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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago

I would actually interpret "naive" in this context as making very strong assumptions. In particular, a strong assumption of independence between variables that likely doesn't hold, but is good enough for many purposes.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's probably the only way to move things forward though. Implement rules that only affect future politicians. Let the current generation have their cake. We can gradually transition to something more sane as they get replaced.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

They still use those here. I don't bother with the tape. Just cut the bag.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
  • Talking about sex: Perfectly healthy and is something every parent should do.
  • Talking about sex toys and flashlights: Also perfectly normal.
  • Requesting/offering help in purchasing a flashlight (e.g. take my credit card and buy something under my name or driving them to a sex shop): Normal
  • Choosing the fleshlight for them and thus making the decision in exactly what kind of sensations they experience while masturbating: Out of bounds.
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

With such a glaring oversight, I don't know how I can trust the rest of this infographic.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If anything, eliminating cars would probably improve the roads since there will be much less wear and tear. People will still be walking there and want a good walking experience, so improvements will still happen.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

If [...] youre not trying to save them, what does it matter?

That's the problem I'm currently addressing, isn't it?

If you are trying to save youre not keeping hard cash youre investing it.

The general recommendation for savings is to first create a sufficiently large emergency fund. This is meant to cover things like sudden medical bills, repairs, and other things of that nature that can't wait. This needs to be quickly accessible, so it rules out GICs. I'm guessing a plain savings account would count as cash that can expire, so that's out. That leaves us with bonds and equity. Both have a fair amount of volatility. This isn't a problem if you have enough money because everything trends upwards in the long term. If all you have is $500 saved up and you need to draw from it during a market downturn, you've probably just lost $50 of your hard earned money. That's a huge amount when you have so little. If you have $5k and you lose $50? Whatever, chump change.

Secondly, rich people definitely do not hold on to plain cash. The vast majority of their wealth is going to be in some form of investments, so if this is meant to prevent wealth concentration, I don't see how it'll manage to take anything away from them.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Most likely you'll be getting the older bills that are close to expiry if you're poor. It doesn't matter how much time they're given when they're minted.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

salt, sunflower oil and some vinegar

I mean, add an egg to that and you have mayo.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

They live hand to mouth.

And they'll stay there if they can't save up any money.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

Besides the temperature differential that everyone else mentioned, there's also sometimes the need to defrost the outside bits, which means running the heat pump in reverse and undoing a bit of the heating it already did.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It requires a certain amount of flexibility. Some are born with it, others have to work for it.

 

Version 1.0.16

This just started yesterday. Every time I switch screens (e.g. opening/closing comments or viewing a different community), The screen changes, it swipes down to reveal the old screen, then switches back to the new screen. It's very disorienting. Anyone else or just me?

 

The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine,

Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen.

Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime,

Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time,

Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be.

Here it is—"nine plus four?" and the answer is "three."

Three?

Oh me . . .

I guess it's not as perfect

As I thought it would be.

 

I don't know very well how the legislative process works, but to the best of my understanding, the last step involves a vote where we decide whether to pass a bill. A simple majority means it passes, otherwise it's rejected. This leads to an interesting (and possibly dangerous) dynamic where the government can be very different depending on whether or not the winning party has a majority. It means that when we have a majority, it can lead to what we call "tyranny of the majority". It also means that there's very little difference in how much influence a smaller party can have between having a single MP until the point where they can team up with another party to form a majority. It means that even if we get proportional voting for selecting MPs, we might still need to vote strategically in order to either ensure or prevent a majority government, or to encourage a specific coalition government.

Do we have any potential solutions for this? Or did I maybe misunderstand how things work and this isn't actually a problem?

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Open Sourcing π₀ (www.physicalintelligence.company)
 

https://bsky.app/profile/natolambert.bsky.social/post/3lh5jih226k2k

Anyone interested in learning about RLHF? This text isn't complete yet, but looks to be a pretty useful resource as is already.

 

Apparently we can register as a liberal to vote in the upcoming leadership race. What does it mean if I register? What do I gain (besides the aforementioned voting) and does it place any kind of restrictions on me (e.g. am I prevented from doing the same with a different party)?

 

An overview of RL published just a few days ago. 144 pages of goodies covering everything from basic RL theory to modern deep RL algorithms and various related niches.

This manuscript gives a big-picture, up-to-date overview of the field of (deep) reinforcement learning and sequential decision making, covering value-based RL, policy-gradient methods, model-based methods, and various other topics (including a very brief discussion of RL+LLMs).

 

If there's insufficient space around it, then it'll never spawn anything. This can be useful if you want to keep a specific spawner around for capture later but don't want too spend resources on killing the constant stream of biters.

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/homeautomation@lemmy.world
 

I'm looking to get some smart light switches/dimmers (zigbee or matter if that's relevant), and one of the requirements for me is that if the switches aren't connected to the network, they would behave like regular dumb switches/dimmers. No one ever advertises anything except the "ideal" behaviour when it's connected with a hub and their proprietary app and everything, so I haven't been able to find any information on this.

So my question: is this the default behaviour for most switches? Are there any that don't do this? What should I look out for given this requirement?


Edit: Thanks for the responses. Considering that no one has experienced switches that didn't behave this way nor heard of any, I'm proceeding with the assumption that any switch should be fine. I got myself some TP Link Kasa KS220 dimmers and it works pretty well. Installation was tough due to its size. Took me about an hour of wrangling the wires so that it would fit in the box. Dimming also isn't as smooth as I'd like, but it works. I haven't had a chance to set it up with Home Assistant yet since the OS keeps breaking every time I run an update and I haven't had time to fix it after the last one. Hopefully it integrates smoothly when I do get to it.

 

This is a video about Jorn Trommelen's recent paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38118410/

The gist of it is that they compared 25g protein meals vs 100g protein meals, and while you do use less of it for muscle protein synthesis at that quantity, it's a very minor difference. So the old adage still holds: Protein quantity is much more important than timing.

While we're at it, I'd also like to share an older but very comprehensive overview of protein intake by the same author: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/athlete-protein-intake/

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