MarkusQ

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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
That's more of a compiler limitation that became cultural for a while. Most languages (both natural and artificial) use delimited structures sparingly and rely more on other cues. It sometimes appears spontaneously (e.g. "∫ dx f
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
If this seems counterintuitive, consider that only about a third of the two-digit numbers ({0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 36, 40, 42, 45, 48, 49, 54, 56, 63, 64, 72, 81}) can be wr
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
> This causes problems for signed data Given that the context up to this point had been representation of integers, I initially trip on this. :)
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
>> and reliable vertical landings > We know how to do reliable vertical landing since the DCXA in 1991. Meaning more than 25y ago One could argue the applicability of "reliable" given the project's track record, but
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Information theory. If you are doing lots of small, incremental tests, burning through a lot of hardware doing all sorts of characterization and qualifying tests, learning a little bit from each one, you can make steady progress, finding y
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
I never made it to Antarctica (though I've had friends who did), so maybe it's different there. But from what I've seen, I would agree that the range of stupid-human tricks is as impressive as you say, but the judgment of th
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
I'm not saying anything about justice. I'm saying supercharging the stupidity of actual idiots (not just people you don't like) tends to result in a pretty quick Darwin Awards. Even something comparatively benign like winnin
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
If that's all there is to it, the problem should be self correcting, with an interval of hilarious "wait, they actually did that?" hijinks (which may have already started) in the interim.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
No, they are always like that. It's really easy (and tempting) to incorrectly impute all sorts of human motives to these things, but it's no more valid than assuming your Magic 8-Ball is being coy.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
> with all the excitement of programming PID controllers If that was what it felt like, I'd be one of the enthusiastist enthusiasts. But it feels a lot more like vendor lock in, meat-space spyware and security holes as a service.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
This seems to be the galena cat whisker stage of developing Drexler's "eutactic chemistry". It may be a parlor trick forever, or it might be the humble beginnings of mechanosynthesis, the first working tool-tips for a Drexle
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Laugh and say "Nice try. I won't hold it against you, but...seriously? Do you actually expect people to tell you that?"
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
From this I can deduce that your grasp of chaos theory is better than your grasp of genetics. People who know about genetics thought the genetics sucked. People who know about computers thought the depiction of computers was awful. Don&#
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
> I'm conflating them for dramatic effect, perhaps unfairly. And that's exactly the sort of thing I'm objecting to. Conflating things for dramatic effect is also known as "lying". > If MMA is on fire, it will
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
More fire / explosion risk than the "toxic cloud engulfs city" rhetoric people have been spreading. https://www.fishersci.com/store/msds?partNumber=AC127140100&...
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
This is just wrong. The pricing so far has been a classic case of loss-leader to build market share and ramp up until you can find a moat. Normally, the huge cost of training would provide such a moat, or the amount of training data requir
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Your English was fine. I was just playing along by being sarcastic in return. :)
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Bingo.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
> ... or practice sarcasm On the plus side, it gets easier with practice.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
That's why on-board sensor only systems are the way to go.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
I hope you mean "funny" in the "hilarity ensues" sense. Because the alternative is a rather sociopathic level of schadenfreude.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Then it should be "implementation defined" rather than "undefined".
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Replace "breaks" with "fails to work as intended" then. A tool that doesn't break but does smell like a refinery or damages nearby electronics when used, gets strangely hot or inexplicably changes shape when idle, e
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Source?
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
It has IMSAI-8080! You don't get the satisfying tactile flick-click of the real thing, but still, for about 0.06% of us, this brings an enormous smile! :)
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
It's nice to see someone else that recognizes that the Emperor is naked. I find it somewhat disturbing how many people seem to fall for the Eliza-effect illusion that LLMs are thinking.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
Ah. I think that's why you aren't seeing what people are talking about then. It's being pitched as "one long shot", folks are seeing the cut at :44 and saying "no it isn't!" It's also not as har
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
It's really, really obvious. Watch the bit from 43 to 45 seconds in to the video on the article.
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
And the sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4k6Tpjk5Qw
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by MarkusQ 5mo ago
If LLMs did not process language as well as they do, we would not be having the argument. The only reason we are having the argument at all is that people see LLMs responding appropriately to language, and _from_that_ conclude that LLMs may

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