Al-Khwarizmi

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by Al-Khwarizmi 3mo ago
If the thesis was true, we'd expect rich people who will never be compelled to move against their will, or to move into less space, would prefer cluttered homey interiors, and poor people would prefer sparse & modern. In reality,
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by Al-Khwarizmi 3mo ago
I don't really know what to take away from this piece. I think I might be misunderstanding something. On the one hand, "Eyes and brain alike evolved over millennia to process natural scenes, forests, rivers, coastlines, open skie
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by Al-Khwarizmi 3mo ago
First, weather services would need to report it. None of the ones I've seen do. Most don't even report feels-like temperature, they just report plain temperature... in my city (often windy and humid) it's all but useless, you
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by Al-Khwarizmi 3mo ago
The south already mostly had AC. The north was too busy criticizing the south for things like closing shops in the afternoon, using blinds, eating late, and of course using AC. Now I guess they're beginning to realize that maybe it&#x2
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by Al-Khwarizmi 3mo ago
Curious, in Spanish we have the same saying, but always in the negative version ("no hay moros en la costa") which is something you say when you're doing something secret and there is no one around who could see, hear or caus
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
We might as well say that none of us have ever seen a cockroach that can solve Erdos problems as well as an LLM. Or write code, or stories, etc.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
I'm not a fan of that, but it's not like the opposition is going to be different in that respect (or like they have been different in the past). It's the companies and elites who are demanding those migrants to keep wages low
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
Much of Spain is indeed getting very unpleasant in the summer with climate change, but in the north there are still regions that are quite fine at the moment. Where I am, we recently beat the all time temperature record with 35 degrees, but
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
In Spain what he says is sadly true, maybe like 70% of the restaurants no longer have printed menus. But of course, saying "in Europe..." is always risky. Europe is very diverse.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
I'm European and I don't see sending my data to China as more risky than sending it to the US. Rather the opposite. I think your vision of how the rest of the US sees the world is tinted by a massive bias.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
my skills are at such a high level that it’s almost theoretical that it’ll ever be good enough to replace me for 90% of what I get paid to do. Is it really true for most people that they are using their core advanced skills 90% of the tim
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
If AI is not better than you at a task, but it's good enough and saves you time, it also makes sense to use it. Many of my uses of AI fall in this category.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
If you have some spare time, I'd be interested in knowing what kind of questions you use to test models on understanding of Chinese culture.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 4mo ago
Of our own governments. Which makes sense, under the assumption that having a military is a necessary evil, how else would they be funded? This is about players all over the world contributing scans of their own countries to US military, th
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
What? Maybe you visited a particularly casino-heavy area, but in general there aren't many casinos in Spain. In many regions (e.g. mine) they're restricted to one per province. My city (250K population in the core, metropolitan ar
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
In practice La Quiniela works more like a lottery than betting, though. No immediacy, no lights and sounds, no adrenalin rush. I don't think there's much risk of people falling into severe addiction by playing that.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
Not bandwidth priority. It's just that our brilliant judges have let the football league implement IP blocks to combat piracy of football matches. These blocks affect CloudFlare IPs that host many websites and services unrelated to foo
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
It changes depending on the day. But yes, some days it's really a lot (affecting forums, news sites, etc.). I think Movistar applies stronger blocks than most for some reason, in fact I've been seriously consider changing ISP for
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
I'm on Movistar and can't access it without my trusty VPN that I have for football match times :)
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
Indeed, it's a pity. While many advanced math problems are highly abstract or convoluted to explain to a layman audience, this one in particular is about points in a 2D plane and distances. A drawing would have been nice.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
So now I finally understand why Americans use the expression "proctored exams". Because not all exams are proctored. Here in Spain, we don't have an equivalent expression because there is no such thing as an unproctored exam.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 5mo ago
I'm not sure if people are even worried anymore. European here (from Spain), and the overwhelming majority of people I know are hoping for the removal of the bases. They are worried, yes... worried that it's just grandstanding a
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
But if it works part of the time, it's useful. It's easy for a human to check that the numbers are correct, and if they aren't, just regenerate the image. Orders of magnitude easier than creating the image from scratch withou
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
Great to know. I would say that it happened to me more recently but it may have been in machines that had been unused for some months and ran an old version. According to the link, it "only" took them 5 years to solve the bug. Bet
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
Great, this is actual progress. Now it would be amazing if "Update and Shut Down" would actually update and shut down, instead of doing so like 50% of the time with the other 50% just updating and restarting with an actual shut do
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
This actually sounds quite human-like. I mean, an actual person with a personality will spontaneously develop the habit of using some specific metaphors over others. It's funny how in the context of an LLM, this is considered a bug.
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
It's part of a novel, so it has a larger context. The parable is not intended for you, the reader, but for the protagonist of the novel Josef K., who is spending time in a futile effort. I'd say it's basically about futility
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
Is this not a form of meditation? I've never been able to keep a meditation habit, but my understanding is that meditation techniques often feature closing your eyes and focusing on breathing, body parts or some other irrelevant thing,
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
I guess to each their own. But in the little free time I have as a non-rich version, I like to face low-stakes challenges I myself choose, e.g. in my case those currently mostly are learning Chinese and learning to play a musical instrument
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by Al-Khwarizmi 6mo ago
This kind of argument flies in the face of the fact that plenty of inherited rich people seem to lead very happy lives. Of course, they do find things to struggle with, but it's much more pleasant to struggle to score 72 at the golf co

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