SirHumphrey

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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
But border checks in the EU are a bit more relaxed. Sometimes they just wave you through - other times you just show your government id (which in many EU countries you are required to carry at all times) and they maybe check the car boot. T
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
To quote Yes, Minister: > Hacker: One of your officials pays farmers to produce surplus food, while on the same floor, the next office is paying them to destroy the surpluses. > Maurice: That is not true! > Hacker: No? > Maurice
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
As a European I would like geographically and politically dispersed production lines for one of the most important products of the 21 century. Domestic production would be idal, but whatever we can get is a plus. Because Taiwan is a small,
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This seems like one the only sane arguments in this whole sea of articles.
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For games like Factorio and Minecraft sales work a bit differently. These games are evergreen and very easily and commonly pirated, so people who are buying already have tens or hundreds of hours in the game. The marketing and capturing pri
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
The newspapers name originates from the times of USSR and before. It was about as factual then as it is now. But this kinds of ironies are not very rare in these kinds of organizations (Truth Social, Democratic People's Republic of Kor
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
While code may no be the leanest human-readable representation, scripting languages are a quite deep local minimum. There is a difference between hiding complexity and blocking you off from complexity. Scripting languages work because when
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
> Detractors from AI often refuse to learn how to use it or argue that it doesn't do everything perfectly so you shouldn't use it. But here is the problem - to effectively learn the tool, you must learn to use. Not learning how
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
It's also roads. On narrower roads smaller cars feel better and you have a lot more narrow roads in Europe.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
One senior researcher I know, though an extremely early user of computers and Emacs, still uses basic paper notebooks for writing things down. The system is not searchable, not hyperlinked - but he still finds things almost effortlessly eve
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
It's a bit annoying, but you can install conda without admin privileges and apptainer was installed for compliance with some EuroHPC project and luckily made accessible to all users. The container allows me to have an environment where
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
I did start to use them for AI development on the HPC I have access to and it worked well (GPU pass-through basically automatically, the performace seemed basically the same) - but I mostly use them because I do not want to argue with admin
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
It may be different based for others based on hand anatomy, but at least for me the index finger is so much stronger than the little finger, that it feels more comfortable moving it one space to the left, especially on keyboards with heavy
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
> Right, just like w/b are "close enough" outside the home row completely Yes, they are close enough, and w/b are executed often. > How does it make the defaults good to support your faulty conclusion that you need
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Yes, they are not in the resting position on the home row, but they are close enough for a command you will be executing often. Crating a key-map is an optimization problem between memorability and ergonomics. Vim command layout is not perf
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
> 1. Low-level employees typically don't have access to sensitive information. You would think, but when I was interning (well, it was a paid internship) for a company, I was fixing an excel spreadsheet with payroll information for
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
It’s not really that humans have infinite context windows, it’s more that the context windows are a very poor substitutes for long term memory. Memory even in a text heavy field like programming is not only text based so it’s often hard to
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
And at least I can be sure that any math expression can be written somehow in latex, no mater how bizarre.
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Esoteric programming languages could be considered art - perhaps the only difference is intentionality.
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They were probably also opposed to some other things that failed. But then hindsight is 20/20.
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Nixos module for the latest version of Cura(3d slicer).
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
As if going faster is the only goal of a programmer. Some simulation I worked on for 2 months were in total 400 lines of code. Typing it out was never the bottleneck. I need to understand the code so that when I am studying the code for the
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Yes, I was just about to say. Typing out code is a way to lear syntax of a new language and it’s often recommended to not copy paste while you start learning.
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
Not really my point. I specifically didn't call LLMs a statistical model - while they technically are, it's obvious they are something more. While intelligence is a hard concept to pin down, current gen LLMs already can do most (k
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
I think AlphaFold is where current AI terminology starts breaking down. Because in some real sense, AlphaFold is primarily a statistical model - yes, it's interesting that they developed it using ML techniques, but from the use standpo
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I don’t actually. I have read far too many AI summaries where the llm combines data about two different people with the same name creating a biography of someone that doesn’t exist. And once the use of chatbots in this role becomes widespre
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by SirHumphrey 1y ago
One of the easiest ways (for me) to spot AI code on a homework assignment has been to ask myself a simple question. Is this code something that would make sense for a human to write. It doesn't catch all cases - it doesn't catch e
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In Europe he is quite a controversial figure even on the left part of political spectrum- mainly because of his takes on Srebrenica genocide (and recently on the Ukraine war).
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Well, somebody must buy solar panels, batteries, (nuclear reactors) and finance the whole research process. While “economic value” =/= “solving climate change” without enough tax revenue costly transitions are impossible.
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I find with spaced repetition that it works really well for some well-known things like vocabulary (EDIT: well-known meant as "spaced repetition is well-known to work for this use-case, not well-known as "the subject is well under

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