Sharlin

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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Nontechnical people simply don't have any idea about what LLMs are. Their only mental model comes from science fiction, plus the simple fact that we possess a theory of mind. It would be astonishing if people were able to casually n
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
No, that's not it. We're talking about posts like "we had a silly little quarrel about something that would need fifteen minutes to clear up and make both happy if we both just try to adult a bit" and commenters being ad
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Their goal and mission of returning to the moon turns 25 this year. But you're right, it has hardly ever been a proper goal. But that's the manned program only. The unmanned planetary science program has been hugely successful r
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
More interesting, IMO, is the general trend that started long before LLMs. The fact that "dump them" is the standard answer to any relationship question is a meme by now. The LLMs appear to be doing exactly what one would expect t
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
EPP is appalling and I'm revolted that many large so-called "moderate, centre-right, liberal-conservative" parties are happily part of it and indeed actively pushing extremely anti-citizen, anti-human agendas with the help of
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yeah, should've tried with "antialiasing". Still, astonishingly obscure given that it's not even a new thing anymore and apparently implemented in UE4 and others.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
The only thing even remotely related to graphics I found was references to "TrAA" in forum posts from 2006 (yeah) where I believe they referred to NVIDIA "Transparency AA" or something like that. "TRAA", "
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Jesus Christ, trying to figure out what TRAA is (presumably an anti-aliasing algorithm) and how it works and it's entirely impossible to google.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Thanks, that's interesting.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
As another data point, a local well-respected popular astronomy magazine was quite impressed by the movie, relative to Hollywood standards anyway. Translated link: https://www-avaruus-fi.translate.goog/uutiset/tahtiharr
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Generators are a subset of coroutines that only yield data in one direction. Full coroutines can also receive more input from the caller at every yield point.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
You still need the state and the dispatcher, even if the former is a little more hidden in the implicit closure type.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Did you read the article? As the author says, it becomes a state machine hell very quickly beyond very simple examples.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
C++ destructors and exception safety will likely wreak havoc with any "simple" assembly/longjmp-based solution, unless severely constraining what types you can use within the coroutines.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
The reason why the release cadence of apps about AI has increased presumably reflects the simple facts that a) there are likely many more active, eager contributors all of a sudden, and b) there's suddenly a huge amount of new papers p
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Agreed. Even when the branch is the same, it would always be distinguishable by <remote-name>/<branch-name> vs. just <branch-name>.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Limiting the drawing distance and rendering as little geometry as possible is absolutely still a thing, devs just can afford to hide it better these days. The golden rule of graphics programming has always been "cheat as much as you ca
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
git checkout mybranch git rebase main Now git takes main and starts cloning (cherry-picking, as you said) commits from mybranch on top of it. From git's viewpoint it's working on top of main, so if a conflict occurs, mai
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
git checkout mybranch git rebase main A conflict happens. Now "ours" is main and "theirs" is mybranch , even though from your perspective you're still on mybranch. Git isn't, however.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
It's not standard unless it's in the actual standard .
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
As far as we know, damage to no part of the body results in personality changes, changes to subjective sense of self, or the loss of memory or cognitive ability, except the brain.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
You're referring to [1] which is certainly a fun (and instructive) story. But FRBs are pretty much the exact opposite to seven-hour events. [1] https://www.nature.com/nature-index/news/its-the-microwave-h...
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
I think we're talking about two different groups of people. The ones I mean don't look dangerous, just self-absorbed. The ones you mean I don't have much experience of, they're not common around here. And they're ce
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Hanlon's razor applies. Yes, some people have a bad case of the main character syndrome simply because nobody has ever called them out on it.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
The cockpit projects from the ducted fan?! That’s certainly a design.
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Eight bits of precision should be enough for everybody. (It both is and isn't, depending on the use case, but I'm pretty sure nobody's design needs to make a difference between #123456 and #123457.)
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
That… does not follow. Corporations simply aren't going to start buying Macs for all of their millions of rank-and-file corporate drones. Even if they wanted, and they don't, they're tied to the Windows ecosystem in all sorts
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Reproducing the surface behavior of a program, no matter how faithfully, is not in itself copyright violation if it's a cleanroom implementation. But int this case it's not to write the new one, the developers studied (and manuall
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Ah… that "diagonalizable" is doing some heavy lifting there! I was wondering how exactly you’re going to make, say, a rotation matrix to converge anything to anything that’s not already an eigenvector. And rotation matrices certai
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by Sharlin 7mo ago
Yes, I was taught about eigenvectors but not that they’re a fixpoint of matmul. At least I don’t think so.

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