Timwi

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by Timwi 1mo ago
I don't think of it as units (as the sibling comment pointed out, angles are dimensionless); I think of ° as a postfix unary operator that does the conversion. In other words, I read sin(x°) as a shorthand for sin(x*Pi/180).
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by Timwi 1mo ago
Why are math libraries consistently treated as space hogs if you don't keep them as barebones as possible? I've had sinDeg/cosDeg overloads for a while and I don't see why they can't be built into the base library;
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by Timwi 1mo ago
Do you not want AIs to adhere to your wants? That's what we build agentic systems for . Calling it “cheating” when they do something we don't want them to do is 100% spot-on.
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by Timwi 1mo ago
Except these AIs are both scary and smart. I think the characterization is warranted. The whole point of calling it “cheating” is to warn us that if we tell an AI to do something, we need to take into account that it may well do something
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by Timwi 1mo ago
I suppose that may go some of the way, but the article did mention that the auditor AIs weren't sufficient to catch all of the cheating.
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by Timwi 1mo ago
Companies are not “ignorant of the basics of their purpose”. The basics of their purpose is to make money and increase value for shareholders. There is nothing in their core purpose that benefits you as a user or that says they shouldn&#x27
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by Timwi 2mo ago
Is the concern that the AI will rephrase the text during proofreading, thus falsifying a copy-pasted quote? I'm not sure how such a change could go unnoticed, unless you blindly publish the AI output without looking at it, which doesn&
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by Timwi 2mo ago
Image GenAI is diffusion-based, and I would say the image GenAI in Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT are all “in mainstream use”. I've heard of attempts to use diffusion models to generate text or code as well, but my impression is that it ju
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by Timwi 2mo ago
> No. The court specifically determined that the Internet Archive was guilty of unauthorized copying. You're not wrong, but you're treating “guilty of unauthorized copying” as a statement of physical fact when in reality it
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by Timwi 2mo ago
In addition to the sibling comment, which I agree with [edit: the one starting with “people who generate entire blogposts with claude probably do not care about substance, tho”], I want to add another point. Even when the substance is key,
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by Timwi 2mo ago
I mean you're not wrong, but consider that a lot of high-level developers treat low-level details such as CPU architecture, memory virtualization, and even garbage collection as essentially magic. That's not the same thing as LLMs
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by Timwi 2mo ago
Appreciation of the arts getting compared with greed of billionaires ..... How the times have changed.
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by Timwi 2mo ago
Cybersecurity researchers who let loose worms or ransomware? Car mechanics who break things so you come back for more business? Airline pilots who... hijack their own flight?... Hm
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by Timwi 2mo ago
No, people tried to sell “prompt engineering” services well beyond that — especially for image generating AIs, which where believed to need extra instructions like “professional lighting”, a name of a camera model, lens parameters, etc.
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by Timwi 2mo ago
That depends. Your interpretation is “em+en+em”. But another, potentially wittier interpretation is “em in em”, i.e., you split an em-dash into two en-dashes and put an em-dash inside.
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by Timwi 2mo ago
I think we're getting at the heart of your misunderstanding. You seem to feel that we're running out of codepoints in Unicode (the “limited number of shelves” analogy). This could not be further from the truth. Although the number
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by Timwi 2mo ago
That's one way to telling us you don't read professional writing without telling us you don't read professional writing.
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by Timwi 2mo ago
The comment about your keyboard is ironic given the nerd forum we're in. The em and en dashes live on my keyboard alongside the hyphen because I'm a techie and I know how to put them there. My Android keyboard has them too and I d
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by Timwi 3mo ago
I'm in my 40s and I also prefer to call people on Discord, Telegram, Signal or (if no other option available) WhatsApp. The phone dialer is just inconvenient, while the above-mentioned chat apps have all the contacts listed and easy to
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by Timwi 3mo ago
I tried on both phone and desktop and couldn't find that alleged setting either.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
Apparently not compatible with Android.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
Strange thing to be publicly proud of.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
> Whilst I agree that addictive things can be bad how far does this ago? We don't need to get bogged down in this question before doing the first obvious thing and banning the most addictive things known to exist.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
I was on LiveJournal a long time ago and I distinctly remember seeing Facebook, when I first tried it after everyone couldn't stop talking about it, as an unviable alternative precisely because it didn't show exactly what you subs
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by Timwi 3mo ago
I think it should be illegal period. Advertisement is deliberate manipulation by exploiting known psychological vulnerabilities in humans. It's a despicable thing to want to do intentionally. It should be a criminal offense.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
That sounds sadistic, to be honest. I think it's more fun when I know I'm not being unethical.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
That's right, you're all alone in this private chat room.
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by Timwi 3mo ago
> When I compare what I’ve seen in my life so far, I don’t think anything comes close (for better and worse) to even one of those things. I dunno, I personally consider the internetification of the world to be on a level with the devel
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by Timwi 3mo ago
Your whole argument for not taking someone seriously is that they use a specific word 15 times? That's your standard for insanity?
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by Timwi 3mo ago
Not sure how to feel about your implication that unmarried people are neither grown up nor adults.

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