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by bambax 4mo ago
> Every memory begins with tiny changes inside the brain Maybe. But the brain is not the only place where memory is stored. Flat worms remember things (and skills!) after their head has been cut off and they regrew it: https:/&#x
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by bambax 4mo ago
I don't like talking to strangers and I would consider myself rather introvert, although not extremely (I'm more of a misanthropist, maybe). That said, talking to strangers is really quite easy; I do it sometimes, esp. to entertai
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by bambax 4mo ago
He has a lot of wild defense arguments; one of my favorites is: at some point in his life he lost the ability to speak; to recover his voice he trained it by reading aloud some books over and over, so much so that the content of these books
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by bambax 4mo ago
> Plagiarizing from people on your own thesis committee is a wild move. Fun fact: he's using this to prove he didn't do anything wrong, as in "see? the people on my thesis committee didn't care I copied their own wo
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by bambax 4mo ago
Maybe. We'll see. Also, what are they calling "R&D" exactly? If it is training new models, which needs to be done almost constantly and means spending billions on energy and newer GPUs, then it's not really R&D,
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by bambax 4mo ago
AI doesn't work like the rest of the tech industry. The cost of selling another license for a software program is approximately zero. In the case of AI the marginal cost of the next token is not zero, and is in fact probably not going
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by bambax 4mo ago
So? It's also more effort to work everyday to earn a living than simply stealing what you need from your neighbors at gunpoint. But the law's the law. As a European I'm conflicted because I think this particular set of privac
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by bambax 4mo ago
Why would you use UUIDs a primary keys? Let SQLite use rowids internally (which is automatic and invisible), and have a different (indexed) column with UUID if you need that for publishing the ID somewhere.
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by bambax 4mo ago
The problem with Windows is the users aren't the buyers, so they don't matter. I hate Windows 11 immensely. At home I use Mac, Linux and... Windows 7. But at my current client I have to use Windows 11. I have no choice; I can eith
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by bambax 4mo ago
I don't think you can install "any other database" by pasting one file in a direcory somewhere? Even if you can produce such a backup with the same command.
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by bambax 4mo ago
Vacuum into or .backup work perfectly with a running, WAL enabled db.
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by bambax 4mo ago
> SQLite is an embedded database Yes, but that's not its main selling point. An SQLite database is also a single file, which makes it incredibly easy to replicate, backup, transfer, restore, etc.
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by bambax 4mo ago
My current client has a forest of 90+ SnapLogic pipelines that were badly written and maintained even worse; one of those was completely wrong, in that it generated wrong accounting data which could eventually have financial, fiducial and l
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by bambax 5mo ago
> except that software has near-zero marginal cost Yes, but not AI. This is where AI differs from other software: marginal cost is not zero, in fact it doesn't go down much, if at all, for each generated token (after accounting fo
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by bambax 5mo ago
Exactly. Same for me, except I don't have an iPhone and therefore no "Apple Health". I will take care of my own health, or not, on my own. So I would say: only humans can send me notifications. That includes me in the case of
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by bambax 5mo ago
I was certainly not saying that all the author's projects, in general, have no value! That would be rude, mean and most of all, incorrect. But yes, it's likely that the ease of which code can now be outout lets us produce lots of
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by bambax 5mo ago
> code that would have taken me years of work to produce without LLMs As you might suspect, this is what I have an issue with. Without LLMs, isn't it possible or even likely that that code wouldn't have been written at all, a
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by bambax 5mo ago
> That’s $2,180.16 worth of tokens for $200 So the author claims he's getting $2000 per month worth of frontier AI free of charge. Ok. If he's been doing that for 6 months that's $12k. What has this produced concretely?
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by bambax 5mo ago
> The promise of capitalism has always been - you will have a spin at the roulette table. This may be the promise of the American dream, but it's not the promise of "capitalism". Capitalism promises nothing to the indivi
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by bambax 5mo ago
True, but it's still a cool story, no?
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by bambax 5mo ago
> Here is what you gain with your most improbable life: The authentic you. Your particular mix of talents, native abilities, personal inclinations, genetic limits, life experiences, and ambitious desires points to a mixture that is dist
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The Letter S, by Donald Knuth (1980) [pdf](gwern.net)
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by bambax 5mo ago
This comment is maybe a little too aggressive but I kind of share the sentiment. Mostly, after reading this long article, I'm surprised he never quite explains why he never tried to go at it independently? He says > I’ve always had
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by bambax 5mo ago
Very funny. What is this a parody of?
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by bambax 5mo ago
Obligatory Dilbert reference: https://www.americanscientist.org/sites/americanscientist.or...
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by bambax 5mo ago
What a fantastic video! Thanks! 3D printers are good at printing snowflakes for Christmas too ;-)
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by bambax 5mo ago
I'm unfamiliar with the US legal system but do they really need a jury and a trial to determine whether the claims are barred by the statute of limitations? Couldn't this be decided by a judge before trial?
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by bambax 5mo ago
I never quite understood what we mean by "consciousness" but I find fascinating that most modern philosophers who describe themselves as materialists / non religious can argue in the same sentence that there is something spec
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by bambax 5mo ago
It's possible half of my problems are because I don't have admin rights, and the other half is because the machine is too weak. Why do modern OSes need so much power and RAM anyway? I used to produce documents on an Amstrad PPC640
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by bambax 5mo ago
It's a client of mine; the IT department is extremely small (fewer than 5) but the company has maybe 500 employees total? Since I work there, I've not heard anyone complain specifically about their computer or the Windows version.

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