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by AgentME 7y ago
I think some of these examples are interesting because they show that GPT-2 was trained on data (web sites) that were optimized to be interesting, rather than lists of facts or logical inferences. Hmm, now I wonder if you could take GPT-2,
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by AgentME 7y ago
I'm a bit irked at the specific way the article keeps on bringing up unstandardized and clunky-as-hell looking features (I never knew about IE's behavior attribute; that looks scary) that were only ever implemented in IE as if IE
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by AgentME 7y ago
>NULL/nil is just one of many invalid memory addresses, and in practice most of invalid memory address are not NULL. I want a language that can check at compile/check time that none of my pointers will have invalid addresses. R
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by AgentME 7y ago
+1. I think this is something that gets lost in discussions around null. Generally, everyone complaining about C's handling of nulls will recommend languages that make nullable-pointers opt-in by having non-nullable references and maki
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by AgentME 7y ago
If you run a service that predators use in service of their goals, and you're in a position to do something about it, then I think you're obligated to do so, especially if no one else is in a similar position to do something about
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by AgentME 7y ago
This video about the problems with The Bell Curve (a book about IQ and other things) does a lot to explain a lot of the problems with IQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo . The video is well-researched; I'v
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by AgentME 7y ago
I think your post is a good way to split up some of the ideas in the article. I really think #2 is a good point, but I get frustrated at many arguments for #1. People are emotional beings and will seek out fights, but that doesn't mean
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by AgentME 7y ago
I really wish everything written about IPFS would just ignore IPNS, and stop presenting it as a standard part of IPFS. The thing IPNS tries to do can be done better by the existing DNS system (which works fine combined with IPFS) or blockch
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by AgentME 7y ago
The book Permutation City explores a concept like this. I really recommend it.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Right, dissecting why that answer would be worthless is part of the fun of the thought experiment. It seems like it should be ... spectacularly interesting to somehow discover that your entire memory is a lie and the world you're in is
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by AgentME 7y ago
Have you physically done that experiment? Why not? I ask this rhetorically, but I don't mean this as some kind of gotcha to say that you're wrong for not doing the experiment. I believe there's a whole pile of interesting rea
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by AgentME 7y ago
I'm not using "matter" in a very deep way here. As a human, your decisions matter to yourself in the sense that you're going to experience the consequences of them. If you choose to eat an inedible object, then you'
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by AgentME 7y ago
There are similar thought experiments around complex objects suddenly coming into existence. They're not very controversial. The Boltzmann brain thought experiment is interesting because it raises the possibility that there's some
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by AgentME 7y ago
There's no reason to expect that your decisions would affect the next Boltzmann brain in the sequence, so there's still no need to put value of the Boltzmann brains' decisions. I don't think it makes sense to put more we
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by AgentME 7y ago
I find this question really fun: "Am I a Boltzmann brain, or a real human?". If there exists both a human and a Boltzmann brain with your current mental state, then it doesn't make sense to try to answer this question with a
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by AgentME 7y ago
QUIC is just a way for a browser to make more HTTP-like connections in parallel more efficiently. It doesn't affect ad-blocking browser extensions. The browser can still implement the APIs for extensions the same way regardless of whet
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by AgentME 7y ago
I was under the impression that Adobe Animate was a direct successor to Flash the authoring software (but with output options including HTML5 instead of SWF).
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by AgentME 7y ago
Something I've loved to prevent games from getting too clinical is when custom/modded maps are popular. It's fun when you're in a match on a custom map and gametype that no one has seen before and everyone is on a level
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by AgentME 7y ago
I have a lot of trouble understanding the issue in the comparison with JOSE. The problem with JOSE's header was that many libraries offered an API that was "validate that this is a valid token using one of these keys", but a
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by AgentME 7y ago
>or I need to define my own chunked streaming signature verification tool and combine that with age (and hope the chunk sizes line up). Wouldn't you just need a tool that only outputs chunks after they're verified, and then you
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by AgentME 7y ago
Those issues are only relevant to applications that display arbitrary HTML and already have XSS issues. Avoiding XSS is doable; with most web frameworks you're protected from XSS by default and have to specifically turn off the safetie
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by AgentME 7y ago
Ooh, the included "rage-mount" utility allows mounting an age-encrypted zip or tar file as a directory. (It can be installed with `cargo install --features mount age`.)
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by AgentME 7y ago
I think the problem with e-fail was that gpg would output data before verifying it. Age will only output chunks of data after they've been verified.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Age is trying to avoid being an infinitely-flexible swiss army knife like GPG. It's been argued that GPG's do-everything design is the root of many problems both technically and in usability: https://latacora.micro.blog
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by AgentME 7y ago
Not everyone uploads their PGP keys to keyservers. Also, keyservers don't verify the ownership of the keys uploaded to them. You're supposed to import the signer's public key first.
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by AgentME 7y ago
Different bindings are like entirely different variables that just coincidentally share the same name.
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by AgentME 7y ago
New bindings live at different addresses (if you pass a pointer to one binding, and then make a new binding with a new value, the existing pointer will point to the old value and not the new binding's value) and bindings made in a loop
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by AgentME 7y ago
Maven sidesteps the issue by not even having lockfiles and leaving everyone who checks out a repo free to have different versions of subdependencies, so I'm not sure it's a very stellar example.
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by AgentME 7y ago
If we had that setup and faced those problems, would starting a mass holocaust that will kill everyone who ever has or will exist (inventing death) really be the best solution? I feel like human ingenuity could probably find a better soluti
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by AgentME 7y ago
This line of thinking seems to also argue against trying to cure any diseases. What's the point of curing a disease that makes someone's life span shorter if all life spans are too short anyway?

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