Aransentin

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by Aransentin 2y ago
I live in Sweden and don't think I've touched physical money for about a decade. Cash is more or less on life support by now, with a small and dwindling list of places you can even use it anymore - basically grocery stores and e.g
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by Aransentin 2y ago
There are some hard-to-handle edge cases when doing display length truncation in Unicode, e.g. the character U+FDFD or "﷽" is four bytes but can be very long depending on the typeface*, so "completely" solving it is quit
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by Aransentin 3y ago
It should be noted that Xlib has been a compatibility wrapper around XCB – the "modern" X11 client library replacement – for about 15 years now, so it might make more sense to just target that. (The only thing on the top of my hea
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by Aransentin 3y ago
> very unlikely Actually, what are the chances of this system – if it existed – is used to move an asteroid into the path of the Earth and killing everybody within the next 100 years? (This would include scenarios like "the US presi
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by Aransentin 3y ago
Probably not, it's unironically too incomprehensible to be AI.
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by Aransentin 3y ago
In practice, changing tag type is rarely done. In any case it wouldn't be particularly expensive; you'd have to make a new member of the destination type which is as expensive as an append. The "hole" that remains in the
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by Aransentin 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by Aransentin 3y ago
We first finished a Zig application three years ago, but that was a fairly small demo project which we didn't have to support afterwards.
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by Aransentin 3y ago
My company uses Zig to write software for small Linux devices, such as set-top boxes. The biggest benefit isn't exactly performance, but the absurdly tiny binaries it produces (very convenient if you are working with small flash disks!
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by Aransentin 3y ago
I wrote a quick script a while ago to bruteforce English 5x5 Sator squares using a wordlist, and the only one that makes some limited sense is t i m i d i r a n i m a d a m i n a r i d i m i t I.e. "[the] timid Iranian m
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by Aransentin 3y ago
Note too that the paper states "We generated five images for each test image and selected the generated images with highest PSMs [perceptual similarity metrics].", so it actually directly admits that the presented images are cherr
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Surely in many cities this will simply lead to people being able to afford even larger loans to bid on the limited stock of housing, driving the prices even higher. If you have an inelastic good you need to actually increase supply, boostin
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Bayes' theorem is ruthless. Even if your AI is 99.99% accurate, if you have one true positive and scan everybody the vast majority of the people you flag will be perfectly innocent. The people deploying the system and police are igno
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by Aransentin 4y ago
If 90% of the prompts are human couldn't you reach 90% accuracy by just picking "human" every time?
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Because pretty much everybody that reads the article will have taken away a grossly exaggerated idea of what the system is actually capable of. If Stable Diffusion was intentionally added "for flair" and really is unnecessary, the
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by Aransentin 4y ago
I immediately found the results suspect, and think I have found what is actually going on. The dataset it was trained on was 2770 images, minus 982 of those used for validation. I posit that the system did not actually read any pictures fro
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by Aransentin 4y ago
As an obvious example, I uploaded a photograph I took of a painting I have by Julie Hagen-Schwarz* that's been in private possession since 1882 and never put online: https://www.stableattribution.com/?image=7730efac-bf5
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by Aransentin 4y ago
> first day of class, write a N word essay Initially I thought you meant having the student write an essay about slurs, as the AI will refuse to output anything like that. Then I realized you meant "N" as in "Number of wor
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Two minor points: GPT doesn't see letters, just words and parts of words as entire tokens. I would not expect it to understand that "no pun in ten did" and "no pun intended" are similar, since it can't see that
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Now the council official just needs to run ChatGPT on their side to decide whether to accept or deny requests, and we'll have automated the entire process.
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by Aransentin 4y ago
The "blind orchestra auditions" story gets repeated a lot, but the study it originates from did not find any statistically significant effect (and even so the ultimate outcome was that men benefit from blind auditions, not women
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Considering the staggering speed that image generation is improving, that 10% gap will only continue to close. Starting e.g. an art education right now seems likely to be extremely nerve-wracking as your talents may very well be woefully ob
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by Aransentin 4y ago
> You answer a question with the verb that was asked. ‘Do you like coffee?’ ‘Like!’ or ‘不like‘. Surely this explains that Chinese bootleg Star Wars translation meme where Darth Vader's "Nooo" is subtitled as "Do not w
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by Aransentin 4y ago
My immediate reaction was that it was some sort of 4chan project, tounge-in-cheek named after their softcore porn board (also named "/e/"). I'd wager I'm not the only one thinking that.
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by Aransentin 4y ago
How about the Turpan water system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turpan_water_system An artificial oasis city built in the Late Middle Ages* on the Taklamakan Desert for travellers along the Silk Road, it provided irri
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by Aransentin 4y ago
That URL contains "f-p-walter", so it was presumably his translation from 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_...
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by Aransentin 4y ago
There is an accepted (but as of yet unimplemented) proposal to fix just that: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/7257#issuecomment-1030...
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by Aransentin 4y ago
This occurs (occurred?) in practice for the Swedish e-ID system (BankID). There are examples of companies that don't want to pay to verify identities, and so will instead replay the codes to log directly into the Swedish tax agency web
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by Aransentin 4y ago
Spitballing, but maybe the problem is that no doctors wants to be the guy in town who's the most generous with opioid prescriptions, as then he'll get swamped by people seeking opioids? People who look at the statistics after that
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by Aransentin 4y ago
If spontaneous remission is super rare it does change the conclusion, yeah. (Tangentially I think your stats are a little messed up there - you calculated the expected number of people out of 43000 surviving, not the trials returning a fals

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