Jeff_Brown

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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
Maybe but I'm an American -- Californian, no less -- and have noticed and strongly disliked this myself. Yes-man vibes diminish my trust.
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by Jeff_Brown 1y ago
I wonder. If the LLM suggests something really dumb, it might be more effective to really let it know that was a dumb idea. That is, the appropriate level of polite ess might depend on context.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Do you mean it shows something you've already chosen, or it interprets and plots what you're making up in the moment?
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
If this is meant to capture a would-be user's attention it ought to start with why it's good/useful/interesting, not with syntactic niggles.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
+1. Aliens and vampires in the same book. And really far-out ideas about cognition and biochemistry, well-grounded in science.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Its operation at each scale would be very different, and it's not obvious how many different layers we'd need before we'd be at the smallest possible, but maybe.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
"Nano-architected materials are made of tiny building blocks or repeating units measuring a few hundred nanometres in size — it would take more than 100 of them patterned in a row to reach the thickness of a human hair." I am perp
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
See the bottom of the article.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Censorship is censorship, and comment trees permit multiple subtopics quite unobtrusively.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
How do you sail into the solar wind?
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
All you can eat? Surely they charge a lot for that, at least. And how would you even find all the videos?
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I'm intrigued to know whether that actually ends up working. I am something like that myself, but I don't know whether it is an effect of getting feedback or of having a person behind the feedback.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Forbidding skyscrapers will prove counterproductive. People are leaving Bhutan for more money. Cities are more productive because they pack people close. Bhutan can save it's nature and have cities. It can't retain its people with
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
The article's two novel (to me) points, in brief: "My model is something like junk food. Food scientists can now make food hyper-palatable. Optimization for that often incidentally drives out other properties like healthiness. Sim
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
As I get more experience I actually prefer being less hands-on ... except when a job lets me use unfamiliar tools that I'm excited about. If someone offered me a job using dependent types (in any language) I'd immediately jump shi
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
You responded to a statement about change by talking about state. Both things are true: that average people have it better and that they have it hard.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Yes, but for the electorate to blame the current party for the last 40 years is irrational.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Whether one thinks things are bad or good is subjective and should not be relevant, although it does appear to matter electorally. A rational voting public would vote on a forward looking basis -- which candidate would deliver the biggest e
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
You left out wages.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
There are lots of shades of random. When the three-photon photoelectric effect will happen is random, but if you can find a way to bet against it, unless the odds are ridiculously skewed, you should.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Funny how "barely false" the conjecture is: "in this graph, finding an upper path was 1/10^6500 percent more likely than finding a lower one — an unimaginably small but nonzero number. The bunkbed conjecture was wrong.&q
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
I believe you that he's being concise but don't have time to watch an hour video even at 2x. Can you summarize? (I got to where he was talking about how introducing Maybe in breaking ways will break things, thought "duh"
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
That would be comforting if most of human history hadn't sucked so hard.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
Holding its probability constant, if the cost of avoiding a risk is sufficiently low and the potential harm sufficiently high, avoiding it is more rational than both looking further into it or taking it.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
You got my hopes up -- I thought you meant Mercury the programming language (which resembles Prolog and Haskell).
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
The King of Microrhythm -- composer David Bruce discusses J Dilla (and many others), and how to compose and play (!) off-grid. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...
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LiquidPiston claims their engine improves efficiency (30%), weight, size, noise(liquidpiston.com)
3 points by Jeff_Brown 2y ago|0 comments
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C-Motive's electrostatic motors use printed circuit boards instead of magnets(c-motive.com)
123 points by Jeff_Brown 2y ago|55 comments
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
This is incredible! I wish I could give it more bands, and see the distance (I imagine it computes one?) between each band I provided and the ones it suggests.
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by Jeff_Brown 2y ago
First type signatures, then good function names, then tests. Between those three I rarely need comments -- except, perhaps ironically, in the tests, to explain what kind of corner condition I'm testing where.

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