Lerc

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by Lerc 10mo ago
That seems to be a reasonable position. I'm kind-of comfortable with the position of bitcoin as being large enough to attract significant attacks, but not so dominant that a catestrophic failure of the system would have significant gl
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I see the advantage of the inline lambdas, but also it seems like it would hamper the ability to test the functions which can often have intricacies that catch you out. I believe one of the principles of Tinygrad is that tests shouldn&#x27
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I think the discomfort I felt at looking at that was because of the stylistic difference. There isn't any part of it that looks terribly hard to understand when compared to other code. I presume anyone dealing with this codebase wo
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I like this list more. I'm not sure if list is objectively better or whether I have had a good go at every one of these except for the spreadsheet. Implementing spreadsheets may be a challenge but not enough for me to want a spreadshe
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by Lerc 10mo ago
No I was thinking a hard min, but one that finds a greedy but inaccurate distance and then a refinement takes some samples that measure nearest within a radius. This would handle modulations of the shape where it folded back upon itself as
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I did some simple experiments and fairly swiftly discovered where I went wrong. I'm still not totally convinced that there isn't something clever that can be done for more operations. My next thought is maybe you can do some int
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by Lerc 10mo ago
Can you freely compose signed distance functions? Obviously people use them for + and - regularly. My intuition says you should be able to apply *, / and more as well. and sqrt( sdEquilateralTriangle(pos.xy, 10)**2 + sdCircle(po
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by Lerc 10mo ago
Nevertheless it does seem that generating will fairly soon become fast enough to extend a video clip in realtime. Autoregressive by the second. Integrated with a multi modal input model you would be very close to an AI avatar that would be
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I think of Rust might trigger a new generation of languages that are developed with the hindsight of rust. The principle of zero cost abstractions avoids a slow slide of compromising abstraction cost, but I think there could be small cost
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by Lerc 10mo ago
Well It it's using solar power it's just moving heat from one place to another. I guess, if it's using fossil fuel to generate power it's also just moving heat from one place to another, but really really slowly. The r
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by Lerc 10mo ago
Does this mean Claude Code can be a consumer of this information or a provider? Maybe whynotboth.gif?
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I have seen a number of write ups where I think the only logical explanation is that they are not conveying what literally happened but spinning narrative to express their point. There was an article the other day where the writer said som
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I think reading this let me experience the feeling a Bene Gesserit has when they hear about a preborn.
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by Lerc 10mo ago
I have been doing a lot of little projects using AI, and don't get this experience. I get what this post is talking about. I'm just having fun, that comes in a lot of different flavours. I can try a lot more ideas out, that&#x27
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by Lerc 10mo ago
The high usage and high anxiety tracks with what I have found from taking to artists IRL. There is a sense that any any public expression that is not wholly against AI will draw vilification from a section of the artistic community. There
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by Lerc 10mo ago
>But yeah lots of people don't really buy into the idea of their small contribution to a large problem being a problem. As an abstract idea I think there is a reasonable argument to be made that the size of any contribution to a pro
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I am curious as to what part of this comment is accruing downvotes, it seems entirely uncontroversial. Are readers interpreting it as taking a stance on something? If so, in which direction?
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I'm interested in how accurate "America’s Dirtiest Carbon Polluters" is when they are measuring "CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion". I assume the majority of carbon pollution comes from fossil fuel combust
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I take it you went into this knowing it was a bad idea in the long tradition of making amusing bad choices for entertainment purposes (like replacing car tires with saw blades, or making an axe out of nothing but wood)
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I think this will be a significant thing in the future, but right now I think the reasoning abilities are too limited. It can reasonably approximate a vector database where it can find related things, but I think that success can hide the
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by Lerc 11mo ago
This is a fairly common discrepancy between how people perceive the mean/median of a property is compared to the mean/median of how they themselves are. You see it in things like business confidence going in both directions at var
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by Lerc 11mo ago
> Co-lead author Anton Dek, a researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, I find it amusingly apt that research into fake accounts is done by someone who people must regularly assume is a fake name. You'd have to ca
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by Lerc 11mo ago
There is totally something you can do. There are so many things you can do. The only thing that you can't do is go back to the way things were. That technology advances and that causes issues is inevitable, but we can't go back
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by Lerc 11mo ago
The world changes and jobs cease to exist. Historically there hasn't been a great deal of support for those who lose their jobs to change. While there are issues that are AI specific, I don't feel as if this is one of them. This
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by Lerc 11mo ago
Past projects of mine. 'pedes Glook Fitznik Plops Gyralight I wanted a new tower defence game: So I made one Oh and https://lerc.itch.io/namesarehardpart5 The examples given for real world
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by Lerc 11mo ago
Agreed. What rights should they have though?
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I remember there being an experiment where parents were placed in a room with some toys their children were allowed to play with and some toys their children weren't allowed to. They measured the parents perceived level of control agai
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by Lerc 11mo ago
It wasn't so much pointing it out as a typo as making myself clear. When suggesting a word is not what the writer meant, when it was also not the word that the writer wrote, it seemed wise to clarify exactly what I was talking about.
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by Lerc 11mo ago
On the other hand https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=syncophantic&y...
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by Lerc 11mo ago
This is not sycophantic (assuming you meant that, syncophantic is not a word). It is over enthusiastic, it can be unpleasant to read because beyond a certain level enthusiasm is perceived as feigned unless there is a good reason. It w

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