Marazan

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by Marazan 1y ago
Back when Genetic Algorithms were a hot topic I discovered that a large number of papers discussion optimal parameterisation of the the approach (mutation rate, cross-over, populations etc) were written using '1-Max' as the "
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by Marazan 1y ago
Yes, if you do all the difficult time consuming bits I bet it would work.
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by Marazan 1y ago
The variation I've seen on this applied to AIs is: Fred insists to his friend that he has a hyper intelligent dog that can talk. Sceptical, the friend enquires of the dog "What's 2+2?" "Five" says the dog &quo
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by Marazan 1y ago
I forgot they even went big on NFTs, auctioned off an NFT of a front cover one time.
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by Marazan 1y ago
The Economist is filled with writers easily gulled by tech flim-flam. They went big on Cryptocurrency back in the day as well.
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by Marazan 1y ago
Agree on the Camera, bafflingly bad. Thumbs up on the headphone jack though. Can't fault it there.
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by Marazan 1y ago
I have the last non-huge ZenFone. The new ZenFones are just rebadged ROGs which explains the massive size jump. I'm not looking forward to replacing this phone when it ages out.
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by Marazan 1y ago
It's amusing how people try an memory hole their negative reaction and pieces written about the Note. People's mocking web pages have disappeared. Arguments based on the size of the human hand completely forgotten. The very noti
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by Marazan 1y ago
The majority of casualties on both sides are currently caused by drones. Yes, Russia is also using them to terrorise civilians but they clearly have huge battlefield implications and any military not immediately addressing this issue is goi
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by Marazan 1y ago
And just like the old joke your are missing important practicalities. Pencils in space were terrible. Small chunks of carbon absorber of and getting in electrics was bad. Pens were a huge improvement. Likewise I can't only presume you
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by Marazan 1y ago
"Hidden layers" are not "hidden state". Saying so is just unbelievably confusing.
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by Marazan 1y ago
aAnthrophormisation happens because Humans are absolutely terrible at evaluating systems that give converdational text output. ELIZA fooled many people into think it was conscious and it wasn't even trying to do that.
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by Marazan 1y ago
Knobs (plus mechanical circuitry) that can survive 100k miles of use are expensive.
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by Marazan 1y ago
Now they just need to fix their testing of pedestrian collisions with SUVs and I can go back to praising EuroNCAP.
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by Marazan 1y ago
Yes, and Russia did not invade them. Weird.
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by Marazan 1y ago
If Russia attacked Ukraine because it considered applying for NATO membership that would be years of not decades away why did Russia not attack any other country that actually started the process of joining NATO and did actually join. The
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by Marazan 1y ago
Latvia and Estonia are members. Finland is a member. Lithuania is a member. The sad reality is that your logic is just a twisted pretzel to support the position you wish to take which is you support Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukra
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by Marazan 1y ago
Someone described LLMs in the coding space as stone soup. So much stuff is being created around then to make them work better that at some point it feels like you'll be able to remove the LLM part of the equation
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by Marazan 1y ago
Federal court orders aren't federal it seems.
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by Marazan 1y ago
For those interested having done a brief literature search I've found a review article that paints the picture as much less clear than my categorical statement https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17536874/
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by Marazan 1y ago
As annoying as it is (and I agree it is fantastically annoying) much to my surprise admissions for paracetamol overdose to UK hospitals absolutely plummeted after purchasing restrictions were introduced. Score one for the nanny state.
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by Marazan 1y ago
I would argue you can't compare between projects due to the reasons you state. But you can try and improve the metrics within a single project. Cycolmatic complexity is a terrible metric to obsesses over yet in a project I was on it wa
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by Marazan 1y ago
Yes, that was absolute peak Guber live-revisionism-in-action and when I basically stopped reading him entirely.
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by Marazan 1y ago
Which is the future and we all use on a day-to-day basis these days.
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by Marazan 1y ago
The most startling thing for me is that it just looks terrible. I cannot understand how anyone in the process looked at these screens and went "Yes".
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by Marazan 1y ago
Article mention the "disappearing UI elements" mania that has tortured so many UIs. I absolutely loathe and detest the hidden-scroll-bar convention that is now de rigour
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by Marazan 1y ago
The slow destruction of Google search is and will continue to be revenue positive for Google right up until the point where it isn't. Eventually they will break the "trust thermocline" in their search results and that will bl
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by Marazan 1y ago
The simpler explanation is that ChatGPT is trained on webpages that have been SEO'd to death. So you are just getting SEO'd pages (i.e ads) regurgitated to you.
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by Marazan 1y ago
"adequately-proper way" is doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting in that sentence.
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by Marazan 1y ago
Spicy autocomplete is still spicy autocomplete

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