IsTom

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by IsTom 4mo ago
I just want to vent: climate change is not a controversial topic, it's an inconvenient topic for people making a lot of money.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
As to the PH result, arguments on relativized classes can be pretty inconclusive. There's both oracles for P^A = NP^A and P^B != NP^B.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
It's wild how much more expensive they are in the US compared to Europe.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
> were sold at or under cost price and the markup was on the game sales? To be honest that has always had a smell to me akin to dumping.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
I'd rather compare CPS to goto than regular imperative computation.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
Does that matter that somebody else ran it for him?
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by IsTom 4mo ago
Especially with how they pick (one of) the most likely word as the next one. And the most likely word is exactly the one with least entropy, the least surprising one and giving the least amount of information you can.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
> A "random variable" is actually a measurable deterministic function from the set of possible outcomes of some experiment to the real numbers. I don't think that this was the formalization that was used when the term was
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by IsTom 4mo ago
MAD was thought of later and its theory requires that all parties know of each others' arsenal, think that their enemies aren't going to use them first and there being enough of weapons to make end quick and certain. I have hard
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by IsTom 4mo ago
When primate family produced a super-primate intelligence it sure aligned with the good of all of them.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
In this world we've had an inocculation event against use of nukes. Two were dropped, people have seen how abhorrent their use is and collectively decided that they shouldn't be used. If in the WW2 Japan also had nukes (and delive
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by IsTom 4mo ago
As the article says the alternatives (that the author seems to favor instead) boil down to "there's some physics we missed" and probably that's the point where we differ. I find that implausible, what would that be? Cons
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by IsTom 4mo ago
What you do is determined by physical action of neurons. There is no need for there to be someone to perceive it.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
Internal as in that which is feeling things. In this context the physical brain is what is responsible for what you do and feel, but it is not physically different from other matter and it requires no "internal observer" do do its
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by IsTom 4mo ago
Internal experience affects movement of physical molecules in what way?
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by IsTom 4mo ago
If we talking about Meta, Google, etc. code is only incidental to them earning money.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
> that they use because they can't get the artillery shells that they need That used to be true, but I don't think that the case anymore. UA is now striking logistics ~150KM behind the contact line with drones. Regular artiller
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by IsTom 4mo ago
Potential for consciousness. To have a working mind you need to have a way to gather, process and store information. In case of rocks it would be very empty, static, timeless experience.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
This way of thinking can only explain externally-visible parts of consciousness. It does nothing to address internal experience of being conscious and qualia. I don't think the internal experience has any bearing on physical reality (P
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by IsTom 4mo ago
I don't think it's any more silly than the alternatives.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
Erlang is weird in this regard. It has very strong guarantees when it comes to per-process heap that make GC much simpler: no escape hatches for mutability when most immutable languages do include them! But on the other hand inter-process c
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by IsTom 4mo ago
If there were more they could have been outcompeted early.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
I think what should be kept in mind is that these are not the hard levels BIY is famous for.
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by IsTom 4mo ago
It's not a panacea, but in my case setting browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory in about:config helped a bunch.
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by IsTom 5mo ago
It's much easier to generate and publish vast amounts of slop articles than to make real ones.
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by IsTom 5mo ago
> at which point I think it ceases to be "just" Latin script? I draw my line at 'U'.
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by IsTom 5mo ago
> What we really we need is some kind of more detailed spec language that doesn't have edge cases, where we describe exactly what we expect the generated code to do, and then formally verify that the now generated code matches the i
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by IsTom 5mo ago
And there are language families where minimal DFA is still exponentially large compared to NFA.
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by IsTom 5mo ago
I might be holding it wrong, but last time I tried to use DynamoDB it made absolutely no sense performance-wise to me. Postgres on my laptop was many orders of magnitude faster for fraction of price. It seemed like it maybe might make sense
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by IsTom 5mo ago
You could like, just trust a single binary. Have a button right there in the popup that already shows up.

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