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by 0xfffafaCrash 2y ago
I agree with the issue of ”is the test dataset leaking into the training dataset” being an issue with interpreting LLM capabilities in novel contexts, but not sure I follow what you mean on the quantum computing front. My understanding is t
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by 0xfffafaCrash 2y ago
> At PostHog, our approach is to have feedback dinners with the entire team. It gives everyone a chance to share feedback with each other in front of the rest of the team. Yeah, this can’t generally be sound advice. Feedback that can be
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by 0xfffafaCrash 2y ago
How are string encoding discrepancies and related utilities dealt with? My vague understanding is that WASM supports UTF-8 while JS supports (potentially malformed) UTF-16
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by 0xfffafaCrash 2y ago
Moreover the binding and lexical scope aspects supported by classic functions are amongst the worst aspects of the language. Arrow functions are also far more concise and ergonomic when working with higher order functions or simple expressi
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
Have seen the same pattern in the JS npm ecosystem. Npm audit predominantly cries wolf on security issues and rolling things in, license permitting, is one of the most reliable ways of not getting inundated with bogus issues from users (who
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
Text is too broad a category for version control for software to be convenient. I would much prefer version controlling on a subset of text that correctly parses to a domain specific AST. Imagine how much better and informative the diffs an
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
It’s interesting how quickly an argument for “factfulness” morphs into cherry-picking data points as soon as the facts are unfavorable. Turns out that facts aren’t bestsellers or at least not memorable ones that everyone wants to read and s
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
For anyone more interested in this general topic, in philosophy of mind, this is referred to as “the extended mind” using the terminology of Andy Clark and David Chalmers in their famous 1998 paper of the same name.
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
In my opinion if one could choose between a well executed and instant rebase versus a well executed and instant merge, one would be a fool not to choose a rebase every single time. In practice too, I also almost always choose rebases, BUT t
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
One thing that’s interesting today is how in the corporate world, even in big tech companies where one might naively think black triangles with explanations might be appreciated by more technically literate managers, working on these sorts
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
Interesting that the US NPS leaves completely un-noted the description of a thief as a half-breed. Some of Roosevelt’s other commentary on Native Americans: “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
haven’t looked through this post yet but I think this is what you have in mind: https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper/
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
GirlfriendGPT is more controversial. Controversy does well in the attention economy.
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by 0xfffafaCrash 3y ago
If someone is already working on a problem full-time, money only helps to the extent that resources they can be buy with money are the limiting constraint. However, beyond deep work needed for a single individual, when you need to explore p
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
I’d argue that copyright and intellectual property more broadly shouldn’t exist. That wouldn’t lead to the end of culture but a cultural explosion as people became able to remix and propagate ideas more freely without the fear of punishment
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
According to TechCrunch, yes https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/06/google-said-to-have-high-l...
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
Fair. I don’t think MS would have a great case in court, assuming the court was technically competent enough to understand the situation upon hearing the case, which is not an easy thing to assume, but I also think many applications of the
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
Isn’t Truffle Security opening themselves up to litigation from this? It’s harmless, but is the risk of having Microsoft’s army of lawyers throw CFAA at you really worth this?
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
It would be interesting to see a list of unsuccessful small teams as a point of reference. Oh wait… it probably wouldn’t. Then again, a list of unsuccesful large teams may not offer much insight either. There may be many advantages to small
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
Except it actually addresses a serious problem on two fronts 1) reducing the ability to profit off of actions that cause environmental damage thereby aligning the market interest to reduce such actions 2) funding the investment in reversing
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
https://skepticalscience.com/weather-forecasts-vs-climate-mo...
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
Sure, but that does nothing to help with the tragedy of the commons caused by unaddressed negative externalities…
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
I’m not arguing about the value of crypto here. Personally I think blockchains are vastly overvalued and it is mostly hype/speculation and fraudsters using FOMO are rampant. That’s a separate issue though and should be treated as such.
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
What’s the cost of sequestering each ton of CO2? $30? $90? Prohibitively high for some purposes? Well that seems like a relatively good place to start. Having a positive number adjustable based on large scale statistics does a hell of a lot
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
I don’t think Proof of Work should be illegal anywhere. The value is not in what is computed but in what properties it gives to the system. What should be addressed though is the problem of negative externalities not being priced in. This i
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
Related: https://aeon.co/essays/why-pregnancy-is-a-biological-war-bet... https://theconversation.com/pregnancy-cooperative-paradise-o... https://radiolab.org/episodes/everybodys-go
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
Yeah, TS isn’t just better than Flow. It’s vastly better in almost any way one can think of. One of the few cases where the answer isn’t even “it depends.” I have to imagine swyx is either trolling here or has some very special contrarian o
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
Seems like a very political answer from Andrej. Of course he’s not going to outright say “yeah, we’re prioritizing the profit margin over accuracy and safety considerations” if he wants to keep his job, but that seems to be the short of it.
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
I wonder if this policy, or the general mentality that produced it, is why webkit is so underdeveloped and widely reviled by devs compared to alternatives. Sounds like one can push in a security bug or performance increase that is fast beca
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by 0xfffafaCrash 4y ago
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/o...

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