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[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

The cult of scheduling conflicts and never having time to meet up :(

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

Would you choose to be able to feed/house yourself and be safe from preventable dangers, or buy a house in the US? If good labour practice means the latter and not the former, then I don't believe it's a good metric on which to evaluate their chocolate.

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

Would that stop them from duplicating the information on other platforms?

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

But there's Bicks pickles right under that sign? I don't understand.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Which comment is saying that? Everyone is being pretty explicit about the differences between choosing not to date because you're uninterested versus because you think you're too ugly.

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

I can see the appeal. I've just had bad experiences with devices that use digital controls, and you necessarily need digital controls if you're going to automate these things. Everything breaks eventually, but simpler devices can usually be easily fixed whereas anything that relies on specialized circuit boards are outside of my wheelhouse. I would be much more comfortable with owning one of these if they released information on how these circuits worked so that replacements can be made even if the company disappears.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

I can confirm as a human with domain knowledge that this is indeed a commonly used approach when a model doesn't fit into a single GPU.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I agree, but that should be a separate device. One that I can use in any grill or oven. There's no reason for the grill itself to have that feature, especially if it can potentially brick the whole thing.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What's the hidden tax? So many smaller businesses here refuse credit because of their fees but will take Interac.


Edit: The search term just came to mind right after posting this.

https://www.interac.ca/en/payments/business/understanding-fees/#interac-e-transfer-current-transaction-fees

Interac e-Transfer Send Money & Retail Request Money:

  • Tier 1, ≤6MM transactions: $0.43 / transaction
  • Tier 2, >6 – 30MM transactions: $0.09 / transaction
  • Tier 3, >30MM transactions: $0.06 / transaction
  • Fulfillment Fee – For Request Money transactions, the Requestor Participant will be required to pay the Responder Participant with an additional $0.10 per fulfillment

So it looks like it's a higher base rate compared to credit cards, but they don't take a percentage of the transaction.

In any case, I don't know enough about running a business to know how this compares to the cost of handling cash.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

To catch someone doing something means that you saw them doing the thing when they did not want to be seen doing the thing. It does not mean the same thing as simply meeting someone.

I don't know what alternative you'd suggest for "take in". That's also commonly used for both people and animals.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

I'm still learning, so I don't know the language well enough to give you examples. One of the things I've seen is using single Latin characters as replacement for Chinese characters that are homophones. This is often seen when writing things out in dialects that have unique words that don't exist in the Mandarin writing system.

 

Recordings for the RLC keynote talks have been released.

Keynote speakers:

  • David Silver
  • Doina Precup (Not recorded)
  • Peter Stone
  • Finale Doshi-Velez
  • Sergey Levine
  • Emma Brunskill
  • Andrew Barto
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by howrar@lemmy.ca to c/reinforcement_learning@lemmy.ca
 

OpenAI just put out a blog post about a new model trained via RL (I'm assuming this isn't the usual RLHF) to perform chain of thought reasoning before giving the user its answer. As usual, there's very little detail about how this is accomplished so it's hard for me to get excited about it, but the rest of you might find this interesting.

 

Following up on another question about open source funding, how does it usually work when there is funding to pay for the dev's work, then someone new joins in and makes significant contributions? Does the original dev still keep everything? Do you split the funds between the devs? If so, how do you decide how much each person gets? Are there examples of projects where something like this has happened?

 

This community has been around for a few months now. How do we feel about it? Are things working out? Any plans for further growing the community?

This is one of the topics I’ve been thinking a lot about quite a bit for the past few years (i.e. how to set up a community that values discussions with diverse viewpoints), so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts in relation to what I’m seeing here.

  1. I think such a community necessarily needs to be a full self-contained instance, or else you’ll get very little activity. Think about how these discussions usually start. Someone posts an article/meme/question/etc, a few people show up and comment with similar thoughts about it worded in slightly different ways, then another shows up and goes against the grain, everyone dogpiles on them, and that’s when the real discussion starts. Very rarely do people go out of their way to ask “what do you think of X controversial topic?” And even if you do, that only leads to a very high level discussion that very quickly gets stale. If you get discussion in the context of specific events, then these discussions can be grounded in reality and lead to more unique context-dependent takes each time it comes up.

  2. Regarding upvotes/downvotes: as stated in the rules, they should be used to measure whether a post/comment is a positive contribution to the discussion rather than the number of people who agree with your viewpoint. I don’t believe there’s a way to actually enforce this with the voting system we currently have, but I also think a relatively simple change can fix it. It will require a bit of coding.

    My proposal is a voting system with two votes: one to say that you agree/disagree, and another to say good/bad contribution. With this system, you can easily see if someone only thinks posts they agree with are good contributions, and you can use that information to calculate a total score that weighs their votes accordingly. It’s also small enough of a change that I think most people won’t have a problem figuring it out.

Thoughts?

Also, thank you Ace for taking the initiative in creating this place. It makes me happy to see that others want to see this change too.

 

There's many posts here with the purpose of convincing people to support electoral reform. Not so much that's actually actionable. What do we do if we want to change things? For a start, does anyone have information on who's responsible for the election system at each level of government in each of the major cities?

 

I think it's generally agreed upon that large files that change often do not belong while small files that never change are fine. But there's still a lot of middle ground where the answer is not so clear to me.

So what's your stance on this? Where do you draw the line?

 

I suspect this is a problem with posts that have extremely long bodies like this one: https://slrpnk.net/comment/8035803

I'm trying to scroll down to the top first comment and inevitably overshoot. When I i try to scroll back up, it suddenly jumps back to the middle of the OP's body.

 
 

I was looking up when babies can safely start eating untoasted bread and one of the images led me to this website that sells... stuff? Are they selling me the question? Who knows.

Then if you scroll down to the related products, you can buy a basketball club for $30, down from $15!

I'm guessing this is some phishing website looking to steal credit cards. I also still haven't found an answer to my original question.

 

Is it possible for posts to show the domain (TLD and SLD) of link posts?

Use case: I don't want to watch videos so I want to avoid clicking YouTube links. I would like to know that they are YouTube videos without having my phone spend the next minute trying to open YouTube.

 

I want to get an idea of how people generally feel over the course of the day. Feel free to submit multiple answers at different times.

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