LeCompteSftware

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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
The more important research is the kind that the economy doesn't especially benefit from, but which needs to happen in order to improve the quality of human life. I had a job paid by the National Science Foundation, doing genomics rese
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by LeCompteSftware 5mo ago
I'm confused, does this comment have anything to do with the paper? This paper is about fueling a fire, not starting one.
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
No, it is partially falsifiable. LLMs clearly don't understand the concept of quantity. They fail at tests designed to assess number understanding in dogs and pigeons; in fact they are quite likely to fail these tests, because they are
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
I think part of it is Visual Studio Code doing most IDE things very well, creating a market niche for terminal tooling that handles the rest. Certainly part of it is also people of my generation being nostalgic for the TUIs of DOS file mana
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Surely the "universal grammar" is "every country adopting Western Arabic numerals, largely for commercial reasons, but also acknowledging that their indigenous systems kind of sucked in comparison." The fact that there a
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
You should see my reply to convolvatron below. I don't think this is a correct formulation of the platonic representation argument: different models converge on similar representations because they are exposed to the same reality
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
FWIW it's objectively false that numbers are a system humans created. That's almost certainly true for symbolic numbers and therefore large numbers ( > 20). But pretty much every bird and mammal is capable of quantitative rea
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
"using periodic features with dominant periods at T=2, 5, 10" seems inconsistent with "platonic representation" and more consistent with "specific patterns noticed in commonly-used human symbolic representations of
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
I think blaming America's problems on gerontocracy is correlation-causation confusion. The reason we have a gerontocracy is that ordinary rank-and-file voters are too cynical and individualistic to participate in politics.
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
I've seen a lot posts like this recently. This comment is coming from the perspective of someone who the author would consider "anti-social": I once reported my boss to HR for a racist remark, and then resigned in protest. By
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
It depends on what you mean by "almost perfectly aligned to the domain of relational databases" but by my standards I can't think of a single production database where that's true, in large part because it's not tru
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
There's a contradiction here that needs to be untangled: There are many examples of models that enable coherent systems within specific domains: - Type systems in programming languages catch many logic errors and interface misus
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Kind of incredible that this comic was published 10 years ago and people still use the same dumb arguments online: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ Any honest reader knows "we don't use AI" means &quo
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
I think / hope this is purely satirical, because I have no idea what else I am supposed to take from this: Hi, I'm Ben. I got sick of everyone in my inbox sounding like AI. So I built Sinceerly. I tested Sinceerly by
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Yes, you're dead on: Rui Takenaka, an elite-level player who has won and lost matches against Ace, said in comments provided by Sony AI: "When it came to my serve, if I used a serve with complex spin, Ace also returned the bal
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
"Even for OS kernel code" is doing a lot of work. What you really mean is "legacy C code" and yes, since about 6 months ago these systems have gotten reliable enough that they are basically superhuman at identifying buff
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Yeah :/ For a larger program you can pay the readability toll once, via a syntactic form that expands the general vector/arithmetic operations to the fixnum versions, e.g. used something like (define (heap-permute! perm j call
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
No, us scientific folks shouldn't go around needlessly poking people's spiritual bubbles. It's rude and disrespectful, and it almost never actually matters. Who cares if someone thinks they spoke to Jesus when they had a hear
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
I could have phrased it better, but the emphasis is on "fuzzy"! There isn't any evidence for any of this, it's pre-scientific. My statement is an opinionated position on how we should direct our research efforts and asce
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
I didn't say I was a formal biological naturalist according to Searle, I put myself in one of the four boxes the parent comment offered. Please read my comment in context. Your response is too condescending to engage with. You should h
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
The problem with robots is, again, humanity has yet to build a robot with the intelligence of a cockroach, or apparent conscious agentic behavior of a nematode. If I see such a robot I will update my views on machine consciousness. I don&#x
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
As someone who places themselves in #4, at some point the people in #3 need to accept a bit of scientific humility. The reason we are "biological naturalists" is that we can point to hundreds of thousands of conscious species on p
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Ok, then the other thing you're missing is that distributors also get a chunk of the ebook. You said ebooks have "no middlemen" but that's blatantly false, Amazon is the emperor of ebook middlemen. I suppose publishers c
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Sure, it's easy to evaluate anything if you make up plausible-sounding numbers about it. The costs of printing and retail are definitely less than half the sales price: https://www.davidderrico.com/cost-breakdowns-e-boo
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
No, it seems saunas have very low relative humidity except for briefly after you splash the hot rocks. "Relative" is the key term there: the absolute humidity is high, but the hot air can accept much more H20 and it will suck mo
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month With the obvious preface of "thoughtlessly adding." Of course it's not a
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
The problem is that if you're wealthy enough to hire someone to do your errands, those errands likely aren't very mundane - the exception is a socialite giving their friend a low-effort job, but executive assistants are paid well
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Let's also point out the $180 is going to a hideously evil AI company which pirated millions of books and movies.
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Yeah I didn't want to burst anyone's spiritual bubble earlier, but I had a very similar experience one time when I smoked salvia divinorum: there was an eerie and overwhelming purple light, sort of like a "fluorescent" U
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by LeCompteSftware 6mo ago
Naively this is quite surprising, but the devil is in the details. With the exception of Lean I'd point out they're all fairly close: Chez being 2.5x slower than C++ is not ignorable but it's also quite good for a dynamically

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