LudwigNagasena

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by LudwigNagasena 9mo ago
> Such a huge amount of ML can be framed through the lens of kernel methods And none of them are a reinvention of kernel methods. There is such a huge gap between the Nadaraya and Watson idea and a working Attention model, calling it a r
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by LudwigNagasena 10mo ago
OLS estimator is the minimum-variance linear unbiased estimator even without the assumption of Gaussian distribution.
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by LudwigNagasena 10mo ago
It’s not open source, it’s “open core” SaaS.
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by LudwigNagasena 10mo ago
It’s fine as an occasional stylistic choice, but using it repeatedly as a regular synonym for brown is a pragmatic and collocational error. The meaning is clear, but the wording is marked, and overuse makes the speech sound odd in everyday
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by LudwigNagasena 10mo ago
Using references is a standard industry practice for digital art and VFX. The main difference is that you are unable to accidentally copy a reference too close, while with AI it’s possible.
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by LudwigNagasena 10mo ago
Why shouldn’t it boil down to “whataboutism”, aka comparison and putting things into context? Especially during UK’s obvious slide in to disguised authoritarianism. One can also ask how HK ended up with English language and common law in th
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by LudwigNagasena 10mo ago
It doesn't show that they "struggle". It shows that they don't behave according to modern standards. I wouldn't put much weight into an industry without sensible scientific base that used to classify homosexuality a
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
> these two words aren't interchangeable Exactly. That's why you can't jump from "people don't feel like they own their labor" and "people bemoan their boss" to Marx's theory of alienation. &g
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
The sentiment is shared with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Wilhelm von Ketteler, Louis Blanc and probably lots of other less known people. Marx's theory of alienation is far more developed and nuanced than the generic cog-in-the-m
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Surely Marx would disagree with such assessment and call it idealistic and not grounded in material reality?
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
There is no reason to buy into the whole Marxist framework just because you share one single sentiment that various thinkers had before and after him.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
There is no secure notion of "correctly" that goes both directly against specs and de facto standards. I am struggling to even imagine how one could make an L7 balancer that should take into account possibilities that someone woul
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
> I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect your sysadmins, devops, platform engineers, or whatever title you choose to give them, to set up these services correctly, given it’s their job to do so and there’s a plethora of security risks
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Cache in web middleware like Apache or nginx by default ignores GET request body, which may lead to bugs and security vulnerabilities.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Consistency, simplicity, RPC semantics.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Sending a GET request with a body is just asking for all sorts of weird caching and processing issues.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Ancient Greeks attributed Mycenaean remains to the “Age of Heroes”. They were amazed by the scale and engineering quality of the work and thought it was done by gods and mythical creatures such as Cyclopes. They didn’t approach progress lin
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Sure, but I'm asking why there is a discordance between them.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Because the EU citizens keep voting for those politicians. It’s as simple as that. There are dozens of different parties in each EU country, but people keep voting for parties that push chat control.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
Sad to see Europe morph from postal secrecy to chat control. I can’t imagine 19th century intellectuals would do anything other than laugh in the face of censors who would suggest that the governments need to read personal correspondence to
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
The EU parliament and the head of states that comprise the EU council are elected by the EU citizens. Why is there such discordance between the two? Isn’t it mostly the same people from the same parties?
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
I couldn't care less about that pseudo-Marxist mumbo-jumbo about fascists redefining truth. I feel happier and less alienated (to speak in author's terms) due to LLMs. And no rhetoric about control and power can change the fact th
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
* directly targets elements and assigns to them `color: var(--color)` and is not overwritten by anything. It is normal CSS assignment. Variables aren't macros or templates or rewrite rules. They are simply properties. Variables don&#x2
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
There are many reasons. For example, there are large policy implications for schooling and education.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
It's very straightforward. It doesn't matter whether the property name starts with -- or not, it behaves exactly the same way in terms of inheritance.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
> Before AI, being able to write cohesive essays about a subject is a good proxy to prove your understanding beyond simple memorization. Now it's gone. Take-homes were never a good proxy for anything because any student can pay for
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
A teacher in an environment with +100 students and a lot of assignments that are graded by a random grad student is useless anyway and might as well not exist. If AI could move us away from this cargo cult, that's great.
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by LudwigNagasena 11mo ago
CERN is in principle opposed to military research. That and stuff like lawfulness, fairness, sustainability, privacy are just general CERN principles restated for fluff.
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by LudwigNagasena 1y ago
"Class" in the sense of classification and taxonomy is a common English word used in many contexts: working class, second class, business class, etc. Those aren't obscure concepts. I don't think it is any more weird than
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by LudwigNagasena 1y ago
A corporation is locked into its nonprofit status due to its articles of incorporation and state law regardless of its federal tax-exempt status.

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