SamBam

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by SamBam 1y ago
Why is the language that using the spelling "colour" often called "British English?"
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by SamBam 1y ago
But there are appropriate contexts. I don't know your line of work, but presumably there are contexts where you wouldn't say "fuck," like to your CEO, or your top client, or your kid's teacher, or something, right?
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by SamBam 1y ago
Yeah, there's been a pretty big generational shift, I think mostly from GenZ. I'd posit that texting/social media may be a reason. I first went to grad school ~20 years ago, and no one cursed in class, especially not the prof
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by SamBam 1y ago
I'm confused as to the purpose of all the zeros. Since this is far, far from a complete list of all English words, what's the difference between a word not being on the list vs a word being a zero? I can kind of see "was this
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by SamBam 1y ago
Interestingly when I try to give things away for free on Craigslist (yes, I'm old, I still use CL) I am frustrated to no end by no-shows. I've occasionally charged $5 just because that seems to filter out people who will actually
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by SamBam 1y ago
Many years ago there was NeighborGoods, a site that facilitated free loans of tools from neighbors. (Possibly they had paid options, but I only remember the free part myself.) I loved it. I put all my own tools up on it for anyone to use. A
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by SamBam 1y ago
Yet the image ("Experimental snapshots for vertical (top) and horizontal (bottom) egg drops.") definitely appears to show something closer to 8mm, assuming the black area is the table. Edit: Reading the paper [1] it's definit
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by SamBam 1y ago
> Higher costs in every aspect of life ...except for the average $300,000 cost of raising a child in the US. That one would seem to rather balance out all those others.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Until their outside the bathroom when someone else is in and realize it does nothing.
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by SamBam 1y ago
I could imagine that part of the desire is to make music the default for everyone, no matter what they're doing. Otherwise the person suffering from the embarrassment is going to think "if I turn on my music, they'll know I&#
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by SamBam 1y ago
Today's was... the same word, spelled once with the US spelling and once with the British spelling?
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by SamBam 1y ago
I'm not sure where you read that in the quote above. Surely the person who knows the codebase inside out, the person who "jumps on every incident," the person who is willing to put in the long hours IS the person doing the da
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by SamBam 1y ago
I think that observation stands in the US too -- there are certain professions where you're more likely to find someone who cares. You mentioned bike shops. At least in my area (New England) every person I've ever seen working in
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by SamBam 1y ago
This is clever, and I want to spend some more time thinking about it. In a sense, I think this is basically saying that you can put the standard SAT-style analogy questions ("Lumen : Brightness = Inches : Length") in a square, and
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by SamBam 1y ago
The unstated assumptions, common in all the other puzzles of the kind, are that the farmer wants to bring everything across, nothing is to be eaten by anything else, everything must be brought over by boat, and the farmer can only bring one
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by SamBam 1y ago
Indeed, but, no LLM has ever realized that I don't actually specify that he can only take one thing at a time. It's natural that it would assume that (as would most humans) because it would be so heavily primed to fill that in fro
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by SamBam 1y ago
Yup, for your first one, no LLM has ever realized that I don't actually specify that he can only take one thing at a time. I think that's natural that it would assume that (as would most humans) because it would be so heavily prim
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by SamBam 1y ago
This is the first LLM that has been able to answer my logic puzzle on the first try without several minutes of extended reasoning. > A man wants to cross a river, and he has a cabbage, a goat, a wolf and a lion. If he leaves the goat alo
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by SamBam 1y ago
I do kind of agree. One interesting feature of the original map, which makes it look so alien, are the lines of red that cut through everything. I guess it's the xenofungus, but it looks a bit like magma or something, like continents t
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by SamBam 1y ago
> if we assume this is applied over maybe 100s I think this is the crux of the assumption right here. It sounds like this is apply for well under a nanosecond. I think we're closer to maybe killing a mosquito than "half way to
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by SamBam 1y ago
Remember, it's not that AI that will take your job, it's the developers who need an AI to tell them if a number is even that will take your job.
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by SamBam 1y ago
I tried that, but I kept getting "eurt" and "eslaf" and I'm not sure what to do with those. Do I need to send it back to the AI?
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by SamBam 1y ago
Well, it's clear to me that you're only saying that because of unresolved feelings towards your mother.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Totally agree. > It is easy to spot the person in the room who thinks they are better than everyone. [...] This is also painful to see, because they often cannot see their own misery, how unpleasant the world is if no one is good enough
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by SamBam 1y ago
Forcing the conditions to allow this to be reproduced quickly would probably be unethical.
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by SamBam 1y ago
This is from (2019)
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by SamBam 1y ago
Well, it says I'm Finish. But now I have a new game, where I put on my best Italian or Russian or Greek or Australian accent and try to see how close I am. I'm terrible, according to the program. My Italian is Russian or Hungarian
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by SamBam 1y ago
Like others recently, I've been extremely impressed by LLM's ability to play GeoGuessr, or, more generally, to geo-locate random snapshots that you give them, with what seem (to me) to be almost no context clues. (I gave ChatGPT l
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by SamBam 1y ago
The cost of living isn't a single number. A state like Massachusetts, with a high cost of living for people with high income living in or near Boston, can also have large social services, like subsidized housing, good-quality public ed
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by SamBam 1y ago
Except it does the opposite, because it disincentives you from raising your income above that line.

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