Shorel

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by Shorel 2y ago
They don't, and they can't. They don't even know that they can't. The mathematics mindset and the programming mindset could not be more different. Writing a mathematical proof is similar to writing everything from scratc
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I am making the parallel because I feel exams and interviews share some similarities.
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> I think the argument is that for a good chunk of business work, you don't need to use the "interesting"/"deep" concepts. That's what the MBA people want to believe. To lower costs, or if they see writ
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> Languages are largely teachable, it's just syntax and keywords. That's only true for a subset of programming languages, and it requires you to already know how to program in at least another language of the same family. Knowi
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2005? You were in the right. Today? Now that's when it is tricky. How can we know you are not one of these prompt "engineers" copy paster? That's the issue being discussed. 20 years and many new technologies of diffe
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No tech current stack will go out of favour, because the reliance on LLMs will prevent new tech stacks from being used. We are stuck. Or software development will be a two-tiered system.
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Signal should be doing something well.
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I moved away from Kobo because of the ancient USB port, and got my PocketBook with USB-C four years ago, and I am still using the PocketBook. With USB-C, Kobo would be a very good product. I guess they use it now.
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by Shorel 2y ago
After having three Kindles I moved to Kobo, and it was much, much better in the compatibility side of things. Now I am using a PocketBook and it is also great. The synchronization feature between browser, phone and the reader is very good,
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https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.eanema.graph89/
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Yep, I use that in the laptop. But the smartphone still needs a good one calculator App.
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I just installed it, for about 2 Eur. Thanks for the heads up, I will be testing it for a few months, to see if it can replace the TI-89 emulator as my main calculator. Edit: that calculator gives a result of 0 on this test
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Here I got 1 as the answer: https://imgur.com/a/TH14QZn
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Almost no one has done that calculator app, properly. When I mean properly, I mean a complete calculator, like the TI-89. I am using, in Android, and emulator for the TI-89 calculator. Because no Android app has half the features, and works
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> What you and others mistake for intelligence is a very clever prediction model. It is not a very clever prediction model. It is a very big, incredibly large humongous model that finds stuff basically by brute-forcing pattern matching o
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Rename it to table ping.
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Ah, I see. I agree with you then.
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You need to be able to do both. Only reading the existing literature is not good enough. The capacity to create ideas is also something that needs to be practiced.
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That's not really a problem. In one hand, it shows the idea is really useful on its own. And on the other hand, it shows that currently forgotten ideas have a chance to being rediscovered in the future.
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No, no, no. That's the wrong thing to take away from it. Something I got from Richard Feynman descriptions of his method of study, was to first and foremost, read the prompt of the problems, and work diligently trying to solve the prob
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> Whether a group moved from the Caucasus to South Asia or vice versa, around 5k years ago, shouldn't really matter. It's not that it "matters" in a political or nationalistic sense. That's an error in interpreta
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by Shorel 2y ago
Only by convention. You can write anything in a PL/SQL function, and that function can be called in a trigger. Really, I can't imagine anything that can't be put in a trigger.
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I don't remember Pirch or mIRC being like that.
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> enforce invariants in a holistic way This sentence is golden, it advances the bullshit bingo score better than the rest. But honestly, in SQL the invariants should be constraints and triggers, enforced by the DB, not just by the applic
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I interpreted it the other way around. We can think of a solution space, with potentially many good solutions to the vision problem, and we can, in science fiction-like speculation, that the other solutions will be very different and surpri
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In my class I believe 26% of the students are NOT using ChatGPT or another LLM to cheat in their homework and exams.
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Just because there are some parts of our brains that are not needed for an AGI... Doesn't mean that there aren't some part of our brains that are needed for an AGI, and are not present in the current crop of LLM.
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> What do our brains do that isn't token prediction? I am planning a masters and phd on that question, so give me a few years to answer.
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By analogy with human brains: Because our own brains are far more than the Broca's areas in them. Evolution selects for efficiency. If token prediction could work for everything, our brains would also do nothing else but token predicti
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I'm sure there are more missing pieces. We are more than Broca's areas. Our intelligence is much more than linguistic intelligence. However, and this is also an important point, we have built language models far more capable than

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