adampunk

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by adampunk 6mo ago
They were so burned out that they decided to use an LLM to write this blog post. It should be embarrassing to people that they can’t even write a whole argument out by hand. It’s not that hard. All you have to do is believe in it. This blog
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by adampunk 6mo ago
I mean…that’s essentially identical to group presentations in general. The other students didn’t do the work; what they don’t do the work with is irrelevant.
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This is the kind of statement that gets made when everything is awesome.
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But if they'll never be conscious, wouldn't that not be a terrific waste of talent and effort?
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In what universe are you applying firefighting material to something that is still electrified? The analogy is pretty easy, man. It is straight up a failure of triage to look at Trump and say “what needs to go is everything around this” Sim
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by adampunk 6mo ago
"this is all just business as usual" is a specific kind of deflection which serves a master.
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by adampunk 6mo ago
You do in fact need to fix the wire first! That's a very important part of an electrical fire. Power must no longer be dissipated via the bad wire before you start trying to extinguish the fire. You don't need to do RCA and repair
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>3.141592653589793 Use this for sin or cosine with large arguments and tell me how that goes!
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by adampunk 6mo ago
Novelty is overrated in mathematics by those outside mathematics. We desperately need lots of less novel things in math right now.
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Explains why I love R so much. Once you throw out ambitions to be a "spherical language" (love that phrase) and pretensions to some austere, impersonal beauty, APL-likes grow their own kind of beauty. Instead of PHP's fractal
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by adampunk 6mo ago
Why is it not more of a scandal that all these anti-AI articles are written, using large language models? Why is that not an embarrassment for everyone who moans and carps and complains about the craft?
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I can imagine one person in this arrangement who cares quite a lot about who pays.
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There’s a bunch of answers to this question, but I think the easiest one is that a pocket calculator contains a table of logarithms. You can do much of that other stuff by yourself, but no one alive carries a table of logarithms around in t
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by adampunk 6mo ago
Yeah. I know. I'm not disagreeing with your diagnosis, I'm just trying to gently rib you that your correction is misaimed. It's a joke, ya know? >Single-precision computations for traditional applications are suitable only
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by adampunk 6mo ago
You need it if you want the idea of total ordering over the extended Reals. There's +/- infinity--an affine closure, not projective (point at infinity)--so to make that math work you need to give 0 a sign.
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You are totally correct but I need you to recognize that "in ancient times" includes the 1990s. I am...very sorry to be the one delivering this news. It was not a pleasant realization for me, either.
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by adampunk 6mo ago
Yeah. I think the ugly thing that the world is going to learn about american's (people outside america think we've plumbed the depths of depravity--we haven't, yet) casual eliminationist views sooner or later. Most (white) pe
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by adampunk 6mo ago
This is true in military tactics but it is often phrased in the contrapositive: if you want to move fast, establish enough trust such that talking is not needed. The idea is that speed is *essential* but coordinative action is too. Most com
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by adampunk 6mo ago
You write more but there is still not a hint of sympathy in your words for humans living in the street. Inquire within.
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You'll want to sit down when I tell you the budget these folks have for workflow solutions. Ain't gonna take long but might be shocking if you've got big startup hopes. ;)
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Ok
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You write more but there is still not a hint of sympathy in your words for humans living in the street.
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People tell themselves crazy lies because the truth--that they're just a few coin flips from the same fate--is scary.
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My heart bleeds for the person who sees someone sleeping in the street and assumes the sight of it is the tiresome thing.
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I used to hope for better things in 2015.
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It’s for Gen-X dads to buy and pay themselves on the back about “productive constraints” while they play games that suck.
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Everyone working in a technical field knows one of these people. I hope they get everything they deserve.
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And?
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pictured: cowards
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WooooooOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooo— — A spooky ghost WooooooOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooo- - A less spooky ghost

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