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by abecedarius 1y ago
Interesting -- you can keep mitochondria alive outside of cells? Are there papers on what they need for that?
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by abecedarius 1y ago
Maybe it's better now, but what I ran into in trying twice is that if you're not into installing by "curl | sh", then trying to build from source was an awful experience. It had out of date instructions for installing a
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by abecedarius 2y ago
That doesn't sound small?
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by abecedarius 2y ago
IME both ChatGPT and Claude had a sycophancy problem, but I'm surprised by the claim it's more of a Claude thing. Is that the general opinion of people who keep up with both? (I unsubbed from OpenAI after Altman's coup. ChatG
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Good question. I tried to phrase a concrete-enough prediction 3.5 years ago, for 5 years out at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29020401 It was surpassed around the beginning of this year, so you'll need
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Calling out names was an argument just for not dismissing AI as a thing "everyone knows" is fake. Above you wrote "we all know the only real Intelligence ... is" as your support for attributing venial motives to people
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Yeah, the headline is misleading for just that reason. But rotation in 3d does have an unambiguous orientation which we call right-handed or left-handed (the "right hand rule" if you're unfamiliar with this). I don't kno
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by abecedarius 2y ago
They're doing natural science on a thing full of complex purposive undesigned machinery. There used to be Artificial Life conferences -- the proceedings were pretty interesting. Now the objects of study are getting past a "gosh th
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by abecedarius 2y ago
If it's just cash-heads pushing a narrative, where do Bengio and Hinton fit? Stuart Russell? Doug Hofstadter? I mean fine, argue that they're mistaken to be concerned, if that's your belief. But dismissing it all as obvious s
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Berger wrote two books on SpaceX in a very positive light generally, portraying Musk as extraordinarily driven and capable though not passing over less admirable traits. Berger is not a hater.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
When we're talking about quality of evidence, saying "in reality" is skipping to your conclusion. Are smart careful people rare among known criminals? Well, yes. What would you expect to see? https://www.econlib.or
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by abecedarius 2y ago
It depends. If you were a hacker who'd read Bamford and the news from whistleblowers like Klein, talking with other hackers, that general sense was common knowledge. But if the topic came up in conversation with, like, the guy you&#x27
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Smalltalk-76 was around 10k lines, though probably you need to leave out the microcode/VM to get that number, I forget. (I have the source I'm thinking of on another computer powered down at the moment.) -80 was definitely bigger
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Yes, I remember using it in the early 90s.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Really if I ever knew it existed, I've forgotten. But https://oratronik.de/atariage/TI_FORTH_Manual-2ndEd(LES).pdf says yes on page 14. General discussion at https://99er.net/tifaq2.html#TIFAQ011
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Thanks for the correction. From my link: > Each source statement you enter is immediately assembled into object code and stored into memory. Some source code is retained in a nine-page text buffer. You can scroll the screen to review pre
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by abecedarius 2y ago
No argument, it was terrible. :) But still I had good times and started learning to program. The assembler cartridge was nearly as useless as the BASIC cartridge for the Atari VCS. (Not that I ever tried the latter, but similar problems of
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by abecedarius 2y ago
After so long I have no idea, but... that floppy file system also had a notion of copy-protected files. It turned out to be straightforward to work around that copy protection, so maybe there was some similar way around the data/progra
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I had a similar setup eventually with Wycove Forth -- can't remember even the existence of TI Forth. Anyway playing with that was my foot in the door to a summer job at FORTH, Inc. as a teen. Lost all of that code because my 99 system
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by abecedarius 2y ago
There was a cartridge with an assembler & text editor plus a little CPU RAM. (4k? My memory is gone but it certainly wasn't much even for the 80s.) You'd still need to use cassette tape to save your work. Ah it was this: http
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I think the "Eudoxus reals" construction is worth thinking about too. It builds directly on integers instead of building on top of the rationals. https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Eudoxus+real+number I wish
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by abecedarius 2y ago
1. Some blogs are better than most books. 2. Some carefully-written ebooks now are self-published, and I don't care if their cover design and promotion campaign aren't as professional.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Maybe a better goal is some representation for "COCONUT [with these 3 letters occluded]". Then the consumer might combine this with other evidence about the occluded parts, or review it if questions come up about how accurate the
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I already said ID is not security. How many 70s hijackers got away unidentified? How many would not have even tried if they also had to show ID? I can think of one case, "D. B. Cooper". This conversation just doesn't seem p
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by abecedarius 2y ago
I agree that Y is bad, actually.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_hijacking cites two figures for the U.S. rate of hijacking attempts near its peak. The higher one is "Between 1968 and 1977, there were approximately 41 hijackings per year.&
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Which country was that? ID is not security.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
Yes, it was. One thing there seems to be more of is bundling of politics, like "Y is bad" as rejoinder to "X is good" with no necessary link between them. I think I asked what deposit they would need. It had never been a
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by abecedarius 2y ago
They divorced before I met the one. Whatever the reason might've been, it'd be something like this, so why ask? Eh, anyway. It's cool that more of these cases have come up here.
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by abecedarius 2y ago
That reads basically like "if you seem cooperative enough with our extra effort to check your identity, we'll probably let you through". That's just a very different country from "you need greenbacks to buy a ticket

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