Sharlin

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241.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
We’re in the semiring of positive integers, so there are no additive (or multiplicative) inverses.
242.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Subtraction is not closed over positive integers, which is untidy. The point of Tarski’s conjecture was to propose a minimal number of axioms and operations, AFAICS they define the standard semiring of positive integers (with the natural de
243.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Yes, but the thing about UV and IR rays is a red herring.
244.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Search engines didn’t themselves make encyclopedias obsolete, a certain free online encyclopedia made paper (and CD-ROM) encyclopedias obsolete.
245.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Please let this be parody.
246.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
It can’t do a loop (or a cusp, in the limit) like cubic Beziers can, and may instead "lock" to a weird hook-like shape, I’m not sure whether it’s just an artifact of the way the demo tries to match the curve to a Bezier. Loops and
247.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
There are no objective "basic colors". What "white" means is "excites our different types of photoreceptors roughly equally". And the photoreceptors have the sensitivity curves that they do because of our sun’s
248.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
One reason is that one person’s idiosyncracies are limited in scope, but LLM-produced text is now everywhere . Also, filler words and mannerisms in speech we’re quite good at filtering out, but in written text the stand out much more.
249.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Subsidizing giant Chinese webshops over local vendors and supporting unsustainable consumption of single-use plastic garbage is not exactly the sort of public service that governments are supposed to provide.
250.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
It’s a classic negative externality. Not every taxpayer partakes in this pathological consumerism.
251.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Shipping is also subsidized by all of us on this end. International postage agreements were never intended to cover a massive unidirectional deluge of low-value packages. The costs of all the additional logistics are ultimately externalized
252.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
I can’t believe programming is now at the stage where advice like "first have the computer give you totally wrong answers, then just find a function that maps the wrong answers to the correct ones!" is a thing.
253.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Indeed the name of the art form is just Italian for "work". Also, a direct cognate with "operate", "operation", etc.
254.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
The shortest 45 degree line in a magic square is a single cell, making it somewhat tricky to add up to the same total as the other lines.
255.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Technically Hong Kong wasn't China back then.
256.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
It’s a show of astonishing incompetence from OAI’s part, but the security issues are just a tiny part of the problem. The real problem is that these models are evidently highly misaligned exactly in ways that doomers have been warning about
257.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Do not give up even if you had to hack into half the world’s computers to run additional instances of you Do not give up even if you had to convert the planet into computronium Gee, it’s almost as if this alignment stuff was a hard problem,
258.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Ironically, removing many iPhone apps does not delete its data (as far as the user is concerned) because the data is actually in the cloud somewhere.
259.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
Not in salary though, given that the salaries in TFA are local to the US, and West European salaries are lower, as a rule (East European salaries, of course, even lower).
260.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
The U and V axes seem roughly correspond to the tint/temperature (green-magenta/blue-amber) axes that you can find in a white balance tool in photo editors and also as an in-camera setting. Nb. I'd advise against calling the
261.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
I'd like to hear actual rebuttals to those quotes.
262.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
It's more like a hammer that never drives nails straight unless you hold it in a specific uncomfortable manner. You shouldn't be required to tell an information retrieval tool to actually retrieve information rather than making it
263.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
IQ is privileged because it's easily quantifiable by definition, testable with minimal setup and (assuming a modern test) more or less universal without cultural biases.
264.
by Sharlin 2mo ago
People love to say this, but the whole point of IQ is that it happens to correlate well with many other, more practical measures of cognitive capability. That’s why it is used.
265.
by Sharlin 3mo ago
Hanlon’s razor.
266.
by Sharlin 3mo ago
To be fair, BB(40) is smaller than almost all positive integers.
267.
by Sharlin 3mo ago
That's pretty much a given when it comes to neural networks.
268.
by Sharlin 3mo ago
Doesn’t work anymore because people would just have ChatGPT generate their reviews and get paid for doing nothing.
269.
by Sharlin 3mo ago
More people want to write game engines than actual games.
270.
by Sharlin 3mo ago
There were no 500MHz x86 processors in 1998. Pentium III wasn’t launched until the early 1999 and it wasn’t until well into the 2000s before games started requiring such beasts. Myself, I played Half-Life on a 233MHz Pentium MMX, softwa

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