Scarblac

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by Scarblac 2y ago
Yes, we much prefer speaking English over having to endure slow, broken Dutch.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
He said most humans. Comparing the LLM to Terence Tao is saying they're already better than almost every human.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The whole series is on Youtube, awesome. The course was also the basis for his book _The Art of Doing Science and Engineering_ (1997). At first it takes some getting used to as you have the feeling it may be outdated, but it's about te
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The whole lecture series was about giving students a style of thinking that might hopefully prepare them for the future, without focusing on special knowledge (there were other courses for that). Two of the lectures were spent on building i
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It's "how much is needed to keep doing the same thing", I don't see why charging would be excluded.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
61.5% sounds like a lot, but how much electricity is needed to replace everything that fossil fuel is now used for? I think it needs to increase to 400% or so to do that.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Sounds good, we've gone only in the opposite direction for far too long.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
There's also chores, talking with people, board games, going for a walk, a bath, sex, exercise, just doing nothing in particular for a bit, etc. The choice isnt only screens or books.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Of course they have, I assume counting letters in words wasn't a priority for them.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
So how many 1 bits are in strawberry? Thats about the same kind of question, given that LLMs see tokens instead of characters, and we see characters instead of bits.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
> Meanwhile, humans in general are pretty terrible at exact, instantaneous arithmetic. But we aren’t claiming that computers are intelligent because they’re great at it. "The question of whether a computer can think is no more inter
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by Scarblac 2y ago
The smallest known insects are also parasitic wasps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicopomorpha_echmepterygis They're wild. They're born inside the eggs of barklice , and mate there . Males are ~186 micro
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by Scarblac 2y ago
They decided to redistribute their modified version under the terms of the GPLv3, as they were allowed to do. The recipients thus receive software licensed under the GPLv3. I dont see why people would have any GPLv2 rights for this version.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Wondering what people's opinion on the _Domain Driven Design_ book is.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
How many of the US brightest go work in aerospace engineering these days? Edit: and to those that do, SpaceX probably looks a lot more attractive.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
At first, that new term is not just the "updated term" that everyone knows is now considered less offensive. At first it's partly activist, and when you adopt it it means that many people won't understand you, think you&
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by Scarblac 2y ago
What if I really disagree with the design and the way we're going about the project and think it will fail. But I have been overruled, and have requested to be moved to another project? Which is happening atm in a project I'm in r
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Share an office with a completely different type of company, for fun?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I think he could have chosen those alternatives just as well, he just happened to pick Go. His argument is that he strives to use his chosen tool in as many situations as possible instead of having a bunch of different ones.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Cannon shooting made the addition of the life saving event necessary.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Just implement find and mkdir and make the Turing machine using those.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
My first association with flash card apps is that it's extremely tedious to create the cards for what you're trying to memorize, so if AI can help with that, that may be worth it.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Sure, there could be multiple peaks. That doesnt really subtract from my argument that this isn't a day like any other for these athletes, form and fitness wise.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
We want Olympic host cities not to go into billions of debt that they'll never make back, as that will make it hard to find good hosts. Paris tried to be prudent tinancially.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Wouldn't they notice the extra turbulence affecting their legs?
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by Scarblac 2y ago
These athletes plan their whole training and fitness regime for years so that they are at their absolute best at this particular day. Tbh I don't do much of that sort of thing for my grocery store trips at all.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
> For all the various ills it is sometimes associated with, cryptocurrency remains the only frictionless, 100% transparent, publicly accessible international monetary and payment system. Its insane energy use, slow speed, high transactio
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It's "fine" in the way that I would leave that company at the first opportunity.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Well, is that a perverse incentive? Maybe it just means the company is better off without another employee right now. But the employees also have other things in mind besides profit, like their work load.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
It's originally a software agency that later decided to also develop some of their own products, so there's not that much risk. The primary reward for everyone is just their wages. They're organized at team level, teams have

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