Assuming that GPT3 uses supervised learning, where are they sourcing the expected input/output data for their training and validation set?

What is the practical impact of getting this wrong? People misspell or mispronounce my name all the time based on the most common spelling or pronunciation in the region I am in.

Do I suffer any harm by being referred to using the wrong name? Yes, it might feel annoyed but it does me no harm. Nor is it malicious.

What practical difference would it make to adjust the English language around this? From my perspective, it makes no difference what you call someone until it has a real-life impact.

For example, when a person who was born a man begins to refer to themselves as a woman and insists on competing in female sport categories then we see being offended on the other end.

In the latter case, there is a real-life impact to letting people refer to themselves using an arbitrary gender. Imagine if non-disabled people suddenly insisted in competing in the paralympics because they "felt" physically disabled all their lives. What then?

Unfortunately, in Quebec (Canada) 100% of all prescriptions are still sent by hardcopy. Except those that are sent by fax... Yes, that's right, these highly-paid people still use a fax :(

I'd rather use password managers over biometrics for privacy reasons.

C is quite readable. C++ less so. Rust...? I'd wager that compilers are happier about it than human beings.

It wouldn't have killed the authors to focus on readability alongside performance, but I guess this has to do with the culture of people who are attracted to Rust.

It doesn't matter where the CO2 is being generated, so long as it happens. The fact that EVs (as a closed system) put out less CO2 than other vehicles does not mean that in the grand scheme of things switching to EV reduces CO2 pollution.

Consider: conventional cars burn oil to generate electricity, EVs use electricity generated by burning coal. Assuming that you have to generate roughly the same amount of electricity, generating it using coal is going to be much worse than burning oil.

Plus, EVs don't just show up in car dealerships. Manufacturing an EV generates more CO2 than manufacturing a conventional car. You've got to consider the full picture when talking about pollution, not just the car as a bubble.

Sorry for the typo. Buddists -> Buddhists

> BSR agrees the policy is systemically biased: “Legal designations of terrorist organizations around the world have a disproportionate focus on individuals and organizations that have identified as Muslim, and thus Meta’s DOI policy and the list are more likely to impact Palestinian and Arabic-speaking users, both based upon Meta’s interpretation of legal obligations, and in error.”

That's right folks... It's unfair that most terrorist organizations around the world happen to be Muslim. Apparently we should censor Jews, Christians and Buddists as often as Muslims in spite of this fact.

That's driven by probability + number crunching. No intelligence there, just brute force.

Forget my name. If you want to talk about "personalized service" how about you give me more legroom?

https://opto.ca/eye-health-lib...

What happens when human eyes are made to focus on extremely-close targets for extended periods of time? Won't we all develop myopia?

"The law required [...] companies [...] to have one member who identifies as a woman."

John or Jane Doe who is unqualified for the job, we will pay you $50k a year to "sit on our board" so long as you say you identify as a woman. PS: You have no voting rights.

Problem solved.

At the end of the day, you can't force people to be nice. Assholes will continue to be assholes and good people will do the right thing. There are no quick fixes.

The first step in treating people equally is to hire people who are qualified for the job, regardless of their sexual or racial background.

Is if someone finds a way to unlock the CPU without paying Intel. Then the joke will be on them.

Okay, I'll bite: what are these numbers for ages 0 to 50 years old?

Last I checked, vaccine efficacy was defined in terms of the rate of infections prevented not in terms of hospitalization prevented. So first of all, we are lowering the bar a lot.

Secondly, if vaccines do little to prevent the spread of the disease then getting vaccinated is mostly a personal decision. Forcing other people to get vaccinated will not lower your probability of ending up infected or in hospital.

Thirdly, even if the vaccine reduces your chances of landing in hospital you have to remember that a 90% reduction of a tiny number is still a tiny number.

If you are under 65 years old and are not immunocompromised then getting vaccinated provides very in the way of benefits. Just look at the statistics.

So yes, let's encourage people to vaccinate. But not everyone. Just people who are 65 and older, or are immunocompromised. The cost/benefit of forcing everyone else to vaccinate is extremely high.

Protect the sick and vulnerable. Let everyone else go about their business.