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by andrepd 5d ago
How much gas would be saved by turning half of each 4-lane stroad into a bike lane! :)
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by andrepd 5d ago
It's amazing how people neglect this basic fact. Free markets already often don't work in practice. But they don't even work in theory if both parties do not have at the very least the same information in order to base the
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by andrepd 5d ago
I would prefer to give up algorithmic social media for 24h/day (massive negative impact) than to give up calls and texts with my friends and family for a few hours (no negative impact).
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by andrepd 5d ago
Please don't project on me. Doomsrolling irrelevant junk and polluting one's mind might possibly be what the majority of smartphone use is for. Hence my distinguishing that from "calling and texting". I can text my wife
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by andrepd 5d ago
Did you read why I wrote? It appears you completely ignored it and are just talking past me... Yes I goddamn know "technology can create ills where previously there were none", that's why I called algorithmic social media a c
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by andrepd 6d ago
That's ridiculous. We have managed without electricity or antibiotics for 100,000 years too. Are you keen on reading by candlelight or dying of preventable infections? Instant messaging and calling is extremely valuable. Algorithmic so
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by andrepd 7d ago
Destructors run predictably at list, and are pervasive everywhere. You know that when you exit a scope, be that a function or whatever it may, the destructors of variables in that scope are called. That is clear and consistent. The transfor
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by andrepd 8d ago
An empty loop, under some non-obvious conditions, on some compiler flags but not others, silently transforms into a system call. In a systems programming language.
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by andrepd 9d ago
Actually it was. But thanks for elaborating.
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by andrepd 10d ago
> The navier-stokes shows us what mathematical problem can be solved when $10m worth of compute is thrown at something. That's the thing, it very much does NOT show us that. What happened was mathematicians at openAI learned of an
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LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)
7 points by andrepd 13d ago|3 comments
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by andrepd 13d ago
Reads like satire. "I get 100$ for every 1$ I put in" is exactly the kind of phrase that triggers ponzi alarm bells on anybody reading this x)
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by andrepd 13d ago
How in god's name—irrespective of how valid this is, and its very valid—is this even remotely germane to the issue of AI in mathematics? Rattling off incidents and making the case that there is discrimination and sexists in mathematics
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by andrepd 14d ago
> mathematicians (as a community, even though there were outliers) didn't care - not even the slightest - about the impact of LLMs and generative AI, other type of AI and machine learning until it started impacting them. So I have n
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by andrepd 14d ago
> People prefer larger tap targets on touch screens. Only in a completely stupid, nonsensically A/B tested notion of "prefer". I'll refer you to this ~~excellent piece of satirical writing~~ actual post from Google de
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by andrepd 14d ago
I think it's obvious that the target audience has a huge overlap...
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by andrepd 14d ago
Seeing "Material 3/Material You" is a negative point for me, not a positive. It's almost comical just how atrocious the UI is. Yes let's make all phones 20% huge-er and all whitespace 40% wider, said no sane person
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by andrepd 15d ago
Yes if you don't think about the matter for more than 6 seconds you would indeed conclude that, and retreat to the comfortable cliché of "it's just a tool". Meanwhile, I'm glad that there are still people who _think
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by andrepd 16d ago
I'm an AI skeptic, but I don't see how this squares with what the organisers of the event actually say. "It previously suggested that math researchers already have no place in mathematics"? I don't see this.
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by andrepd 18d ago
> As a parallel example, can we prove the phase of the moon had no impact on the NS solution? No, not without a bunch experiments run at different phases of the moon. The _gall_ to say something like this. Do you perhaps think we are all
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by andrepd 18d ago
Lmao my friend, the whole "drama" is that there are allegations of plagiarism.
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by andrepd 18d ago
> "I deeply apologize for this extremely poor choice of words, it is the opposite of what I was trying to convey." The AI-isms are seeping into their speech :)
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by andrepd 18d ago
Holy late capitalism. Everything revolves around line-go-up, and sociopaths rule the show. These people cannot even collaborate like civilised scientists on one of the most famous open problems in mathematics? “It would be simpler if Levent
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by andrepd 19d ago
1. Interaction with Meta is virtually mandatory in many places in the world. Try opting out of Meta when your kid's daycare or your building's group chat is on whatsapp. 2. It doesn't really matter if you opt out, because _ot
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by andrepd 19d ago
Pardon my French but bull-fucking-shit! A CEO _should_ take responsibility for what their subordinates do. It's preposterous to simple throw up our arms and say "oh well, some employees were sloppy so we lost some 100 million user
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by andrepd 19d ago
As I understand there is no advantage in using a custom dictionary to compress 1 file. It benefits compressing _several_ (small) files.
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by andrepd 19d ago
There are excellent FOSS gallery apps already, like the Fossify suite. Why not use them I wonder?
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by andrepd 22d ago
> I've been at the point personally where I am reasonably confident that there's essentially nothing that I am better than Fable What a sad thing to say. These models are not even better than me at _writing code_, which is as w
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by andrepd 23d ago
His video about reality TV music, and the one about the newest musescore default font, are some of my favourite yt videos of all time. Great communicator.
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by andrepd 25d ago
Slop code is already hard to tolerate, but any hint of slop in text will immediately make me chuck it into the bin / close the tab, no exceptions. My lifetime is finite, I'm sure as fuck not gonna spend time reading something that

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