 15 people who had this ‘hobby’.

There’s also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williamson_Tunnels

ssteeper · 4 years ago
> There are dozens of us!
ssteeper commented on 95%-ile isn't that good (2020)   danluu.com/p95-skill/... · Posted by u/DantesKite
thisisonthetest · 4 years ago
I would counter with the idea that seniority and programming ability are inversely proportional via The Gervais Principal (mentioned on hn again just recently)
ssteeper · 4 years ago
The Gervais Principle is literally a joke

u/ssteeper

KarmaCake day78March 23, 2017View Original