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by aldousd666 2y ago
No they're in the wrong. They didn't test adequately, regardless of their motive for not doing so. Obviously reality is not backing up your theory there
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by aldousd666 2y ago
You do want to fuzz test it like crazy. Can be automated. Takes minutes, saves billions
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by aldousd666 2y ago
Good for the kid getting her hands dirty! I was learning C by the time I was 9, but if HTML and the public Internet had been around when I was that age, I may have went that way instead!
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by aldousd666 2y ago
I've actually been thinking about this quite a bit. I remember a foray into prolog when I was a younger pup in 2004-6. With the Advent of llms, I think that perhaps we could use llms to extract triples from large corpuses of text and t
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by aldousd666 2y ago
This reminds me a little of Jeff Hawkins book, 1000 brain theory. His company numenta has done this kind of research and they have a mailing list. I'm not an expert but I've read Jeff's book and noodled at the mailing list
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by aldousd666 2y ago
If there was legal liability for user comments, this site right here couldn't host a comment section. And you'd have to use a publisher to complain about how hard it is to be a publisher
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by aldousd666 2y ago
on the advanced search, there's still the option to specify that it 'must contain' something, but I'm not sure if it's just a suggestion like quotes or not.
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by aldousd666 2y ago
that's openAI, not google
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by aldousd666 2y ago
I need one of these for the news app next.
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by aldousd666 2y ago
Personally, as a developer who has been doing this for more than 25 years, I am excited, enthralled, and chomping at the bit to see what's next. Every day is like christmas, and I'm not even kidding. I have been having the mental
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by aldousd666 2y ago
You can draw a whole span or div that is invisible with fonts in it and everything off screen measure it. Delete it or then show it or move it or whatever. But I've done this before with JavaScript.
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by aldousd666 2y ago
You can actually still do it. Just don't measure until after the fonts and elements are in place. dynamically adjust the position afterward. There is no rule that says you must use only CSS
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by aldousd666 2y ago
Yes CSS is hard, yes declaratively anticipating all the various types of media you may display on and their relative interaction is a nightmare of variables. BUT, that is enough to justify the inversion from using declarative markup to actu
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by aldousd666 3y ago
Einstein didn't say that about insanity, but... systems exist and are consistently described by particular equations at particular scales. Sure we can say everything is quantum mechanics, even classical physics can technically be trans
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by aldousd666 3y ago
This tool is my daily driver for all database stuff I touch. My only complaint is that the update dialog is quite a noisy nag. But that's not a real problem.
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I love stuff like this. Once upon a time I thought I'd get more into hacking like this and started working on it... But then I changed jobs and never got back. This made me remember all those games of capture the flag in the 90s.
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by aldousd666 3y ago
This is fascinating and inspiring progress! What's crazy to me is how many people are looking to put stakes in the ground in front of this, claiming breathlessly before anyone can speak, that this isn't real AI progress or this is
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I still don't get it. Why are they upset? Nothing has been taken from them. There is no alternative in midjourney that sates anyone's desire to read their comic. Just as many people are going to visit the page for the comic, if no
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I have been dropping links to this article since 1998. Lol. It has definitely stood the test of time
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by aldousd666 3y ago
Eliza's meant to us to be an illustration of the problem. In good old fashioned AI sentiment, it illustrates the fact that you need another if statement for every new kind of construct you want to simulate. But you deign to simulate ea
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I was following the mailing list as this was being developed way back then, but it always frustrated me that the team chose such a trite, un-googleable name for the language. I mean, if you want to find the community and the docs, you have
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed that story. I know it's a BBC patriotic puff piece a little but the tech tricks they did were neat. I hadn't heard of Elite at all and that's too bad because it would have been right up my alley back then
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I'm surprised that we got the whole way through all these comments and nobody mentioned "L'Acadamie Francais" and the French laws enforcing proper use of the language, requiring a certain percentage of broadcast media to
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by aldousd666 3y ago
It's because they couldn't easily draw letters below the line. It was all block-aligned. They used blitted bits from a lookup table and copied them into squares on the screen that did not vary from letter to letter
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I don't think Google would have even cared about RCS if Apple would just make the bubbles the same color. Kids these days.
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by aldousd666 3y ago
So if there is some fringe element who's willing to use AI as a terrorist implement, they'll have very little competition and they'll be very little knowledge about how to counter them if we try to outlaw open source models.
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I think I've read this novel before, except it was rats and monkeys shocking themselves with electrically stimulated orgasms or something till they starved. Perhaps different hormones are involved, or it's remarkable that flies ar
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by aldousd666 3y ago
Man everything he said about his audience: it's me. I'm his audience.
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by aldousd666 3y ago
Tell PA to stop granting them a local monopoly in my area then. I'll gladly switch when I have an alternative that works. I have nothing here in rural western PA except comcast and they have just been jacking the cost up year after yea
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by aldousd666 3y ago
I live in rural western pa. There are no charging stations. Simple answer here: I'm not buying an EV then. Charging at home is not enough.

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