Lerc

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by Lerc 11mo ago
>It's astounding how subtly anti-AI HN has become over the past year, as the models keep getting better and better. It's now pervasive across nearly every AI thread here. I don't think you can characterise it as a sentimen
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by Lerc 11mo ago
The user interface was an experiment in itself. It was a lot of python which was way too heavy for the machines delivered, it presented a new platform, and thus a barrier to entry to anyone in the field with general computer skills. If it
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by Lerc 11mo ago
The problem is that CSS is serving multiple masters. It is specifying how the designer is wanting a page to be laid out while doing do in a way that conforms to the way the receiver wants it to be laid out. I think there is an opportunity
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by Lerc 11mo ago
It's a rabbit hole that I have so far avoided. If I were to embark upon a project like that I would want to get the most out of the system, and that's a whole lot of work. I'm glad others are doing it. The unfinished c64 pro
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by Lerc 11mo ago
What models are good at this? I have tried passing images to models and asking them for coordinates for specific features, then overlaid dots on those points and passed that image back to the model so it has a perception of how far out i
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I think Advertising is the issue where I have the most radical views. I don't think it is a terribly controversial view anymore. In the past when taking to people about this I have asked them to come up with an example of something f
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I can see a viewpoint where it would be beneficial. It allows humans to develop things and once developed they transition into a stable operating state predominantly automated. This, of course, is considering only the case that they achiev
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by Lerc 11mo ago
>Imagine if this effort was spent on solving more pressing problems, Are you suggesting that Ryan Dahl's contribution has been less than satisfactory so far?
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by Lerc 11mo ago
> In my experience, when people promote AI, its sold as just having a regular conversation and then the AI does thing. This is almost the complete opposite of my experience. I hear expressions about improvements and optimism for the fut
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by Lerc 11mo ago
To take a different perspective on the same event. The model expected a feature to exist because it fitted with the overall structure of the interface. This in itself can be a valuable form of feedback. I currently don't know of any
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by Lerc 11mo ago
Never. Started with Level 1 Basic on a TRS-80. Used many things s since. I long resisted python, but Torch managed to push past my distaste whitespace based coding. I look forward to seeing the languages that come from people with the be
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I think I'd count WSL as Linux. Cloud based development and browser hosted environments would certainly be worth measuring. I imagine the numbers are tiny compared to other platforms. Arduino IDE probably counts as something with decen
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by Lerc 11mo ago
When I watch Ex-machina the degree to which I loathed Oscar Isaac's character surprised me. While much of it was because the character was objectively loathsome, part of it was because I felt the type of person he represented was inf
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by Lerc 11mo ago
User interface changes are very difficult to do correctly. Or perhaps it might be better to say arduous. The principle you should follow, is no-regressions. Everything that users currently do, should be possible on the new system. The rea
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I do apply the rule universally, they haven't gone out of business. If they were unable to gain any revenue from advertising, they would go out of business if they could not find an alternative source of income. I feel that they are mo
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by Lerc 11mo ago
Now that does present some interesting possibilities. It looks like a web page with audio input permissions can be expected to sample at 48KHz I wonder what the quality is like from a cable bodged off a spare pin. A little webapp running o
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by Lerc 11mo ago
One of my to-do-one-day projects is an audio jack display system out of a Microcontroller. Was never quite sure if I should raw XY it or soft modem so I could decode on a web page on a handy device.
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I don't think it is piracy. Most advertising supported content is made freely available to you with the expectation that you will view the advertising. That expectation is not a contract and was a decision made without your involvemen
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by Lerc 11mo ago
The experts I am talking about trusting here are the ones doing the replication, not the ones making the claims.
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I guess you have a couple of options. You could trust the expert analysis of people in that field. You can hit personal ideologies or outliers, but asking several people seems to find a degree of consensus. You could try varying tasks that
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by Lerc 11mo ago
fMRI machines are not cheap, nor plentiful. If, one day someone can make a small, cheap device that can do the job of a fMRI it would be more world changing than you can imagine. If you had easy access to realtime data about what is going
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by Lerc 11mo ago
The signal preceding the feeling is not an argument against free will. It is an argument against the feeling of free will being evidence for free will.
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by Lerc 11mo ago
That's kind-of where compatibalism comes in. For most definitions of free will, it is fighting the feeling that we would like to have it because it feels like we have it, and the evidence that says that the feeling that we have it d
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by Lerc 11mo ago
The prima facie case for free will* is that it feels free. If you can predict the action before the feeling it removes that argument (unless you want to invoke time travel as an option) *one of the predominant characterisations of free wi
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by Lerc 11mo ago
Or it could be that you posted an insubstansive comment that added little to the conversation. I don't use Rust. I certainly don't advocate for it, but I don't mind seeing posts about things people have done in Rust. I als
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I think of the runtime as the whole execution stack. The interpreter, engine, JIT etc. is the back end. The interface to the world is a wrapper around that. I would describe this as a Lua wrapper written in Rust. That carries the clear
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by Lerc 11mo ago
I have a related question. What is the best thing for people with no hearing loss but need help in noisy environments? My partner and I both have difficulty listening to conversations in crowds. Logic tells me that there must be some noise
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by Lerc 11mo ago
Not a Lawyer, but this seems like work-for-hire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_for_hire I assume Germany has something like this (possibly a EU requirement). It would cover more than just ghostwritten books. Mos
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by Lerc 11mo ago
Interestingly the post is climbing it's way back to zero. I find the downvote without counterargument to be an odd response to a good faith post. It seems like it would strengthen the argument if the message they send is "I don&
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by Lerc 11mo ago
There are certain statements that should make you wary of study findings. People who x reported y is one of those phrases. “people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness and social c

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