Bootvis

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by Bootvis 1y ago
The point is that bit of information doesn’t tell you anything about yourself and your own skills and intrinsic value. You could be there best hire to date but someone even better than you shows up, or the bosses nephew or funding went away
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by Bootvis 1y ago
Really, what are you making that a 5% increase in productivity doesn’t justify a Copilot subscription?
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by Bootvis 1y ago
There is a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_collision
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India bars Jane Street from its securities market, citing manipulation(reuters.com)
8 points by Bootvis 1y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 1y ago
I weep for the poor kids with parents in the "Bleach community".
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by Bootvis 1y ago
Maybe the LLM should be trained to interface with text using some ed/vim dialect to only work on blocks of text.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
I can upgrade to a bigger LLM I use through an API with one click. If it runs on my device device I need to buy a new phone.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
The way I understand it: The attacker sends an email to the user which is intercepted by Copilot which processes the email and embeds the email for RAG. The mail is crafted to have a high likelihood to be retrieved during regular prompting.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
I too am never surprised by my brains narration but: Maybe the brain tricks you in never being surprised and acting like your thoughts are following a perfectly sensible sequence. It would be incredibly tedious to be surprised every 5 secon
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by Bootvis 1y ago
The interest in speculating, to me at least, is the impact of intelligent life still existing. It puts an upper bound on the life span on single planet species.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
I understand that in 500m years luminosity will increase by 5%. By then we should be able to survive that modest increase. Where did you get 500m years?
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by Bootvis 1y ago
Why wouldn’t American laws apply to people applying for a visa to enter the USA?
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by Bootvis 1y ago
N/3 + log log N holds for any arbitrary set, not just for 1 … N or something.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
I expect this algorithm or similar to work for X^tX as well. Fun fact, that operation is common enough that a trading firm was named after it: XTX Markets.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
What is something such a person should know but doesn’t? I don’t write C but the language is fairly small so I can imagine a professional keeping 99% of it in their head at all time.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
Hence the urgency.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
Is @Stable a generalization of the final keyword or is there more to it that I'm missing?
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by Bootvis 1y ago
In the proposed setting I’d say that’s just anti social behaviour. If you need to be obligated to act socially, you’re within a hairs width of antisocial.
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by Bootvis 1y ago
The future will have two Dyson spheres in competition at every job interview.
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by Bootvis 2y ago
Probably more to do with the fact that all cars, imported and produced within the EU, are taxed quite heavily.
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Terence Tao – Machine-Assisted Proofs (February 19, 2025) [video](youtube.com)
10 points by Bootvis 2y ago|0 comments
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by Bootvis 2y ago
It's called a keyboard and muscle memory.
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by Bootvis 2y ago
I have a very similar experience but using 6.4 installed from 6 (six) CD's. Took me forever to get internet working, first dial-up then ISDN.
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by Bootvis 2y ago
Works fine for me on Firefox (Windows).
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by Bootvis 2y ago
It doesn't mean the same though, 2.6k implies somewhere between 2550 and 2650 years ago and 2600 an exact number of years.
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by Bootvis 2y ago
IMO in this example there seems too be to little magic.
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by Bootvis 2y ago
And this is something, so I’m doing it.
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by Bootvis 2y ago
They have 300 times and 1000 times the reputation you have. Maybe dail down the paranoia.
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by Bootvis 2y ago
As shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZ8NyV4pXU
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by Bootvis 2y ago
The article does have a picture of an analog clock (The Big Ben) I think. The problem is not analog but showing seconds or not.

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