Mr_Minderbinder

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The Giza Project(giza.fas.harvard.edu)
3 points by Mr_Minderbinder 7d ago|0 comments
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FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS(tumfatig.net)
60 points by Mr_Minderbinder 7d ago|5 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 10d ago
It feels like the Web is breaking. More and more sites are retreating behind Cloudflare, captchas and PoW defences. When reading Wikipedia on my phone, I have noticed for a while that sometimes half the thumbnails on an article fail to load
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by Mr_Minderbinder 15d ago
> This release introduces the SFNNv16 network architecture, reducing binary size by removing redundant threat features… This is nice to see. One of my few gripes with NNUE engines is their huge size compared with the old “HCE” engines I
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by Mr_Minderbinder 16d ago
I have been wary of the risks surrounding AI since watching Robert Miles on Computerphile more than a decade ago. Since then I have paid at least some attention to developments coming out of AI safety research. Even back then the discussion
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by Mr_Minderbinder 17d ago
The present looks back at such comments made in the past in that manner.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 18d ago
> People don't want to watch robot chess. I do and I have for a number of years. Most people prefer to watch human chess but there are also those who watch computer chess with the same level of enthusiasm: https://tcec-ch
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by Mr_Minderbinder 19d ago
> We need better terms for these things so we can differentiate use cases. Machine assisted versus machine delegated authorship?
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by Mr_Minderbinder 19d ago
There is no fundamental difference between symbols inscribed on a stone tablet with a sharp tool versus symbols etched onto a reflective disc by a laser. In both cases you are recording symbolic information on a physical medium; they both r
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by Mr_Minderbinder 22d ago
> Maybe if we had some versioned web standard that lagged behind the "real" ones so sites could say "StableWeb 2.0 Compatible!" or something. There have been a few attempts at this already and I have something like th
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EclipseWise – Predictions for Solar and Lunar Eclipses(eclipsewise.com)
1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 24d ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 28d ago
Thankfully for me it happened a while ago, after chess was conquered. One of the most amusing (and depressing) things in the past few years of the current “AI era” is people making the same claims and having the same discussions about “inte
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1mo ago
I have not, you are simply confused about what general purpose means in this context.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1mo ago
> I have the original 8080 manual in front of me, and it's very clear they considered them computers to be applied to problems (the first chapter is literally "The Functions of a Computer"). They considered them computers
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by Mr_Minderbinder 1mo ago
> ...a firm co-founded by Daniel Rosenberg, the producer of Spike Lee’s “Inside Man.” Apparently he was an executive producer, in case anyone else is confused, as I was initially, by the fact that Brian Grazer is credited as producer of
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Notes on Chess and AI; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(awonder676.substack.com)
5 points by Mr_Minderbinder 2mo ago|0 comments
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Ralph Merkle: Energy Limits to the Computational Power of the Human Brain (1989)(ralphmerkle.com)
1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 2mo ago
Perhaps you should find an author willing to take the other side of that bet. Make it the literary version of the Levy bet in chess.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 2mo ago
A closer biological analogue to an LLM parameter would be a synapse. Estimates vary greatly on how many there are in the human brain, but they are generally on the order of ten to the 14th or 15th power (hundreds of trillions to quadrillion
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Cha-Solver – Chess helpmate solver(chasolver.org)
1 points by Mr_Minderbinder 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 2mo ago
> “He warned Brightwell not to tell the bank what the money was for…” That should have been a red flag.
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Mirage – fast and simple GTK+ image viewer(gitlab.com)
2 points by Mr_Minderbinder 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3mo ago
> If anything, video games were late compared to something like the music industry, where not owning your music has been the status quo for a while now! My perception is that the music industry is better than other parts of the entertain
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3mo ago
> ...many programs used far less than that... Maybe because those programs were not doing anything as graphically intensive as this. Or perhaps this programs caches more. When OS 9 was relevant were there any programs with comparable cap
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3mo ago
That claim rests on their being the successor to another state (the Ottoman Empire) whose claim rests on the right of conquest. “Roman Emperor” was one of the titles of the Ottoman sultans and it received some recognition from both their su
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3mo ago
I find it surprising that logarithms and e (a.k.a. Napier’s constant), were developed and discovered only relatively recently in the history of mathematics despite how natural and fundamental they are. The idea of exponential growth and the
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by Mr_Minderbinder 3mo ago
No, just correct.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 4mo ago
Your response is scarcely comprehensible. A supposed “preference” for something I had yet to discover? Indeed. Your second charge conflates two categories, so that the conclusion does not follow from the proposition. It is clear that you ha
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by Mr_Minderbinder 4mo ago
> ...browsers older than 2008 can't connect… TLS 1.2, the standard, may be from 2008 but support for it in browsers did not start to appear until around 2013.
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by Mr_Minderbinder 4mo ago
The formulaic and predictable style of that commentary only betrays a lack of effort and conveys no original insight. The disinterest, therefore, is unsurprising. Instead it invites contempt and has accusations of hypocrisy, insincerity and

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