Sharlin

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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Anthropic isn't a party to such contract either because they (most likely, in the reasonable reading of relevant laws) hold no copyright over the output of their LLM.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
I don't. The agent was told it needs to provide a website for opting out of the scan, and it seems entirely LLM-like to try to be extra helpful and also spawn opt-out bots on various relevant communication channels. The IRC bot was a s
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
> They set the rules of the game, you just play the game. Obviously the only winning move here is not to play. Things like stack ranking are a perversion and no amount of compensation would be worth working for a company like that. If yo
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
In any human relationship, nobody wants to be the one who noticeably makes more effort to communicate, keep in touch, resolve conflicts, and so on. The idea of reciprocity and fairness are deeply entrenched in our minds, and that of many ot
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Compilers are deterministic and, luckily, not agentic. But yes, it's not obvious (or perhaps even likely) that it just happens that current high-level languages are the "correct" optimal level of abstraction at which you ca
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
What "choosing the target" means has been fuzzy for a long time too. We've had beyond-visible-range missiles for a long time that are basically "fly to this grid square and find a target".
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Yeah, I remember playing it on a P233MHz without a 3D graphics card... It was sort of playable, but any alpha-blended effects like muzzle flashes or explosions slowed it to single-digit FPS for a second :D Still, I played it through like th
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Quake ran smooth on a Pentium 100. Half-Life absolutely wouldn't have, even at 320x240.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
They’ve both had the exact same cost (both throughput and latency) on just about any ALU designed in the last several decades. There are no separate steps involved in the function of a full adder.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
The thing is, "everybody just communicates" really does break down when the size of the organization grows past some limit. Everything is easy in a ten-person company, but that absolutely does not scale to a 1000-person company.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Shame about the name, it feels better suited to a more general curated repo/hall-of-fame of papers in any field that come with easily rerunnable code to reproduce the paper’s results, or try out different datasets, or similar.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
If the displacement isn’t measured in cubic meters, can you even call it an engine?
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Why not both?
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
These poor billionaires are just trying to make ends meet like any of us.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Because most people, in most parts of the world, are not allowed to question whatever their superiors do? And, yes, unfortunately are also expected to clean up after said superiors' messes. Of course it's a people issue. AIs just
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
I don’t know, but I use #ABC a lot , it’s much more convenient than #ABCDEF, never mind [0, 256) or [0, 1]. There are of course more intuitive coordinate schemes and color models, but I find RGB easy enough when you’re not actually doing s
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
The point is that quantizing the range makes it easier for humans to choose colors. But there's already the #ABC hex format, which while less intuitive to non-techies has the huge advantage of being well-established.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Avoiding analysis paralysis, making it more intuitive to manually write colors. But yeah, there doesn't seem to be any advantage over the well-established #ABC format than decimal digits being easier to non-techies.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
"Contemporary" lenses aren’t more modern that "Art". The monikers were introduced at the same time, along with "Sports". Rather, "Art" is Sigma’s high-end line, similar to Canon’s "L". &quot
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
What, a Microsoft AI product that isn't branded "Copilot"?!
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
> there’s now an entire generation of coders who have never seen a world where "everything" is open-source and developed in the bazaar style (Sorry, accidentally negated my meaning there, what I meant is that they have only s
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Umm, I missed a negation there, sorry. I meant that the newest generation has only seen a world where there's a giant OSS ecosystem and the bazaar style is the norm for all of your tool and library needs.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
I’m never getting accustomed to the fact that there’s now an entire generation of coders who have never seen a world where "everything" is open-source and developed in the bazaar style (are people these days even aware of the meta
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
It was a proof of work system. When work becomes cheap, it stops being proof.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Cannot tell whether sarcasm or not.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
What exactly is there about cells that's inconceivable to replicate or synthetize? "I cannot conceive it" is a fallacy, an argument from incredulity. Trying to disguise it by draping it in the passive voice does not change
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
The rest of the world, if they’re even mentioned in the plot, get one per country at most.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
I thought that these models are supposed to be vastly smarter than what’s needed to discern between "general information trivially available on Wikipedia" and "actionable synthesis instructions".
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
And how do you propose that to work if the internet is still full of AI services that just give you the answer or write your essay? The only way an Illustrated Primer can work if you can’t trivially cheat. Which is to say, it solves noth
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Not teaching analysis to 1st year physics students seems to me rather crazy, TBH. Yes, people (are supposed to) learn basic calculus in high school, but university-level math just hits different. And at least around here stuff like actually

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