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by Veedrac 5y ago
> The second one is definitely not "the right idea". It tries to do it with string manipulations, which (regardless of the fact that it does so incorrectly) is completely the wrong approach. This one is actually "better&qu
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by Veedrac 5y ago
Well, that also seems like the wrong question to ask. Whether it's currently useful to you for writing short algorithms, rather than as the non-programmer's API interface it's primarily marketed as, seems about the least inte
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by Veedrac 5y ago
It got the value of the sixth and seventeenth bits, moved them into the right positions, and inserted them into the original value. Off a one-line description written in English ! I really cannot empathize with the idea that this is not a
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by Veedrac 5y ago
The first example is almost correct, conditioned off a sentence description. The second example is the right idea, it just bit off more than it could chew when slicing it all together. Using string ops for binary manipulation in Python isn&
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by Veedrac 5y ago
> But I'm skeptical if it'll ever be able to synthesize a program entirely. Emotional skepticism carries a lot more weight in worlds where AI isn't constantly doing things that are meant to be infeasible, like coming 54th
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by Veedrac 5y ago
A: They get recycled. There aren't many EV battery recycling plants now because there aren't many 15 year old EVs.
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by Veedrac 5y ago
I don't see the contradiction. There is, after all, no one true utilitarianism. What you're not allowed to do is say, as the article did, that X has the highest utility when strawmanning a utilitarian, only to turn around and say
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by Veedrac 5y ago
Throwing out utilitarianism in ethics because you can't exactly calculate which actions precisely correspond to the brightest futures is a lot like throwing out mathematical modelling in engineering because you can't exactly calcu
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by Veedrac 5y ago
Most ‘don't be utilitarian’ arguments are really ‘don't be a stupid utilitarian’. If a course of action where you do some amount of harm to mitigate a larger amount of harm would clearly result in a worse world, then you are NOT
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by Veedrac 5y ago
There's a more obvious interpretation here. After you've rolled one die, there is exactly one other roll for the second die that could produce a 7. If you remove that possibility, you have a d5, still numbered 1-6 but with one of
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by Veedrac 5y ago
I tried this on Linux and it worked fine, took around a minute to record and much of that was on Vim.
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by Veedrac 5y ago
> Charities, on the other hand, are a mine field of barely legal scams and even counter-productive activity. This is often true, but Effective Altruism and its related movements that this article discuss mostly alleviate this issue with
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by Veedrac 5y ago
This is true of most charitable things. The most effective thing you can do is typically to distribute resources to where it has the most outsized impact, not yourself being nice. But you should also be nice anyway, because ultimately thing
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by Veedrac 5y ago
More precisely, floats are a subset of the reals, plus infinities and NaNs. The bulk do represent real numbers, just a choice finite quantity of them.
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by Veedrac 5y ago
C's version is a byproduct of this being easier for hardware to calculate, stemming back from the time, long ago, where that was actually a relevant concern. Unfortunately hardware never fixed this issue, and C is never going to expose
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by Veedrac 5y ago
> Most modern computer cores can operate at a sustained rate of 3 billion instructions per second, with much faster peak speeds. 3 billion instructions per second is an IPC less than 1. You can often expect IPCs closer to 2 even on older
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by Veedrac 5y ago
These things are a consequence of unaccountable, unvompetitive contractors, not just a cause. We could have had routine volume space flight many decades ago, if the money we spent went to competitive free market purchases. Even the Space Sh
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by Veedrac 5y ago
Compare the SpinLanch rocket specs [1] to Electron in [2]. Payload: 200kg vs 300kg Height: 6m (est) vs 18m Wet mass: 11t vs 13t Stage 1 thrust: 75kN vs 230kN Stage 2 thrust: 5kN vs 26kN Engines: Pressure fed vs Electric pump fed The SpinLau
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by Veedrac 5y ago
Thanks, I get you now.
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by Veedrac 5y ago
I'm confused. I thought the Lawson criterion was the threshold for ignition, and Google seems to be backing me up. Am I missing a subtlety here?
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by Veedrac 5y ago
You misread my comment. 80% was in reference to a probability of failure . I think any chance of success 1:4 or greater can't exactly be called “incredibly low [probability] of success”, and even 1:4 seems unduly pessimistic.
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by Veedrac 5y ago
Helion is a non-ignition fusion reactor. They aim to avoid the need for ignition by having efficient energy recapture. The website goes into more detail, and the prototypes have demoed this capability.
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by Veedrac 5y ago
> an incredibly low outcome of success Why d'you think? Helion has been super successful with their demos so far. The timelines are optimistic but I don't see why you'd expect the technology itself to fail with, say, >8
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by Veedrac 5y ago
This snippet is really getting held back by the Bitmapset, both interface (eg. the del_members/add_members dance) and the structure (eg. with the double indirection, and unnecessary implicit checks for reallocation). You don't rea
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by Veedrac 5y ago
A 3080 Mobile only has a bandwidth of 448 GB/s. You quoted the desktop number (which also has a different die).
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by Veedrac 5y ago
People were calling everything agent-like AI since forever. Video games had AI. Heck, Pacman's ghosts had AI. Nobody cared. They understood what it was referring to. I only started hearing how it would ‘dilute the language’ or the term
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by Veedrac 5y ago
> all-optical computing The keyword here is ‘all’. There are some things optical computing is bad at. However there are some things it is unparalleled at. For example, light can multiplex. It can have much lower energy losses. It can run
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by Veedrac 5y ago
> A new optical switch is, at 1 trillion operations per second, between 100 and 1,000 times faster than today's leading commercial electronic transistors No, a CPU's clock speed is not the speed at which its transistors can tra
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by Veedrac 5y ago
> This isn't an anti-AGI argument and it doesn't disprove humans. You're saying you can't find intelligent programs this way because the search space is large. That's an anti-AGI argument, and it's fallaciou
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by Veedrac 5y ago
The article “An Inconvenient Truth About AI > AI won't surpass human intelligence anytime soon” doesn't even once mention or justify the claim in its title. The article “Deep Learning's Diminishing Returns” was discussed a

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