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by aeonik 1y ago
We don't know exactly how consciousness works in the human brain, but we know way more than "comes from the abyss". When I read that text, something like this happens: Visual perception of text (V1, VWFA) → Linguistic compreh
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by aeonik 1y ago
Depends on your definition of vastly, and superior but: Uranium-235 (fission) ~80,000,000 MJ/kg 1× Coal ~24 MJ/kg ~3.3 million× less Oil ~42 MJ/kg ~1.9 million× less Natural Gas (CH₄) ~55 MJ/kg ~1.45 mi
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by aeonik 1y ago
That's short term thinking. You can't stop innovation across the planet, you will lose control over time as adversaries continue to innovate and subsume antiquated control structures.
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by aeonik 1y ago
And the remnants of two neutron stars colliding.
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by aeonik 1y ago
Because chemistry is awesome, and chemicals give us amazing modern super powers. Also, everything is a chemical. A subset of both natural and artificial chemicals cause cancer, we should identify those carcinogens and not eat those. At leas
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by aeonik 1y ago
You mean like vmtouch and madvise? I use vmtouch all the time to preload or even lock certain data/code into RAM.
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by aeonik 1y ago
I've seen worse code published on Melpa. if you test it and it works, you should publish it.
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by aeonik 1y ago
It's bizarre because I see the opposite. Most people memorize and cargo cult practices with no deeper understanding of what they are doing.
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by aeonik 1y ago
In the same way that writing and performing a new song is "just memorizing prior patterns and law" or that writing a new book is the same. I.e. it's not about that. Like sure it helps to have a base set of shared language, kn
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by aeonik 1y ago
I agree, but the entropy of the string that produced that hash will nullify any such disadvantage.
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by aeonik 1y ago
This is misleading, if the password is a certain length, then it might as well be considered secure. You could safely release hashes. I'll pay you $10k if you can crack this sha512 hash. I'd offer a million, but I don't have
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by aeonik 1y ago
Step 1: Update your password. Step 2: Use non-SMS 2FA. Step 3: Handcuff yourself to the Google Play Store forever, for your safety of course.
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by aeonik 1y ago
You could literally run it on the waste. The question becomes is the power production worth the operation and maintenance costs.
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by aeonik 1y ago
Simple does not mean easy. This is still one of my favorite software presentations. https://youtu.be/SxdOUGdseq4?si=OqfLAilgB2ERk_8H
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by aeonik 1y ago
I wasn't taught this, but came to this conclusion after much struggle, and I think this mentality has served me very well. I hope anyone who is unsure will read your comment and at least try to follow it for a while.
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by aeonik 1y ago
The main muscle fiber cells don't divide (usually), but satellite cells reproduce. Those fuse with the fibers though. Though the science is not completely established here and there are some exceptions (obvious ones like cancer, etc...
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by aeonik 1y ago
I knew it! My google searches failed me.
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by aeonik 1y ago
And wouldn't it be nice if that Python code, instead of a string, was just more python? Then you could use your existing Python code to append, or transform sections of your code! That's what Lisp is! Once you see how cool that is
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by aeonik 1y ago
Even novel thoughts are rarely original. Every time I come up with an algorithm idea, or a system idea, I'm always checking who has done it before, and I always find significant prior art. Even for really niche things. I think my name
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by aeonik 1y ago
Discovering that two different-seeming statements reduce to the same truth is new knowledge.
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by aeonik 1y ago
Clojure
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by aeonik 1y ago
Or Clojure, Scala, Groovy. and with the GraalVM, JavaScript/Node, Python, R, and Ruby. among many others.
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by aeonik 1y ago
Semiotic shadow world works for me. I think that's a great description.
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by aeonik 1y ago
Honestly, you don't want them too precise. 0.1 gram is definitely the sweet spot for kitchen though, measuring salts, supplements, baking,that extra .1g comes in handy. I got an Ohaus Scout 0.01g scale, and it's so sensitive it&#x
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by aeonik 1y ago
I don't think it's rude, it saves me from having to come up with my own prompt and wade through the back and forth to get useful insight from the LLMs, also saves me from spending my tokens. Also, I quite love it when people clear
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by aeonik 1y ago
Data visualization and simulation, but games are on the table too. I'm eagerly awaiting Jank to stabilize.
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by aeonik 1y ago
I understand they don't have a logic engine built into them, ie no deduction, but I do think their inference is a weak form of reasoning, and I'm not sure about world model. I suppose it depends on the definition of model. I curre
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by aeonik 1y ago
The language itself is still getting updates, a new major release was just dropped a month or two ago. I do find that for about 5 years things seemed to be slowing down. Though I keep seeing it pop up, and new exciting projects seem to pop
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by aeonik 1y ago
Something I've noticed recently, is the new Opus 4.1 model seems to be incredibly good at getting out of these cul-de-sacs. I've always had a subscription to both ChatGPT and Claude, but Claude has recently almost one-shotted majo
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by aeonik 1y ago
I just finished a bit of spelunking in the Clojure Repo of Dyna3, and I got the distinct feeling that I had just stumbled upon an alien artifact from the future. https://github.com/argolab/dyna3

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