amoss

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by amoss 11mo ago
There is a world of difference between the obvious and the trivial. The post you are replying to only implied it was obvious, the retort is unnecessary.
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by amoss 11mo ago
When you work on compilers, all bugs are compiler bugs. (apart from the ones in the firmware, and the hardware glitches...)
63.
by amoss 11mo ago
This sounds kind of wild. Love your choice of font. It mentions in the text that your code base is open source - is there a link?
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by amoss 11mo ago
I would prefer that contenteditable divs with multi-line contents would handle newlines in a consistent manner instead of the chaotic mess we have now. But I guess that doesn't pump stock valuations so AI slop it is.
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by amoss 11mo ago
The flat shape of the "r" and the lack of curvature on the "p" where it touches the stem would drive me mad, but YMMV.
66.
by amoss 1y ago
Not my kind of thing but still a highly enjoyable read. I love a tale of a software engineer who has gone down a rabbit-hole so deeply that they've come out the other side. And who doesn't like data?
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by amoss 1y ago
Company that makes vast profits from its monopoly over a digital market is against legislation to stop companies from exploiting monopolies over digital markets. I am shocked!
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by amoss 1y ago
Ironically, rather than being facile the point of the comparison is to explain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law to people who are clearly not familiar with it.
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by amoss 1y ago
When I read that "Ilya gave a famously incomprehensible talk about the connections between intelligence and compression" it makes me wonder if Marcus Hutter has now been forgotten? If so more people should take a look at http:&#x
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by amoss 1y ago
On the contrary, modern research shows that the effects would be more severe and long-lasting: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2006jd00...
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by amoss 1y ago
$17 is about £12.69 at the moment so there does not seem to be any dishonesty in the claim.
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by amoss 1y ago
Is the front supposed to fall off?
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by amoss 1y ago
At first glance it looks similar to the Monty Hall problem, but it is actually a different problem. In the Monty Hall problem there is added information in the second round from the informed choice (removing the empty box). In this problem
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by amoss 1y ago
Missed all of that, thanks for the explanation. Why doesn't zig try and apply the coercion before the type switch - is this deliberate for safety?
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by amoss 1y ago
On point 4, I don't use zig but a two second google leads to http://ratfactor.com/zig/stdlib-browseable2/math/atan.zig.ht... I wonder about the accuracy of the rest of the article.
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by amoss 1y ago
It reminds me of the Hamming quote: "I noticed the following facts about people who work with the door open or the door closed. I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and yo
77.
by amoss 2y ago
Mistake in headline: tge article says 54% rate on China. 34 looks like a typo.
78.
by amoss 2y ago
Nuclear weapons are not self-improving or self-replicating.
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by amoss 2y ago
I can't remember the last time I worked on a team without automatic linting enforced on check-in. Why would people choose to waste time arguing over that can be automated?
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by amoss 2y ago
thanks, i'll try that Nd see if it helps.
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by amoss 2y ago
> A limitation I see with AI for coding is that your problem must be mainstream to get decent results. Or to phrase it another way, there must examples of the technique that you want to "generate" in the training set otherwise
82.
by amoss 2y ago
Nothing in the kernel log and the steam log shows a trace, but no debug symbols, only raw addresses.
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by amoss 2y ago
Wayland has been "nearly ready" for so long that it is easy to miss progress. I installed an arch desktop three months ago and setup kde with wayland, expecting that I would revert to xorg when something broke. So far everything s
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by amoss 2y ago
https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1
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by amoss 2y ago
interesting take. the aaa games industry is struggling (e.g. look at the profit warnings, share price drops and studio closures) specifically because people are doing that en masse. but those 90s games are not old - retro has become a movem
86.
by amoss 2y ago
We prefer to call it "engineering"
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by amoss 2y ago
https://docs.marimo.io/guides/expensive_notebooks/
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by amoss 2y ago
In a different place a long time ago we were approached by a company that wanted a collaboration. They had a very specific project in mind, with requirements already set. It was a humanitarian project to "find earthquake survivors&quot
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by amoss 2y ago
return false
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by amoss 2y ago
My heart goes out the cryptographers. All that code, written over decades, that assumes coin flips are 50:50. So much updating and rewriting to do. Quite a few algorithms that will need a rethink to remain fair.

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