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by alcover 3y ago
I found this abstract maybe : https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1109300108 "(...)an unusual segment of DNA that extends for >31 kb on chromosome 4 seems to have introgressed into modern Af
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by alcover 3y ago
> the current wave of dating apps aren't optimized for long-term relationships That sentence... Nothing personal, you're obviously right. It's the sheer technicality of it. I wish young people would find love as they used
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by alcover 3y ago
In France, the female teacher ratio is 80+% in primary school and ~60% in secondary.
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by alcover 3y ago
<<La somme des malentendus autour d'un nom>>
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by alcover 3y ago
Thank you, this video is a unique unassuming and hyptnotic jewel.
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by alcover 3y ago
> The human genome [...] is about 1GB I don't get how this is impressive or relevant on its own. Sure, it sounds small in face of the final result : a full-grown human. But this 1GB program is born out of and expressed into the full
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by alcover 3y ago
Big AI firms will offer their own legal(and more) LLM services ?
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by alcover 3y ago
This feeling is often dismissed as illusion but I dare say that it is a reality. I've been here 10+ years, first as a lurker. It is devolving. Some threads are still brilliant but the amount of low-effort replies has been steadily gr
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by alcover 4y ago
> face to face for important communications Funny how computing perfected communication and ultimately will undermine itself. > I don't know what the way forward is for news. I'd say every packet of voice/img will
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by alcover 4y ago
Yes, per Wikipedia 10000 seems like it. Plus the human brain and anatomy was ready for it (even neanderthal is thought to have spoken). I don't see GPT's blunders as mistakes. They are to us for sure but would not be to another GP
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by alcover 4y ago
60-70 generations ago More like 1000+ considering the Chauvet painters certainly had speech.
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by alcover 4y ago
> Some compilers tokenize while parsing, but for a different reason: it's faster and uses less memory Rather legit reasons.. The one I'm writing does this. It seems akin to natural language processing. You'd inter
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by alcover 4y ago
I'm struggling with this idea. You could end up tokenizing the inside of an unopened string literal for (contrived) ex : String s = hello world"; [-> typename:'String' id's' op'=' id'hel
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by alcover 4y ago
Question to compiler writers : when is it useful, if ever, to tokenize the whole input beforehand (as done here) ? You wouldn't catch an early syntax error and would go on tokenizing till the end for nothing.
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by alcover 4y ago
This must be an avenue for very exciting explorations. I'm quite ignorant about this stuff but have some questions : > It should be possible to create a binary notation for SKI calculus where arbitrary bitstrings will be valid
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by alcover 4y ago
I wasn't expecting this. Thank you very much. Beyond my snark, I recognize it's no easy task to allow these abstractions into a friendly syntax.
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by alcover 4y ago
Being gently snarky. The code is from the article and frankly looks an irradiated still-born.
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by alcover 4y ago
I agree my fiction is leaky, but it sounds like a nice prompt.
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by alcover 4y ago
fn f<T: Into<MyType>>(t: T) -> MyType { t.into() } Picturing a group of nuclear-winter survivors trying to restart a coal plant. Found the control room. Inside, a working diesel generator, a computer and a Rust manual
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by alcover 4y ago
Thank you for providing this grounded view. Writing software, the moving parts seem to work almost perfectly except the rare bit-flip. But it seems factory-scale robotics are not like that..
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by alcover 4y ago
Still many people are delighted if you offer them a drawing you made specially for them or if someone handles his guitar and begins to play.
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by alcover 4y ago
Maybe the junk is remnants of old code partly over-written by active, reachable code ? Like fragmented disk/RAM.
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by alcover 4y ago
> only a handful of days of snow in the year I know modern economy has gone full-JIT but I naively wish we could just stop in this case and.. wait. Then this question of truck fleet would be moot.
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by alcover 4y ago
I get you, but it's not that. I don't torrent. My bursts are short and in case they would take longer I'd have no problem with stopping as soon as the person signals a need with "wait!.." or "Ok, I get it"
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by alcover 4y ago
Rude interrupt has been taking a definite toll on me. Many people do this and I can't take it anymore. It's offensive and wasteful. I talk very fast, shortly, and pack my sentences with information. So it's not like I waste p
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by alcover 4y ago
> having everything be explicit causes complexity to be foisted on the user I agree. I think once you understand and trust a language-provided abstraction or automation, you can use it happily. It's a machine you don't
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by alcover 4y ago
Joyeux Noël l'ami ! Puisse-tu trouver le temps d'écrire le beau code libre.
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by alcover 4y ago
On a tangent, learning the story of the demolition of the original Penn Station made me seriously sad. It was magnificient and served for only 50 years or so. Thinking of all that craftsmanshift, the millions of work-hours and the pride of
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by alcover 4y ago
I'm afraid people with schizoid disorder will literally be in danger when exposed to these 'agents'. Also, to a lesser extent, old people.
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by alcover 4y ago
Good point. Some SSO (small str optimization) schemes achieve this by pointing back into the struct itself. Gcc String implementation for ex.

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