Isamu

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by Isamu 8mo ago
>brute force search of the solution space “Brute force” is mostly what makes it all work, and what is most disappointing to me currently. Including the brute force necessary to train an LLM, the vast quantity of text necessary to approac
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by Isamu 8mo ago
For me writing code is clarifying ideas, it’s an important part of the process. Sometimes you start to see a radical way of simplifying what you want, that only happens if you are willing to transform what your requirements are if they turn
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by Isamu 8mo ago
>who checks the sources I do, when I’m reading something and accuracy matters. Anybody who cares about accuracy will investigate the sources. I know people will complain that “nobody” does this, but it is essential, without checking sour
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by Isamu 8mo ago
The Factbook dates from a time when this was the most convenient source of updated concise summaries of all countries. It didn’t necessarily go into great detail except for countries important to the US national interest. This has been ecli
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by Isamu 8mo ago
Is there some redefinition of “average” going on? What are LLMs but a statistical representation of likely speech? What is generated except some likely and plausible output that seems to fit the bill? At what point is average exceeded?
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by Isamu 8mo ago
Surely we can do better than reading TFA and manually commenting on it.
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by Isamu 8mo ago
Same, except I am over 60 and when I think of opening a mobile food cart it is sort of a Blade Runner vibe, staffed by a robot ramen chef that grumbles at customers and always says something back to you in some cyber slang that you don’t un
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by Isamu 8mo ago
Same with essay assignments, you exercise different neural pathways by doing it yourself. Recently in comments people were claiming that working with LLMs has sharpened their ability to organize thoughts, and that could be a real effect tha
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by Isamu 9mo ago
I am very interested in the Community Movement, Wikipedia is lacking references https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Movement And also the Waldensians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldensians
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by Isamu 9mo ago
Yeah I remember my class was the last in our high school to learn the slide rule, the next year we transitioned to (expensive!) calculators. People had to be taught not to go wild with the extra precision.
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by Isamu 9mo ago
No problem really, I think most people want to bootstrap quickly from the low level into the higher abstractions that they care about, few people want to stay down in the cpu itself.
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by Isamu 9mo ago
I think this is a good overview for most people, this is probably what they want. For me personally I was surprised given the name that very little is about cpus and most of the material is in the operating system.
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by Isamu 9mo ago
>The source material was a compact cassette tape from a demo, found in a drawer. Was this demo his, or someone else’s IP? If he is cleaning up or modifying his own property, not a lot of people have a problem with that. If it is someone
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by Isamu 9mo ago
People invoke Marcus Aurelius but are not really engaged in the classical study of Greek stoicism, they read into it what they want to see. It’s a lazy justification for what you already want. Any “epiphany” that comes from that is self ser
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by Isamu 9mo ago
Anger is an energy
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by Isamu 9mo ago
>LLMs do not have opinions. Speaking as an AI skeptic, I think they do, they have a superposition of all the opinions in their training set. They generate a mashup of those opinions that may or may not be coherent. The thinking is real b
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by Isamu 9mo ago
That’s interesting, they use the Singularity to refer to technological explosion in general rather than specifically AI becoming super intelligent. This seems to predate the AI usage. >"Singularity is a time in the future. It'l
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by Isamu 9mo ago
The Bremermann limit is about computational density. It makes sense to talk about computers that are ever more powerful but not necessarily larger. So we talk about the supercomputers we call cell phones that are orders of magnitude more po
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by Isamu 9mo ago
What’s up with the ending that makes no sense? >Where are the physical limits? According to Bremermann (1982), a computer of 1 kg of mass and 1 liter of volume can execute at most 1051 operations per second on at most 1032 bits. The tren
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by Isamu 9mo ago
So you reach back to 2022 for the problems cited in 2025? I guess nothing else happened this year that could affect the economy. Nope, nothing.
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by Isamu 9mo ago
Yeah at work I’m paid to own some components that I didn’t write and don’t entirely understand, so I figure my job is to help discover answers for the questions that arise. I would not want to be a public maintainer though. I don’t have the
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by Isamu 10mo ago
Isn’t the implication that cipher is a loanword? So language relatedness is irrelevant? We use “arabic” numerals around the world. So use of an Arabic loan word is unsurprising.
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by Isamu 10mo ago
The criticism is of the spin in these articles. The experience these kids get is great, it should happen more. The articles always spin to get your attention, and the subject matter is fascinating, but it can be presented with less spin. An
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by Isamu 10mo ago
Making things, I made my daughters wooden practice swords, two-handed claymores. Now for Christmas I always make something. This year was cross-body bags with elaborate patterns. Fun for me, I’m just glad they put up with the eccentric choi
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by Isamu 10mo ago
A great article that starts by not discounting the written accounts that are available. I am reminded that the Maya language decipherment really moved forward once the written account by Diego De Landa was taken seriously.
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by Isamu 10mo ago
Yeah I’m dreading a change in Apple TV in this direction. I avoid the crappiness of smart tvs by not connecting them to wifi and just using Apple TV, but how long before that becomes crappy too?
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by Isamu 10mo ago
… because a capitalist would never scam a robot for profit, never! Too scrupulous. Plus capitalists don’t know the first thing about what communism is and hence couldn’t pull off the scam, they only know that “communism bad”.
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by Isamu 10mo ago
Tldr: reconstruction of statue painting is based on residual pigments alone, and tend to look garish because the reconstruction is just an expression of the available data and fully saturated color. But where we see wall frescoes and the li
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by Isamu 10mo ago
Westinghouse was acquired as a brand under Tsinghua TongFang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electronics
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by Isamu 10mo ago
So WebKit is the walled garden? I thought it was the App Store.

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