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by Calavar 3y ago
It's similar to slapping noexcept on every function in a compilation unit. Unwinding will still happen as usual in compilation units where exceptions were enabled. When a function in an -fno-exceptions compilation unit calls a functio
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by Calavar 3y ago
> I think dismissing an entire branch of research simply because it goes against one's argument is a little funny I don't think it goes against my argument at all. Deep learning is a place where many structural factors are curr
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by Calavar 3y ago
I think there is an enormous survivorship bias here. Research advances come in alternating of periods torrents and droughts, not in a steady trickle. Hamming, Shannon, and their contemporaries worked at a time of revolution in computer scie
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by Calavar 3y ago
This is exactly what Postgres does in its SQL parser. The key question here is whether your lexing code handles each keyword in a separate path or uses a single path for anything that looks like a keyword or identifier. Most handwritten lex
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by Calavar 4y ago
This is sort of true, sort of not. The primary investigator who registers a clinical trial is obligated to report the results back to the registry. But if they get a negative result, they are still going to have a hard time finding a decent
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by Calavar 4y ago
I experimented with coding with GPT a few times now. GPT is legitimately interesting as an alternative search interface to StackOverflow. I've found that 15 to 45 minutes of searching with Google/StackOverflow can be reduced to ju
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by Calavar 4y ago
> which was given to the bankers by the customers to be held in safe custody That simply not how banking works. Many individuals think of banking that way, and they can because FDIC insures their deposits for up to $250k. (Which for the
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by Calavar 4y ago
I see a lot of irony in this. When Chomsky proposed generative grammars, his theory of universal language acquisition, and so on, they were radical ideas that upturned the central cannon of linguistics. Time has been on his side - entire sc
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by Calavar 4y ago
Fissile uranium is a much denser energy source than oil. We should eat that first.
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by Calavar 4y ago
Nobody claims that ChatGPT is AGI, but plenty claim that LLMs may be the the path to AGI.
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by Calavar 4y ago
I would expect that std::string_view would still be significantly faster. Copying or moving an std::string with small string optimization is likely going to boil down to a branch (to check if the instance is using the small string optimizat
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by Calavar 4y ago
It's been less than three months. I too have trouble believing that anyone's pre-Chat GPT skills and knowledge could atrophy to that degree in that amount of time.
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by Calavar 4y ago
Probably would have been better to use the word 'difficult' because NP-complete does in fact automatically imply NP-hard. I was expecting a very different article based on the title.
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by Calavar 4y ago
> with the number of dietary science that turned out to be wrong over time, I must be skeptical about every new study. This I agree with. There is so much noise and so many confounding factors affecting the underlying data that you are
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by Calavar 4y ago
This is exactly what Karl Marx predicted 200 years ago, except he saw things in the context of industrialization and mechanical automation as opposed to AI and digital automation.
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by Calavar 4y ago
Sorry, I have a habit of refining my thinking a bit and editing my posts to match. I didn't realize that there was already a reply. I didn't really change much of substance though - mainly just added the point about historical gen
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by Calavar 4y ago
> Female researchers in mathematics, psychology and economics are 3–15 times more likely to be elected as members of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) or the American Academy of Arts and Sciences than are male counterparts who ha
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by Calavar 4y ago
Very accurate, but considering that it doesn’t mention black holes even once, it seems to have missed the point of the article. I see Chat GPT doing this a lot. When faced with a tough task, it instead does a different (but similar) task th
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by Calavar 4y ago
Title of that article: "NJ 4th Graders Score Low on Literacy, Still Ahead of Nation" Throwing more money at the problem often makes some progress, but it's not always a definitive solution. Tough problems usually involve reor
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by Calavar 4y ago
> Doesn't NIH cover the genome sequencing if its an unexplained illness? No, they don't. And it wouldn't make sense for them to do that either. There isn't much value to that clinically (sequencing is highly unlikely
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by Calavar 4y ago
> nobody has said, "We should consider looking at your DNA to see what's up here. I'm really interested and want to figure this out with you." The vast majority of doctors don't have the expertise or resources ne
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by Calavar 4y ago
> Now the question is this. If an AI is doing something illegal like practicing law, how does one sanction an AI? As far as I'm aware, no LLM has reached sentience and started taking on projects of its own volition. So it's eas
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by Calavar 4y ago
Yes, exactly. For example, Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria have very different structures to their cell walls, and penicillins tend to be effective for Gram positive bacteria, but not Gram negative bacteria. There can be other cons
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by Calavar 4y ago
This is a very good question. The practical issues with antibiotic resistance may not be that obvious to a layperson because they tend to pop up in the hospital setting as opposed to the clinic setting that most people are familiar with. Th
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by Calavar 4y ago
I think the reason the bar keeps shifting is that we're in the middle of the uncanny valley with regards to AI. Diffusion models and LLMs are just convincing enough that their mistakes are starting to evoke a more visceral reaction tha
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by Calavar 4y ago
As a physician, it physically hurts whenever I read stuff like this. First off, this is in huge bold letters at the top of the second link that you cite as evidence for a "cure" to diabetes: > We don’t call it diabetes reversal
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by Calavar 4y ago
"halved the amount of time patients spent with high glucose levels, doubled the amount of time glucose levels were safe" That's huge. Diabetes is a disease that involves damage over time. Sugar (glucose specifically) is an ex
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by Calavar 4y ago
> And this is basically what Rust does with ownership. When the object goes out of scope and ownership is not transferred, the memory is freed. It’s just that it doesn’t always need the reference counting part. But you can rest assured t
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by Calavar 4y ago
> There is typically no need to manually free objects when you are done with them. You just let the system destroy the objects automatically when they go out of scope. By deciding where to scope the variable with the destructor/drop
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by Calavar 4y ago
Outside of Rc and Arc, which part of Rust memory management is automatic? The whole pitch for Rust is making manual safety management safer by using more sophisticated compile time checks. It certainly doesn't make automatic memory man

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